Neanderthals had red hair and freckles. (Maybe.) (Can somebody Photoshop an image?) ADDED: Combine: Ah, there's this : ADDED: 2 images, from Palladian and Lordsomber , respectively: I love the complete contrast in mood.
"'He looks like he's in college and everybody calls him Favs, so you're like, "This guy can't be for real, right?"' said Ben Rhodes, another Obama speechwriter. 'But it doesn't take long…
How interesting! A clever choice. It made me go back to my notes on the Saddleback Forum , the hour-long interviews that Obama and McCain gave to Rick Warren back in August. I liked Warren's style and thought Obama had a goo…
And once again I'm on the list. You may say, but how can Althouse be the Grande Conservative Blogress Diva when she voted for Barack Obama? 1. I voted for Barack Obama because John McCain was not conservative enough . If we …
I read the opening lines of Calvin Trillin's op-ed -- written in June 2006, but featured on the NYT website this morning as an op-ed "classic": MY excitement at the news that Senator Chris Dodd, Democrat of Connect…
Commenter Chip Ahoy responds to this post about the commenter known as blogging cockroach . He's adapted and animinated the beautiful "archy and mehitabel" drawing by George Herriman. Now, of course, our blogging c…
In the early morning hours yesterday, this blog received a visit from our ghost commenter Sir Archy -- dead these 260 Years and more . As a ghost, he had something to say about Barack Obama's first press conference, in which…
Damn, it's such good advice: He should forget entirely about reelection and focus solely on helping the nation at a critical time. He should dismiss the people who helped him win the election and bring in people who are above…
One of my favorite commenters, Madison Man, just happens to have an office window overlooking the scene: The time is 10:30 a.m. Notices for the event said that the "doors" would open at 9:00 and the event would begin at…
I was making fun of that muddle of images from a NYT article. In the comments, Reader_iam exclaimed: OH THE VISUALS, OH THE VISUALS! OH MY [MIND'S] EYES! OH MY [MIND'S] EYES! What an onslaught of imagery! An assault, rea…
So if I have nothing to say then I wasted 148 minutes. To try to salvage my lost time, I'll go with a numbered list: 1. Why is a comedy 148 minutes long? Especially a comedy based on a half-hour sitcom. It was like 5 TV episo…
Give me some subject matter and I just may vlog today... or even podcast... ADDED: In the comments, Bissage notes a lamppost in my photo and suggests replacing it with this . Simon then produces this picture... ... and Palladian …
Steven D. Levitt -- whose Freakonomics blog is now on the NYT website -- applies his thinking skills to the enterprise of plotting terrorism! He identifies the goals: "what really inspires fear... is the thought that they c…
Jessica Valenti is writing in The Guardian and connecting the violent threats against Kathy Sierra to my old blog post making fun of a photograph of her and a bunch of other bloggers posing with President Clinton. Read the whol…
David Brooks's column yesterday began this way ( TimesSelect link ): This is a tale of two predators. The first is a congressman who befriended teenage pages. He sent them cajoling instant messages asking them to describe the…
What do anti-abortion advocates want right now , as they look to their next go-round in the Supreme Court? Some, like Daniel McConchie of Americans United for Life, which did not take part in [South Dakota's effort to pass a …
"Brokeback Mountain," the high-class film everyone thinks must be called the "gay cowboy movie," is doing extremely well in the few theaters where it has opened -- in NYC, LA, and San Francisco. The question i…