Longtime local conservative blogger Xrlq posts that he has been summarily banned from posting comments at Hit and Run, the blog of (loosely) Los Angeles-based Reason magazine. Spotted at Patterico's Pontifications, which also points to a critique of the LAT series on tall tales told about high jury awards.

Also: The LAT editorial page calls John Roberts "a thoughtful conservative" who will fit on the Supreme Court and says to liberals his nomination is "not worth fighting over."