SOMETHING YOU CAN’T SAY ABOUT CUBA: “Our worst critics prefer to stay.” Heh.

THE CANADA/NAFTA STORY continues. I predict, however, that the term “Goolsbee Gate” won’t catch on.

MORE THOUGHTS HERE. And a reader suggests “Naftaquiddick” in place of “Goolsbee Gate.” Er, no.

THE INSTAWIFE HAS A SHOW ON FUSE TV, with and about Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx. It will air again on Sunday at 2 pm. There’s a bit of video at the link, too.

VOTING WITH THEIR FEET RAISED RIGHT HANDS: Army recruiting exceeds goals again.

JOHN SCALZI released Old Man’s War as a free eBook, and it turns out to have boosted his sales substantially.

JOURNEY TO the bottom of the Moon.

Plus, lunar off-roading.

OBAMA’S shifting positions on gun rights. Boy, I predicted a while back that his positions would get more scrutiny, and they certainly are.

AHEAD OF the opposition.

THE IPHONE GOES TO WAR.

ANN ALTHOUSE: The crafty Obama finds a way to look magnanimous while actually casting aspersions on McCain. She continues: “Actually, Obama found the only possible low ground and made it look like high ground.”

A LOOK AT THE all-important white male swing vote.

JOSH LEVIN: I’m the idiot who bought an HD-DVD player.

THOUGHTS ON life extension and the longevity dividend.

MORE ON THAT LAS VEGAS RICIN STORY, from Popular Science.

UPDATE: National Guard team activated. (Thanks to Chuck Simmins for the link).

MICHAEL TOTTEN on the Muslim world’s moderate supermajority.

DUMB: Air Force blocking blogs.

DO WE WANT A FULL-IMMUNITY PRESIDENT?

“DON’T GO INTO CORPORATE AMERICA:” Well, the nonprofit world does pay pretty well too, these days.

SO THEY’RE BATTING .500: Sex Toys Still Illegal in Texas and Alabama; Guns OK.

Here in Tennessee, they’re both legal: we don’t care how you choose to fill your hand. There was an effort to ban dildos and vibrators about ten years ago, but it was laughed out of existence following a campaign by a group called “Well Endowed Tennesseans” who accused the legislator sponsoring the bill of phallic insecurity.

CAR LUST: Loving the Dodge Magnum SRT-8. Everybody I know who has one loves it — especially the Hemi — though with higher gas prices that may change . . . . Video at the link.

PERRY DEHAVILLAND: Not Matt Drudge’s finest hour.

APPARENTLY, THERE ARE RACIAL QUOTAS FOR COMEDY, with some roles off-limits based on race.

Related thoughts here.

THE NEW YORK TIMES GOES LOOKING FOR MEDIA BIAS.

MORE THOUGHTS on that new Hillary commercial.

UPDATE: An amusing response from the Obama camp.

ANOTHER UPDATE: John Dickerson: “The Bush campaign never ran an ad like this when it was accused of scare-mongering during the 2004 campaign.”

OBAMA in ’02!

Sounds like the politics of the past. “Interesting that the old codger is looking forward while the youthful dynamist is looking back. But is it surprising? . . . Obama is successfully riding the Democratic Party’s ongoing 60’s flashback in a way that, for example, Mr. Reporting For Duty did not.”