AIRBRUSHING AT THE BBC: We’ve seen this sort of thing before.

It’s good to fix errors, and you don’t have to leave an audit trail for the minor ones. But this wasn’t minor.

THE EUROSCANDALS just keep rolling on:

The work was nepotistically handed out and the money siphoned into slush funds.

The MEPs say it proves that the scandal continued during the years that this commission was in place.

This was a commission which pledged to scrub itself with the financial stains that had adhered to its predecessor.

Furthermore, say the MEPs, it is now clear that the bad practice extended beyond Eurostat and into other parts of the commission.

No surprise, there.

STEFAN SHARKANSKY says that there’s more outright dishonesty from Molly Ivins.

ANOTHER ADVANTAGE OF PERVASIVE WIRELESS: You can blog, research, and upload columns from locations like this!

For Knoxville expats and UT alumni, here are a couple of other pictures.

HOW ADVANCED CAN A TECHNOLOGICAL CIVILIZATION BE? Jay Manifold has an interesting post.

BACK TO THE MOON? Thoughts at GlennReynolds.com.

I HAVEN’T DONE MUCH on judicial-confirmation battles — beyond suggesting a “recess appointment” of David Bernstein to the Court of Appeals — but Nat Hentoff says that what’s going on is over the line. It’s strong stuff.

In a (somewhat) related vein, read this post by Eric Muller on Lochner.

NEWSMAN AND BLOGBOY: Now there’s a Dynamic Duo for the 21st Century.

No spandex outfits, fortunately.

NATIONAL AMMO DAY is coming up. Is it that time of year again already? My how time does fly. . . .

“WILL THERE BE GIANT PUPPETS? ‘Cause I’m only going if there are giant puppets.”

“THEY DIDN’T STEAL THE MONEY” — read this post from Sofia Sideshow, which points out something that I took for granted, and notes that it’s nothing to take for granted:

Alright, I re-read both articles, looking for mention of the single most obvious facet of the story. Something most Americans don’t even think about. Indeed, Glenn didn’t pick it up, and the Globe and Mail didn’t pick it up, although it’s right there, the single-most lauded aspect, and we Americans missed it totally. I’ll bet 99% of Americans who read the articles missed it.

They didn’t steal the money.

You remember the film “Three Kings,” where disaffected angst-ridden grunts went off on their own in search of gold? I mean, they were stuck there in some sort of ‘war,’ and the crisis they face is whether to help the citizens or succumb to greed. It was very 90’s, and brilliant and all that?

Let’s repeat this: A squad found tons of money lying around…they started to spend it…on others…without orders.

They didn’t steal the money!

You think they’ll make a movie of that?

Their honesty is simply taken for granted. It shouldn’t be. It’s not how the rest of the world works.

What they did is both outrageous and thoroughly American.

So is not realizing it.

That’s me. Outrageous, and thoroughly American. Because I didn’t realize it.

HOW IRAQ-SUPPORT POLLS ARE BEING SPUN, and much, much more, over at The Volokh Conspiracy, where new conspirator Cori Dauber is blogging up a storm. I’m kind of busy (I’ve been on a grade-a-thon this weekend), so you might as well head over there. Back later.

Excerpt on the poll issue:

This, it strikes me, is just another way to make it appear that crashing support for Iraq may be inevitable when in fact that is far from the truth since the same poll shows that when asked if they would support continuing the mission in Iraq to the end — even if it means continued military casualties — they say yes by about twenty points.

Hmm. I didn’t notice that in the headlines. Maybe I missed it. . . .

Don’t miss this post on ongoing French perfidy, from Belgravia Dispatch, either. Are the French waging proxy war against us? It’s not clear, but I’d have to say the answer is looking like “yes.”

UPDATE: Read this, too.

HERE’S AN INTERESTING BACK AND FORTH AMONG LIBERAL BLOGGERS on the war.