I got a note from Stephen Bainbridge, a law professor at UCLA, asking me to have a look at his weblog, ProfessorBainbridge.com. I really, really do not want to put it on the blogroll. Is this because it is a bad blog? Hardly. It is actually a very interesting blog, and I will add it to my regular reading. Not only that, but he refers to what he calls a "brief" paper he wrote on Catholic social teaching and the corporation. One of my favorite lawyer jokes is that the law is the only place a 100 page document can be called a brief. But Bainbridge spoke truth: his brief paper was only six pages. So I will add his blog to the blogroll, because it is good. So why my grouse? Because Bainbridge is at UCLA, home of the constantly growing Volokh Conspiracy. As soon as I go through the trouble of updating the blogroll, the tentacles of the Volokh Conspiracy will grab him. I just added The Right Coast, a good lawyer group blog, and I expect Volokh will have them by the week's end. Oh, well.

He also directed me to the Yin Blog, by another law professor. Tung Yin, at Iowa. It too is quite good. It is one of those blogs that categorizes its blogroll. One category is "Animal Husbandry", which keeps making me think of Tom Lehrer's introduction to his song "In Old Mexico". It tells the story of Dr. Samuel Gall, inventor of the gallbladder, who began his career in animal husbandry, until they caught him at it. Another one for the blogroll.

Thanks for the link. I solemnly promise to never conspire with any Volokh. (I'll just try to get them to link to me as often as seemly.) Steve

What, no correction on the Durbin item?

Oh, that's right, you live in Ireland. You must be an alcoholic out getting plastered before you blow some people up in Belfast and spit on schoolchildren.

It's so easy to smear someone when you ignore the facts of their record and just go by the worst regional stereotypes you can think of.