I caught my blogwatch kissing a replica

Oh God–she looked just like me!…

Note: For all Blogspot sites, I’ve just directed you to the main page rather than the individual post, since the sites are wigging even more than usual. Oh well, it’s better than learning HTML!

Ninomania: Comments on Balkin/Solum boxing match. I have some questions about Solum’s really strong reliance on stare decisis but I’m not sure I can formulate them without further study.

Oxblog offers the most substantive “best of the web” roundup I’ve ever seen.

Unqualified Offerings: Uber-creepy quotes from California state official: “‘You can make an easy kind of a link that, if you have a protest group protesting a war where the cause that’s being fought against is international terrorism, you might have terrorism at that (protest),’ said Van Winkle, of the state Justice Department. ‘You can almost argue that a protest against that is a terrorist act.'” More. If this guy was quoted properly (the article is not exactly evenhanded, but then the quotes are pretty wild), he should be out prontissimo. I can certainly understand that cops need information about protests that might turn violent*, but this guy seems so clearly biased against protesters that I can’t imagine his information would even be accurate. Over-frightening bad information is just as much a problem for cops trying to assess threats as under-frightening.

* A note: I wish the article had taken the time to tell us what some of the “direct action” protest groups, like the Ruckus Society, think “nonviolent” means. If I recall correctly, many of these groups view property damage as “nonviolent protest.” That puts a very different spin on their claims to be Joe First Amendment. But it doesn’t change my problems with the California justice dept. guy.

DON’T. YOU. TRY. TO. FAKE. ME. OUT….