PROF. JACOBSON ON CROWLEY, GATES, AND OBAMA: We Need The Truth, Not Beer And Apologies. “The best evidence as to the truth will be the recordings of the 911 call which precipitated the police going to Prof. Gates’ house, Sgt. Crowley’s radio calls once on the scene, and the accounts of eyewitnesses, including neighbors, passers-by, and the two other policemen on the scene.”

TOM MAGUIRE: MOVE ON? “If the Cambridge Police Dept had besmirched my behavior and deportment by telling people I was ‘tumultuous’ and acting strangely, I would demand the release of the dispatcher tapes to blow away their lies.”

And Ann Althouse says, “Release the tapes!”

STIMULUS: “A big mistake, a failure.”

SOMETHING WE CAN “LIVE WITH?”

How about “Keep your grubby laws off my body?” Just a thought . . . .

DOES THIS BLOG make me look fat?

IF ED RENDELL ISN’T “GOVERNOR X,” he should probably say or do something pretty definitive soon. But, then, I imagine we’ll find out one way or another soon enough.

UPDATE: A reader thinks it may be Blagojevich. Well, the Daily News ruled out Arnold, but that leaves 49 other suspects. But the talk seems to be focused around Rendell. [Maybe this is why Palin is resigning. People thought she might be ducking a scandal! — ed. I’d rate her as even less likely than Phil Bredesen. But hey, a lesbian hooker-tryst might be just what it takes to get Palin into Hollywood’s good graces!]

ACORN TRYING TO shut down anti-Obamacare protests? So far it doesn’t seem to be working very well. But be sure to bring video cameras. And, if you anticipate trouble, lawyers!

UPDATE: Related: Peter Roff, U.S. News: Democrats’ Healthcare Censorship Shows How Desperate They’ve Become. “A clear sign of their growing desperation is the way in which the Democrats are censoring the GOP’s official communications to their constituents. On Thursday Roll Call reported the majority party is ‘preventing Republican House Members from sending their constituents a mailing that is critical of the majority’s health care reform plan.’ . . . Republican staffers say this kind of censorship of the minority by the majority is almost unheard of on Capitol Hill, certainly during the years the GOP was in power. Moreover, they say, it is a clear sign that the Republicans are, for the moment, winning a fight once thought unwinnable. Rather than get them down, they are taking the efforts to suppress their message as a badge of effectiveness.” The anti-Obamacare marchers should feel the same way.

OUTSTANDING humility.

THE GEORGE COSTANZA APPROACH to health care reform.

FILE THIS UNDER “THINGS I’D LIKE TO BE TRUE:” Hydrocarbons in the deep Earth? “The oil and gas that fuels our homes and cars started out as living organisms that died, were compressed, and heated under heavy layers of sediments in the Earth’s crust. Scientists have debated for years whether some of these hydrocarbons could also have been created deeper in the Earth and formed without organic matter. Now for the first time, scientists have found that ethane and heavier hydrocarbons can be synthesized under the pressure-temperature conditions of the upper mantle —the layer of Earth under the crust and on top of the core. The research was conducted by scientists at the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory, with colleagues from Russia and Sweden, and is published in the July 26, advanced on-line issue of Nature Geoscience.” Abiotic hydrocarbons is an old theory; it would be nice if it were true.

RACHEL SKLAR: Twitter Blocked On White House Computers…Maybe. Or maybe not, since the main source for that story is Robert Gibbs . . .

HOW TO RUIN A PROFESSIONAL AGITATION GROUP’S DAY.

“MAINTENANCE SEX?” So what do you think? Is this important in a relationship? I wonder if we’d see something of a male/female split on this. Maybe not!

LABOR UNREST: Chinese Workers Kill Manager. “About 30 000 Chinese steelworkers clashed with police in a protest over plans to merge their mill with another company and beat the company’s general manager to death, a human rights monitor said on Saturday. Several hundred people were injured in the clash . . . Workers were angry that Chen was paid about $438 000 last year while some retirees received as little as $29 a month, the centre said. Beijing is trying to streamline China’s sprawling steel industry, the world’s largest, by orchestrating a series of mergers aimed at creating globally competitive producers. The mergers often are accompanied by layoffs that sometimes spark complaints that workers receive too little severance pay.”

Remember: Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, while under socialism it is exactly the reverse.

TEN FUN FACTS about writing a sex blog.

Hey, when even men of the cloth are suggesting that InstaPundit needs to be a bit spicier, I figured maybe I could learn something. But I’m not so sure. . . .

STACY MCCAIN reports from the Richmond Tea Party.

GLENN LOURY: Obama, Gates and the American Black Man. “The Gates arrest is a made-for-cable-TV tempest in a teapot. It is the rough equivalent of a black man being thrown out of a restaurant after having berated an indifferent maître d’ for showing him to a table by the kitchen door, all the while declaring what everybody is supposed to know: this is what happens to a black man in America. . . . It is depressing in the extreme that the president, when it came time for him to expend political capital on the issue of race and the police, did so on behalf of his ‘friend’ rather than stressing policy reforms that might keep the poorly educated, infrequently employed, troubled but still human young black men in America out of prison.”

BLUE ON BLUE: Sen. Robert Byrd blasts “cap and trade.” (Probably best if the protesters to the right don’t meet these people, and vice versa.)

Plus, Senator Kent Conrad: Democrats Don’t Have The Votes On Health Care.

JUPITER — OUR COSMIC PROTECTOR? “Part of what makes the Earth such a nice place to live, the story goes, is that Jupiter’s overbearing gravity acts as a gravitational shield deflecting incoming space junk, mainly comets, away from the inner solar system where it could do for us what an asteroid apparently did for the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.” But wait, there’s a downside! “Jupiter is just as much a menace as a savior, he said. The big planet throws a lot of comets out of the solar system, but it also throws them in.”

THE HYUNDAI GENESIS: A Star Trek angle.