SUBPRIME SIX UPDATE: At HousingWire, not buying Kent Conrad's defense: "What we’re seeing this Monday morning from North Dakota Senator Kent Conrad is nothing less than either blind stupidity or record-setting hubris."

Plus, Let me call you sweetheart … loans: "We’re not talking graft on the level of the Whiskey Ring or Teapot Dome or Halliburton. But consider this: Countrywide was one of America’s primary purveyors of subprime mortgages, the dubious, lucrative loans that got the country into our current housing crisis. Almost no one paid attention. . . . Campaign cash registers and the politicians who love them rule."

SALON: Why Clinton voters say they won't support Obama. Among other reasons: "They are mad that everyone believes them to be old, white and racist. They are mad at the people they thought were supposed to be progressives for treating them badly."

COLUMBIA FIRES "NOOSE PROFESSOR:" For plagiarism.

CAN TANNING prevent cancer?

MEGAN MCARDLE: "There are places where outrage is appropriate. But the level of outrage in the blogosphere has made outrage meaningless."

BONNIE ERBE: Barack Obama, Serial Flip-Flopper.

BORDER FENCE CHALLENGE Rebuffed By Supreme Court: "The government's plan to build a 670-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border took another step forward Monday when the Supreme Court turned away a legal challenge from environmentalists. The court's action clears the way for U.S. officials to press ahead with the project with little worry that judges will be able to stop it. . . . . Fourteen House Democrats and a group of law professors had urged the Supreme Court to take the case."

UH OH: Papers Facing Worst Year for Ad Revenue.

UPDATE: Ed Driscoll offers some context.

IN NASHVILLE, a triumph over attempted censorship.

THE BELMONT CLUB moves to Pajamas. Welcome aboard, Wretchard!

THE GROWING POPULARITY OF Rube Goldberg machines in software. As in games, not as in Windows Vista.

STORM TROOPERS IN CLOWN SHOES (CONT'D):

James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

Sure, right after we try all the apologists for communism. Jesus, these people are pathetic.

UPDATE: Reader David Fleeger emails:

If it turns out (as it seems increasingly likely) that global warmi-, ah- climate change is a phony, can we put James Hanson and Al Gore on trial instead? I just want to know if this "high crimes against humanity and nature" thingy works for everyone, or only those who get invited to the Oscar Awards.

I dunno, but given that a UN special rapporteur has called food policies promoting ethanol "crimes against humanity," I guess that Barack Obama should be worried, too.

ANOTHER UPDATE: A reader emails: "In the year of our Gore, 2008 . . . No one expects the climate inquisition!"

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