In lieu of content, have some free bullet points:

• In today’s Chronicle op-ed columnist Boston Cote goes after English and African-American Studies prof Houston Baker again; it’s really a sight to behold. Good thing for her that, unlike some places, the faculty at Duke don’t get to vote on granting degrees…
• I have no independent link to this, but MSNBC’s Dan Abrams apparently has a copy of the defense photos from the house timestamped between 12:00 and 12:41 on the night of the party; they are consistent with what the defense has said about them in the past.
• An athlete (not a lacrosse player) in one of my classes today indicated, apparently on the authority of the campus grapevine, that at least part of the reason why the players were angry at the female dancers is that they were not expecting two minority women to be sent by the escort service. This doesn’t square with other accounts that an escort service would only send minorities by special request, although I guess it’s possible that the low-end services they made use of don’t represent any white performers.
• Elsewhere in the blogosphere, Tom Maguire wasn’t much of a lacrosse fan to begin with, while TalkLeft notes the (apparent) new searches Thursday evening and SSquirrel tries on a conspiracy theory for size, although I expect you could probably find Democratic ties to some of the players’ parents too if you tried hard enough; nor does that really explain why CNN and MSNBC would be hitting the case as hard as Fox. (Incidentally, I disagree with the last poster’s choice to reveal the names of players who, as of this point, have not been accused of a crime.)