This is an annual feature of the Althouse blog. I go though the whole year of posts and pick out the quotes that I like best. "I have so many opportunities from this country. I just don't want to see us fall backwards, y…
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…
Rush Limbaugh is absorbing defeat. "What is the point of saying unify with Obama?" Rush is annoyed at McCain and anybody else who wants to "make nice." Actually, I think he's moving in the angry but constr…
Reading about Rush Limbaugh and his besotted fondness for his kitty cat, I realized we don't hear anything about the presidential candidates' pets. Usually, you hear about the pets... Socks this, Barney that. King Timaho…
Rush Limbaugh talks to the UK Telegraph: "I have days where I feel I've left half my brain at home and I'm not functioning 100 per cent, but I don't think the audience would ever know it, and there's never a …
There's this . And Rush, on the radio, is saying that Clinton is "dropping neutron bombs all over the place" on Obama. ADDED: Getty Images picture on the front page of the WaPo -- with the caption: "Sen. John …
"We need to keep this guy on the campaign." Is it really this bad? Check out the amazing gush of Biden gaffes at that link. (Warning: It's Rush Limbaugh, but you need to read the evidence.) You know, when I hear all…
According to Mark Leibovich in the NYT . The evidence? You got me. I read the whole article. Didn't notice any butchering. Yet Joltin’ Joe has also become a fascinating Off Broadway spectacle in his own right. He is a distinc…
In this WSJ editorial: The malignant aspect of this is that Mr. Obama and his advisers know exactly what they are doing. They had to listen to both monologues or read the transcripts. They then had to pick the particular excerpts…
I nearly got my head bitten off for suggesting as much myself, but now I see that I'm not the only one. That quote is from Rush Limbaugh, said on Monday's show : ... [W]hen Mrs. Clinton was talking about herself, she was …
Yikes! It's Camille Paglia! (Via Instapundit .) ADDED: So I'm mentally sorting through the Hillary men and trying to decide which ones are slick, geeky weasels or and which ones are rancid, asexual cream puffs. ADDED: Rus…
I'm glad to see the title — on a NYT Magazine article previewed here — because I was just calling Matthews a comedian in the context of explaining his "sexist" remarks about Hillary — on video that you'll see …
I'm disgusted with the use of Congress for political posturing like this . So Rush Limbaugh said something that can be construed to insult soldiers. Whatever. This shouldn't be taking up time in Congress. It's a damn…
The NYT's "Public Editor," Byron Calame, writes about the dispute that arose when Linda Greenhouse -- the NYT's Supreme Court reporters -- gave a speech that revealed some of her personal political opinions. [S…
Elisabeth Bumiller writes in today's NYT about the music used by the Bush campaign. I took note the other day of the Kerry campaign's use of the Springsteen song "No Surrender," so let me take a look at the Bu…
"Servicing humanity." People deviate from routine word choice at their own risk. Sometimes they are being pretentious, and sometimes the big words that a pretentious person would use can work nicely as a comic device.…