PABLUM, MUSH, WHATEVER.

MIDNIGHT WHIFFLEBALL IN DOWNTOWN KNOXVILLE? Michael Silence is on it, but I broke this story nearly a year ago! With photos!

WAS IT CHURLISH OF ME NOT TO LINK THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER STORY ON JOHN EDWARDS? Maybe so. Anyway, here it is, though by now you’ve no doubt seen it via Drudge anyway.

Plus, it would be really churlish not to acknowledge this: Today is Fitzmas for Mickey Kaus. He’s been all over this story.

JAMES JOYNER on declaring victory.

JAMES BOND: Now coming out in Blu-Ray.

Lots more new Blu-Ray releases here.

THE QUAYLE TEST. “This is my proposed Quayle Test. Ask yourself: How each time Obama says something stoopid, would the press would have crucified Dan Quayle for it?”

Some related thoughts here.

IT’S ABOUT JUDGMENT: Obama on the surge.

UPDATE: More on judgment here.

Related item here. Note the Bing West observation.

DOLLY IS OFFICIALLY A HURRICANE, and may threaten the Rio Grande levees. More at Weather Nerd.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Stocks jump as crude drops $3 a barrel.

ROGER SIMON ON JOHN EDWARDS, RIELLE HUNTER (whom Roger knew), and the high-flown rhetoric of politicians.

VINCE CARROLL DOUBTS that Al Gore’s plan for carbon-free electricity will work. Me, too. We can’t possibly build enough nuclear plants in 10 years, unless we get legislation clearing away a lot of environmental barriers. Perhaps Al plans to get behind that?

REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A roundup of book reviews from all over.

TYPICAL: “I do find it odd that while the city has so far not been willing to record and broadcast their mid-day meetings on local cable TV outlets, they are considering aiming cameras at those who attend meetings and requiring security checks to enter the council chambers.”

QUESTIONS ABOUT SUNSCREEN SAFETY: They seem to be overblown. Use it — just be sure you get some unfiltered sun, too, to make vitamin D.

TRAFFIC RANKINGS for law professor blogs.

CHALABI supporting Obama?

THIS SEEMS PROMISING: “The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management today published proposed regulations to establish a commercial oil shale program that could result in the addition of up to 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil from lands in the western United States. “

USING GRAPHENE FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY. And lots of other cool stuff.

THE RELEVANCE OF VIDEO GAMES in the modern world.

THE PRESS’S DISTORTED NARRATIVE: Humanizing al Qaeda, Demonizing the Bush Team. “It’s a tribute to our society that even amid a terrible war we are capable of seeing the humanity of an enemy raised and trained to hate and kill us. Some of us are still waiting for that same presumption of humanity to be extended to the good men and women doing their imperfect best to keep us safe.”

THE WAR AGAINST PHOTOGRAPHY, CONTINUED: “I am more than baffled by the current wave of anxiety about adults taking pictures of children in public spaces. . . . The assumption that pictures represent a significant threat to children has acquired a fantasy-like grotesque character. We rarely dare ask the question: what possible harm can come from taking pictures of children playing soccer? Dark hints about the threat of evil networks of pedophiles are sufficient to corrode common sense. Tragically, what the dramatization and criminalization of the act of photographing children reveals is a culture that regards virtually every childhood experience from the standpoint of a pedophile.”

MILBLOG TV: Today, reporting from Afghanistan.

FROM GREG STEIN, thoughts on Yankee Stadium’s impending demise.

STEVEN CALABRESI EXPLORES THE LIVING CONSTITUTION and concludes that, using modern interpretative techniques, Obama is too young to be President. “All these episodes and behavior patterns confirm the wisdom of understanding the 35-year-old age limit in light of its purpose, rather than woodenly or literally.” No, we wouldn’t want to be “wooden” or “literal” in our constitutional interpretation.

ROBERT LEVY: Looking Ahead to Heller’s New Paradigm. “If Henigan is correct in predicting that sensible regulations will be the by-product of Heller, I for one applaud that development. But sensible is not what we have in New York or Chicago or San Francisco or many other major cities. And sensible is not what the Brady Center has supported.”

DON KATES: Gun rights for felons?

UPDATE: Okay, this bit is worth breaking out, and has ramifications going far beyond the gun context:

In sum, the constitutional right to arms simply does not extend to people convicted of serious criminal offenses. By “serious,” I refer to the early common law – under which felonies were real wrongs like rape, robbery and murder.

Unfortunately, modern legislatures have added a host of trivial felonies. For instance, in California an 18-year-old girl who has oral sex with her 17-year-old boyfriend has committed a felony. The courts should rule that conviction of such a trivial felony can’t deprive such a “felon” of her right to arms.

I’ve written about this subject — the promiscuous creation of trivial felonies — in the past. I also would argue, though, that you shouldn’t restore felons’ right to vote unless you’re willing to restore all their rights, including the right to possess arms. Citizenship should be a package deal.

ANOTHER UPDATE: I see that others have made a similar point.

ALMOST AS GOOD AS A SWORD-CANE: The unbreakable fighting umbrella. Here’s their website. (Via GeekPress).

UPDATE: On further reflection, you need one made out of kevlar that, when opened, can also function as a bulletproof shield. Might be a bit more expensive, though. . . .

TOM SMITH ON BARACK OBAMA: “I’m just hoping BO is a faux lefty who will run to the center when he realizes that’s where the most power is. So, just a classier version of Bill Clinton. That’s my hope. If he turns out to take the things he is saying seriously, then it won’t be funny at all.”

UPDATE: Selling redemption.

GRAND ROUNDS IS UP! And it’s their 200th edition!

INSIDE THE NEW AREA 51: Mojave’s Desert Outpost Holds Space Flight’s Future.

IN THE MAIL: Greg Keyes’ The Born Queen. I haven’t read this series, but it’s well-blurbed, and the Insta-daughter thought it looked good.

“FAKE INTERVIEWS?” The presence of interviewer Greg Packer was a tipoff!

Much more here:

Barack Obama’s campaign trip abroad was thought to be an effort to show him operating freely on the world stage. Instead, it has been a carefully managed exercise, designed to expose Obama to no contrary or potentially embarrassing viewpoints, and most of all, to shield him against the possibility that the media might capture a gaffe. . . . For all intents and purposes Obama was play-acting the role of a traveling statesman, eating meals and smiling but doing and saying nothing of consequence with what veteran network correspondent Mitchell described on “Hardball” as an unprecedented level of press restriction and manipulation.

In other words, another training-wheels exercise in what has been a training-wheels campaign. But the media folks are beginning to grouse. They’re still covering for him, though:

For pete’s sake, the gaffe was in response to a question about whether Obama is too inexperienced in foreign affairs — which would include being too gaffe-prone when speaking without a teleprompter — to “lead the country at war as commander in chief from day one.” Can’t he reasonably be expected to answer that question without screwing up? And if he can’t, isn’t that in itself newsworthy?

You’d think.

Knoxville, Tennessee. I was afraid to walk past it for fear that I’d trip . . . .

TN POLICE OFFICIAL SUBPOENAS POLICE WHISTLEBLOWER BLOG: The News-Sentinel’s Michael Silence comments: “Well this has all the earmarks of being one juicy, entertaining controversy. I’ll put my money on the blog.”

Here’s the blog in question.

UPDATE: Here’s more on the story from the Memphis Commercial Appeal.

GOOD NEWS on saturated fat.

HMM: Dems Slip in Congressional Poll; McCain and Obama Now Tied. With all the help they’re getting from the media — and the McCain campaign — seems like Obama and the Dems ought to be doing better.

JOHN MURTHA BEING outfundraised by his challenger? Cool. (Via Let Freedom Ring.)

LONGEVITY RESEARCH UPDATE: Here’s more on SIRT-1 activators:

The new drugs are called sirtuin activators, meaning that they activate an enzyme called sirtuin. The basic theory is that all or most species have an ancient strategy for riding out famines: switch resources from reproduction to tissue maintenance. A healthy diet but with 30 percent fewer calories than usual triggers this reaction in mice and is the one intervention that reliably increases their life span. The mice seem to live longer because they are somehow protected from the usual diseases that kill them.

But most people cannot keep to a diet with a 30 percent cut in calories, so a drug that could activate the famine reflex might be highly desirable. . . . The Sirtris drug being tested in diabetic patients is a special formulation of resveratrol that delivers a bloodstream dose five times as high as the chemical alone. This drug, called SRT501, has passed safety tests and, at least in small-scale trials, has reduced the patients’ glucose levels.

The other drug is a small synthetic chemical that is a thousand times as potent as resveratrol in activating sirtuin and can be given at a much smaller dose. Safety tests in people have just started, with no adverse effects so far. . . . Mice on the drugs generally remain healthy right until the end of their lives and then just drop dead.“If they work in people that way, one would look to an extension of health span, with an extension of life as a possible side effect,” Dr. Guarente said. “It would necessitate changing ideas about when people retire and when they stop paying into the system.”

GlaxoSmithKline could put SRT501, its resveratrol formulation, on the market right away, selling it as a natural compound and nutritional pharmaceutical that does not require approval by the F.D.A. “We haven’t made any decisions, but that clearly is an option,” Dr. Vallance said.

Read the whole thing. And let’s hope this stuff pans out, though it’s merely a foretaste of what we’ll (probably) see in the coming decades. Meanwhile, here’s a transcript of Gregory Stock’s presentation on aging research at the UCLA Aging conference. “Certainly, if human lifespan is immutable, then more health is a great thing, but our true aspirations are not for compressed morbidity. They are for longer, healthier lives. What is amazing is that this aspiration is actually a plausible goal today. So, why not go for it? . . . More life without more health would not be of great value. And, ironically, this seems to be the focus of a great deal of medicine today.”

A PREDICTION: If Barack Obama is elected President, he’ll be far more warlike than President Bush, and far more warlike than his pre-election rhetoric suggests. Because before he’s elected President, attacks on America are just attacks on America. But after he’s elected President, attacks on America will also be attacks on Barack Obama.

And Keith Olbermann will describe the mushroom cloud over Tehran as “awesome in its rampant Technicolor beauty.”

A LIST OF THE best business books ever.

COUNTRYWIDE UPDATE: More “Friends of Angelo” are revealed. (Via Kaus, who comments, “Paul Begala, Friend of Angelo! … Plus: Holbrooke saved $15,000. … Suggested title for either man’s memoirs: ‘Dodd is my Co-Pirate!'”) Bottom line: “Through a program that provided loans on favorable terms to V.I.P. borrowers, the nation’s largest mortgage lender curried favor with politicians, government officials, and business partners who were in a position to influence policy, profits, or public opinion. While some may not have been fully aware of the special terms, many took the bait. Some, including Aldrich, appear to have skirted or violated conflict-of-interest rules or ethics policies.” Henry Cisneros is another Friend.

I like the instructions to avoid “junk” and “garbage fees” when serving V.I.P. customers — apparently, Countrywide saved those for the rest of us.

UNVEILING THE NEW CHEVY CAMARO: Is it just me, or does it look a lot like a Dodge Charger?

UPDATE: Here’s much more on the new Camaro.

A LOOK AT who pays the taxes in America.

DOMESTIC DRILLING: Pump TV. I think this will have some traction.

OVERFLYING the mass graves. And a look at an alternate history.

HOW MEGAN MCARDLE went from Naderite to libertarian.

Plus, the bogosity of comparable worth.

CHARLES WHEELAN: “Deferring gratification is essential to human achievement, but we may no longer be capable of it as a nation.” That’s the mark of a dysfunctional political — and cultural — landscape.

SOAKING THE RICH, with low tax rates?

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Top Obama Fundraiser Had Ties to Failed Bank. “Superior was seized in 2001 and later closed by federal regulators. Government investigators and consumer advocates have contended that Superior engaged in unsound financial activities and predatory lending practices. Ms. Pritzker, a longtime friend and supporter of Sen. Obama, served for a time as Superior’s chairman, and later sat on the board of its holding company. Sen. Obama has long criticized predatory subprime mortgage lenders and urged strong actions against them.”

Except, you know, when they give him money. More, um, piquant treatment at Protein Wisdom. Big quotes: “Superior’s owners were to sub-prime lending what Michael Milken was to junk bonds.” Plus, “It is a story with the potential to dwarf that of Obama’s ex-Veep vetter, James Johnson. But it would require the media to do some legwork to uncover whether — and to what extent — Penny Pritzker profited from the very financial wheelings and dealings Obama condemns on the campaign trail. So I am not holding my breath waiting for the follow-up reportage.”

TOM SMITH defends Starbucks.

DAVE KOPEL ON the United Nations vs. the Second Amendment.

GLOBAL COOLING WITH A TWIST, of lime: “Scientists say they have found a workable way of reducing CO2 levels in the atmosphere by adding lime to seawater. And they think it has the potential to dramatically reverse CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere, reports Cath O’Driscoll in SCI’s Chemistry & Industry magazine published today.” I’m skeptical, but stay tuned.

WELL, IT’S NOT ABOUT THEM: Iraqis underwhelmed by media circus for Barack Obama visit.

UPDATE: Howard Kurtz thinks it’s all good for Obama.

SWITCHING TO HOME SOLAR POWER: A report after a month. (Via Slashdot).

MAX BOOT: Maliki Feints.

SEAN CONNERY, parental role model.

ABC NEWS: cow farts are killing us. Is there a PETA VNR behind this?

SCOTUSBLOG: “The state of Louisiana on Monday asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling a month ago striking down the death penalty for the crime of child rape. The rehearing petition, citing an omission in the Court’s opinion of any mention of a federal law on that issue, was filed late Monday afternoon.” Some background here.

RICK MORAN ON THE NYT’S McCain rejection. “The Times is dying. And the story of John McCain’s discarded op-ed is one of the big reasons why.” It’s almost as if they’re not objective!

Michael Silence quotes an observer:: “By sending their biggest stars across the globe to interview Obama, ABC, CBS and NBC have reinforced the notion that the Democrat is getting an easy ride.” Plus, if you report embarrassing things about Obama, you get kicked off the plane! If a Republican did this, it would be fascism . . . .

But some people are upset over the plane-kicking: Jeffrey Goldberg: “This is not the change we’ve been waiting for.”

Joe Gandelman: “an incident that could contain the seeds of a future political boomerang.”

UPDATE: Radio Equalizer notes that the Boston Globe published this column by Joan Venocchi: “The Audacity of Ego.” So the NYT is more in the tank than the Globe?

ANOTHER UPDATE: More thoughts here: “And herein lies the double-standard. McCain has not changed his position on Iraq in some newsworthy way, while Obama is busy laying the groundwork to ‘refine’ his policy. Thus, the NYT seems interested in rewarding Obama for starting to shift his position (even if the NYT would privately prefer otherwise), while blocking McCain because he has been consistent (and correct about the surge).”

DOUGHNUTS: IS THERE ANYTHING THEY CAN’T DO? “This event, which happened recently in Staunton, IL, was a sweet one, as eating doughnuts got minutes taken off your final time, a situation where ‘prizes were awarded to those who finished with the fastest time, the fastest adjusted time (depending on number of doughnuts eaten) and for most doughnuts eaten.’ I’m starting my training this instant for next year’s race.”

When I was in law school, the Entryway H Invitational featured similar events, but for beer: Beer golf, beer bowling, beer softball, beer squash — the last a bit of a mistake, as alcohol, swinging wooden objects, and small hard-walled rooms don’t mix.

OMAR FADHIL on Obama, diplomacy, and the Middle East.

BRIAN WANG: Offsetting Peak Oil for One to Two Decades.

Well, one of these could probably handle half my driving now. Maybe more. And Tennessee is N.E.V. friendly.

UPDATE: What happens when one of those little N.E.V.s gets t-boned by an SUV: “My girlfriend’s got a little bruise on her arm and a sore back, but she’ll live. The ZENN’s a little torn up, though.” Warning — your results may differ . . . .

Plus, the psychology of fuel efficiency, and why raising the MPG of gas guzzlers is more important than making efficient cars more efficient:

Say you have the ability to trade in a 10 MPG SUV for a 20 MPG crossover, or a 25 MPG car for a 50 MPG hybrid. Which switch is better for the environment? As it turns out, the former, even though one might be tempted to say that the former only improves efficiency by 10 MPG while the latter improves it by 25. Assume a 100 mile trip. The SUV will consume 10 gallons versus 5 gallons for the crossover for a net savings of 5 gallons. The car will consume 4 gallons versus 2 gallons for the hybrid for a net savings of 2 gallons.

I’ve actually mentioned this point before, but it bears repeating.

UPDATE: Arnold Kling thinks reports of inflatable electric cars are a hoax.

FROM DAVID KAYE, more on that L.A. Times DNA-match story.

ORIN KERR on why the United States has an exclusionary rule.

WILLIAM TUCKER: “All over the world, nuclear power is making a comeback. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has just commissioned eight new reactors, and says there’s ‘no upper limit’ to the number Britain will build in the future. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has challenged her country’s program to phase out 17 nuclear reactors by 2020, saying it will be impossible to deal with climate change without them. China and India are building nuclear power plants; France and Russia, both of whom have embraced the technology, are fiercely competing to sell them the hardware.”

THE ABSENCE OF RAMONES TUNES IS TROUBLING: The new Rock Band 2 songlist is out.

Plus, a hands-on report.

INTRODUCING MILBLOGS TV. Reporting from Iraq.

SOME PEOPLE ARE ALREADY looking forward to a failed Obama Presidency. I’m not. The discussion in the comments is amusing, though.

MICKEY KAUS: “Maybe we should pay more attention to the issues on which Obama hasn’t noticeably shifted to the center. For example, 1) health care and 2) tax increases. In each case, the relevant question would seem to be: Is he sticking to his guns because a) that’s what he really believes his presidency should be about, or b) the issue is so central to his coalition that changing his position would disrupt his election strategy?”

MCCAIN OPED RESPONDING TO OBAMA REJECTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES.

People are going to start to think the press is in the tank for Obama or something. Oops — too late!

ROUNDUP AND REMOVAL OF CANCER CELLS, using nanotechnology.

AMERICA’S twelve cheapest cars.

MISUSING THE “RED CROSS” EMBLEM? LET THE INTERNATIONAL OUTRAGE BEGIN! A plane traveling from Venezuela with a Red Cross emblem was busted in Sierra Leone with 1,322 pounds of cocaine on board.

HMM: Much of Earth’s oil reserves can be traced to a single volcanic eruption, scientists say.

UH, RIGHT. Kiss my Astra?

IN THE MAIL: After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy, and a New Reconstruction. The thing about the War On Crime, though, is that unlike the War On Poverty and the War On Drugs it pretty much worked.

Asheville, North Carolina. Best alternative caption for yesterday’s photo: “We can’t drill our way out of this problem!”

RASMUSSEN: “The belief that reporters are trying to help Barack Obama win the fall campaign has grown by five percentage points over the past month.” Gee, do you think? Plus this: “A separate survey released this morning also found that 50% of voters believe most reporters want to make the economy seem worse than it is. A plurality believes that the media has also tried to make the war in Iraq appear worse that it really is.”

FANNIE AND FREDDIE’S ENABLERS:

In the strange accountability of Washington, the same folks who put taxpayers on the hook for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are now demanding ransom to let taxpayers bail them out. It’s as if Andy Fastow insisted that Enron shareholders pay his fines after his fraud cost them their life savings.

“I don’t know how in good conscience you come up here and ask me to give unlimited lines of credit” to Treasury for Fannie and Freddie without giving Democrats something in return, Senate Banking Chairman Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.) told the Journal last week. Come again? This is the same Chris Dodd who long resisted tougher regulation while more recently handing Fan and Fred even more room to expand their risk-taking.

Not to mention getting a sweetheart “Friends of Angelo” mortgage deal. Hard to argue with this point: “In any other business, Mr. Dodd would be begging forgiveness.” Or facing indictment.

ON THE OTHER HAND, IT BEATS DYING: “Chinese officials insist the notorious Beijing air will be cleaner by August, making such contraptions unnecessary. Concerned about the pollution, the U.S. Olympic Committee is distributing a high-tech mask, developed in secrecy, to its more than 600 Olympians. If athletes deploy it, they risk insulting the hosts. Then there’s the geek factor.”

CREATIVE DESTRUCTION? Whirlwind Created By Biofuels Is Good Chaos. I certainly agree that non-food-based biofuels are the future. Corn-based ethanol is justifiable, if at all, only as a bootstrapping measure.

ROGER COHEN: “Barack Obama has already won the U.S. election by a landslide. In Europe, that is. Polls show the French putting the first African-American in the White House with 86 percent backing. Obamania is about as intense in Germany and Britain, the two other European countries the Senator will visit this week.”

If they’ll start paying U.S. taxes, I’ll think about giving them a vote . . . .

VIDEO: Tom Brokaw asks Al Gore about his personal energy consumption. My observation is that Al Gore is looking (and sounding) more and more like a Baptist televangelist all the time.

LOWRY AND PONNURU: What McCain should do, if he wants to win.

MORE HURRICANE-BLOGGING, at Brendan Loy’s new Weather Nerd blog.

MICHAEL TOTTEN: The bin Ladens of the Balkans. Remember, he’s supported by donations. So if you like his work, consider hitting the tipjar.

SMALL, CHEAP LAPTOPS — OH NOOO!

The personal computer industry is poised to sell tens of millions of small, energy-efficient Internet-centric devices. Curiously, some of the biggest companies in the business consider this bad news. In a tale of sales success breeding resentment, computer companies are wary of the new breed of computers because their low price could threaten PC makers’ already thin profit margins.

I’ve tested the Asus — both 7″ and 9″ — and the HP Mini-Note. All are good, though the Mini-Note with XP would be better.

MORE ON THE MYSTERIOUS MALIKI TRANSLATION SHIFT, from Mickey Kaus.

A FLU WARNING:

The world is failing to guard against the inevitable spread of a devastating flu pandemic which could kill 50 million people and wreak massive disruption around the globe, the Government has warned.

In evidence to a House of Lords committee, ministers said that early warning systems for spotting emerging diseases were “poorly co-ordinated” and lacked “vision” and “clarity”. They said that more needed to be done to improve detection and surveillance for potential pandemics and called for urgent improvement in rapid-response strategies.

The Government’s evidence appeared in a highly critical report from the Lords Intergovernmental Organisations Committee, which attacked the World Health Organisation (WHO) as “dysfunctional” and criticised the international response to the threat of an outbreak of disease which could sweep across the globe.

And these weaknesses, alas, apply to the overall infectious disease response, not just flu. Of course, that a U.N. agency like W.H.O. is “dysfunctional” is no big surprise, though W.H.O. was for a long time one of the few bright spots in the U.N.’s constellation of dysfunctional organizations.

JERRY POURNELLE: “T Boone Pickens is absolutely right: we can’t go on transferring a trillion a year to the middle east. On the other hand, we used to be the creditor nation of the world, as well as the manufacturing nation. We gave that up voluntarily for regulations and a regulatory state. Whether his conclusion, that we ought to convert to wind power, is correct is another matter. It doesn’t look as useful as nuclear, but there are fewer environmental fanatics opposed to wind. I suspect that energy economics is more determined by law suits than by engineering.”

That’s a poor basis for policy.

QUESTIONS ABOUT DNA EVIDENCE:

State crime lab analyst Kathryn Troyer was running tests on Arizona’s DNA database when she stumbled across two felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles.

The men matched at nine of the 13 locations on chromosomes, or loci, commonly used to distinguish people. The FBI estimated the odds of unrelated people sharing those genetic markers to be as remote as 1 in 113 billion. But the mug shots of the two felons suggested that they were not related: One was black, the other white.

In the years after her 2001 discovery, Troyer found dozens of similar matches — each seeming to defy impossible odds.

As word spread, these findings by a little-known lab worker raised questions about the accuracy of the FBI’s DNA statistics and ignited a legal fight over whether the nation’s genetic databases ought to be opened to wider scrutiny.

The FBI laboratory, which administers the national DNA database system, tried to stop distribution of Troyer’s results and began an aggressive behind-the-scenes campaign to block similar searches elsewhere, even those ordered by courts, a Times investigation found.

At stake is the credibility of the compelling odds often cited in DNA cases, which can suggest an all but certain link between a suspect and a crime scene.

Read the whole thing. That these matches occur is not as statistically shocking as the above makes it sound, but the big news is that the FBI is trying to silence these reports. This sort of behavior undercuts trust in other scientific evidence as well.

And — as a general rule — scientific evidence usually turns out to be less trustworthy upon experience than its proponents claim initially. And it’s not unusual for those proponents to try to squelch evidence that they’ve oversold. This, however, seems like it would justify a Congressional investigation.

UPDATE: More on this from David Kaye.