"LITTLE DO THEY KNOW, they're part of this movie."

R.S. MCCAIN -- "the other McCain" -- is blogging the Libertarian Convention. Just keep scrolling.

RASMUSSEN: Fewer Democrats Want Hillary to Drop Out. But more pundits do . . . .

CAN POLYGAMY be a crime in the United States?

BOB ZUBRIN ON WHAT TO DO ABOUT OPEC. Plus, over at Jerry Pournelle's place, a Zubrin discussion. Just keep scrolling.

ARTIFICIALLY ENHANCED cell metabolism.

FATHER'S DAY CARDS:

Fathers sleep a lot, and they snore loudly. When they're awake, they like to fish or golf, but they're comically bad at both. They drink so much beer they're practically alcoholics, and they're complete couch potatoes, always watching television and hogging the remote.

At least, that's the less-than-favourable image of Dad on Father's Day greeting cards. It's a striking contrast to the poetic praise often expressed at Mother's Day.

Perhaps the market will take care of that. But why not branch out from cards?

HILLARY: I'm staying in the race in case somebody assassinates Obama! Okay, that's how it's being spun, but I don't think she actually meant it that way. I think she was just pointing out that when Bobby Kennedy was shot the race was still alive, and that was June. Still, it's a pretty impressive gaffe.

UPDATE: More thoughts from A.C. Kleinheider.

Meanwhile, Andy McCarthy credits Operation Chaos.

ANOTHER UPDATE: It's IowaHawk's world; Hillary is just living in it. Or maybe it's Michelle's.

ANOTHER BIG DVD SALE at Amazon. I wonder if we're going to see a general decline in standard DVD prices in response to Blu-Ray's ascendance?

NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT OUR SUN, in terms of characteristics needed for life.

MCCAIN'S SHORT LIST FOR VP: Shockingly, Bill Frist is omitted.

REVIEWING VH1's SERIES, Sex: The Revolution. "What if documentary-makers aimed the camera at fewer celebrity has-beens – instead giving scholars a chance to talk? The result would be a very counterintuitive picture of life before the sexual revolution."

I haven't seen the VH1 show, but I highly recommend Gay Talese's history of the sexual revolution, Thy Neighbor's Wife, which we read in my "Law and Sexuality" seminar, taught by Harlon Dalton. I often draw on it when teaching in Constitutional Law, because today's students don't really have any grasp of what life was like in an era without freely available porn and socially-approved consensual sex. That said, the review above is certainly right in suggesting that the conventional narrative (bad, repressed Puritans) is highly misleading.

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