“MAKE AMERICA WEAK, using Latinos and African Americans, people who are oppressed in the United States” — that was bin Laden’s focus, but the recruiting was “extremely passive.”

IN PRAISE OF SHORTER ATTENTION SPANS. “Even if ‘The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide’ were 15% better than ‘Lear,’ Mr. Kushner’s play would still have profited from being stripped of its lengthy digressions and superfluous subplots, most of which serve only to obscure the play’s good parts.”

WHAT IS MATT DRUDGE TRYING TO SAY?

“WEEKEND AT BIN LADEN’S”… as “President Obama … runs around and practically campaigns with the corpse.”

3 FINALISTS ANNOUNCED in my law school’s search for a new dean.

PEACE CORPS ACCUSED OF BLAMING THE RAPE VICTIM.

ANALYZING THE 4TH CIRCUIT ORAL ARGUMENT about the Affordable Care Act. Lots of links at ACA Litigation Blog.

“TRANSGRESS[ING] THE GENDER NORMS OF THEIR CONTEXT” at the doors of bathrooms marked “women” and “men,” where helpful people saying “Hey buddy—wait!” are not appreciated.

DON’T MISS THE HOLOGRAM SETTING on your iPad2.

“I DON’T NEED TIME MAGAZINE,” Bob Dylan ranted in the movie “Don’t Look Back.” The TIME reporter was Horace Freeland Judson, who died last Friday at the age of 80. We watched “Don’t Look Back” about a year ago, and I blogged back then about the Dylan/Judson confrontation. (“The reporter, whose bland doughiness makes a funny contrast to Dylan’s intensity, might look as though he doesn’t know what is happening here, but I got to thinking that the gears in that head were turning, and he was judging and gathering material.”)

ADDED: The video I tried to display has been taken down from YouTube. You can read the transcript of the exchange here.

“IT’S SO CLEAR, EVEN TO DEFENDERS OF GRAD SCHOOL, that grad school is a bad financial decision, that this guy has resorted to saying that you need to go to grad school to be a good person. Of course, I went nuts on him.”

DID YOU KNOW MITCH DANIELS’S WIFE left him and their 4 children, married another man, then came back and remarried Mitch? Is he reluctant to declare his candidacy because he doesn’t want to have to explain that? Come on! Frame it as a pretty story, and run with it.

SAN FRANCISCO IS OLD GAY. The new gay is: Minneapolis!

TRUMP SLUMP.

GINGRICH IS LIKE EISENHOWER De Gaulle Reagan Nixon.

“STOP WRITING ABOUT GEOLOGY. And it’s on the letterhead of a law firm in Boston. I did not write back and say, One thing this country could very much use is one less lawyer. Why don’t you stop doing law?”

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE CALLED A RACIST? Here, in Madison, in the midst of a concealed carry debate, a local liberal (Stu Levitan) comes out with a statement that would be a career-ender if it came from a conservative, and a local conservative (Dave Blaska) refrains from “going ‘all-Madison'” on him. What Levitan wrote:

I think it would be fun to have 2 or 3 dangerous-looking black guys testify next week in support of concealed carry. The more gang-banger the better. Let the committee know EXACTLY who they’ll be letting carry guns.

(Cross-posted at Althouse, in case you want to comment.)

“THE TRAGEDY OF SARAH PALIN” is the melodramatic title of a lengthy new article in The Atlantic. I haven’t read it. I’ve been staring at the odd illustration, a weirdly masculinized painting of Palin. That title and that painting… so angsty… so expressive of something eating at the hearts of Palin-haters.

(Cross-posted at Althouse, where you can comment.)

KLOPPENBURG SHOULD CONCEDE, says Prof. Jacobson. Her “only chance of winning is to knock out several thousand legitimate votes by challenging ‘ballot security’ based on gaps and openings in ballot bags,” when we know these “supposed… flaws did not affect the vote count…. And now there is proof of Kloppenburg’s craven gamesmanship, because Kloppenburg has ignored almost identical ballot bag issues in Dane County, which unlike Waukesha County, went heavily in her favor.”

WISCONSIN WOLF HUNTING. “I would say that, absolutely, people want a hunt… I don’t mind when there are a few wolves, but I talk to a lot of people around here and they’re pretty much upset with the number of wolves we have here.”

“THREE OF THE MORE LIBERAL JUDGES on the Fourth Circuit Court are randomly selected to hear Tuesday’s arguments on the constitutionality of the new federal health care law.”

LAW SCHOOL GRADUATION SPEAKERS. Harvard gets Alec Baldwin. Nebraska has Clarence Thomas.

“THERE WERE ONLY 12 PLAYBOYS — NOT MORE — IN THE WORLD. They were charming and spoke languages and behaved well with women. I think that today most of the fun has gone. To go with a girl to Tahiti was incredible. Now everybody goes to Tahiti. This generation can do anything, but it’s less fun.”

BUSH AND MUSHARRAF MADE A SECRET DEAL permitting the U.S. to enter Pakistan to get bin Laden, says the Guardian.

RUSH LIMBAUGH, DESCRIBING BIN LADEN’S “PIGSTY,” gets freaked by the threat of a feminist attack.