The Economist asks: Other appetites... have been sated even to excess by modern business. Food far beyond the simple needs of stomachs, and sex (or at least images of it) far beyond the needs of reproduction, bombard the modern m…
He's "the embodiment of all that is wrong with America": "On weekends I engage in countryside motoring as if it's a form of exercise. Worse, during the week, despite the availability of mass transit, I almo…
Have you ever had a baby by your side when you were studying for a law school exam? I had one -- out of the frame -- when I posed for this photograph . The baby -- my older son, John -- was less than 2 months old, so he took no i…
Thumbs up! Thanks, Barack Obama! I learned this reading Jac's new post "3 thoughts on Election Day 2008 (with photos of the Obama family watching the results)." Jac's post is worth reading too. I liked this: Co…
Asks Jac, adding: "It's not a very good feeling, is it?" ADDED: I just noticed that the quote I chose to excerpt is not ostensibly pro-Obama. I liked it because of what it said about Bush. It really has been a dism…
You may remember that back in September 2004, I wrote a post called "How Kerry lost me." I mined my blog archive in an effort to figure out -- for my own purposes -- the origin of the antagonism I had come to feel for …
It's pretty easy to remember who said that, but isn't it fun — or frightening — to relive that moment? Jac has collected 77 choice moments from the '08 presidential race, mostly with video links, and presented in a wa…
That was the announcement, 40 years ago, made at 1:59 a.m., the last entry in the transcripts of statements made by Bobby Kennedy's press secretary from the hospital. The first statement is from 2:30 a.m on June 5th. It is a…
What music makes you feel that way? Jac says it's this , as he makes a few recommendations to a friend who's looking to "knock the cobwebs out of my itunes library." I love all his selections, but especially th…
The Cap Times has an editorial... The idea came from a reader... They link to my blog, but not to the post , which begins: "John IMs me that question from his bar review class in Ithaca." I don't actually have reade…
A couple days back, my son John IM'd me -- from his bar review class -- a question he had about the presidential debates. Why do they keep the Democrats and the Republicans separated? After I gave my instant reaction -- becau…
John McCain gives a commencement address at the New School. Some 1,200 students and faculty had signed petitions asking the university president, former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, to rescind his invitation for McCain to speak, sa…
Cemeteries were... once. Shouldn't they be, again? Meet the cemetery architect. "People always say it's ghoulish," [Michael Howe] says, "but we also design things like lavatories and bathrooms, and that'…
So here's my email to John (referring to a comment in this thread ): Here's a sentence I just wrote: "The reason Taylor reminds you of Clinton and the reason it was especially noticeable last night is because both m…
If you like the theme music on my podcasts , you might want to stream these two songs by Lucas Cates. Brit Rice, who worked on the podcast theme with my son John, plays the drums and percussion.
John -- my son John Althouse Cohen -- opines: Annie Hall likes to get high when they have sex and Woody Allen -- or Alvy Singer -- doesn't like that. That's the most character development there is in the movie.
The law faculty here is having an email list debate about the perceived problem of students using the wireless internet access during class to check websites, do email, IM, etc. Blogging hasn't been mentioned yet, but presuma…