Friend, classmater, and former OxBlogger Josh Chafetz has an op-ed in tomorrow's New York Times arguing that the new Congress should rediscover the traditional Congressional practice of keeping one's own house in order. It begins:

With three-quarters of voters in the recent election saying that corruption and scandals helped determine how they cast their ballots, one of the first items of business for the Democrats in January should be putting their Congressional houses in order. Indeed, at the orientation sessions for members-elect last month, they were taught, in the words of incoming Representative Michele Bachmann, “how to hire a chief of staff, how to hire other staff, how to stay out of jail.”

But if the new leadership is going to get serious about ethics, it should think less about the legal system and more about its own internal disciplinary procedures. .... [More]

The blogosphere is full of vague disappointments today. E.g.,
James Lileks doesn't eat good food.

The Corporatization of Law Blogs resists both multiple blogs on the same subject and full-text RSS feeds.

SSRN disappoints too (see Kerr, Solove, and Grimmelman).

[On the latter two points-- I wholly understand why those who wish to make money off of legal scholarship have to take anti-competitive measures in order to internalize certain benefits, but that still doesn't override my own Rosean personal bias against monopoly, especially where intellectual inquiry is concerned.]

I do collect CDs, but not books, which I treat as a burden.