I have noticed that something seems different with Technorati.  Anyone else notice?  It looks like 25 days ago they stopped counting all the links from various blogrolls (like The Alliance, Screw the U.N., etc.).  So my Technorati authority has been dropping to more realistic levels.  In the past few weeks it has dropped from a high of 362 (if I recall correctly) to the current 319.  I expect it to keep dropping from there for a while.

Not that this matters to me.  In fact, I have long been considering trying to quit some of these extraneous blogrolls just because I know such high rankings present a false view of the extent of my readership.

And since TTLB has begun working again, I've finally dropped back to a marsupial.  I always thought that "large mammal" ranking was due to some kind of indigestion in the guts of TTLB.

Via The Real Gun Guys.

From the NYT--A Liberal Case for Gun Rights Helps Sway Judiciary:

“My conclusion came as something of a surprise to me, and an unwelcome surprise,” Professor Tribe said. “I have always supported as a matter of policy very comprehensive gun control.”

The first two editions of Professor Tribe’s influential treatise on constitutional law, in 1978 and 1988, endorsed the collective rights view. The latest, published in 2000, sets out his current interpretation.

Several other leading liberal constitutional scholars, notably Akhil Reed Amar at Yale and Sanford Levinson at the University of Texas, are in broad agreement favoring an individual rights interpretation. Their work has in a remarkably short time upended the conventional understanding of the Second Amendment, and it set the stage for the Parker decision.

The earlier consensus, the law professors said in interviews, reflected received wisdom and political preferences rather than a serious consideration of the amendment’s text, history and place in the structure of the Constitution. “The standard liberal position,” Professor Levinson said, “is that the Second Amendment is basically just read out of the Constitution.”

Emphasis mine.

And then they proceed to quote other liberals who read the Second Amendment out of the Constitution, just like Levinson said they do.

Via John Lott.

UPDATE:  David Hardy comments on the same article:

Of course, NY Times does give Brady Center's spin, which is FAR off the real situation, big play: "The individual rights view is far from universally accepted. “The overwhelming weight of scholarly opinion supports the near-unanimous view of the federal courts that the constitutional right to be armed is linked to an organized militia,” said Dennis A. Henigan, director of the legal action project of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. “The exceptions attract attention precisely because they are so rare and unexpected.”

Exceptions? We're talking about 90% of scholarship in the last quarter century. We're talking about all the big names in con law -- Sanford Levinson, William van Alstyne, Akhil Amar, Larry Tribe.

UPDATE 2:  And still further comments here.