People out on the streets, they don’t know who I am I watch blogs from my room, they are just passing by I’m not just anyone, said I’m not just anyone… Don’t Be A Shamed: Why are there no black Senators? and, Civil rights movement boycotts Cincinnati; Cincy shrugs. Shamed should check out this fine article on the Cincinnati “race” riots. Happy Fun Pundit: Very funny post about missing the Beam-bash boat; and he even gets in a good anti-Beamian... Read more

“Have a drink. I kept the bar open for you.” “Sure, I could use a little cooking sherry.” –Richard Widmark and Ida Lupino, “Road House” Read more

And so I watched one, it became four… And when I fell on the floor, I watched more. Stop me, oh stop me if you think that you’ve watched this blog before… OK, I have a lot of work this week so don’t expect much. I promise to have another authority-and-Catholics-and-sex-and-the-Pope type thing up by Monday, for people who can’t get enough of that wonderful Duff. And I’ll try to have other fun stuff for you in the meanwhile. Until... Read more

READER MAIL: THIS JUST IN, BARLOW STILL LIBERAL! Ted Barlow writes, “I’m still a liberal; I said yes to about 3 1/3 of the points, but I’d throw in a couple of more points to tip me over the balance. I care about preserving progressive taxation, the environment, and gay rights, for example. I get upset at attempts to cut the NEA, and oppose the death penalty. I usually can’t read Jonah Goldberg (for example) without wanting to scream. The... Read more

READER MAIL: AMERICA. “Hi Eve: Well, maybe this is so obvious a point that e-mailing you about it is gratuitous, but the biggest difference of this country to me is the idea that it’s a country of mind, not ethnicity. Natives and immigrants alike purport to subscribe to a set of beliefs rather than one ethnic stream of ‘Frenchness.’ It’s that adherence to certain beliefs, in my view, that creates a dynamic culture in which, for better or worse, Americans... Read more

BEST OF. I know it’s a little early for this, but here’s an EveTushnet.com Greatest Hits list, in case you’re new to the site. FOOD NOT BUMS (punks for welfare reform?) JUDICIAL PHILOSOPHY AS IF CITIZENS MATTERED. My take on Justice Scalia and his colleagues. PORN WARS. Philip Roth and the meaning of sex. My first salvo, and second. PRIMARY COLORS. That poll on Clinton’s popularity among blacks. WITCHES FOR JESUS. Should kids read non- or anti-Christian fantasy books? Why... Read more

POETRY WEDNESDAY. From Philip Larkin: In times when nothing stood [clipped] Read more

“She was as cute as lace pants.” –Mike Mazurki about Claire Trevor, “Farewell My Lovely” Read more

Cum on feel the noize… Girls, watch your blogs… OK, that was better in the original. But here are three good links. Blithering Idiot has more D.C. love. The New York Times Magazine has a really good piece on priestly celibacy. (This is not an April Fools joke.) And the Possumblog has a fun poll (Who is most deserving of the Croix de Grits, for service to the State of Alabama and the South generally?). Read more

INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ON ABC TONIGHT!: IJ, the spiffy legal team that helps cabdrivers, hair braiders, and poor kids, will be on ABC’s “World News Tonight” talking about how Mississippi wants to snatch rural homes and give the land to Nissan. The friend who told me about this writes, “Eminent domain is an issue like farm subsidies–some think it is boring, but it often involves scandalous behavior by the government and is of great importance to large numbers of Americans.... Read more