SELECTIVE FEAR OF RELIGION? Demonstrating, I guess, that it’s better to be feared than to be loved. But then, they say you always hurt the one you love . . . .

WILL NANOTECHNOLOGY MEDICINE BE AFFORDABLE? Ultimately, I think it will be dirt-cheap. How long it takes to get to “ultimately,” however, depends on a lot of policy issues.

WAS IT EVER REALLY GONE? The return of the partisan press.

HERE DUMBS the judge?

TWO WORDS THAT NEVER BELONGED TOGETHER: Remembering the Chrysler Maserati TC.

POPULAR MECHANICS’ COVER STORY this month is on the growth of the surveillance society.

And my column, entitled Watching the Watchers, talks about the importance of surveilling right back.

UPDATE: Hey, I got Slashdotted! (Bumped).

TWO CLIMATE SCIENTISTS WILL DEBATE GLOBAL WARMING on Blog Talk Radio at 3 pm Eastern/ 2 central.

THE OTHER FALLUJAH REPORTER: Michael Totten busts some journalistic malpractice.

AND HUCKABEE’S NOT EVEN PRESIDENT YET: Death Ray Replaced by Voice of God.

GUESS THE TOP THREE FINISHERS IN IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE and you can win an iPhone. So even as the country loses, you’ll win!

PRINCETON ASSAULT WAS A HOAX, according to a report in the Daily Princetonian. Another fake hate crime, I guess. Congrats to Fausta’s commenters, who smelled it first. To me, the concussion made a hoax seem unlikely, but that just proves that some people will go to great lengths, I guess.

OMNIBUSTING: A blog aimed at restoring a bit of sanity to the omnibus appropriations process.

GETTING CLOSER to Europa. Is there life under the ice?

H.E.D.G.E. — a subprime country song from Merle Hazard.

Plus, Merle Hazard meets Arthur Laffer and is moved to song.

GOOGLE: Robber barons?

CAMPAIGN PHOTOS — UNFAIR TO WOMEN? “We make high demands on women. A picture like this of a male candidate would barely register. Fred Thompson always looks this bad, and people seem to think he’s handsome.” But if Fred went from apparently smooth-skinned to wrinkly overnight, people would notice.

UPDATE: Reader Thomas S. Baker emails:

I disagree that male candidates aren’t held to a similar standard regarding their appearance. Remember all the media attention regarding John Kerry and his alleged botox injections?

I would also note that since the advent of television, we haven’t elected any bald presidents. (President Ford was bald, but not elected.).

Bad news for Thompson and McCain. Er, and Joe Biden.

HAPPILY, NO ONE WAS KILLED: Minn. man shoots cops after SWAT team kicks down wrong door. If you’re going to kick down a door, it had better be the right door.

BELL LABS IS GONE: Academia steps in.

TOM FRIEDMAN’S carbon footprint.

But it plays well with the ladies.

IN THE MAIL: Ha-Joon Chang’s Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism. You’ll never guess which blogosphere fave blurbed it.