Nuggets & bites.

"The question comes up: Is there a constitutional right to homosexual conduct? Not a hard question for me. It's absolutely clear that nobody ever thought when the Bill of Rights was adopted that it gave a right to homosexual conduct. Homosexual conduct was criminal for 200 years in every state. Easy question."

--Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, speaking to students at the University of Freiburg in Switzerland, March 8

"If you choose to make common cause with religious extremists, you are accepting some responsibility for their extremism. By welcoming Mr. Falwell and people like him as members of their party, Republicans [such as John McCain] are saying that it's OK--not necessarily correct, but OK--to declare that 9/11 was America's punishment for its tolerance of abortion and homosexuality, that Islam is a terrorist religion, and that Jews can't go to heaven. And voters should judge the Republican Party accordingly."

--Paul Krugman, in an op-ed in The New York Times, April 3

"For a guy, the mere fact of paying attention to your appearance sends a message.... Only two groups of men will consistently admit to caring about how they look, namely gay men and African-Americans. Cargo would naturally appeal to the younger members of these two demographics, but it also needed these alleged metrosexuals to get on board."

--Michael Agger, writing about the death of men's shopping magazine Cargo on Slate.com, March 30