After reading Sunsteen's first post, I have to wonder if it was worth it. She's certainly good at writing, and expresses her ideas well. However, the ideas she expresses seem an issue for me. Honoring someone who apparently has no concept of individual property rights?

1. Cass Sunstein is a dude.
2. I believe the preferred spelling is, "authoritah".

1) Cass is a dude--unless there was a secret operation in his/her past that s/he is keeping secret.

2) A point about one of my pet peeves regarding grammar: _myself_ is a reflexive transitive pronoun. Eugene can therefore have you as a guest blogger, and not yourself as a guest blogger. This is true even if you (Dan) are the speaker.
Thus, "Cass, Jacob, me--Eugene..."

The main problem with muddled language is that it usually reflects muddled thinking. One thing about Ronald Reagan that no one will disagree with was that everyone always knew where he stood. Television forces candidates to reduce their ideas into sound bites while books, interviews and surrogates are used to flesh out proposals and policy. Kerry can't even give a clear simple answer to his views on troop funding let alone his strategy on the war in general. That represents the fact that what he's telling us isn't necessarily what he's thinking. There are no books on Kerry policy proposals as of yet and Kerry supporters grumble to the media about Kerry's lack of focus. Sound bites aren't the best way to discuss public policy, but a candidate should be able to give a general direction to where he wants to go.

Grammatically, I guess Eugene can have himself as a guest blogger, and I can have myself as a guest blogger, and Eugene can have Daniel Drezner himself as a guest blogger, but Eugene can't have Daniel Drezner, himself, and myself as guest bloggers.

Not that anyone would have me as a guest blogger, nor would I have anyone as a guest blogger (having no blog tends to preclude that), but I'm just trying to work out the details here.

OK, I guess I owe an apology to Sunsteen for performing an unauthorized sex-change operation. As I gather it, such things can be a bit on the messy side.

That said, my remaining comment about misplaced honor, stands.