THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS WEEKEND, if you were out, you know, having a life or something:

New book on civic education is out. I’ve got a chapter in it, along with Sandra Day O’Connor, Alan Dershowitz, and other luminaries.

Arresting Uncle Omar. Obama’s answer to Billy Carter?

18 Seconds Of Raw Class Warfare. Not actually all that much class involved.

Feds sign off on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner.

Dubious about “gunpowder lust.”

More on that shady Gibson Guitar raid.

The slow disappearance of the American working man.

How Steve Jobs made business cool again.

Operation “Fast and Fretless:” New Scandal at DoJ as Illegal Guitars End Up In Hands of Mexican Drug Lords. And somebody slipped auto-tune to the Colombians.

Court says charging people who record police with wiretapping is unconstitutional, and blocks qualified immunity.

Shocker: Green Jobs Programs Revealed As Fiscal Black Hole.