REVOLUTIONIZING DIAGNOSTICS, with nanotechnology.

JAMES LILEKS ON THE BOON OF AMERICA -- plus, advice for Chairman Bob.

A PROFILE OF LOWELL CUNNINGHAM, Knoxvillian and Men in Black creator.

A "SUPER-CRAPPY PLAN:"

I do not believe you’re going to teach anyone a “lesson” by sitting this one out or writing in Fred Thompson or Sunny Lucas. I believe that way too many people are ignoring the forest for the trees and that in doing so, they’re going to have a hand in electing Obama. Some say that’s fine because if the country’s going to be “ruined”, better that it’s ruined by a Democrat, and somehow magically we’ll come up with a fantastic, “real” conservative in 4 years even though there is no one like that on the horizon and everyone knows it. Like I said, I think that’s a super-crappy plan.

More on this theme at the link, from Rachel Lucas. (Via the Insta-Wife ).

JASON VAN STEENWYK: An open letter to David Carr of the New York Times .

UPDATE: Thoughts on the media's Iraq narrative.

WELL, HE'S RIGHT:

Kids actually understand robotics in an amazing way. If NASA said they were going to land monster robots on Mars and crash them into each other we would have a huge pool of kids who were interested in science and engineering."

That's Obama advisor Steve Robinson, quoted in the (print only) May 19 Space News. The next President should bring in Conn Iggulden, along with Andrea Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz as consultants.

ILYA SOMIN explains why Robert Bork is wrong.

UPDATE: But Obama gets it!

FRONTLINE; Mexico: Crimes at the Border.

I'VE MENTIONED Doug Feith's new book on Iraq before. Now he's got a piece in the Wall Street Journal on the selling of the war. I don't think the shift in emphasis was as stunning as he makes it sound, though -- in fact, back before the war people were criticizing Bush for talking about promoting democracy. Nonetheless, he's right that the Bush Administration should have engaged in more pushback on the WMD question. Read this, too.

ANN ALTHOUSE DOESN'T LIKE HER KINDLE.

OBAMA: Not Auschwitz, but Buchenwald. And not his uncle, but his great-uncle.

UPDATE: Apparently, he's been telling variations of this story for years.

A ROUNDUP OF all-time favorite war films.

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