From Highclearing’s Jim Henley, who it seems I may have jostled from his carefully affected tone of dispassion into a fit of beef-eating hypermasculinity: We cannot rule out, on the basis of the text itself, that this is a clever parody of of the bubble mentality of the deadender Right. It’s practical effect will be to make the pro-war position seem absurd to whoever reads, or at least skims it.

Past the end of the quad Where the co-eds do go To tan themselves brown when the summertime shows And the young men observe them twixt Ultimate throws Is the office of Dr. Ric Caric.

Finally, award-winning Professor Ric Caric — who days ago deigned to drop by and discourse on how it is that I’m some kind of super-racist (given my sly proclivity for legitimizing the views of unreconstructed racists, if only by nature of the people my political policy recommendations attract) — responds to at least one of my challenges, offering the beginnings of an argument in support of the “color-blind racism” trope

Matthew Parris in the London Times online: I’m coming out as a post-homosexualist. Forty years (tomorrow) after the 1967 law ending the absolute prohibition of homosexuality, 13 years after the reduction of the age of consent from 21 to 18, six years after the further reduction from 18 to 16, and two years after the arrival of civil partnerships, I have finally become bored with the whole damn thing. Bored,