WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: The Greek Tragedy Unfolds. “Will Greek society resist the imposition of savage cuts in salaries and public services, and will the government’s efforts to reform the public administration and improve tax collection (while raising taxes) actually work? The answer at this point is that nobody knows.”

OVER AT THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY, a whole series of posts on that Harvard Law School race flap. And here’s the first in the series.

UPDATE: Reader Ari Mendelson writes:

A comment about the Harvard Email Controversy.

I’m not sure if this has been brought into the conversation or not, but I think it should be more prominently emphasized in any case.

What about the person who betrayed her friend by forwarding the email? The person is, after all, going to be an attorney. As an attorney, she will have to take an oath to keep her clients’ confidential information secret. I believe that it is reasonable to suspect that the betrayer has demonstrated a lack of fitness to practice law due to her unreliability in keeping the confidence of secrets entrusted to her. After all, the email sender did say, in essence, not to “Larry Summers” her. I believe the Larry Summers comment was meant as a request to keep the email confidential.

Furthermore, it seems to me that bad conduct (namely betraying friends and colleagues) is less condemned than bad opinions. That disgusts me more than anything else about this case.

Good point.

OUCH: White House Fends Off Specter of Katrina in Federal Response to Oil Spill. “As the massive oil slick grows worse by the day, the White House is fighting off a growing perception that the federal response to this ecological disaster is President Obama’s Katrina.”

MERYL YOURISH: John Mearsheimer’s speech on Jews: Echoes of the 1930s.

VIDEO: President Obama and Jay Leno at Last Night’s White House Correspondents Dinner.

MOTHER’S DAY SPECIAL: Free one-day shipping on women’s watches.

MAY DAY: A Dishonorable Holiday.

AN ATTEMPTED CAR-BOMB in Times Square? Stay tuned.

UPDATE: Paterson: Failed Car Bomb In Times Square Is ‘Act Of Terrorism.’

RAIDERS OF THE lost self-awareness. Heh. Good headline.

NANO-SCULPTURE: A whole new world.

ROGER SIMON: Has Al Gore Given Up On Global Warming?

THE 10 GREATEST science-fiction detective novels. Nice to see Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon make the list. On the other hand, I was lukewarm about The Yiddish Policemen’s Union.

FROM HOMESCHOOL to Harvard. Step up, or down? . . . .

GAS PRICES TICKING UP. I’ve noticed the steady rise to the three-dollar range, and I’ve also noticed the lack of media gas-price hysteria we saw during the previous administration.

TURNOUT AT L.A. PRO-IMMIGRATION RALLY about half what was expected.

UTAH TEA PARTY on the warpath.

WHAT IS TABOO, AND NOT TABOO, at elite universities.

NEO-NEOCON: Obama and Sowell: who can tell when people have made enough money?

WORLD’S worst tattoo.

ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS of the 2010 Edgar Awards.

SCIENCE MARCHES ON: So Obama didn’t have to appoint the “wise Latina.” We could have male judges and spray hormones up their noses.

DAVID HARSANYI: “Immigration” isn’t the problem.

SO IF YOU WANT TO RECHARGE IT, I GUESS YOU CAN JUST HAVE A BEER: A Portable Battery That Runs on Saltwater – or Urine.

MARKDOWNS on camera and photo gear.

MARK TAPSCOTT: Gulf oil spill becoming Obama’s Katrina: A timeline of presidential delay.

UPDATE: NYT editorial: Obama should have acted sooner on the oil spill. “First Bill Maher wonders aloud why The One isn’t getting more crap about the spill, and now this. Why must these darned wingnuts forever find fault with our president? Seriously, though, Bush would have been torn to shreds for reacting the same way and everyone, from the Times on down, knows it.”