"... like he’s being a cute little boy... It’s pretty strange. But, it works. Nothing else was ever over the top, but that’s what was so sneaky. All of a sudden he was at my house every night, and I didn’t even remember how …
The Supreme Court declines to hear 2 cases about "victim impact" evidence in death sentencing, and 3 Justices protest: In the cases denied review on Monday, the evidence was composed of a 20-minute videotape in one cas…
"... because it is so easy to just hop into a bodega or a deli or a 99-cent store to buy anything, anytime, no forethought required." From a NYT article about Mayor Bloomberg's plan to make stores collect a 6¢ tax …
According to a study that seems designed to get the maximum possible press coverage. Don't you know it's your primal wussiness that's making you support capitalism, military power, and traditional values? But let'…
Happiness training. For two days we have defined our concepts of happiness and unhappiness. We have paired off for exercises like the cheesy New Age practice of looking in a mirror and answering "What do I see?"... It i…
Video. Was it that guy's goal to piss Obama off and get him looking bad on camera? I'd say Obama kept his cool and handled it well, but I'm sure there will be people who will say this is Obama losing his cool. To that…
The NYT would like to say that Clarence Thomas's anger disqualifies from hearing some cases. Isn't it insanely obvious that if a liberal black judge harbored anger for the way he was treated over the years, the NYT wou…
Andrew Sullivan has this elaborate generational analysis: One difference between Obama and Clinton does not seem to me to have been stressed enough. They are of different Democratic generations. Clinton is from the traumatized ge…
You may have been wondering why I haven't written about the judge who's suing his dry cleaners for $54 million for losing a pair of pants. It seems to have all the elements of an Althouse post, doesn't it? Too much li…
Says Dr. Helen , who points to a study that shows that women are angrier than men and thinks the problem may be that female anger tends to get expressed in passive-aggressive ways.
You've all seen it. This photo atop all the articles about the new report on global warming. (Go to the article to see the larger size.) Here's my question. How many people look at that picture and think the polar bears …
You remember Hirshman's "maybe goddesses have some hypnotic effect on policy wonks," which I flagged here without comment (because I'd already had my say about the WaPo op-ed on the blog and on Bloggingheads.T…