TIM NOAH: Why Jim Webb would make a terrible running mate.

UPDATE: Politico: Webb's rebel roots: An affinity for Confederacy. "Webb, a descendant of Confederate officers, also voiced sympathy for the notion of state sovereignty as it was understood in the early 1860s, and seemed to suggest that states were justified in trying to secede."

OVER AT SLASHDOT, they're taking Dennis Kucinich seriously with regard to his plans to impeach Bush. I think those plans are likely to do as well as his ban on orbital mind-control rays.

THIS HAS TO BE CAUSING HEARTBURN IN THE OBAMA CAMP:

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Democratic Rep. Dan Boren of Oklahoma said Tuesday Barack Obama is "the most liberal senator" in Congress and he has no intention of endorsing him for the White House.

(VIa Jonathan Martin ).

IN CANADA, a "breathtakingly broad prohibition" on speech.

PHOTO NEWS: There's a photo tab at the top of the page now. It takes you to all of these photos.

WELL, DUH: Frequent sex is good for your marriage.

And even better for selling books! "Book projects and PR will go on and on, even if sex does not."

IRAQI BODYBUILDERS. Cool. Photo gallery here.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: "Bikinis and other sexy stimuli can make men more prone to seek immediate gratification - leading to blown diets, budgets and bank accounts, new research suggests. . . . When the men felt well-off, the bikinis lost their influence. But if they considered themselves among the have-nots, they were likely to seek immediate gratification after seeing women running in bikinis."

YOUSSEF IBRAHIM: Mainstream Media Picking on Bloggers… Again. Yeah, but once they're laid off, they become bloggers themselves. . . .

A SMALL CONCERN:

The scientists said periods of inactivity are normal for the sun, but this period has gone on longer than usual.

"It continues to be dead," said Saku Tsuneta with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, program manager for the Hinode solar mission. "That's a small concern, a very small concern." . . .

The last cycle reached its peak in 2001 and is believed to be just ending now, Longcope said. The next cycle is just beginning and is expected to reach its peak sometime around 2012. Today's sun, however, is as inactive as it was two years ago, and scientists aren't sure why.

"It's a dead face," Tsuneta said of the sun's appearance.

Let's hope that Fallen Angels -- the Larry Niven / Jerry Pournelle / Michael Flynn novel in which anthropogenic global warming is real, but turns out to have been masking the return of an ice age until CO ₂ emissions get cut -- doesn't turn out to be prophetic . . . .

FORECLOSURE FAVORITISM QUESTIONS for Washington Mutual. It must be nice being a member of Congress. Suddenly, everyone loves you and wants to help.

CAFEPRESS looks silly. And Michael Silence comments: "Tam must have missed the memo that you can't use satire and parody in the 2008 presidential race."

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