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The AP, describing a case the Supreme Court recently turned down, writes: "the school valedictorian strayed from an approved text to provide a graphic account of Jesus' crucifixion..."
Posted on November 21, 2009"They always understood that they might someday be called to account for that conduct and always have been prepared to accept full responsibility for it."
Posted on November 21, 2009"We sort of have well-placed objects in front of the frontal...There's like hockey sticks, shirts..."
Posted on November 20, 2009"Why would anybody stay in Chicago? It's freezing here, and I have a mansion in Montecito..."
Posted on November 20, 2009"After work I would race back home, not even eat or take a shower, and just go back to the computer for fear of losing whatever inspiration I had."
Posted on November 20, 2009Bookstores that won't sell "Going Rogue"? "Our customers are thinking people. They're not into reading drivel."
Posted on November 20, 2009"It's not like you're going to be walking down State Street in Madison or walking in downtown Milwaukee and there's going to be compassion centers or dispensaries every other door."
Posted on November 20, 2009Hoosiers line up early in the morning for a chance to see Sarah Palin at a Borders in the small city of Noblesville.
Posted on November 19, 2009"The Faculty has serious concerns about CPT Hasan's professionalism and work ethic. ... He demonstrates a pattern of poor judgment and a lack of professionalism."
Posted on November 19, 2009"Barack Obama... so many tasks that he underinvested in the most critical ones."
Posted on November 19, 2009"I hope to be up half the night trying to write a post on the great mystery of the stories about Trig, stories that have bedeviled the blogosphere and many others for months."
Posted on November 19, 2009Finally! The Bloggingheads with me and Michelle Goldberg, talking about Sarah Palin's book...
Posted on November 19, 2009"Homemade desserts that don?t have a crust that needs to be fussed over but still hue to the flavors of Thanksgiving."
Posted on November 18, 2009The Democratic National Committee's email to reporters located in places on the Sarah Palin book tour.
Posted on November 18, 2009"Since the Dish has tried to be rigorous and careful in analyzing Palin's unhinged grip on reality from the very beginning..."
Posted on November 18, 2009"As Sarah Palin awoke one morning from uneasy dreams she found herself transformed in her bed into a gigantic vice-Presidential candidate."
Posted on November 18, 2009Not "hashtag," "funemployed," "birther," "death panel," teabagger," and "tramp stamp," but "unfriend."
Posted on November 17, 2009"Where's the sexy photo of Mitt Romney? Why not a picture of Tim Pawlenty with an unbuttoned shirt relaxing on a couch in the Twin Cities?"
Posted on November 17, 2009"Richard Nixon Bowing to Mao. Well, another one for Ann Althouse?s Obama-is-like-Nixon tag."
Posted on November 17, 2009Under the new mammogram guidelines, "billions of dollars will be saved."
Posted on November 17, 2009"Curb Your Enthusiasm" gives Michael Richards his (hilarious) absolution.
Posted on November 16, 2009"Tens of thousands of lives are being saved by mammography screening, and these idiots want to do away with it."
Posted on November 16, 2009"Whether a jury ultimately convicts KSM and his fellows, or sentences them to death, is beside the point."
Posted on November 16, 2009"Palin's book might not be just the simple, unvarnished truth about what went on..."
Posted on November 15, 2009Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is likely to go without a lawyer and use the trial as a stage for the expression of his ideas and the acting out of his martyrdom.
Posted on November 15, 2009"Palin depicts the McCain campaign as overscripted, defeatist, disorganized and dunder-headed..."
Posted on November 15, 2009"Thanks for loving America" = what Sarah Palin wants to say to you when you show up for her book tour appearances.
Posted on November 15, 2009"A pretty little pharmaceutical sales rep walking barefoot thru the jungle, in a bikini, whacking a rat until it?s dead. That?s not normal behavior."
Posted on November 14, 2009"it was pointed out to me that you have wet dreams of Obama... now I understand the brain dead posts on your blog..."
Posted on November 14, 2009"Frank Sinatra is downright fascinating ? or what the youngsters would probably call 'cool'..."
Posted on November 14, 2009Jeffrey Rosen asks whether the Supreme Court might find the Stupak Amendment unconstitutional.
Posted on November 13, 2009Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ? the alleged 9/11 mastermind ? and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri ? the alleged planner of the USS Cole bombing ? will go to trial in federal court in NYC.
Posted on November 13, 2009Which politician is the greater believer in his/her own cult of personality?
Posted on November 13, 2009"Now President Barack Obama is finally coming, and he's being greeted with 'Oba Mao' T-shirts and a statue of him that bursts into flames."
Posted on November 13, 2009"Sirs, the smiles will leave your faces when the walls come tumbling in..."
Posted on November 13, 2009What is it like to be a black man in China? Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo ? Obama's half-brother ? is asked.
Posted on November 12, 2009"The McCain campaign dissed Sarah Palin, muffled her, and then stuck her with a $500,000 legal bill...."
Posted on November 12, 2009Justice Sonia Sotomayor says: "the problem with every test is that you can find an exception that makes the application ridiculous."
Posted on November 12, 2009A "senior administration official" leaked that Obama is rejecting all the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team.
Posted on November 12, 2009"[C]urio cases, taxidermy and other stylish clutter of the Victorian era have been taken up by young hipsters..."
Posted on November 12, 2009"I knew I could count on you!!! You?re my hero!!!! My knight in shining armor!!! My private porn star!!!!!"
Posted on November 12, 2009"Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Forcibly Guest-Edits High School Newspaper Article About His Own Visit."
Posted on November 11, 2009"Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi scored a giant gain for feminism last weekend."
Posted on November 11, 2009"Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton are coalescing around a proposal to send 30,000 or more additional American troops to Afghanistan..."
Posted on November 11, 2009"The FBI knew for nearly a year before his murderous Fort Hood rampage that psycho Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had repeatedly contacted al Qaeda..."
Posted on November 10, 2009"Few would have foreseen ? that a united Germany would be led by a woman from Brandenburg or that their American ally would be led by a man of African descent."
Posted on November 10, 2009What word frequently found in profusion in Obama's speeches is entirely absent from his Fort Hood speech?
Posted on November 10, 2009Obama at Fort Hood: "It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy."
Posted on November 10, 2009A Mad Magazine artist draws 540 caricatures for an iPhone app with info about the members of Congress.
Posted on November 10, 2009Back in 1991, when the Utne Reader proposed that people start holding salons...
Posted on November 09, 2009"U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda..."
Posted on November 09, 2009"To know what the West stood for during most of those years, one merely had to go to Berlin, see the Wall..."
Posted on November 09, 2009Hasan "should have been gone," says Joe Lieberman, chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security.
Posted on November 09, 2009"Packed into cubicles with 5-foot-high dividers, the 300 unarmed soldiers were sitting ducks."
Posted on November 09, 2009"In its effort to race John Allen Muhammad to his death before his appeals could be pursued, the state of Virginia will execute a severely mentally ill man who also suffered from Gulf War Syndrome the day before Veterans day."
Posted on November 09, 2009The Fort Hood massacre was rhetorical flourish as Obama urged House Democrats to vote for health care.
Posted on November 08, 2009"Is Barack Obama?s cool style of governing fundamentally incompatible with the furnace of modern politics?"
Posted on November 07, 2009ABBA, the Chantels, Jimmy Cliff, Genesis, the Hollies, KISS, LL Cool J, Darlene Love, Laura Nyro, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Stooges and Donna Summer.
Posted on November 06, 2009"I live a good life....a hard one, but I go to sleep peacefully @ night knowing that I may have made a difference in someone's life."
Posted on November 06, 2009"An Army psychiatrist about to be deployed to combat zones overseas killed 11 soldiers and wounded 31 others..."
Posted on November 05, 2009"Hello, Madison!" says Barack Obama. "Good to be back in Madison.... Now, it's great to be back in Madison, great to be back in Wisconsin."
Posted on November 05, 2009"Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, was he?"
Posted on November 05, 2009"I can tell you right now, if we don't pass this bill, I don't care who you are; if you have a D behind your name and this bill has not been passed, you are in tremendous peril next year."
Posted on November 05, 2009"For me, it's always been taking the facts of the case and applying them to the law."
Posted on November 05, 2009"No, no, no. I can talk. I have a friend. What a ridiculous suggestion!"
Posted on November 04, 2009"You know, I work on my hair a long time and you hit it. He hits my hair."
Posted on November 04, 2009"With all the injuries people get skiing up here, instead of popping pills, they should just be doing this. It's a lot more natural."
Posted on November 04, 2009What do the Election 2009 results mean for Obama (and the congressional Democrats)?
Posted on November 04, 2009Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo. "This is what America's 44th president would look like if he shaved his head, wore a bandanna, favored black T-shirts and sported an earring in his left ear."
Posted on November 04, 2009The Senate Judiciary Committee is questioning former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler right now.
Posted on November 04, 2009"He's clearly made a terrible mistake. It was the endorsement of Sarah Palin he was after ? not that of Michael Palin."
Posted on November 03, 2009"This despicable attack on Assemblywoman Scozzafava offends me personally and exemplifies exactly what's wrong with Hoffman and his right wing backers."
Posted on November 03, 2009"[H]alting a decade of Democratic advances in the critical swing state..."
Posted on November 03, 2009"French society, and especially Parisian, is gluttonous. Every five years or so, it needs to stuff something new in its mouth."
Posted on November 03, 200946% of people in the 18 to 49 age group do not skip the commercials when they watch network TV using a DVR.
Posted on November 02, 2009Rush Limbaugh says Obama is a "man-child" and Sarah Palin is ready to be President.
Posted on November 02, 2009"When the judge gave him standing to sue for custody, I thought, 'What's happening?'"
Posted on November 02, 2009"The Washington Post reporter says the president wore a cardigan, and you all just believed it?"
Posted on November 01, 2009The most popular Halloween costume of the past few years was nowhere to be seen last night.
Posted on November 01, 2009"The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York" ? Frank Rich makes it all sound so scary.
Posted on November 01, 2009What will happen when the requirement that people buy health insurance is challenged in court?
Posted on November 01, 2009Open marijuana farming in northern California has "just torn the fabric of our society. It's pitted people against one another."
Posted on November 01, 2009Scozzafava: "I hereby release those individuals who have endorsed and supported my campaign to transfer their support as they see fit to do so."
Posted on October 31, 2009For Halloween, the First Lady is a leopard and the President is "a middle-aged dad."
Posted on October 31, 2009Ayn Rand "kept going on amphetamines and willpower; the writing... was a 'drops-of-water-in-a-desert kind of torture.'"
Posted on October 31, 2009In Chicago, on West Lawrence, Meade drove quickly past the lighted storefronts.
Posted on October 30, 2009"The power to set compensation at large American businesses is especially subject to potential abuse, favoritism, arbitrariness, or political manipulation."
Posted on October 30, 2009"When someone shows up to an interview or meeting in anything other than jeans, it shows inexperience and a lack of confidence."
Posted on October 30, 2009"Muslim woman held in slay try of husband; he made her wear sexy skirts and eat pork."
Posted on October 30, 2009Commenters keep cuing that they want a post about Larry David urinating on a picture of Jesus.
Posted on October 30, 2009A woman who tied up her husband, stabbed him 193 times, and buried his body in a hole in the yard that he had dug for a fountain received a 25-year prison sentence.
Posted on October 30, 2009"Reacting to the music's roll and tumble, Dylan and Sexton squatted and swayed, as if ducking out of the way of the sharp notes, snapping chords and fierce sentiments."
Posted on October 30, 2009"It was in an odd, improvised shape, because Mr. Halprin knew his wife could not be contained by a rectangle."
Posted on October 28, 2009The phony quotes keep coming ? and they go viral before even very quick corrections.
Posted on October 28, 2009"As if a '70s time-capsule blasted off into space and you're watching it through a holographic filter."
Posted on October 28, 20094 teenaged girls are arrested after they figured out what clothes and jewelry they wanted and which celebrities houses to break into to get them.
Posted on October 27, 2009"[W]hat is hip-hop studies, and what would a hip-hop studies program offer that is not already available on campus?"
Posted on October 27, 2009The Wisconsin State Capitol is lit up in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness.
Posted on October 27, 2009"Both the old guy at Fårö who made his coffin and Woody Allen will be invited."
Posted on October 26, 2009"We may be No. 1, but there is sort of an insurgent quality to Fox News."
Posted on October 26, 2009"She's young, she's beautiful, and she was sitting on the lap of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia."
Posted on October 26, 2009"The man had 14 royal pythons and 10 albino leopard geckos under his clothes."
Posted on October 26, 2009What hot public issue brought out this crowd on a Monday night in Madison?
Posted on October 26, 2009"Next time, hon, just go to the gas station on Walnut and spare us your gaping incredulity at real life."
Posted on October 26, 2009"The worst thing that you or I can do for the planet is to have children."
Posted on October 26, 2009Rewriting those hotel towel-use cards to let guests know that a majority of hotel guests do, in fact, opt to reuse their towels.
Posted on October 26, 2009"Hundreds of Kabul University students led the latest protest, burning an effigy of US President Barack Obama."
Posted on October 25, 2009Prosecutors want to challenge the trustworthiness of information turned up by the Innocence Project, but what information about students and classes should it be able to look at?
Posted on October 25, 2009"President Obama will almost certainly not travel to the Copenhagen climate change summit in December..."
Posted on October 25, 2009Oh, Bissage, et al., you have made Althouse so very much better than I am.
Posted on October 25, 2009Jennifer Aniston takes 3-minute showers in which she not only accomplishes all the usual showerly things...
Posted on October 25, 2009"Imagine that you had just cooked this unbelievable souffle and someone said, Would you prefer to present it on an earthenware plate or this gorgeous exquisite plate that?s been made by some crazy artisan?"
Posted on October 23, 2009"This is not a good path for kids if the relationship isn?t going toward marriage."
Posted on October 23, 2009"Yes I wasn't wearing any clothes but I was alone, in my own home and just got out of bed. It was dark and I had no idea anyone was outside looking in at me."
Posted on October 23, 2009"The case against inviting the BNP to appear on Question Time is a case for censorship..."
Posted on October 22, 2009"Yeah, I also don't like having the idea of 'the void' thrust upon me while I'm driving."
Posted on October 22, 2009"It?s time for President Obama to do what it takes to win a war he has repeatedly and rightly called a war of necessity."
Posted on October 22, 2009Erstwhile Yale Law students Heide Iravani and Brittan Heller settle the lawsuit they brought against Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey, Pauliewalnuts and Sleazy Z, etc. ? the AutoAdmit commenters who wrote those nasty things.
Posted on October 22, 2009"We don't want people to panic... But I'm admitting that American medicine has overpromised when it comes to [cancer] screening."
Posted on October 22, 2009"Having a black man hobbling around on national TV in an Indian costume trivializes both of America's original sins ? the enslavement of Africans and the genocide of indigenous peoples."
Posted on October 21, 2009"Will the BBC save Jack from falling down the hill, find Little Boy Blue's sheep and keep unhygienic Goosey Goosey Gander out of my lady's chamber?"
Posted on October 21, 2009"... religion is on the decline... when the time comes that religion shall be discarded..."
Posted on October 21, 2009"The effect of the rule below will be to grant drunk drivers 'one free swerve' before they can be legally pulled over by police."
Posted on October 21, 2009"[I]t now appears there is little chance that the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen in December will produce a comprehensive and binding new treaty on global warming."
Posted on October 20, 2009What psychological phenomena cause people to bond with right-wing radio they way they do?
Posted on October 20, 2009Man chokes to death on a hot dog, and the police are looking for the murderer ? somebody who attacked him back in 1965.
Posted on October 20, 2009"Deleting crude or offensive statements may make everything neat and tidy, but it also obscures unpleasant realities and prevents enlightened readers from addressing them in bold and creative ways."
Posted on October 20, 2009Al Sharpton is threatening to sue Rush Limbaugh for defamation? But that's what Rush wants, isn't it?
Posted on October 17, 2009Sheperd Fairey admits to deception in the litigation about the photograph he used to make the Obama "Hope" poster.
Posted on October 17, 2009"If you can invent it" ? judicial review ? "you can do whatever you want with it."
Posted on October 16, 2009"So I took a fun picture not thinking anything about what I was wearing..."
Posted on October 15, 2009"Don't take this the wrong way, but it was like watching the hippo ballet in Fantasia.?
Posted on October 15, 2009"Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis B. Butler was nominated by President Barack Obama Wednesday for a federal judgeship."
Posted on October 01, 2009"Folks at the Wisconsin Tourism Federation couldn't possibly have seen how the Internet would change the lingo when it was established in 1979...."
Posted on September 30, 2009Why slam those of us with great health care benefits? We worked for it. We earned it. And we're the middle-class people Obama said he wasn't going to hurt.
Posted on September 30, 2009I have a shred of sympathy for the Hollywood celebrities who defend Roman Polanski.
Posted on September 30, 2009"All that's left, then, is that he's been extraordinarily burdened by traumatic deaths in his family."
Posted on September 30, 2009A 14-year-old girl died a few hours after getting the cervical cancer vaccine.
Posted on September 30, 2009"One female UW-Madison student spoke out and said that by renovating the park, the homeless would be driven out, no help would be provided to them and they would have nowhere else to go."
Posted on September 30, 2009"The French government has dropped its public support for Roman Polanski, saying the 76-year-old director 'is neither above nor beneath the law.'"
Posted on September 30, 2009"I winced when I saw the wooden railroad plank being smacked against Derrion Albert?s head."
Posted on September 29, 2009Dialogue about struggling with clamshell packaging: "It was entombed!" "Just get a box cutter!" ?What am I, Mohammed Atta, I gotta get a box cutter??
Posted on September 29, 2009Are Hollywood types defending Roman Polanski because they love him as a fellow artist or because of their own pedophilia?
Posted on September 29, 2009"Cocoon, the fish and meat maker, is the winner of the Electrolux Design Lab 2009 competition."
Posted on September 29, 2009It's good to know that fighting to win is something Obama passionately believes in.
Posted on September 29, 2009The Philosopher's Petition: "Apprehended like a common terrorist Saturday evening, September 26, as he came to receive a prize for his entire body of work, Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison."
Posted on September 29, 2009"Unless Obama learns to rely less on charm, rhetoric, and good intentions and more on picking his spots and winning in political combat, he's not going to be reelected...."
Posted on September 28, 2009Proposal for a new kind of slang following the pattern "metal fork" for "metaphor."
Posted on September 28, 2009Anne Applebaum says: Roman Polanski "did commit a crime, but he has paid for the crime in many, many ways..."
Posted on September 28, 2009"Now watch what you say or they'll be calling you a radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal."
Posted on September 28, 2009Is it wrong for me to wait too long before writing about what the NYT public editor has written about why the NYT took so long to write about the ACORN story?
Posted on September 27, 2009Roman Polanski is now in custody for having sex with a 45-year-old woman.
Posted on September 27, 2009"What makes these tweets significant is that they were written by Raju Narisetti, one of The Post?s top editors."
Posted on September 27, 2009Alicia de Larrocha "cultivated a poetic interpretive style in which gracefulness was prized over technical flashiness or grand, temperamental gestures."
Posted on September 26, 2009"I don't want to be seen now, because I am like a lizard. It is horrible."
Posted on September 26, 2009We have a president who doesn't even believe we are the good guys. True or false?
Posted on September 26, 2009What are you supposed to think when you go to your local neighborhood grocery store in Madison, Wisconsin...
Posted on September 26, 2009"President Obama must also reaffirm that ? should diplomacy fail ? all options remain on the table."
Posted on September 26, 2009"The need for a cheap apartment in part led Mr. Carroll home to Inwood in the summer of 2008, in spite of his history with the neighborhood."
Posted on September 26, 2009"Mr. Obama is teasing Mrs. Obama. 'You?re standing on the wrong side of me.'"
Posted on September 25, 2009"Hello, Mr. President we honor you today! For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say 'hooray!'"
Posted on September 25, 2009"I just can?t take it any more" ? shouted in Arabic by Gaddafi's translator.
Posted on September 25, 2009"It was less risky to have a useless poll than one that actually measured where health care stands with voters."
Posted on September 25, 2009"People laugh at metal detectorists. I've had people go past and go, 'Beep, beep, he?s after pennies.' Well no, we're out there to find this kind of stuff, and it is out there."
Posted on September 25, 2009"Respect the vision of Frank Lloyd Wright and look to the future and forget the towers.?
Posted on September 25, 2009"Save the Boobs" ? it's a breast cancer public service announcement, so you can't complain?
Posted on September 25, 2009"If the cow had the cognitive ability to form thought and speak, would it say, 'Where?s the milk? I?m not getting any milk.'"
Posted on September 25, 2009Andrew Sullivan presents ? without cynicism ? Bill Clinton's explanation of why he's now for same-sex marriage.
Posted on September 25, 2009"President Obama yesterday did his best impression of a high-school sophomore participating in his first Model UN meeting, retailing pious clichés he learned from his pony-tailed social studies teacher."
Posted on September 24, 2009When it comes to the 3 aspects of softness ? surface smoothness, bulky feel, and drapability ? we love our old-growth toilet paper.
Posted on September 24, 2009When Axelrod starts yammering inapt polysyllabic "e" words, you know he's lying.
Posted on September 24, 2009Scanning the NYT for something to blog, I said "Has the mainstream news become less substantial?"
Posted on September 24, 2009"Oh Millard Fillmore/You're like Happy Gilmore/We all should chill more/Like Millard Fillmore..."
Posted on September 24, 2009"ACORN Sues Hidden-Camera Filmmakers, Breitbart.com. It should be fun to do discovery on this one."
Posted on September 23, 2009"The engine of unbridled capitalism, with its unfair system of thought, has reached the end of the road and is unable to move."
Posted on September 23, 2009"Well, remember, this was the speed diavlog. You should have heard the long version, the one that killed my computer. That was hot."
Posted on September 23, 2009"I think John McCain would have been worse. How about this? I think John McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama. How?s that?"
Posted on September 22, 2009"Captain Bezu Fache carried himself like an angry ox, with his wide shoulders thrown back and his chin tucked hard into his chest."
Posted on September 22, 2009"Law students today, however, are like single women over 35. They?re desperate ? and firms are warier of committing to them."
Posted on September 22, 2009"If I'm ever 82 years old and acting like that have someone put me away."
Posted on September 21, 2009"They are the biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with in my 30 years in Washington."
Posted on September 21, 2009"Was the NEA coordinating with the White House to push their agenda on a group of artists eager for and reliant upon the NEA for grants...
Posted on September 21, 2009"General [Vang] Pao was shocked that the United States, which he reveres and has fought and bled for, would treat him this way."
Posted on September 20, 2009"I must have read the novel a hundred times, and could recite lengthy passages from memory, without exactly understanding everything."
Posted on September 20, 2009"Mr. Edwards once calmed an anxious Ms. Hunter by promising her that after his wife died, he would marry her in a rooftop ceremony in New York with an appearance by the Dave Matthews Band."
Posted on September 20, 2009"What made the lone, piercing cry of 'You lie!' shocking was that it breached a previously secure barrier."
Posted on September 20, 2009Does Barack Obama regard our presence in Afghanistan as an "occupation" ? like the Soviet occupation?
Posted on September 20, 2009"People who kill other people and strangle them is a very personal thing because they are actually looking at you as they are dying."
Posted on September 20, 2009"I will pay you $1 to sit in my bathtub full of noodles while you wear a one piece bathing suit."
Posted on September 20, 2009"Two phantom figures ? Wednesday the rat and Four Hundred the cat ? are the restless hallucinations who urge Jani to do what she calls 'bad things.'"
Posted on September 20, 2009"Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95?"
Posted on September 19, 2009"On Sunday, President Barack Obama will execute what might be called a Modified Full Ginsburg..."
Posted on September 19, 2009"So if, as Michelle Obama says, women are 'crushed' under our health care system, then how come they live longer than men?"
Posted on September 19, 2009"Some of them call me an oracle. Some call me a guru. But I?m just a girl like anyone else."
Posted on September 19, 2009"Republicans have been openly feeding off of race hatred since the days of Dick Nixon. Today?s conservative activists are carrying that banner proudly."
Posted on September 19, 2009"Yes, it was fun this week to watch the teabaggers complain how the media underestimated the size of their march..."
Posted on September 19, 2009"A President was killed the last time right-wing hatred ran wild like this."
Posted on September 19, 2009"[Bill Clinton] possessed a winning, near irresistible charm. Obama's persona is more cool, distant, imperial."
Posted on September 18, 2009Incredibly, this is an ad produced by the country of Denmark to promote tourism.
Posted on September 18, 2009"Even though I didn't win the crown that night. I know that the Lord has so much of a bigger crown in heaven for me."
Posted on September 18, 2009Instead of shouting "You lie," try: "I?m incredulous at that utterly preposterous spewing of fiction."
Posted on September 18, 2009"A new star has most definitely been born. He stands about 5 feet tall and when he slips that buff on top of his head, he transforms into a pirate, missing tooth and all."
Posted on September 18, 2009"College student hears an intruder and ? samurai sword in hand ? goes to investigate."
Posted on September 17, 2009"The first thing I want to do is have a car that I can fit in, but more than that I want to get married."
Posted on September 17, 2009"It is important to note that this is not about urban crime, university crime, domestic crime, but an issue of workplace violence, which is becoming a growing concern around the country."
Posted on September 17, 2009"Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin joined the anti-czar chorus Wednesday..."
Posted on September 17, 2009"The Peace Pole will consist of an organic-looking wooden pole with the message, 'May Peace Prevail on Earth' in four different languages on four sides,..."
Posted on September 17, 2009"The river's flow ranges from murky white to a bright shade of orange and the waters are so viscous that they barely ripple in the breeze."
Posted on September 17, 2009Jimmy Carter says "There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president"...
Posted on September 16, 2009Wait 'til all the young people who championed Obama find out that they are the ones who'll be funding health care reform.
Posted on September 16, 20092 products that look a lot better in the ads than they've worked for me.
Posted on September 16, 2009"Conservatives believe that they have hit upon a winning formula for such attacks: mobilizing people to dig up dirt, trumpeting it on talk radio and television, prompting Congress to weigh in and demanding action from the Obama administration."
Posted on September 16, 2009What Joe Wilson's wife said: "Joe, who's the nut who hollered out, 'You lie'?"
Posted on September 15, 2009Kanye West gets rewarded for his oafishness with an appearance on the new Jay Leno show.
Posted on September 15, 2009Thanks to all my readers who gave immediate and overnight pushback to a vile new commenter...
Posted on September 15, 2009Editor's Note from The Moderate Voice: "The title and URL for this post has been changed from the original."
Posted on September 14, 2009"Those are people who died, died. They were all my friends, and they died."
Posted on September 14, 2009"City of Madison cracks down on socialists: Citations to newspaper hawkers set up First Amendment clash."
Posted on September 13, 2009"Boy, was I wrong. I can remember telling Glenn Reynolds during CPAC that these Tea Party demonstrations were rinky-dink and going nowhere."
Posted on September 13, 2009If anybody at that tea party yesterday was carrying a sign that had any whiff of racism or insanity...
Posted on September 13, 2009"If you?re determined to be truly conservative, don?t spend more than about 35 percent of your pretax income on mortgage, property tax and home insurance payments."
Posted on September 13, 2009"But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!"
Posted on September 13, 2009"Hi I'm just like you I worry about getting fat and finding the right man to validate my pointless existence where all I do is worry about getting fat and finding the right man to validate my pointless existence..."
Posted on September 12, 2009I throw some movie-related red meat to the lefties, and then to the righties.
Posted on September 12, 2009"['Inglourious Basterds'] is a movie that thinks cold-blooded brutality and torture are not necessary evils, or excesses spawned in the heat of battle, but the very epitome of cool."
Posted on September 12, 2009Should Joe Wilson, on pain of admonishment, apologize on the floor of the House? I say yes.
Posted on September 12, 2009"Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today... as they protested the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending."
Posted on September 12, 2009"A modest woman who liked to watch the 'Jerry Springer Show' and eat fried chicken, bacon and ice cream. She refused to use dentures. 'I don't know how she does it. She only has her gums, no teeth.'"
Posted on September 12, 2009"Readers well know that I have never failed to address even personal matters on this blog..."
Posted on September 12, 2009"You Lie!" defined as: "The classiest way to respond to anyone you disagree with."
Posted on September 11, 2009"It is quite apparent that [Andrew] Sullivan is being treated differently from others who have been charged with the same crime in similar circumstances."
Posted on September 11, 2009"Jose Flores Pereira, 44, who carried a Bible and a small box wrapped in packing tape, explained that the date - 9/9/9 - was the number of the Beast upside down."
Posted on September 10, 2009An article is irking me, and I express my irritation herein by quoting one sentence.
Posted on September 10, 2009"[T]he IAAF now have the whole ANC and the whole of South Africa on their backs."
Posted on September 10, 2009Prank caller James Tyler Markle "convinced a McDonald's worker to set off the restaurant's fire suppression system, which released a liquid from overhead extinguishers... and directed the worker to break the store's windows 'for ventilation.'"
Posted on September 10, 2009"The American way of eating has become the elephant in the room in the debate over health care."
Posted on September 10, 2009Russ Feingold on cap-and-trade: "I?m not signing onto any bill that rips off Wisconsin."
Posted on September 10, 2009So we were talking about this photograph of Obama (and Biden) and the Justices, and...
Posted on September 09, 2009"Sunstein has nothing to do with the 'czars' or the problems with the ?czars.'"
Posted on September 09, 2009"I was sitting there, reading this leaflet about planning a funeral and thinking, this is my baby, he isn't even born yet, let alone dead."
Posted on September 09, 2009"If supporters of federal curbs on political campaign spending by corporations were counting on Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., to hesitate to strike down such restrictions..."
Posted on September 09, 2009"Every single one of you has something you?re good at. Every single one of you has something to offer."
Posted on September 09, 2009When President George H.W. Bush gave a speech to school children, congressional Democrats denounced him...
Posted on September 08, 2009"[T]he silly and democratically harmful fiction that a judge can interpret the key abstract clauses of the United States Constitution..."
Posted on September 08, 2009"We affirm the students? right to their own patterns and varieties of language..."
Posted on September 08, 2009"Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans?"
Posted on September 08, 2009"Most men find most women at least somewhat sexually attractive, whereas most women do not find most men sexually attractive at all..."
Posted on September 08, 2009"What passage in the Koran says women can?t wear pants? This is not nice."
Posted on September 07, 2009"Loons should shut up and listen: Obama not out to brainwash schoolkids."
Posted on September 07, 2009Obama's speech to kids is nearly 10x as long as the Gettysburg Address (which was given to adults).
Posted on September 07, 2009"In a victory for Republicans and the Obama administration?s conservative critics, Van Jones resigned..."
Posted on September 06, 2009"There was actually a WWI propaganda poster that had a pit bull draped by an American flag."
Posted on September 05, 2009Convicted of manslaughter and attempted rape, a man who has not yet had sex reassignment surgery wins the right to be transferred to a woman's prison.
Posted on September 05, 2009"If I have offended anyone with statements I made in the past, I apologize."
Posted on September 05, 2009"2 of the 3 broadcasts being anchored by women is nothing to sneeze at..."
Posted on September 04, 2009Henry ? our James Dean of a commenter ? fixes the metaphor written by TIME's Sal Mineo, Joe Klein.
Posted on September 04, 2009"Dayo [Olopade] explains why Obamacare will fail in 8 seconds flat. The RNC should hire her for their next commercial."
Posted on September 04, 2009"[T]he number of people who believe that the President has larded the government with communists (!) was astonishing."
Posted on September 04, 2009And what if all the President has to say to the children is a load of innocuous pleasantries?
Posted on September 04, 2009"The 65-year-old was apparently aggressive and hit the other man, who then retaliated by biting off his attacker's pinky..."
Posted on September 03, 2009Getting pseudonymous commenters to diavlog ? with a "masking effect" ? and a draft of a Bloggingheads comments policy.
Posted on September 03, 2009Should schoolchildren be made to listen to a President's speech and analyze it?
Posted on September 03, 2009"How to Win in Afghanistan We tried the 'offshore' strategy before. The result was 9/11."
Posted on September 03, 2009"Like two tragic Playboy bunnies who're going through some kind of tiresome art school phase where they lounge around the mansion reading Anais Nin...
Posted on September 02, 2009Why Andrew Sullivan shouldn't be talking about whether Sarah Palin is "nutty enough."
Posted on September 02, 2009"[W]e believe that journalists have a responsibility to shine light in dark places, to give voice to those who are too often silenced and ignored."
Posted on September 02, 2009"So I ate that mushroom, fly and all GULP just like that without even chewing. I could feel the fly buzzing all the way down. Mmmmm, fly."
Posted on September 01, 2009"A Health Care for America Now (HCAN) organizer is caught on tape outside the meeting instructing supporters on how to shout down opponents..."
Posted on September 01, 2009"Rather than rejoicing in a loving wife, a daughter not yet 2, a job I enjoyed ? in being, simply, 41..."
Posted on September 01, 2009"If you've ever wanted to explore the world of Wal-Mart but don't live near one, this site is for you."
Posted on September 01, 2009"WaPo Style Writer Declares Kennedy Old-Money Style Only Cool on Liberals."
Posted on September 01, 2009Sarah Palin has 950 invitations to do speeches for which she'll be paid in the 6 figures.
Posted on August 31, 2009Is it easier for the poor to up and move to a new place to take advantage of better opportunities?
Posted on August 31, 2009Film critic writes a book about snark ? called (duh!) "Snark" ? and there's nothing to do about it, except...
Posted on August 31, 2009"Joe Kennedy, as emotionally drained as he must be, cannot help but be moved..."
Posted on August 31, 2009George Will on Afghanistan: "America should do only what can be done from offshore..."
Posted on August 31, 2009Andrew Sullivan trashes the Washington Post for omitting something from its KSM story...
Posted on August 30, 2009"The case against 'harsh interrogation techniques' is easy if they don't work."
Posted on August 30, 2009"Khalid Sheik Mohammed stood before U.S. intelligence officers in a makeshift lecture hall, leading what they called 'terrorist tutorials.'"
Posted on August 30, 2009"He liked actors. I didn't know then, of course, that he was a celibate homosexual."
Posted on August 29, 2009"Oh, we gotta keep grandma alive so she can tell us more about Woodstock."
Posted on August 29, 2009"I don?t know if you know this or not, but one of his favorite topics of humor was indeed Chappaquiddick itself."
Posted on August 28, 2009"I thought it was the most exhaustingly didactic bodice-ripper I had ever read."
Posted on August 27, 2009"It was almost written in stone that you?ll end up in a law firm, almost like a birthright."
Posted on August 27, 2009"In the six weeks since my baby was born, I seem to have lost all worldly ambition."
Posted on August 27, 2009The sense that there is a "third man" ? a ghostly companion giving support in difficult times.
Posted on August 27, 2009"Be My Baby," "Leader of the Pack," "Then He Kissed Me," "Da Doo Ron Ron," "Chapel of Love," "Doo Wah Diddy"...
Posted on August 27, 2009Orin Kerr thinks the 9th Circuit has made "every computer search warrant that has ever been obtained ? and every offsite search" unconstitutional.
Posted on August 27, 2009"Towards the end I realized: it would be one thing to have a career that I could be great at..."
Posted on August 27, 2009Back in 1950, Sammy Petrillo got a haircut, and then everyone started laughing at him and telling him he looked like Jerry Lewis.
Posted on August 27, 2009"If I read all the vile stuff about me on the Internet, I?d never come to work."
Posted on August 26, 2009Teddy Kennedy's death will be used to rekindle the old argument that we need to shut up and hurry up about health care reform.
Posted on August 26, 2009"Brought to the 'black site' in diapers... the prisoner?s head and face were shaved..."
Posted on August 26, 2009"My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life, to be remembered simply as a good and decent man..."
Posted on August 26, 2009"If you really want a man to be nice to you, never give him a hard time, never talk about emotions and never ask him how he is feeling."
Posted on August 26, 2009"The up side of blogging: you can be reasonably confident people aren?t reading you on the john."
Posted on August 26, 2009"The owner of a dog is being sent to jail for 90 days based on his failure to do something he could not know he was supposed to do."
Posted on August 26, 2009"Rightbloggers Observe Kennedy's Passing Pretty Much the Way You Would Expect."
Posted on August 26, 2009Justice Souter has kept a lifelong diary, and he's donated it to the New Hampshire Historical Society.
Posted on August 26, 2009"By the way, leave our penises alone, too... Leave our penises alone, too, Obama!"
Posted on August 25, 2009Another article about the DVD of "thirtysomething" by someone who loved the show as a teenager and is now in her/his 30s.
Posted on August 25, 2009The radical notion that "all courses listed as courses in composition teach grammar and rhetoric and nothing else."
Posted on August 25, 2009"To say you can?t improve scores is to say you can?t improve students, and I disagree with that."
Posted on August 25, 2009Michael Jackson's death a "homicide"... you mean, in the sense of assisted suicide?
Posted on August 25, 2009"We are no longer at the point that it is acceptable to throw things at the wall and see what sticks."
Posted on August 25, 2009"As the writer Katha Pollitt (who is also my ex-wife) puts it: 'I get a ton of hostile, misogynous, idiotic comments from anonymous trolls...'"
Posted on August 25, 2009"John Schnatter sold the gold-and-black 1971 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 for $2,800 in 1983."
Posted on August 25, 2009"WOW!! Althouse, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard."
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