VIRGINIA POSTREL has posted a full account of her Lasik eye surgery, some good advice for U.S. Embassy staffers abroad, and some comments on anti-semitism in the Davos protests:

(At least they equate Jews with apes rather than rats, taking the Islamofascist line rather than the Nazi one.) It’s also inevitable. Opposing Jews and opposing trade, opposing trade and opposing America, opposing Jews and opposing America–it all goes together. I do have one question: Do these people think Donald Rumsfeld is Jewish? My guess is yes.

Well, those people are confused about a lot of things. . . .

UPDATE: Here’s more from Gotham.