Sunset with helicopter.

Google Law School Rankings.

I don't understand it, but it looks nice to me:

1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. Yale
4. Michigan
5. Columbia
6. Chicago
7. Cornell
8. Brooklyn
9. Vanderbilt
10. NYU
11. North Dakota
12. Wisconsin
13. Pennsylvania
14. Suffolk
15. New York Law School
16. UC-Berkeley
17. Minnesota
18. Notre Dame
19. Tulane
20. George Washington
21. Vermont
22. Indiana-Bloomington
23. Texas
24. Widener
25. University of Washington

But where's NYU? That's what you get for calling yourself "School of Law" instead of "Law School."

ADDED: Oops. NYU's at 10, but it's at #1 if you use "School of Law" as the search term.

Tiny pineapple, tiny queen.

(The queen is by Evan Izer. Other objects by Izer blogged here.)

"Make the American people realize they are surrounded in the world by violent extremists."

Rumsfeld's "snowflake" memos.

Is the WaPo "running a story based off of selective quotations and gross mischaracterizations from a handful of memos -- carefully picked from the some 20,000 written while Rumsfeld served as Secretary"? Or does this story "shed light on [the] brusque management style" of "a defense secretary disdainful of media criticism and driven to reshape public opinion of the Iraq war"?

IN THE COMMENTS: Joel writes:

Let me see if I have this straight, we can get the memos of a defense secretary in a time of war before the administration he worked for is even out of office, but we cannot get the memos of the first lady 7 years after her administration is over?

$11 million damages for offensive speech.

It's against the vile Fred Phelps, so do you care? Are you happy?

It was the first-ever verdict against Westboro Baptist Church, a fundamentalist Christian group based in Topeka that has protested military funerals across the country with placards bearing shock-value messages such as "Thank God for dead soldiers."

They contend that the deaths are punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality and of gays in the military.

These protests are insane — not only hateful but also incoherent. (The dead soldier wasn't gay.) The tort claim was expectation of privacy at the funeral and for intentionally inflicting emotional distress.

Fred W. Phelps Sr., Westboro's founder, vowed to appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, in Richmond, Va.

"It's going to be reversed in five minutes," he said. This case, he added, "will elevate me to something important," as it draws more publicity to his cause....

"This was in a public space," [lawprof Mark] Graber said "While the actions are reprehensible, the First Amendment protects a lot that's reprehensible."

Graber's right.

"Six guys against Hillary. I’d call that a fair fight. This is one strong woman."

Did "guys" "gang up" on Hillary at the debate the other night?

"The Politics of Pile-On," Mrs. Clintons' Web site announced this morning. "What happens when the 'politics of pile-on' replaces the 'politics of hope.'" The campaign later released a video that featured Mrs. Clinton's Democratic rivals saying her name repeatedly. A headline on the Drudge Report, which said it was reflecting thinking in Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, read, "Scorn: As the Men Gang Up."

So, instead of talking about the substance of what the candidates said, we're supposed to talk about whether Hillary Clinton's opponents are too mean to her — they'd better stop! — and view it all through the gender lens.

ADDED: Obama: "The politics of hope does not mean hoping that your opponents aren't going to point out the differences between you and them."

A 1-minute Halloween video I call "The Music Box."