WELL, THIS SEEMS LIKE GOOD NEWS: Iraqi Army dismantles Mahdi Army caches in Sadr City.

Meanwhile, this seems like bogus news.

ISN'T THIS WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN? Gas prices drive changing habits. Now for some other changes.

SKIN OF microscopic thinness.

BOB SOMERBY: When journalists swoon. I've never understood how anybody who pays attention to these guys can "swoon" over any of 'em. They're politicians. I guess the kind of people prone to swoon over politicians are the kind of people prone to go into political journalism, which is probably a reason why you shouldn't take what political journalists say very seriously. . . .

THE PHOENIX HAS LANDED, on Mars.

SO WHEN I MENTIONED THIS GENERATOR ALTERNATIVE yesterday the price was 180 bucks. Now they've more than doubled it. I guess that's "dynamic pricing" at work! Or maybe we should call it "Heisenberg pricing" . . . .

ENERGY FEARS LOOMING, survivalists prepare: "These energy survivalists are not leading some sort of green revolution meant to save the planet. Many of them believe it is too late for that, seeing signs in soaring fuel and food prices and a faltering U.S. economy, and are largely focused on saving themselves." I'm all for preparedness, but this seems a bit overwrought. Some related thoughts here.

LOOKING FOR E.T.'s neutrino beam: "John Learned of the University of Hawaii and colleagues have worked out that advanced alien civilizations could send messages within the Milky Way using neutrinos, and that these messages could be picked up using neutrino detectors currently under construction here on Earth."

BOB KRUMM (now Major Bob Krumm) emails:

The New Republic has a story about Al Qaeda's diminishing movement entitled, "The Unraveling."

Meanwhile, here in Iraq, Coalition Forces have just experienced their least costly week of the entire war. There has been only one American serviceman killed in action over the last seven days. On four of those
days there wasn't even a combat-related injury.

Certainly, there are going to be more rough days ahead--especially as a cornered Al Qaeda feels the need to demonstrate that it is still a major force. But all in all, there is more good news than bad.

Seems that way.

UPDATE: TNR link was bad before. Fixed now. Sorry!

AND THIS IS WHY WE NEED NICE, CLEAN, NUCLEAR POWER: Ocean Acidification: Another Undesired Side Effect Of Fossil Fuel-burning. No word on how this will affect those underwater cemeteries . . . .

JAKE TAPPER: What the FARC was Obama talking about? "One reason why Obama may be so forgiving (even if his campaign was not) about Sen. Hillary Clinton's assassination reference? The man has been a one-man gaffe machine."

UPDATE: Speaking of FARC, apparently a lot of people were happy to talk to them.

BOB BARR WINS THE Libertarian presidential nomination. I predict he'll outperform Michael Badnarik.

UPDATE: Much more is reported by Dave Weigel, including charges of a "neocon takeover" of the Libertarian Party. Funny, Barr doesn't look neoish.

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