IF YOU’RE WORRIED ABOUT SWINE FLU, YOU MIGHT TRY GETTING SOME SUN.

PROGRESS: It’s Now Legal To Catch A Raindrop in Colorado.

CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS: Persistent Myths in Feminist Scholarship.

ADDRESSING ONE OF MY “PET PEEVES:” The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks.

Is there one for inappropriate apostrophes, too — like those signs on RVs that say “The Smith’s”?

READER LINDA WHITE SENDS THESE PICTURES FROM TODAY’S NASHVILLE TEA PARTY PROTEST.

MORE ON John and Monica Conyers.

RICHARD EPSTEIN on the Ricci case.

LESSONS OF the cookie-dough recall.

AN INTERVIEW WITH JON VOIGHT. According to The Globe (the tabloid one, not the Boston one), he’s on Michelle Obama’s enemies’ list, along with Oprah, Hillary, and Rush Limbaugh.

ADVICE TO REPUBLICANS, FROM DAN RIEHL: “Any real change has to start from the ground up. Ranting about witholding money might make you feel good. And there’s nothing wrong with doing it, provided you’re sending the right message as to what will be required to motivate you to support the GOP, again. You’d actually be better off to raise money yourself and give it to more conservative candidates, just as the Left did to some degree with politicians they liked. I believe RedState already has that type of initiative. They’re even raising money specifically for a more conservative candidate to take on Boxer – Chuck Devore. That’s the way to get what you want by channeling money, not simply withholding it because one is angry.”

PUSHING BACK against unfounded “domestic terrorism” allegations. (Via SayUncle.)

THOUGHTS ON INTERNET ADDICTION AND MARRIAGE, from the Insta-Wife.

CUTTING-EDGE DEBATE OVER Homeland Security and “knife control”.

NEW YORK AND LONDON’S best bars and bartenders. According to the folks at Forbes, anyway.

AN IMPORTANT IDEA: Nap at work. When I got the new, big office with the leather couch a couple of years ago, I had big plans to do a lot of napping, but somehow I never seem to find the time. For those wondering, though, I’ve actually managed not to clutter my new office up like the old one was. I think people had a pool going on that one, but I’m pretty sure I’m past the most optimistic bets.

ANN ALTHOUSE AND ROBERT WRIGHT on Farrah Fawcett’s influence.

REASON: District of Columbia v. Heller: Year One.

HIDING BUILDINGS from earthquakes. Sounds interesting.

COOL: For the First Time, Scientists Photograph Memories Being Formed.

SUPREME COURT DECIDES RICCI: “The Supreme Court has ruled that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.”

UPDATE: “Although there is a sharp 5-4 divide among the justices, not a single justice thought that Judge Sotomayor acted correctly in granting summary judgment for the City of New Haven.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: More here.

Further thoughts from Roger Pilon (“In its opinion today in Ricci v. DeStefano, the Supreme Court came down solidly for upholding the equal protection of the law.”) and Ilya Shapiro. (“Ricci is a victory for merit over racial politics—which is appropriate given that the ruling overturns a lower court panel that included Sonia Sotomayor.”)

Plus, more at Workplace Law Profs.

IN THE MAIL: From Seth Jones, In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan.

CHRIS STIREWALT: Sanford can’t save Democrats on ethics woes.

Obama is a pragmatic politician, and while it took good-government promises to win office as a reformer, winning his next term demands playing the game the Washington way. That includes signing bills rewritten by lobbyists in the dead of night.

Ask Sen. Chris Dodd how that can come back to haunt you.

Dodd is drowning under bad polls in Connecticut because of his insertion of the AIG bonus amendment, a sweetheart mortgage, boatloads of cash from the mortgage companies he was supposed to be regulating, and dubious real estate deals.

And even Dodd looks like a solid citizen compared with Rod Blagojevich’s man in Washington, Sen. Roland Burris. On the House side, Rep. Charlie Rangel has been under investigation for 10 months for tax issues and other alleged misconduct. But that didn’t stop him and many of his Congressional Black Caucus colleagues from going on a Citigroup-funded getaway to St. Maarten last fall.

And everyone on Capitol Hill is still waiting to see what happens to Reps. John Murtha, Peter Visclosky and Jim Moran — the top recipients of donations from a lobbying firm since busted by the FBI in a pay-to-play investigation.

Indeed.

STEVE CHAPMAN: Why Adultery Is Political Suicide: Lessons from the Sanford affair. “Sex without marriage is OK. Sex in violation of marriage is not. Why not? Because adultery, unlike a frisky bachelor lifestyle, connotes a reckless dishonesty at odds with our basic notions of integrity. Because it shows a lack of respect for the most important commitment that most of us will ever make. Because it indicates that the adulterer will always place his selfish desires above those who depend on him.” Of course, that’s how politicians are in general.

CAROLINE KENNEDY AND BARBARA WALTERS: Comic Book Heroines. I’ll stick with The Flash.

YANKEE, DON’T GO HOME: As U.S. troops move on, Iraqis fear the coming turmoil. “The American drawdown sparks mixed emotions among many Iraqis. On the one hand, they see the move as a further step toward regaining the sovereignty they lost when the U.S. invaded the country in 2003. On the other, they’re not overly confident about the ability — or even the willingness — of the Iraqi army and national police to take over their safety.”