TMV is already on the list, and I just signed my blog up for this petition in favor of online integrity.

Eugene Volokh has a legal hypothetical that destroys my childhood in the process. Was anyone reminded of that Family Guy sketch where “Sesame Street” was mixed with NYPD Blue?

What makes weeks special? They have no astronomical basis! What would the world be like if a “week” was 5 days, or 6, or ten? Ann Althouse provokes a mind-bender.

An Atheist Student Group is giving out porn in exchange for Bibles. I’m not a religious fundamentalist (nor an anti-porn crusader), but this has to be the epitome of substituting shock for wit. Ugh. H/T: Feminist Law Profs

Some conservative commentators are saying that our real problem in Iraq is that we’ve been too gentle. We need to show some “ferocity,” they say. Find out why this is a bad strategy.

I won a brutal, scorched-earth fight against blogger to get this post up on Hamas’ new “moderate” stance on Israel.

Adam Kushner applauds the Darfur rallies but wonders: Why isn’t Anfal included in the list of 20th century genocides? Belle Lettre (who runs a truly spectacular blog) writes on music transcending class boundaries. Apparently, though, academics of all stripes enjoy the same type of music. Gosh, I feel so marginalized–I don’t think I’ll ever hear Trust Company, The Lost Prophets, or Hoobastank blaring from any faculty office (except my own). Eric Muller on so-called “mixed...

My computer now looks to be out of commission for a week. And, for the moment at least, blogger is not even letting me write new posts from the public computer I’m on. How sad! What will you do without me? Because it would just too cruel to subject you all to a whole week without my presence (that backlash to my Tennessee Torture posts was born out of love, I’m sure), I’ll be posting round-ups here whenever I can. I don’t do round-ups often, but with my own blog on the DL...

What’s the likely impact of the May 1st “Day Without Immigrants”? Also, if you’re wondering why I haven’t been posting much as of late, my computer has a virus. I’m hopeful to be back at full strength by Tuesday.

After leaving a press conference at a gas station, Hastert steps out the hydrogen powered SUV he left the meeting in, and into the gas-guzzling SUV he returned to the Hill with. Yahoo/AP via The Plank.

Homosexual couples are, by and large, not taking the opportunity to marry in places where it is legal (like Massachusetts and The Netherlands). What (if anything) does this mean?

A friend of mine at Stanford forwarded me the following: This Sunday, April 30th, there will be a Day of Conscience for Darfur in San Francisco. The day will include a vigil in the morning and a rally beginning at 1:30pm. Anyone who is interested can find out more information and sign up at www.ourpledge.org. I know we are having a similar rally up here in The Twin Cities that day.

If an issue manages to unite Barack Obama, Sam Brownback, and George Clooney, it might be worth taking a look at. By the way, let me take a moment to blast CNN’s coverage of the Darfur genocide in this article. Start with the word itself: “genocide.” They refuse to use it unadultered, saying that it “is being described as genocide.” No serious objective scholar denies that a genocide is happening. Even the US government says that it is a genocide (not that we’re...

Colleges shouldn’t refuse to invite speakers like Michael Moore and Ann Coulter just because they’re “controversial.” They should refuse to invite them because they are morons.

A new study shows that Whites perform better when they are in diverse social groups then when they are in homogeneous organizations.

Cross-Posted to The Debate Link It’s Holocaust memorial day, and I concur with Ampersand: the best way to remember the Shoah is to put your name behind the message of “Never Again.”

I very much remember lectures that evoked reactions like this when I was a wee youngin’. This, on the other hand, I might watch.

In response to challenges on my last post drawing links between American torture policy abroad, and the brutal acts in Tennessee, I wrote the following email: **** When one does not condemn/tacitly consents to X immoral action, it does send a message to the world and to particular persons that X is condoned, even if that message is not intended. This is not particularly controversial. Samatha Power uses the example of genocide in Serbia to elucidate: “Slobodan Milosevic saw that he got away...

If we start torturing suspected terrorists, where do we stop? Suspected murderers? Robbers? Drug dealers? Read the story and listen to the audio of a suspected small-time drug dealer being beaten and shocked through his testicles by “officers of the law.” From Abu Gharib to Guantanamo to Black Sites to the American south. If you don’t stop inhumanity at the start, it spreads inexorably like the cancer it is. And now it’s right in our backyard.

Lawrence Kaplan has no idea what college kids (or at least Carleton College kids) think about Iraq and Darfur.

I’ll second the question asked by Greg Mathis and Spencer Overton: Why is it that drugs with “White faces” (e.g., Meth) seem to be met with treatment plans, while those with “Black faces” (e.g., Crack) get met with draconian punishment?

The Netherlands needs a refresher course on what the word “citizen” means.

Is it just me, or does Cardinal Martini’s statement on condom use sound suspiciously like Abstinence Plus education?

Of interest to those following the Duke rape case, how the usage of alcohol affects people’s perceptions of blameworthiness in rape cases–for both the victim and the perpetrator. Hint: Women get hosed.

My analysis of the 9th circuit’s Harper v. Poway School District ruling is finally up at The Debate Link. Prepare yourselves, it’s a doozy!