IN THE NEW YORK TIMES: Google and the Anti-Obama Bloggers.

UPDATE: Reader Darin S. Morley writes: "Just another example of Google's corporate policy: Don't Be Evil. "

SOME TASKS ARE "INHERENTLY MORE OFFENSIVE TO WOMEN."

YOU JUST CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP: Sens. Larry "Wide Stance" Craig and David "Diaper Boy"* Vitter have signed on to co-sponsor yet another federal bill that would amend the Constitution define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

'Cause who has more reverence for the institution of marriage than these guys?

GET READY FOR THE OBAMA IRAQ PIVOT: It's got to come soon, when you can read this kind of thing in The New Yorker:

In February, 2007, when Barack Obama declared that he was running for President, violence in Iraq had reached apocalyptic levels, and he based his candidacy, in part, on a bold promise to begin a rapid withdrawal of American forces upon taking office. At the time, this pledge represented conventional thinking among Democrats and was guaranteed to play well with primary voters. But in the year and a half since then two improbable, though not unforeseeable, events have occurred: Obama has won the Democratic nomination, and Iraq, despite myriad crises, has begun to stabilize. With the general election four months away, Obama’s rhetoric on the topic now seems outdated and out of touch, and the nominee-apparent may have a political problem concerning the very issue that did so much to bring him this far.

It's about time, since it's nearly July.

UPDATE: Reader David Fleeger emails: "It was interesting that the author of the article in The New Yorker claimed that the US success in Iraq was mostly the result of luck. Even when trying to walk Obama back from the edge of disaster, the MSM is still stuck on stupid."

ABC: How the FBI Botched the Anthrax Case.

DUMB LAWS is a blog devoted to just that. No shortage of material!

I'VE MENTIONED DAVID WILLIAMS' The Mirrored Heavens before, but now here's an interview with Williams.

UPDATE: Bill Quick emails:

So I'm out on my bike today - it's gorgeous in SF - and I stop by the Bay for a breather and just to sit and watch the sailboats gliding under the Bay Bridge.

I open my backpack and drag out my 3 lb Lenovo with builtin EVDO, fire it up, and check my blog. Then yours - and see your post about The Mirrored Heavens. I click the link and check it out at Amazon. Sounds right up my alley. So I open my Sony eReader, connect it to my laptop, and buy the book for ten bucks, download it, and watch it join the 400 or so other books sitting in my reader.

It's next on the "pile," after I finish crunching my way through Peter Hamilton's endless, but fascinating trilogy.

Speaking as a SF writer, I can tell you that intellectually this shouldn't amaze me (and intellectually, I expect the process to be a lot more seamless in a couple of years), but as a 62 year old person who can remember when phones were black, tvs had tiny round screens, and the "network" was The Lone Ranger on CBS radio, there are times it seems downright miraculous.

Thanks for the recommendation.

Yeah, we're not just reading science fiction. We're living it! Hey, it's the 21st Century, you know.

ROBERT MUGABE: The Anti-Mandela.

With Thabo Mbeki in the role of Best Supporting Actor.

MCCAIN'S MILITARY RECORD: Reader John Lunde emails: "Well, he served in Vietnam... and then he married a rich woman and got elected to the Senate. Are the Democrats now telling us these things don't make for a good candidate?"

Heh. Plus, I must disagree with charges that McCain is being "Swift Boated." For this to be a "Swift Boating," people who stayed at the Hanoi Hilton would have to say that McCain was lying about what he did there -- or perhaps that his repeated claims that events there were "seared, seared" in his memory are false, and he was never actually there at all -- and those people would have to be telling the truth.

ROBERT NOVAK: Obama's Dodge on Handguns:

While Scalia's opinion for now saves Obama from defending a court that had emasculated gun rights, one inconvenient truth confronts the candidate. He has made clear that as president he would nominate Supreme Court justices who agree with the minority of four that the Second Amendment is meaningless. Would he want a reconstituted court to roll back the D.C. decision when the Chicago case gets there?

Yes he would.

ARTHUR SILBER IS CREEPED OUT by the messianic zeal of Obama fans.

Hey, it's not as if they're taking his name or anything!

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