"Obama talking to a bunch of wine-sipping San Francisco liberals with an anthropological view toward white working-class voters."

That's Obama -- talking about himself in the third person to characterize the way "the press" "interpreted" his sta...

"34 hours! Not that Slate isn't fun, but I could have read Anna Karenina in that time. Curses, 'Explainer'!"

Farhad Manjoo -- who's got some program that records how much time he spends on each website -- frets over the information he's cho...

So, I've been thinking of getting a dog...

Because, among other things, a dog can help you get more exercise. And thinking about what kind of dog to get, I'd been focusing on pood...

"Just to forewarn you, it's going to be nothing like anything you've ever seen before."

Barack Obama in Madison , this Thursday, in exactly the same location where John Kerry appeared, almost exactly 4 years ago. (I covered that...

Reflect.

Dressing with mad joie de vivre.

I loved this fashion slide show by Bill Cunningham, on its own pure merit but also as a contrast to the most recent episode of "Tim Gu...

Andrew Sullivan has a long essay in the November Atlantic called "Why I Blog."

My first thought was: How weird to go on about this today . But then: How bloggish of me to think that nothing that could have been said ye...