CONTINUING TO TAKE IT EASY: Last night the InstaWife and I stayed home and watched Honey, a movie that she had been wanting to see.

The hiphop was OK from my perspective, though I kept wanting to hear some 303s in there somewhere. Jessica Alba was very cute, and otherwise I have little to say that isn’t in the Amazon reviews linked above. One thing that struck me, though, was the frequent presence of American flags in the background in scene after scene. I wonder if people will be able to spot films from this era that way?

Back later. Visit the links in the post below, and Capt. Ed, Oxblog, Daniel Drezner, Mitch Berg, and the new, Powerblog-driven Volokh Conspiracy have all been blogging up a storm this weekend, too. And this column on Iran by Pejman Yousefzadeh is worth your time.

UPDATE: The InstaWife says the movie was better than that, and notes that the Jessica Alba character is quite modern: (1) Wanting to help inner-city kids, she comes up with a project of her own, instead of putting her hand out to the government; (2) Subjected to sexual harassment, she doesn’t sue, but stands up for herself and gets even on her own; (3) Though there’s nothing anti-sex in her stance, she favors sexy creativity over crude titillation.

Good points, all.