Since I made the point on Tuesday that the black hat Jack Abramoff wore to court in Washington wasn’t intended to evoke gangsters of the 1920s but rather was a public display of ultra-Orthodox Jewish religious piety, e-mailers have inquired why it might be that Abramoff showed up yesterday outside a Florida court wearing a baseball cap. My guess: His lawyers told him his effort to resemble an extremely pious Jew actually made him look like a thug — and so he abandoned it for a look that made him look like a shmo.