- Continue the conversation about night 3 of the convention here.
Posted August 27, 2008, 10:33 pm by Ann Althouse
The previous post is approaching 200 comments, at which point the additional comments are hard to view, so let's start a new one. blog advertising blog advertising
- New UW Law Library Web Site - URL Changes for WI Briefs & Drafting Records
Posted August 27, 2008, 8:25 pm
I'm very pleased to share the newly redesigned Law Library Web site. The new site features lots more quick links to our most popular resources. We've also revamped our list of databases so that users may browse by title, subject, or do a keyword search. Because the site architecture is also much changed (for the better, we hope!), the URLs for some of our resources have changed. So, if you've linked to the following resources, you'll want to change them to the new URLs. Wisconsin Briefs -...
- Emailed CNN "Breaking News": "Barack Obama wins Democratic Party's presidential nomination after Hillary Clinton's motion on the convention floor."
Posted August 27, 2008, 6:00 pm by Ann Althouse
So.... what the hell? I'm sitting here, eating my arugula salad and zucchini "pasta," catching up on last night's "Daily Show," sipping my chardonnay, waiting for it to be late enough to bother to start watching the proceedings at the Democratic National Convention, and suddenly Barack Obama has been nominated by acclamation. The ostensible point of the convention, choosing the nominee, occurs more than an hour outside of prime time? WTF?! Blah. Damn. I will still update this post and make it...
- Harley Davidson’s 105th = Lots More Bikes
Posted August 27, 2008, 3:27 pm by jonpgroth
You've seen the bumper stickers reminding us that "bikes have equal rights" and to "watch out for bikers." In Milwaukee this weekend these stickers take on a whole new meaning. This weekend is Harley Davidson's 105th Anniversary Celebration. There will be a lot more motorcycles on the roads in and around Milwaukee. Sadly, I read about the [...]
- "Hey, look! It's my giant underpants!"
Posted August 27, 2008, 11:20 am by Ann Althouse
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- The man who wrote "100 Things to Do Before You Die" died -- at age 47 -- in a fall at his house in L.A.
Posted August 27, 2008, 9:44 am by Ann Althouse
He hit his head. I'm starting a new list of things to do before you die: 1. Be careful! blog advertising blog advertising
- "Americans are so strange, why are they putting pieces of paper in their cookies?"
Posted August 27, 2008, 9:07 am by Ann Althouse
Ha ha. blog advertising blog advertising
- Anne Hathaway on Barack Obama: "I was afraid to trust him and I was afraid to have hope when I first kind of became aware of him."
Posted August 27, 2008, 8:53 am by Ann Althouse
"I was kind of afraid of Obama the first time I saw him... I was afraid to trust him and I was afraid to have hope when I first kind of became aware of him. It was around the time that he gave his speech on race that I just said 'I can't deny how I feel about you, Barack Obama.'" Oh, celebrities, please just keep talking. You don't ever need to know how ridiculous you are. We love you this way. Afraid to have hope... an interesting fear, really, isn't it? But the human organism produces the...
- "Clinton Delivers Emphatic Plea for Unity."
Posted August 27, 2008, 8:49 am by Ann Althouse
Oh, really? That's not what I heard. blog advertising blog advertising
- And we're not protecting the flying squirrel anymore.
Posted August 27, 2008, 8:45 am by Ann Althouse
We've got enough. blog advertising blog advertising
- "The Ninth Annual St. Hubert Benevolent Society Squirrel Cook-off will be held Saturday, Oct. 18..."
Posted August 27, 2008, 8:39 am by Ann Althouse
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- The Obama stage set at Invesco Field: "a miniature Greek temple."
Posted August 27, 2008, 7:38 am by Ann Althouse
Reuters reports: The stage, similar to structures used for rock concerts, has been set up at the 50-yard-line, the midpoint of Invesco Field, the stadium where the Denver Broncos' National Football League team plays. Some 80,000 supporters will see Obama appear from between plywood columns painted off-white, reminiscent of Washington's Capitol building or even the White House, to accept the party's nomination for president. So is this stage set going to seem like a Greek temple, with Obama as...
- Maureen Dowd picks up "a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution."
Posted August 27, 2008, 7:11 am by Ann Althouse
At the Democratic Convention. There were a lot of bitter Clinton associates, fund-raisers and supporters wandering the halls, spewing vindictiveness, complaining of slights, scheming about Hillary's roll call and plotting trouble, with some in the Clinton coterie dissing Obama by planning early departures, before the nominee even speaks.... At a press conference with New York reporters on Monday, Hillary looked as if she were straining at the bit to announce her 2012 exploratory committee....
- Okay. I'm up for it tonight. I'm live-blogging Hillary Night at the Democratic Convention.
Posted August 26, 2008, 6:50 pm by Ann Althouse
6:50 Central Time: My resolve jells. 7:15: I'm watching PBS tonight. C-SPAN last night. PBS has HD + longer coverage than the networks. (I don't have CNN HD.) The introductory material is about how last night somehow had to be soft-focus on Michelle and Teddy. But tonight, we'll have "red meat." Yes, I'm hoping for more excitement tonight. 7:24: A home-care worker is reading a script so robotically that it's kind of ironically human (and nice). Who would feel natural in that situation? Obama...
- $840 Million
Posted August 26, 2008, 3:26 pm by jonpgroth
If any doctors complain about the high cost of malpractice insurance in Wisconsin please refer them to this story from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. In Wisconsin, Doctors must pay the first $1 million in malpractice insurance. If a doctor's negligence causes injury and the compensation due the victim is more than $1 million then a state fund [...]
- "American Prayer" of the damned.
Posted August 26, 2008, 2:31 pm by Ann Althouse
I was just complaining about some annoying web video with low production values, but right after I posted that, I watched this new Obama-promoting video, which has the glossiest production values, and I found it impossible to watch... and I knew I wanted to blog about it so I kept forcing myself, but I had to click stop after a minute and a half: What made it so insufferable? I admit that I came to it from the Corner, which primed me with the line "Personality on steroids: Obama as the coming,...
- "Clintons are lizard people and they are punishing Obama."
Posted August 26, 2008, 1:29 pm by Ann Althouse
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- It's me and Megan McArdle on Bloggingheads!
Posted August 26, 2008, 12:51 pm by Ann Althouse
Topics: Joe Biden: the exciting/boring choice (06:07) Is Hillary better off if Obama loses? (04:13) Don't we all aspire to own so many houses that we lose count? (03:46) Irreligious Megan defends religion's role in politics (13:53) The psychology of online trolls (07:44) Why Ann and Megan drive the commenters crazy (06:47) Some good stuff in there. I'll resist doing a whole lot of clips, but will try to find something very short and pithy to amuse you. blog advertising blog advertising
- SALES TAX – Personal Liability for Wisconsin Sales Taxes, How Does it Happen?
Posted August 26, 2008, 12:39 pm by Rob Teuber
This post continues prior writings in which I discuss the Wisconsin Department of Revenue's assertion that an individual should be personally liable for sales taxes. This post gives some generic examples as to how this can happen. While the circumstances leading to the non-payment of sales taxes often come from entirely different directions, the consistent part among all of these situations is that the Department of Revenue believes that sales taxes that are owed and have not been paid. This...
- Maybe that would be a charming reenvisioning of the talking heads commentary....
Posted August 26, 2008, 11:53 am by Ann Althouse
... but if you're going to shake a blurry camera around at least turn off the tinny background music. Stuff like this is irritating too. Call me a hypocrite - I know I'm a hypocrite vlogger - but I couldn't watch either of those things. So bloggers go to the convention, but why? To say: Here I am, a blogger at the convention? That was cute in 2004, but it's cloying now. blog advertising blog advertising