After reading Stuart Taylor's reflections on recent speeches by Janice Rogers Brown, one of the administration's nominees to the appellate court bench, Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy says that the speeches are enough to give conservatives"serious heartburn." See also: Irfan Khawaja's"Only God Can Save Us" at Theory & Practice.

Glenn Reynolds points out that the 700 Club host, Pat Robertson was one of the original examples of an"idiotarian." If it is possible, he just gets loopier with time. I haven't commented about it since he was last praising Liberia's brutal and corrupt warlord, Charles Taylor. Now he is arguing that some federal judges are a greater national menace than al quaeda, a more serious threat to national security than Confederate rebellion or the Axis powers in World War II. At what point does someone take note of the loopiness of his claims and graciously intervene with a little white suit with straps?

At Rhode Island's Roger Williams University, the costume of the obscure Greek playwright, Testaclese, has been confiscated and his The Penis Monologues, a spoof of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues, has been suppressed. Thanks to Tom at Big Tent for the tip.

GBJab does the British elections in"It Wasn't Me". Thanks to Sepoy and Sharon for the tip.

Our colleague, Mariam Burstein, has been taking her grading of student papers too seriously again. Alas, she says,"the semi-colon. Has any other punctuation mark ever caused so many dark nights of the soul?"

Mr. Sun! calls our attention to this 1877 print of a child-birthing on the frontier. Do you share my impression that the artist was never present at the birthing of a child? I've been present at the creation twice and, frankly, it's hard to imagine doing it, or even assisting in it, sidesaddle with your hat and boots on.