Around the web/ miscellany

Check out Eugene Volokh on whether a professor at a state university may refuse to write letters of recommendation for premed creationists; and this not at all nice but very funny Mark Kleiman post.

Everyone else has linked to them, too, but they're clearly the items of the day: the op-ed by the eight European leaders (complete round-up of coverage at Oxblog; and Josh Marshall's interview with Ken Pollack.