RON COLEMAN:

“Never again” is the Big Lie of the second half of the twentieth century.

I’m afraid he’s right.

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE HAS THOUGHTS on ideology and fictional evil.

OOPS. I WAS WORKING on a law review article and completely forgot about the YouTube debate. Too busy thinking about the Dormant Commerce Clause.

But Ann Althouse and Stephen Green have been liveblogging it.

I hear that an effort by terrorists to slip in this video was frustrated by alert CNN security. All America thanks them.

GLOBAL WARMING UPDATE: A show of hands on who took a private jet to the debate: Allah has lots more.

And Ryan Sager is liveblogging, too.

MORE: Okay, I didn’t see the whole thing but it was pretty good – except for the candidates’ YouTube efforts, which were predictably lame. Probably the best debate so far, though some will say that’s damning with faint praise.

And Dan Riehl emails: “Don’t know if maybe I missed some, but every lib blog I visited had a CNN ad up. Understandable, but I wonder if we’ll see ads on right side blogs on Sept 17 when they host the R’s?”

I guess we’ll find out.

STILL MORE: Ryan Sager posts some afterthoughts. He posts “Biggest Gaffes” and “Brightest Moments” — here’s one:

Biden’s obnoxious response when he insulted the gun owner toward the end as being nuts. It wasn’t so much a personal gaffe as a moment that projected an ugly image of the Democratic Party as out of touch with rural voters and gun owners — big problems the party has been trying to overcome. He got a huge cheer from the audience, but that just compounded the problem.

Yep. Plus, a Giuliani prediction comes true! Oh, and Dave Weigel was liveblogging it too. This link goes to his wrapup, scroll down from there for more.

STILL MORE: Biden’s remarks are not playing well among gun owners, and Bill Richardson is suffering some collateral damage, too.

I JUST FOUND OUT THAT MIKE HENDRIX’S WIFE CHRISTIANA died in a motorcycle accident Friday. Please send your condolences and best wishes. Words are completely inadequate in these situations, but they’re also essential.

CRITICIZE ‘EM ALL YOU WANT, but with the natural predators mostly out of action, maybe SUVs are all we’ve got: “The crash killed the bear and totaled the SUV. The driver, Dwight Hart of Knoxville, and his passengers weren’t hurt.”

Or maybe it’s the bears helping to keep the SUV population under control . . ..

Anyway, both seem to have a gluttonous appetite for fuel.

THE WORLD’S TALLEST horse?

SOME GOOD Internet news.

HARRY REID’S ANTI-REFORM MANEUVERS. (Via Bill Allison).

STEPHEN GREEN WILL BE LIVE-DRUNK-BLOGGING the YouTube debate tonight at Pajamas Media. Meanwhile, he’s posted a couple of debate questions of his own at VodkaPundit.

TOO MUCH nasty rhetoric. I agree.

UPDATE: More background here.

TRAPPED IN CAMELOT: Ed Driscoll looks at James Piereson’s Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism.

SIGNS OF PROGRESS IN FRANCE:

Indeed, the idea of admitting one’s wealth, once considered déclassé, is becoming more acceptable. . . .

“We are seeing an important cultural change,” said Eric Chaney, chief economist for Europe for Morgan Stanley. “Working families in France want to be richer. Wealth is no longer a taboo. There’s a strong sentiment in France that people think prices are too high and need more money. It’s not a question of thinking or not thinking.”

Small steps.

“INFANTILIZATION OF ADULTS:” Another reason to return the drinking age to 18.

HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN ETHANOL, though with a warning that it’s dangerous and illegal. But you’ve got to take some risks if you want to save the planet . . . .

MORE CALLING OF BULLSHIT. Really, all this demonstrates is that they’ve got nothing — kind of like trying to float the “Fred Thompson is gay” rumors.

UPDATE: Even the choirboy-like Bill Quick thinks that Giuliani’s choice of language is unimportant!

JULES CRITTENDEN on war and psychology.

SO YESTERDAY’S JOKING REFERENCE to this book now has Amazon recommending The Hedonist: World Sex Guide – Single Male Erotic Vacations in Rio, Costa Rica, Thailand, Carribean and much more. I’m afraid I’m not actually their target market, though. My advice to those who are: Use a rubber.

UPDATE: In response to yesterday’s post, John Podhoretz emails: “Gee, thanks: because of you, I had to explain to my wife why I was shopping for a book on escort services on Amazon.”

AN IMPORTANT ACTION ALERT ON DEALING WITH HIGH OZONE LEVELS: “Protect yourself and your family by buying as many cans of Aqua Net as you can find, and spraying them into the sky to dispel the ozone. If you have any old freezers or AC units, crack them open and let the Freon out. Every bit helps.” Grassroots environmental activism gets more and more confusing. . . .

ROGER SIMON offers the final word on the Kos / JetBlue / Bill O’Reilly dustup.

PLUGIN HYBRID school buses. Seems like a good early application.

Plus, converting carbon emissions into biofuel? Hmm.

CHINA ADDRESSES ITS Muslim insurgency.

THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR BLOGGER: She’s cuter than me.

UPDATE: She’s also a fake. For shame.

WELL, YOUR HONOR, I WAS TRYIN’ TO CONCEAL IT: Contempt of Congress, the American pastime? (With apologies to Mae West).

WELFARE FOR DEAD FARMERS: “Farm subsidies are a disaster.”