An unusually clear crystal ball.

Orin Kerr at Volokh Conspiracy notes today's cert grant:

Supreme Court to Review Solomon Amendment Case: The Supreme Court has granted certiorari to review the Third Circuit's decision striking down the Solomon Amendment. The decision to take the case isn't surprising (see my prediction after reading the cert petition here). Gazing into my crystal ball, I predict that the Court will reverse. I don't think it will be close, either: maybe 9-0, with a concurrence or two. But of course these things are tough to predict.

Tough enough to make anyone want to bet on the other side? I think not.

Who put fake poison in my cyanide capsules?!!

Hitler's nurse, at age 93, finally tells her story.

Lonely?

Guys: Now you can feel even worse about it:

The US study found men who do not have many close links with friends and family have higher levels of a blood molecule which indicates inflammation.

Ladies: At least you don't have to worry about that molecule:

[T]he researchers said no difference was seen between socially isolated or connected women.

Hillary was here.

Hillary Clinton spoke at a big event here in Madison last Friday, something I'm just noticing now.

“If we are to be all we can be as a nation, we cannot rest until every little girl and every little boy who might aspire to public service has the opportunity to pursue that dream.”

Apparently, she dished out some pabulum.

"The black doll looked 'bad.'"

Kenneth B. Clark has died, at the age of 90.

Dr. Clark administered a test, which he had devised years earlier, to 16 of those black children, who were ages 6 to 9. He showed them a black doll and a white doll and asked them what they thought of each. Eleven of them said that the black doll looked "bad," and nine of them thought that the white doll looked "nice." Seven of the 16 told Dr. Clark that they actually saw themselves as being closest to the white doll in appearance when asked, "Now show me the doll that's most like you."

"These children saw themselves as inferior, and they accepted the inferiority as part of reality," Dr. Clark said.

Clark's work is famously cited in footnote 11 of Brown v. Board of Education.

Should parents be barred from sitting in on school sex ed classes?

They are in this school district (where parents are otherwise free to sit in on classes). I understand the reasons given for the ban, but my mind is currently affected by the script of the "Proper Condom Use" episode of "South Park" (which I read yesterday when I was writing about Laura Bush's milking-a-male-horse joke). In case you can't bear to read through the script (which you might -- should -- find awfully disturbing), I'll quote the moral of the story (spoken by Chef):

Look: Schools are teaching condom use to younger and younger students each day! But sex isn't something that should be taught in textbooks and diagrams. Sex is emotional and spiritual. It needs to be taught by family. I know it can be hard, parents, but if you leave it up to the schools to teach sex to kids, you don't know who they're learning it from. It could be from someone who doesn't know [a shot of Mr. Mackey], someone who has a bad opinion of it [a shot of Ms. Choksondik looking around], or even a complete pervert [a shot of Mr. Garrison].

UPDATE: The Washington Times gets results!

I had the most boring dream!

I was napping on the sofa, and I dreamed I was napping on a different sofa and trying very hard to wake up. Then I woke up.