Dooce and other mommybloggers were interviewed by Kathy Lee Gifford on the Today show.

Kathy G. defends unionized workplaces. She writes, "The best research has found that unionized firms are, on average, more productive than their nonunionized counterparts."

In a recent comment thread about teacher tenure, I said that I didn’t think that too many professors slacked off after getting tenure. Some of you disagreed with me. Dan Drezner proudly declares it’s donut and hobby time, now that he’s been made full professor. (While you’re there, read his two posts on HIllary.)

In Democracy in America, deTocqueville fears that great mediocrity will happen as the world becomes more democratic and less aristocratic. There will be more malls and Levittown and less Versailles. According to an article in Foreign Policy, the architecture in autocratic nations today is incredibly innovative. Check out the buildings in Dubai and Azerbaijan.