THE TROUBLE WITH NEWSPAPERS. It’s not technological.

BRIDGE BLOGGING IN TENNESSEE: (Via Michael Silence.)

A NEW NAME for John Edwards.

ARMED ROBOTS ON PATROL in Iraq.

BUSH 24, CONGRESS 3.

CNBC OFFERS A REPORT CARD on the new Congress so far.

A LOOK AT NEXT-GENERATION consumer class actions.

A LOOK AT men, women, and wages.

EGG ON THE NEW REPUBLIC’S FACE: Roundup here.

UPDATE: Another roundup here.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Still more here and here.

A FLYING CAR! Well, kind of.

$150 MILLION IN earmarks for John Murtha.

JAMES LILEKS: “This is the point in the story where we start to debate what’s news, and what’s just disaster-pr0n.”

UPDATE: I blame Kevin Bacon.

SONY IS RECALLING the Cybershot DSC-T5. I have the DSC-T10, which is apparently unaffected. I think it does a good job.

MICKEY KAUS: “Keeping recipients on the dole while they ‘train’ for jobs they never get is a time-tested way of … well, keeping recipients on the dole.”

CHAOS IN THE HOUSE: A “complete breakdown of parliamentary procedure.”

UPDATE: More: “They just replayed the whole mess from the House last night on C-Span. I spoke to Novak and he doesn’t remember anything quite like this happening before. Pretty outrageous, really. It is about as blatant an abuse of power as you can have in a legislative body, to cheat on a vote total.” They may look back on that 14% approval rating as a high of sorts, at this rate.

THOUGHTS ON NEWSPAPER ENDORSEMENTS, from Michael Silence.

JONAH GOLDBERG: “It’s a small paradox of the war in Iraq. As support for the war inches up (according to a New York Times poll that so shocked the editors they demanded it be retaken), as the surge proves ever more encouraging and as Gen. David Petraeus’s confidence grows, enthusiasm for the democracy project in Iraq wanes.”

UPDATE: Reader Stan Brown says everyone is missing the point. Click “read more” for his argument.

EUGENE VOLOKH HAS MORE THOUGHTS on religion and parental rights.

MARKOS: “We are the center!”

UPDATE: Remembering 2002, somewhat strangely.

MEGAN MCARDLE: “Current progressive support for aborting babies with congenital birth defects has very little in common with the philosophic basis for eugenics; the progressives aren’t trying to clean up the gene pool.”

THE NEW YORK TIMES: “Caps on Prices Only Deepen Zimbabweans’ Misery.”

Well, that’s what price controls usually do.

POLLING: SURGE SUCCESS splits Dems.

GUY HERBERT LOOKS AT “governmentalism” in Britain.

PHIL CARTER SAYS don’t believe the good news from Iraq.

But is Baqubah really a place with “the highest sectarian tensions, worst fighting, and least progress”? That’s not what Michael Yon has been reporting from . . . Baqubah.

UPDATE: More thoughts here.

TAHOE HOMEOWNERS FACE BEAR INVASIONS: Once again, David Baron proves prophetic. Some related thoughts here.