1. For a movie full of nuns and priests, there was damned little religion in it. There were references to "mortal sin," and Bibles and crosses were displayed, but I don't think anyone ever mentioned God or Jesus. In…
I hope you got what you wanted for Christmas. Do you like the day after Christmas? You can play with your presents and do whatever you want. Or do you focus more on the tasks of cleaning up, exchanging the bad gifts, and thinking…
... because I don't like seeing the "Harold Pinter's dead" post at the top anymore... though I'd be happy to keep talking about the movie "Synecdoche, New York," which I thought was pretty good. It…
Last Christmas, my scheduled flight to Austin -- where both my sons lived -- got canceled, the rescheduled flight got canceled, and it became impossible to book a flight that would get me to Austin in time for Christmas. It was 5…
As you can see, State Street is nearly entirely bereft of Christmas decorations... ... though an occasional lamppost has a big snowflake on it, as I noted here (prompting HeatherRadish to quip, "The symbol Madison chose to …
Reason's Hit and Run blog uses my photograph of a Freedom From Religion sign as it links to an article by Jacob Sullum about secularism and Christmas. How do I know it's my photograph of the sign? Look at my original 200…
A family in New Jersey was pressured into taking down a hanged dummy, which was part of a Halloween display in their yard. Before the figure was removed yesterday, Madison Mayor Ellwood "Woody" Kerkeslager said "t…
In the Fall of 1980, Clarence Thomas is working for the Republican Senator Danforth, and he's just registered as a Republican for the first time and voted for Ronald Reagan. On the invitation of Thomas Sowell, he attends a co…
I'm watching one of the first movies I ever saw... from back in the days when TV played "The Early Show," "The Late Show," "The Late Late Show," and -- if I'm not mistaken -- "The Late L…
You may remember a couple Christmases back, we got absorbed, Chez Althouse, in playing all the versions of "Blue Christmas" we could find. Here 's a look at all the versions of "Hallelujah," the incredibl…
Accused of running a house of prostitution in her $400,000 suburban home. The neighbors had gotten suspicious: For months, Bonnie Sorak and other residents on Shirley Meadow Court had speculated about the goings-on at the home …
The Blue Christmas Podcast. 36 minutes. (You can stream it right through your computer here .) UPDATE: If you tried before and found the file way too large, try it now. I needed to change a setting in the software on my new comp…
Obviously, Mommy was taking the picture. Dell was resisting the onslaught of the popping flashbulb. I was trying to prove that I belonged on "The Mickey Mouse Club" more than Karen . There's George in his cowboy paj…
Again. Just wanted to have that at the top of the blog today. It's finally getting light here. I'm looking at just about the same image pictured in last night's Blue Christmas post . Well, don't have a blue Christ…
The view from my window, tonight at nightfall: It seems that every year, there's something that gets us started singing "Blue Christmas." Like last year, it was another photograph: here . Now we're listening to …