Author Archive: Ann Althouse
May 6, 2011
“TOEING THE LINE BETWEEN being an anthem of sex positive feminism and a pin-up for the patriarch…” It’s #142 on the top 200 list of #1 songs.
“LEAVE IT TO PRIMITIVE AMERICANS to ruin a perfectly good kinetic military operation by taking too much enjoyment, too visibly, in its success. If you believe German political scientist Herfried Münkler, Europeans find the spectacle of ordinary Americans spontaneously celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden a ‘somewhat embarrassing’ display of ‘unthinking naïveté.’”
YUM! Horse… meat?
REMEMBER THAT TIME I opened up the comments on Instapundit? Wanna see me do it again? Oh. I forgot. You can’t answer. There are no comments.
“EVEN JENNIFER LOPEZ can’t make Harem Pants look attractive.”
“I AM A BIG INSTY FAN so I’m surprised just how much fun it was to gently bust his balls here.”
THE WAY THINGS LOOK FROM MADISON, WISCONSIN. This is where I am. It’s been wild these last few months, but it’s like this today. I think these young people are studying for exams. That’s the University of Wisconsin Law School on the left.
SCALIA SAYS WYOMANS. You say… what? Wyomeroonies?
BLOW YOUR NOSE, don’t blow your brains out.
HI, EVERYONE. Sorry to arrive hours past my cue, but we have faculty meetings out here in Wisconsin. I will make it up to you. Hang on a sec. I’m about to do a very Glenn-like post.
May 24, 2010
THANKS TO GLENN for having me back and to all my co-guestbloggers, old and new. It was fun to come over and do another turn on the big stage, and you can read me and join the conversation, as always, at Althouse.
May 23, 2010
ELENA KAGAN SITS “with her legs ajar.” Why point that out? We’re grasping at any clues about the nominee’s activism or restraint.
May 22, 2010
THE WASHINGTON POST FRETS ABOUT the “controversial social studies standards” just adopted by the Texas state board of education, but it fails to quote or even to link to the text of those standards. Everything is paraphrased… appallingly inaccurately.
“I JUST LIKE THE FACT THAT the face slap sound effect used in the Gantry trailer is the same face slap sound effect used in the Three Stooges.” Comic relief in a serioso comments thread — warning: another self-link — about the possibility that we’re all sinners/racists.
“THE FANCIEST-FIELDING FIRST BASEMAN I’ve ever seen, man or woman.” Dorothy “Dottie” Kamenshek of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League has died, at age 84.
WOBBLY BRIDGE. Reminds me of this famous old newsreel from 1940.
SHOULD ELIN NORDEGREN SETTLE with Tiger Woods for $750 million if it includes “a lifetime ‘confidentiality clause’ that would prevent her from writing a book or doing any interviews about the split”?
ADDED: I can’t get the poll to display here. You’ll have to go over to Althouse if you want to vote. The options, for your amusement, are:
Yes. That’s so much money!
Yes. We’ll all be better off if that nasty material never sees the light of day.
Yes. Elin, you will be better off looking for the future and not dwelling on the past.
No. Tiger must pay for what he did and shouldn’t get anything back in exchange.
No. You need to explore and air this all out for your own good.
No. I want to read all about it! Come on! Dish it out!
May 21, 2010
CROCODILE, KANGAROO, ANTELOPE, AND HIPPOPOTAMUS are all at the Beijing zoo — on the restaurant menu. Incredibly, some people are outraged, the theory being the zoo is where we go to learn “to be nice to animals.”
CRAZIEST CANNES OUTFITS. Don’t miss #1.