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• In the Last Geranium Night Club...

  ... the music is soft and sweet and the lights are deep purple.

• At the New Tree Restaurant...

  ... you can talk about trees, shoot the breeze, have some wine and cheese, do whatever you please. Dig in!

• "Democrats Clinch Vote on Health Debate."

  In case you want to talk about it. I'll just be over here in a corner curled up in a little ball.

• And the viral diavlog hits...

  ... the NYT.

• Andrew Sullivan has discovered the Michelle Goldberg/Ann Althouse diavlog.

  He says "Michelle Goldberg gets it." Fine, but did he get as far as this clip, where Michelle says something that makes me say, "You hear that, Andrew?"?Goldberg went to Wasilla to report for The…

• The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists.

  "The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) is a club for scientists who have, or believe they have, luxuriant flowing hair."

• Said the President to the 1,500 troops in camouflage uniform: "You guys make a pretty good photo op,"

  I'm thinking he said it with knowing — perhaps even self-deprecating — humor, but still, extracted and quoted on Drudge, it looks awful.Also at the first link: "President Obama will not announce his decision on…

• Steven Pinker talks to Robert Wright.

  On Bloggingheads. They're talking about language and evolution.

• The AP, describing a case the Supreme Court recently turned down, writes: "the school valedictorian strayed from an approved text to provide a graphic account of Jesus' crucifixion..."

  That piqued my curiosity, and not just because I teach "Religion and the Constitution" and want to know about the cases in the area. I wanted to know just how graphically a high school girl…

• Is "The White House Butler" an outrageously racist headline?

  There's been some discussion here in Madison, Wisconsin, where former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler is a visiting professor at the law school, about whether that headline, on a Wall Street Journal editorial, is…