I have finished Jennifer Government, the record will show.

It's good, in a you've-proved-your-point sort of way.

Ack!:

The New York Sun is terribly wrong, and Eugene Volokh has pretty much said it all.

I'm used to arguing the nuances of permit laws, public fora, and subsidized speech, but I would have thought we'd gotten to the point where we agree that peaceful anti-war protesting, particularly with the goal of changing people's minds, is almost universally accepted as right. Apparently not.

One last thought: The Sun justifies its desire to quash the protest by quoting Thomas Friedman's claim that "we are one more 9/11 away from the end of the open society." The corollary to this is that we are still an open society. And we'd better try to stay worth of being protected.