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(By Andrew MacKie-Mason)

• John Breen makes the typical argument that pro-life scholars are discriminated against in the legal academy. By "the typical argument," I mean that it is based entirely on anecdote and lacking any data or attempts to set up anything approximating reasonable experimental conditions. Meanwhile, he laments the fact that Catholic law schools don't discriminate against pro-choice scholars ("The number of schools where scholarship in favor of the abortion license would count as a negative are very few indeed – perhaps a handful. And it is, unfortunately, not a problem at the vast majority of law schools that operate under Catholic auspices – schools that downplay (with some honesty) their Catholic identity as a meaningful presence in the intellectual life of the school even as they champion academic freedom and openness to diverse points of view.")
• Students, parents, and teachers at a high school in Indiana are so scared of sharing their prom with same-sex couples that they're organizing a separate, private, exclusionary event.
• Brown University is demonstrating the way forward by covering sex-change operations for transsexual students under the student health insurance plan.
• Elena Botella claims (on the Duke University Student Affairs blog) that there are no negative stereotypes of white men, and that white men all go through life without ever experiencing negative stereotypes. Which I guess is a negative stereotype of white men. Now my brain hurts.
• Robert George thinks it's silly for Nicholas Kristof to focus on the implications of Pope Benedict's resignation for contraception, sex-equality, and the celibacy requirement for priests. He apparently thinks not only that arcane facts about succession to the papacy are more interesting than important social issues, but also that it's unreasonable for anyone to have a different valuation than him.
• Mark Bennett proposes giving a tax break to employers who pay their employees while they are out on jury service, in order to get more economic balance on juries.
• Glenn Reynolds has some interesting proposals to deal with the epidemic of massive over-criminalization and overcharging by prosecutors in this country.