THE RUSSIAN MOB goes after SovTek: Preston Taylor Holmes objects: “What’s at stake? Warm, yet crunchy, distortion.”

NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT HERE: “Two Saudi men were held without bond Sunday after they were arrested for boarding a school bus full of children, authorities said.”

UPDATE: Yeah, CAIR’s defending them. That’s reason enough for suspicion. . . .

THE BLOGGER FORMERLY KNOWN AS SKBUBBA defends a higher minimum wage in the Knoxville News-Sentinel.

A “HATEFUL ANTI-WAR SPEECH” by Rep. Lacy Clay (D-MO) at a University of Missouri graduation provokes a near-riot, according to Gateway Pundit, who has a report and audio. Seems to illustrate the point made in this WSJ editorial about the Democrats’ penchant for self-marginalization and self-destruction: “We doubt all of this will help Democrats with the larger electorate, which whatever its doubts about Iraq does not want a precipitous surrender. Americans haven’t trusted a liberal Democrat with the White House during wartime since Vietnam, which is when the seeds of the current antiwar rage were planted. The great mistake that leading Democrats and anti-Communist liberals made during Vietnam was not speaking up against a left that was demanding retreat and sneering at our war heroes. Will any Democrat speak up now?”

IOWA VOICE HAS HAD IT with the culture of corruption in Washington.

YUGOSLAVIA IS OVER, and Publius looks at the shape of things to come.

SETH ROBERTS’ SHANGRI-LA DIET gets a rather negative review from Dr. John Ford. You can hear our podcast interview with Roberts, in which he responds to some of my skepticism, here.

ARMY OF DAVIDS UPDATE: This is cool:

The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) reports the discovery of an extra-solar planet called XO-1b, which orbits a dim star in Corona Borealis every 4 days. To find it, the brightness of several thousand stars were regularly scanned using two mini-telescopes in Hawaii. This equipment was built using commercial hardware: two digital cameras, attached to telephoto camera lenses on a robotic equatorial mount. A team of amateur astronomers helped with their own equipment to discard or confirm dozens of suspected transits.

Somebody should write a book about stuff like this.

ERIC S. RAYMOND receives a Jihadist death threat. There are certain sections of the blogosphere that I would not advise them to invade. Eric’s is one of them . . . .