Life in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. B.M.A.T.C., and Etruscan typewriter erasers. Blogged by David Gorsline. 
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Constitutional law professor Jason Mazzone examines George Bush's proposed amendment. Student #43 wasn't paying attention in class.
The proposal doesn't accomplish what 43 wanted. The amendment's textual ambiguities and its awkward fit with the existing Constitution as well as the radical revision it seeks in our political arrangements will generate difficulties 43 did not consider. Rather than curb activist judges, 43's proposal will invite widely varying judicial interpretations.
Bad answer, 43. But there's grade inflation. So you get a C. (Thanks to Whatever.)
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Not my usual cup of tea, but I was won over by the coda, which pays tribute to one of the great tropes of slapstick: the Bellagio fountain recreated with Diet Coke and Mentos. Mazeltov, Casey. (Thanks to several sources, including Nobody Knows Anything.)
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Tom Stoppard has a new play in previews in London: rock and roll and Czechoslovakia.
That is the England Stoppard feels he grew up in. But now? In this play the Czech woman Lenka—speaking in Max's house in 1990 when democracy has triumphed in her own country—bitterly warns Jan not to think of returning to Cambridge. 'They put something in the water since you were here.' The English, she says, have become obedient, apologetic about everything, frightened to use their minds.
(Thanks to robot wisdom.)
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