* I want Congress to stop risking Armageddon with this debt ceiling thing. But our new Dealbreaker writer, Matt Levine, thinks our leaders are being crazy, crazy like a fox. [Dealbreaker]
* Look, the way to deal with racial profiling is to stop racial profiling, not to prohibit companies from doing criminal background checks on job applicants. [WSJ Law Blog]
* And the way to protect the environment is to ban things that are harmful to the environment. Not futz around with people’s rescue inhalers because they contain chlorofluorocarbons. Christ on a stick, I’m starting to wish we could just wipe the slate clean and start with a society of zero laws and rebuild from there. [Overlawyered]
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* Of course, having all of the laws we do have is one reason why somebody decided that you needed the ability to “lawyer up” in 15 minutes. [Adjunct Law Prof Blog]
* Screw it, I’m a libertarian now. [Associated Press]
* Congratulations to Lat and the other legal luminaries named to the Fastcase 50. [Fastcase]