SOME PEOPLE COMPLAINED about the Israeli body painting and Love Parade photos I linked not being work safe. So here’s a beach picture gallery by the same photographer that should be work safe anywhere outside Saudi Arabia, and maybe the offices of certain FCC Commissioners. I think, however, that you’ll find it worth your time.

THE MYSTERY LEG FROM OKLAHOMA CITY is bothering Eric Scheie.

EVAN COYNE MALONEY has added a blog to his site.

HERE’S AN ARTICLE ARGUING FOR THE PARTITION OF IRAQ: I still don’t know what I think about this, but you can read it and see what you think.

UPDATE: Jonathan Gewirtz thinks it’s a good idea.

CATHY SEIPP WRITES on junk science in the media. Breasts are involved.

UPDATE: Will Wright emails: “Two words to describe media: Anxiety pimps.” Harsh, but not without some basis in fact.

ATTENTION homesick Knoxvillians and University of Tennessee alumni: I’ve uploaded a collection of photos from campus previously shown on InstaPundit into a handy gallery on Exposure Manager. Enjoy!

NEAL BOORTZ:

I know that many of you are fond of pinning the responsibility for the new, draconian FCC on George Bush and those evil Republicans. So … this reminder. The FCC Commissioner who is pushing the hardest on all of this so-called “indecency” is Michael J. Copps. Copps is the former chief of staff to South Carolina’s Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings, a Democrat. Hollings has never been known for his defense of first amendment rights for broadcasters. Copps is a Democrat, not a Republican.

Turning this into an anti-Bush move was a major mistake for opponents of the FCC push.

JEFF JARVIS IS PROPOSING a “Citizens’ Media Association.” Sounds good to me!

JOE GANDELMAN WRITES that John Kerry is sitting on a political time bomb by not releasing his military records.

I’ve certainly heard some talk-radio people making hay out of this issue already, and I suspect that — like Howard Dean’s sealed gubernatorial documents — there’s no upside for Kerry in keeping this stuff close to the vest.

UPDATE: Zach Barbera emails: “Maybe someone over at the DNC finally figured out that the rope-a-dope has worked very well for Bush and is now trying to play the same game with Kerry’s military records.”

Could be.

DAVE CULLEN has an interesting article on the Columbine killers up over at Slate.

A WHILE BACK, I reprinted an email from a reader about problems at the CPA in Iraq. Now the Village Voice has an article based on a purported CPA internal memo that suggests that the problems are quite severe indeed. I don’t know how much credence to put in this, but it definitely deserves further inquiry ASAP, both from the press and from the Bush Administration’s higher-ups.

UPDATE: Reader Michael Midura emails:

I read the article and it’s pretty depressing. So what’s the fallout? Well, it’s a memo that’s seems to have a bunch of well-thought out solutions to serious problems facing the CPA in Iraq. Therefore, the media will ignore it.

As long as the right people pay attention, that’s okay.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Alexander Sudnik is skeptical:

Forgive me for being skeptical, but where’s the full memo? Why doesn’t the Voice print the whole thing, so we can see for ourselves what it says? Why do we have to take this reporter’s characterization of what it says?

Any decent blog would link to the whole thing. We should expect no less from the Voice. Moreover, I see that the piece is “web only” – so it’s not for a lack of space in the print version.

Good points. And it’s true — this memo may be bogus, or it may be wrong. But I want to ensure that things like this aren’t ignored, or swept under the rug.

More comments here. Meanwhile a reader who prefers to remain anonymous emails: “I don’t think the situation is an any way irretrievable, and I still think the invasion was a good idea – but if the Administration doesn’t get its act together, then that could change fast.”

UPDATE: By popular demand, they’ve put the memo on the Web in redacted form. This doesn’t prove it’s genuine, of course (not that I have any reason to doubt it), but it’s helpful to have it. No smoking guns on a first read, really — it’s consistent with a lot of things we’ve been reading on American and Iraqi blogs. That tends to suggest it’s authentic. I certainly hope, at any rate, that the Bush Administration is paying close attention.

AID AND COMFORT: Cox and Forkum slam Michael Moore for likening terrorists to Minutemen.

A PROPOSED VICTIMS’ RIGHTS AMENDMENT is coming up for a vote in the Senate, and I agree with Bruce Fein that it’s a bad idea:

To forgo the VRA is not to cherish victims’ rights less, but to venerate the brevity and accessibility of the Constitution more. Amendments are appropriate only when flexible and adaptable statutes would be insufficient to achieve a compelling objective; or, to protect discrete and insular minorities from political oppression. Neither reason obtains for the VRA.

As Fein notes, Congress has the power to do what’s necessary (if anything is necessary) by statute. This is just election-year grandstanding.

WINDS OF CHANGE has its Central Asia news summary posted.

HOWARD BASHMAN’S BLOG, “HOW APPEALING,” is now being hosted by Legal Affairs magazine, a fine publication for which I have written on a couple of occasions. Another blogger has taken the Boeing! (More on the Boeing here.)

THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING TRIAL hasn’t gotten much attention, but Clayton Cramer has been following it and he’s noticing some disturbing developments.

UPDATE: More here, in a somewhat contrary vein.

THE TAXPROF BLOG has multiple posts on Bush, Cheney, and Kerry’s tax returns. And driving in to work this morning I heard Neal Boortz talking about the Kerry Massachusetts tax issue mentioned here on Saturday and featured in the New York Post yesterday. Looks like another issue has leaped from the blogosphere to the mainstream.

THOUGH I’VE SAID IN THE PAST that the Republicans are lagging the Democrats in terms of campaign blogging, they seem to be catching up. The official Bush site is now posting morning reads: sort of their own version of The Note.

THIS IS INTERESTING:

Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, may have helped sub-Saharan African countries develop weapons in clandestine exchanges for the region’s uranium, it emerged yesterday.

Dr Khan visited Chad, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Sudan between 1998 and 2002 in the wake of selling nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea and Libya in a black-market trade exposed this year.

The disgraced scientist toured Africa with an entourage of aides and nuclear experts, indicating the network was wider than previously thought, according to an Associated Press investigation published yesterday.

I have a feeling that there’s more to this story than we’ve heard, so far.