I’M BACK. Went to get an award from a civil rights group; wasn’t my best but tried to be properly cheerful despite feeling crappy. Taught my administrative law class, where I revived a bit over the silliness of the CIA’s Catch-22 policy on gays in Webster v. Doe. (If you tell us you’re gay, we’ll fire you, because someone might blackmail you by telling us that you’re gay. No, really.) Came home, took a nap. Now groggy but largely pain-free.

Some people have been emailing me to say how great the Tom Tomorrow cartoon in The New Yorker is, but since it’s not on the Web it doesn’t exist as far as I’m concerned. But I can’t believe that it could be better than this cartoon. Especially the final frame. (Via Andrea Harris).