Just as Salma, Brittany, and your other favorite Hollywood sex goddesses aim to please -- I aim to amuse!

The Las Vegas Review Journal may have cited Eugene, but Eugene knew about the case from Rick Henderson, a LVRJ editorial writer who sent around an email about it before writing about it both in the paper and on his own blog. Journalist bloggers may not get the respect accorded scholar bloggers, but we know a story when we see one.

I recall your saying somewhere that your blogging habits are conditioned partly by the fact that you don't have tenure. One of the reasons I forswore an academic career was the influence of PC on academic appointments and tenure decisions.

This would be a silly question for someone in any other profession, but do you ever worry that some militant feminist or, more likely, an ideological enemy of yours looking for an opening to attack you, will raise your Salma-worship and Britney links against your application for tenure? Or is U Chicago a more Hayek-friendly place than that?