carpe decorum

Following July 4th

I took a few days off and managed to catch up on sleep, enjoy some nice cookouts, and take on some yardwork, which unfortunately involved trimming back a wild rose bush. My forearms bear the scars of the encounter, athough the slight allergic reaction is fading. If the bush weren't on the walk up to the front door, I certainly would let it rest in peace.

Several things waiting to be posted:

• For a lively and thoughtful look at the nomination battles over the justices, in general read L Solum's blog. Here's a sample.
• An explanation and solution to the Internet Exploring scrolling display DIV bug. Or why sometimes blog entries here have not rendered properly.
• And finally the last item, an interesting blog. This particular entry is a cool response to the poison pen arguments of Ann Coulter. She is very entertaining. A friend compared her work to performance art, which, the more I think about it, aptly describes Coulter's public persona. Her rhetoric is so far-fetched, it vers from entertaining to fantastical to parody. Her media quotes are savvy attention-getters. She is slovenly in her research and fact-checking. But I gather the facts have little to do with her arguments, and the criticism she receives adds to her marketability (I wonder how well her books do in terms of sales. [She sells well, evidently.]) Has Ann Coulter discovered how to create and sell a reality television personality? That might be an interesting angle.