MARK STEYN: “Having stood by watching as a mob trashed downtown businesses (and their own cruisers), the peculiarly insecure dweebs of the Toronto police are now threatening law-abiding passers-by (that would be Cop#3478) and beating up Guardian reporters.”

After acting cowardly around those who might hit back, they have to reestablish their dominance somehow.

Related: Why do we have police forces? “I’ve spent very little time in Toronto over the years. Last time I was there, it reminded me of an American city of the 1970s–dirty, with a menacing street population and a whiff of violence in the air. That was only an impression, but it may be that inept police work didn’t start with the G-20.”

IS THERE A “NEW MEDIA WAR?”

COMMENT OF THE DAY:

A reason for the “wealth or income gap”: Smart people keep on doing things that are smart and make them money while stupid people keep on doing things that are stupid and keep them from achieving.

People who get an education, stay off of drugs, apply themselves, and save and wisely invest their earnings do a lot better than people who drop out of school, become substance abusers, and buy fancy cars and houses that they can’t afford, only to lose them.

We don’t have an income gap. We have a stupid gap.

Ouch.

ARE CIVIL RIGHTS GROUPS skeptical of Kagan?

APPLIANCEBLOGGING: So the latest Consumer Reports likes the Cuisinart coffeemaker best. As the owner of one, that makes me feel slightly smug. As I’ve mentioned before, I like my All-Clad slow-cooker a lot, but it’s kind of pricey; I got it as a gift, but probably wouldn’t spend that much myself. Luckily, Consumer Reports likes this much much cheaper Hamilton Beach.

UPDATE: Reader Dan O’Brien writes: “My old style slow cooker died and I bought the Hamilton Beach you cited. I like it a lot. Time, manual, or temp sensing. Plus the top buckles down for transport without spilling anything. Nice unit.”

INSIDE THE BLACK PANTHER CASE: Anger, Ignorance, and Lies.

ANN ALTHOUSE: “Remember the liberal meme that George Bush was ‘incurious’? But aren’t these liberal journalists incurious? They had this email list that was designed — apparently — to figure out how to structure the various news stories to serve the interests of their party. The Journolist was a self-herding device. They wanted to be good cogs in a machine that would generate power for the Democratic Party, didn’t they? For career and social rewards? That’s my hypothesis. As an intellectual, I would like to study how that worked. I’ll write a book about it if someone will send me the raw material I need — the complete archive of the Journolist. I need a Deep Throat.” I’ve got your man right here.

UPDATE: A journalist reader emails:

That Ann Althouse post you quoted is more right than she knows. A friend who was on the List and works at a major newspaper told me recently, and I quote verbatim: “Journolist was basically a jobs program for liberals in DC.” This person said that it was used to link up the older, more established set with the younger up-and-comers, all to better staff newspapers, magazines, and institutions with liberals. And it is worth adding that this was said by a very liberal person who was not speaking the least bit apologetically.

Seems like it might violate some institutions’ affirmative action policies, then. . . .

ANOTHER UPDATE: Oh, here’s a blog post on the employment-discrimination angle. If they’re colluding to make their product uniform, is it an antitrust violation, too?

MORE: Ted Frank isn’t convinced on the antidiscrimination argument. I’m not sure about the legality here — though I think Ted’s thinking like a defense lawyer, not a plaintiff’s lawyer — but I was referencing internal HR policies. My institution, for example, makes us log all hiring-related email contacts.

QUAGMIRE!

Well, I dunno. The real quagmire seems to be in the Gulf of Mexico. There’s no Petraeus to bring in there. . . .

WALTER SHAPIRO ON THE DEATH OF PRIVACY. Well, this is a product of journalism. It probably started when Earl Butz lost his job. In The Appearance of Impropriety, Peter Morgan and I noted that sociologists like Erving Goffman think that every functioning society needs a “backstage” where people can let their hair down and speak without observing social proprieties. But journalists have been destroying that backstage for decades, reporting casual remarks, emails, and betrayed confidences whenever it would advance their careers, or their agendas. Why should they be permitted to keep one, when no one else is?

And if these had been emails among conservative pundits and reporters (er, if you could find 400 of those), the leaker would be treated as a hero, not a person “whose motivations were mysterious and whose lack of integrity was obvious.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Genetically-Engineered Salmon Get Closer To The Table. “Normally, salmon do not make growth hormone in cold weather. But the pout’s on-switch keeps production of the hormone going year round. The result is salmon that can grow to market size in 16 to 18 months instead of three years, though the company says the modified salmon will not end up any bigger than a conventional fish.”

PREHISTORIC “HOBBITS” weren’t malformed humans, but an entirely distinct species.

UPDATE: Despite what the expert said, the package sent to Calzada wasn’t a bomb.

MARKDOWNS ON cellphones and accessories.

ITALY GETS ITS OWN TEA PARTY MOVEMENT.

VIDEO: 2011 CHEVY VOLT visits Consumer Reports.

THE INSTA-WIFE IS ON WNOX talking about men and marriage. Listen live here. Call-in info here.

ADVICE: How to Properly Load a Dishwasher.

UH OH: “Anyone planning to travel to Eurozone countries during the summer should consider what has previously been unthinkable – the fate of euro notes and coins if the single currency falls apart.”

FOR WOMEN, some 80s Advice on Picking Up Men.

HORSE HAVEN OF TENNESSEE has a blog!

SINNERS AND SCOLDS, feasting together in a cornucopia of collusion.

TONY WOODLIEF: The Case Against Happiness.

TAKING THE TEA PARTIES SERIOUSLY. Oh, good grief. Check out the photo if you want to see the face of modern journalism. In your nightmares . . . .

IN THE MAIL: From Ryk E. Spoor, Grand Central Arena.

IF YOU MISSED IT ON SIRIUS/XM SATELLITE RADIO last night, the latest PJM Political is now online.

THE REAL SCIENCE GAP: “It’s not insufficient schooling or a shortage of scientists. It’s a lack of job opportunities. Americans need the reasonable hope that spending their youth preparing to do science will provide a satisfactory career.”

UPDATE: A reader emails:

I work for a very large high tech company. I presently manage a research team in the corporate lab. The problem is that there is no encouragement for American non-minority males to go into science and engineering because we will almost never hire them. Instead we are being forced to look for technical females and under-represented minorities. Since very few American females choose engineering, we end up hiring Chinese and Indian women. The universities that I work with tell me that they find it almost impossible to recruit American males to PhD programs. I believe within less than a generation we will be in deep trouble, technically, in this country, and we’ll be without the means and capability to maintain the highly sophisticated civilization that we’ve constructed.

Ouch.

MORE: Another reader emails:

Name MUST be withheld.

This diversity stuff has become a religion even more than climate change. I also work for a high tech company. We are being required by our HR professionals/social engineers, which I am one now in organization but not beliefs. I have a BS physical sciences, MS engineering degree; but recently moved into HR. One of our Senior VP’s recently told a Sr. Manager that we have too many Asians. We focus on goals for hiring “under represented minorities” with minimal qualifications vs. hiring the best. We are killing our future.

It’s a sad truth.

Sad, indeed.

SURE, WHY NOT? Blame Bill Clinton? How A Rush Of Sudden Attention May Have Made Team USA Lose Focus.

INTERESTING QUESTION: In the E-Mail and Twitter Era, Is ‘Actual Malice’ Easier To Prove?

ELIZABETH EDWARDS GOES PUBLIC: “The publicity blitz coincides with the paperback release of her book, Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life’s Adversities, which is expected to have a new chapter on the dramatic fallout from her husband’s infidelity.” I wonder if she’ll take responsibility for presenting the public with a lie, in the hopes of achieving political power?

THEY’RE DELICIOUS: A Dark ‘n’ Stormy. Originated at the Swizzle Inn if I recall correctly.

ARIA: Is this the Android you’ve been looking for? Great headline, but if I’m going to subject myself to the AT&T network, I think I’d spring for an iPhone.

RULES OF UNENGAGEMENT: “What do Gen. McChrystal and British Petroleum have in common? Aside from the fact that they’re both Democratic Party supporters.”

HANDS-ON REVIEW: the Motorola Droid X smartphone.

IS THE TEA PARTY a Christian movement? “What separates Jim Wallis from the Tea Partiers is not a difference of moral quality, or the presence and absence of compassion, but a different vision of the society that biblical love and justice require.” I certainly don’t much care what political preachers say, one way or another.

ED MORRISSEY: Right vs. Left On Obama’s Gulf Oil Spill Response.

BOO HOO: Adolf Hitler wrote a begging letter to a Mercedes dealership asking for a loan for a limousine until his royalties for Mein Kampf came through.

THE “OVERTON WINDOW” and how to apply it.

BIG GOVERNMENT, bad journalism. “Journalists can only make the thinnest pretense of objectivity when covering the super-State. Merely reporting honestly on its past and current activities would qualify a journalist for associate membership in the Ratf**ker Pack. . . . In the pressure cooker of an overwhelming, and collapsing, centralized government, the personal and political are fused into a single identity. Asking uncomfortable questions is an act of rebellion, and effective resistance to the will of the elite is a declaration of war. Media operatives, who eat and drink politics with every meal, are just a little further down the spiral of bitterness and desperation that awaits us all.”

Meanwhile, reader Sung Chun Kim writes:

Why is no one calling for the outing of the 400 JournoList members and an investigation of whether there were any other attempts to collude and to coordinate the media narrative? Is no else as disturbed by this as I am? We’re constantly told that the media are special, that they’re the Fourth Estate, and that their proper functioning is vital to the health of the Republic. Well, is no one else profoundly disturbed that no one is watching the watchers? Or that the watchers are actually colluding in a virtual smoke-filled back room to massage and frame the narrative?

Imagine if a conservative listserv were discovered, and that it included Rupert Murdoch and 400 conservative pundits and journalists. Imagine if it were disclosed that the participants actively discussed coordination in framing stories so as to benefit the Republican Party. Do you think there would be a ho hum “Oh, it was just a private list” response? Of course not, the liberals would be howling to the rafters about the existential threat to the Republic.

So why all the frivolity here? Even now, the Weigel story is breaking down into stupid distractions like whether Weigel actually wished death on Drudge, or whether people on a listserv have an expectation of privacy. Seriously, why is that even remotely important compared to the fact that 400 of this nation’s most prominent journalists and pundits were having discusions about killing or promoting stories based on whether they hurt the Democratic Party agenda? If there is any justice or sanity in this world, this should be bigger than ClimateGate. I want to see an archive of the JournoList postings and then compare them to any contemporaneous stories written by participants. Once that is done, we can tar and feather the bastards for betraying their profession and the people of this country.

That degree of accountability is unlikely.

THE ECONOMIST: Barack Obama has sacked his commander in Afghanistan. But the real worry is that the war is being lost.

KOPP THE CUSTARD MAN HAS JOHN HINDERAKER SOUNDING LIKE A NEO-MARXIST:

The Democrats’ “stimulus” bill was a joke. Much of the money never has been spent, and most of what was spent went to state and local governments to subsidize the salaries of public employees, the Democratic Party’s core constituency. Consequently, the public employee boom continued as the recession deepened.

If you are a government employee, you have little reason to favor tax cuts: taxes pay your salary. As confiscatory taxation and over-regulation strangle private enterprise, the government is presented with endless excuses to increase public employment as a supposed response to the crisis in the private sector. It is a vicious cycle, but one that inevitably comes to an end. The goose stops laying eggs, or, as Margaret Thatcher put it, eventually you run out of other people’s money.

In the meantime, the sharp conflict we are experiencing between government and the private sector is almost enough to make a neo-Marxist out of me. We have an oppressive ruling class–the government and its foot-soldiers, members of AFSCME–and an exploited, subservient working class, those who toil in the private sector for wages that currently average only around one-half of what our ruling class, government employees, are paid. The tick, in other words, is now faring much better than the dog.

Workers of the private sector, arise! You can no longer afford to keep your public sector masters in the lavish style to which they have become accustomed.

Read the whole thing.

SPECTATORS IN BODY ARMOR: “Her Majesty’s Constabulary seem to be sending the message that violence pays—at least for approved identity groups. That doesn’t seem a prudent strategy.”

SALMA HAYEK on the joy of eating bugs.

PLEASE SEND YOUR CONDOLENCES: Jeff Goldstein has lost his father. (Bumped).

ANOTHER cheap external hard drive.

JIM TREACHER: Why Does Al Gore Hate Oil Spills? It gets all over the sheets. He’s got a million of ’em. . . .

THE COMFY CHAIR might actually help in interrogations. Monty Python is never wrong. . . .

HEH: “ABC News just said the earth passed through the shadow of the sun this morning, proving once again journalists are not science majors.”

UPDATE: Reader Michael Harlow writes: “I bet if Sarah Palin said this, they would immediately know how foolish the statement was.” Well, then there’d be a message on Journolist telling them what to think.

MARKDOWNS ON outdoor power tools.

IF YOU MISSED IT LAST WEEK, check out the latest InstaVision. With bonus footage of me in a wetsuit.

PATTY MURRAY IN TROUBLE: “In 2008, President Barack Obama received 17% more votes than Senator John McCain, a landslide by political standards. Fast forward two years, and incumbent Democrat Patty Murray is facing fierce competition from Republican challenger Dino Rossi. According to a new poll released yesterday, Murray and Rossi are now tied 47%-47%. In 2004, Murray received 55% of the vote; in a often-considered blue state, 47% is starkly low.”

ROGER SIMON: Journolist and Weigel in the Age of the Digital Machiavelli.

ONLY TEN MINUTES? Really?

MAKING A CANCER DETECTOR from a digital camera.

HEH: Joe Biden Gets Custard in Face When Business Owner Tells Him: “Lower Our Taxes” (Video).

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S STENOGRAPHERS.

JIM TREACHER: Joe Scarborough doesn’t think the ‘Al Gore groped me’ allegation is a news story. Does that make him a climax denier?

FINDING SUPERMODELS in rural Brazil.

GUESS THE MOVIE by Tom Cruise’s hair.

IT’S GOOD TO BE RAHM EMANUEL: First, a rent-free apartment in DC from a BP adviser.

Then, 25 free concert tickets from Bruce Springsteen.

UPDATE: And, of course, his Freddie Mac job. But wait: “The Freddie Mac money was a small piece of the $16 million he made in a three-year interlude as an investment banker…”

THE GULF OIL SPILL: AN “AVERTIBLE CATASTROPHE.”

Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off. Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality.

The Dutch fall into the first group. Three days after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, the Netherlands offered the U.S. government ships equipped to handle a major spill, one much larger than the BP spill that then appeared to be underway. “Our system can handle 400 cubic metres per hour,” Weird Koops, the chairman of Spill Response Group Holland, told Radio Netherlands Worldwide, giving each Dutch ship more cleanup capacity than all the ships that the U.S. was then employing in the Gulf to combat the spill.

To protect against the possibility that its equipment wouldn’t capture all the oil gushing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch also offered to prepare for the U.S. a contingency plan to protect Louisiana’s marshlands with sand barriers. One Dutch research institute specializing in deltas, coastal areas and rivers, in fact, developed a strategy to begin building 60-mile-long sand dikes within three weeks. . . .

Why does neither the U.S. government nor U.S. energy companies have on hand the cleanup technology available in Europe? Ironically, the superior European technology runs afoul of U.S. environmental rules. The voracious Dutch vessels, for example, continuously suck up vast quantities of oily water, extract most of the oil and then spit overboard vast quantities of nearly oil-free water. Nearly oil-free isn’t good enough for the U.S. regulators, who have a standard of 15 parts per million — if water isn’t at least 99.9985% pure, it may not be returned to the Gulf of Mexico. . . .

The Americans, overwhelmed by the catastrophic consequences of the BP spill, finally relented and took the Dutch up on their offer — but only partly. Because the U.S. didn’t want Dutch ships working the Gulf, the U.S. airlifted the Dutch equipment to the Gulf and then retrofitted it to U.S. vessels. And rather than have experienced Dutch crews immediately operate the oil-skimming equipment, to appease labour unions the U.S. postponed the clean-up operation to allow U.S. crews to be trained.

A catastrophe that could have been averted is now playing out.

Read the whole thing.

MICHAEL MCCONNELL writes in support of Elena Kagan’s nomination.

DONALD RUMSFELD speaks.

A ROUNDUP OF Tea Party news headlines.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, it would be business as usual at Guantanamo long after the election. And they were right!

CHAUNCEY GARDINER COULDN’T HAVE DONE BETTER: “You’ve got a lot of golf courses here, don’t you?”

MORE ON WEIGEL AND FRIENDS: The Daily Caller’s publisher Neil Patel on Dave Weigel, Washington Post and JournoList. “What do all the other so-called objective journalists who are members of JournoList have to say? How can they claim any loose association with the concepts of truth and fairness as they stood by and participated in this fraud?”

Practice, my boy. Practice.

UPDATE: Indeed: “The Journolisters — including Cole? — must be desperately trying to discipline each other not to leak. And yet the evidence is — if Goldberg is to be believed — that the leaks have been going on all along.”

Plus, from the comments: “Does anyone else get a junior high school vibe out of this whole thing?”

A POST-APOCALYPTIC TORONTO? Given the massive negative impact, and all the nonstop yammering about carbon footprints from our global political class, why are they having these meetings in meatspace instead of on the Internet? It’s not as if much gets done anyway.

WALTER SHAPIRO: Rolling Stone McChrystal Profile: The End of Fly-on-the-Wall Reporting?

CHANGE: Michael Yon invited by Brits and US to embed again.

IN THE MAIL: From David Weber, Storm from the Shadows.

PJTV: Dana Loesch: This Week in Tea: While Frum Frowns on the Tea Party, Playboy Celebrates the Rogues of K Street.

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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Rolling Stone, Michael Hastings, and the McChrystalites—Sort of Deserve Each Other. “God help us all when a four-star general really believes he can use Rolling Stone to help get a message out that might help us defeat the Taliban and help himself in the process.”

HOT AIR: The Overlooked Story From The Weigel Kerfuffle. “Weigel used JournoList for exactly the purpose its critics suspected it would be used, i.e., to attempt to shape media coverage for the benefit of the Left. And he did it more than once. . . . Weigel was explcitly urging his fellow J-Listers to engage in what Weigel’s buddies and fellow travelers like to call ‘epistemic closure,’ to operate as a closed media ecosystem that excludes competing political narratives.” Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Kindergarten ethics?

MORE RUBES SELF-IDENTIFY: Business’s Buyer’s Remorse: For cooperating with the White House, member companies of the Business Roundtable gets socked with higher taxes and more regulations.

Mr. Seidenberg, officially Verizon’s CEO, moonlights as chairman of the influential Business Roundtable, the “association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies.” That would be the same Business Roundtable that woke up this past month to discover the White House has been playing it for a patsy. It turns out that actively supporting a pro-tax, pro-regulation Democratic majority on issues like health care doesn’t really get you anything save more taxes and more regulation.

Do tell. Mr. Seidenberg, meet Mr. Quick.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD on the pointless G20 Summit.

THE PERILS OF Citgo.

GOOD NEWS: Mississippi Supreme Court to hear Cory Maye case.

ELEANOR CLIFT: Al Gore: A Joke on Late-Night Talk Shows Once Again.

MOWERBLOGGING! Reader Eugene Dillenburg writes: “I know you blog about reel mowers sometimes. I bought a 16″ Craftsman last week, and tried it out for the first time tonight. Wonderful! Lightweight, quiet, maneuverable, and cuts like a dream — even long grass. (Grass so long it has flopped over is still problematic, but that’s true for any reel mower. Incentive to mow more often / get more exercise!) Under $100. Construction is a little lightweight, but if it holds up, it will easily be the best mower I’ve ever used.”

I have the Scotts reel mower, which works great, and which even a 9-year-old InstaDaughter could use. I still think the robot lawn mower is cool, though.

UPDATE: Reader Chris Kobus writes:

Glenn – I love my reel mower! I didn’t get it to save the environment. I got it for the exercise, and excellent exercise it is. I also have a Scotts that I bout at Amazon. I have worked mowing the lawn into my cardio. I run over to the gym and ride the elliptical for 30 minutes at a pretty good clip, burning about 470 kcals, then mow the lawn with the push reel that takes about an hour. I end up burning through 1,300 calories in a little over an hour, and it feels great. My old gas-powered push mower did about the same as the bearings had gone bad, but now I get the benefit minus the noise.

And you don’t have to mess with buying and storing gasoline.

SHOULD WE RAISE TAXES ON THE MIDDLE CLASS? We already are.

“We?”

STACY MCCAIN on why conservatives shouldn’t be congratulating themselves over the Weigel defenstration:

News organizations don’t hire conservatives. Therefore, conservatives don’t seek careers in journalism and instead become lawyers or accountants or stock brokers or whatever.

Ergo, none of the people making decisions in MSM newsrooms are conservatives. Where set A = “employees of news organizations” and set B = “conservatives,” we see that as the closer set AB approaches to zero, the more likely journalists are to view conservatives as The Other, and vice-versa.

The Journolist stuff was leaked by a lefty. Therefore, the leak was intended to serve the interests of at least one lefty, quite possibly one angling for Weigel’s job, or angry about Rand Paul stuff. (No, really). It doesn’t have much to do with people on the right, except that Weigel was supposed to cover the right.

Meanwhile, rumors of Weigel going to The Atlantic?

A KEYNESIAN DEAD END? “Spending our way to prosperity is going out of style.” Well, it’s not like it’s been working. . . .

WAS KEVIN RUDD AUSTRALIA’S OBAMA?

FROM the moment Kevin Rudd donned a ”Kevin 07” T-shirt and surrounded himself with adoring young women similarly attired, his days were numbered. There is a limit to the role for marketing hype in Australian politics, and that piece of Americana crossed the line.

It symbolised the hyperbole – the sloganeering – that would come to characterise the Rudd prime ministership. We loved it in the start, of course, because it matched the mood of 2007 – a fresh spirit of engagement with politics after a decade of disengagement, renewed interest in the big picture, a dream of a new order.

So we fell for the oldest trick in the book: over-investment in a new leader. Rudd was swept into office on a tide of euphoria that was dangerous for him, and for us. Euphoria is like a drug with powerful short-term effects. We can’t stay euphoric. We need substance to prop up our enthusiasm, and no politician could deliver a performance to match our madly exaggerated expectations of Rudd.

Interestingly, he was taken out by his own party.

MCCHRYSTAL’S PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER weighs in.

FROM THE ECONOMIST, a World Debt Map.

JOURNOLIST IS DONE, only not really.

WAPO OMBUDSMAN: Blogger loses job; Post loses standing among conservatives. “Instead of just a replacement, The Post might consider two: one conservative with a Klein-like ideological bent, and another who can cover the conservative movement in the role of a truly neutral reporter.”

ALEX LIGHTMAN ON FACEBOOK: “After researching the issue carefully and interviewing people in a position to know, I can now reveal that the current primary purpose of the United State government is to bankrupt the United States. It comes as a relief to know this. So many things now make sense.” Least hypothesis, and all that.

MY SISTER ON FACEBOOK: “Anybody need a lawn ornament that looks suspiciously like a 2008 F350? After a $4700 repair on Monday, ours is being towed into the Ford dealer in Fairfax, VA.” They’ve had a lot of trouble with that truck.

MARKDOWNS ON MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS. Hey, I still subscribe to magazines: Reason, The Economist, Popular Mechanics, and, of course, Garden and Gun. I used to take The Atlantic, but I’ve let that drop — seems like it’s just not what it used to be.

SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES’ UNION: If You Don’t Give Us 150 Percent Pensions, We’ll Kill This Child.

IRAN WIMPS OUT: Iran Cancels “Aid” Ship to Gaza. “As I told you a while back, they’re not going to take on Israel by sending ships–with or without the Revolutionary Guards–to challenge the Gaza blockade. The details are delicious.”

At your throat or at your feet. It’s not just the Germans.

COMMENT OF THE DAY: “A perfect storm of shallow stupidity.”

Or maybe it’s this one.

ANN ALTHOUSE ON THE LATEST GORE DEVELOPMENT: “What is the evidentiary weight of a contemporaneous statement like this? It was taken very seriously when aimed at a notable conservative.” Well, sure, one of them.

UPDATE: Reader Rich Reilly writes: “When will we hear from the poodle anti-defamation league?”

CAN EXERCISE replace Zoloft? Exercise that replaces a pill is fine, but what people really want is a pill that can replace exercise. . . .

PJTV: Introducing VodkaPundit’s Coast-to-Coast Tea Party.

TAKING BACK THE BAY: Can An Urban Republican Unseat Nancy Pelosi?

THE INSIDIOUS POWER of Mickey Kaus.

FINALLY: Dating Site Spawns Sperm Bank For Beautiful People.

UPDATE: A reader emails: “Looks like another source of income for you Glenn!” Good point!

HOW RED WINE helps the heart.