ELI LAKE OFFERS ADVICE TO THE NETROOTS ON IRAQ, on BloggingHeads TV. It’s also interesting to hear about Al Qaeda’s blunders in tribal politics.

FROM MAX BOOT: An Iraq to-do list.

A STEP FORWARD FOR CIVIL RIGHTS in Missouri.

JAMES LILEKS PRESENTS the happiest Bleat on Earth! Excerpt: “You get a big plate of eggs, bacon, potatoes and sausages, plus tiny Belgian waffles shaped like you-know-who. This is what it means to be an American: pouring syrup on Mickey’s head and eating him. It’s secular communion. And it’s delicious!”

GREENHOUSE UPDATE: “Scientists Back Off Theory of a Colder Europe in a Warming World.”

U.S. ATTORNEYS and voter fraud.

CHENEY CRITICIZES the Pelosi plan.

SOME INTERESTING ADDITIONS to the professoriate.

MORE LITIGATION NEWS for the DNC.

BLOOMBERG WANTS TO RUN AS A THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE?

What will his slogan be? “More nannyish than both major parties put together?”

Or maybe: “Making America like Singapore, only more so?”

UPDATE: With Chuck Hagel as a running mate? What a ticket. Where will they put all the surplus charisma?

MORE: Further thoughts from Don Surber: “Bloomberg is making Donald Trump seem modest.”

Big Bloomberg roundup here.

FIRE AND BRIMSTONE at Vanity Fair.

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE craters in Illinois.

SCIENCE FICTION WRITER CHARLES STROSS looks at the future.

You might like his book, Accelerando, which looks at some of these themes. Of course the hero of his novel Iron Sunrise is actually a warblogger.

DEPUTY A.G. PAUL MCNULTY RESIGNS, “citing the financial pressures of having children entering their college years.”

SHARPTON VS. HITCHENS: Andy Bowers has the video.

A LOOK AT RELIGION AND THE FORT DIX SIX.

A LOOK AT GEOENGINEERING AS A SOLUTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE, with a bit more background here.

I’d say — in fact, I’ve already said, that this is something that we should think about, but that we should be slow to deploy these technologies unless there’s an immediate crisis. We simply don’t understand climate mechanisms, or climate change, sufficiently to engage in major interventions at this point.

A COMPARISON OF U.S. DEATHS in Vietnam and Iraq.

A graph of unfavorable news reports, however, would show much greater parity.

REPUBLICANS DEBATE GIULIANI: Or, in some cases, not. Plus, a poll!

GLOBAL WARMING UPDATE: “I keep reading about how hybrid cars and compact fluorescent lightbulbs can reduce the production of greenhouse gases, but I have yet to see an article about the savings that could be achieved if we were to stop delivery of newspapers and magazines and do all of our news reading on line.”

LASHAWN BARBER LOOKS AT MEDIA COVERAGE of the ugly murder-rape case from Knoxville that I mentioned a while back. My earlier comment on the case has had me excoriated by some white-supremacist sites for covering up a hate crime.

Well, to be a hate crime, the motivation has to be hate. I haven’t seen any evidence of that so far. It’s certainly true, of course — as LaShawn notes — that if the races were reversed the press would be all over this case and lots of people would be confidently pronouncing it a hate crime without any evidence other than the races of the perpretrators and victims, but since it’s black-on-white crime they’re making less noise. That’s the press.

MAKING THE CASE FOR RUDY, at The Club for Growth. (Via Liz Mair).

I’VE LINKED TO DPREVIEW as a source of camera reviews many times. Now Amazon’s bought ’em.

THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE REELECTED, freedom of speech would be on the way out. And they were right.

IRAN IN IRAQ and Iraq in Iran.