These five questions are for Uncly-Wuncly. Patterico is on deck. Two openings remain.

1. What’s your take on the proposal to arm judges in Illinois? Support as a baby step in the right direction, or oppose under the time-honored legal doctrine of tu et me similis autem melior?
2. What to do about the regulation of blogs? Sign the petition, or “don’t just do something, stand there?”
3. Do all peeple from Knocksvill spel krappyly, or jist the wons yall eleckta publick offus?
4. ANWR drilling – good or bad?
5. How about that bankruptcy reform?

In the fine tradition of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, Eugene Volokh reminds us that as sure as not all bad ideas are unconstitutional, not all good ideas are constitutional, either.

So far, I’ve only had one victim volunteer for an interview, Andrew Lloyd, formerly of Pathetic Earthlings. Four more slots are still available for anyone who wants to have a go. These five questions are Andrew’s. The next five are up for grabs.

1. What is so pathetic about being an earthling?
2. Why -ling, anyway? We don’t call Martians Marslings, Americans Americalings or Mexicans Mexiclings.
3. Why does Clint Bolick think you are very strange?
4. Which will occur first? You resuming blogging, or the Little Earthling taking it up?
5. Did Robert Blake get away with murder, or did Robert Blake get away with murder?

Todd Zywicki answers the bloggers cum bankruptcy law experts:

I can’t see any reason why I or anyone else should have to pay higher interest rates or get worse service at the doctor’s office in order to preserve the “right” of some guy making $80,000 or $100,000 per year to walk away from debts that he could pay but does not want to. Yet that’s the way it is under current law. Those who are hurt the most are low-income and young borrowers who have the fewest credit options and can least afford to pay more for credit and goods because of the hidden “bankruptcy tax.” For all you critics out there — is there someplace where I can send you my part of the bill so that you can allow bankruptcy fraud and abuse to keep going unchecked?

Indeed. Looking on the bright side, this attempted blogstorm appears to have fallen largely on deaf ears. Or perhaps, better still, on “I’m not deaf, I’m ignoring you” ears.

Heh.

Heh tip: Michele Maulken.

Two weeks after being told they couldn’t execute a man for kidnapping a woman and throwing her to her death off a bridge, the State of Missouri has just executed a man for kidnapping a woman and throwing her to her death off a bridge.

I don’t mean to suggest that these two cases are anything like each other, mind you. For one thing, the two incidents involved different women, and probably different bridges, as well. For another, the guy they didn’t get to execute may have been mentally an adult at the time of the murder (recall his prescient observation that he would get away with the crime because of his age), but legally, he was 17 1/2. By contrast, the guy they did execute may have been mentally a 15 year old on a good day, but legally he was over 18, and that’s all that matters under the Consensus Amendment.