DESPITE THEIR DIFFERENCES, GETTING ALONG BETTER THAN JAMES CARVILLE AND MARY MATALIN: The latest Corn & Miniter Show is up!

IN THE MAIL: Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson’s Beyond the Body Farm: A Legendary Bone Detective Explores Murders, Mysteries, and the Revolution in Forensic Science.

Our podcast interview with Bass & Jefferson can be heard here.

THOUGHTS ON THELMA & LOUISE and the 1990s.

UPDATE: I like the idea in the comments, for a sequel starring IowaHawk.

HARRY REID: “Frustrated Dems will keep pushing for end to Iraq war.” But not hard enough to actually succeed in ending it, because then they might be held responsible.

HOW WOULD THINGS LOOK, if moms ran the world?

JONAH GOLDBERG LOOKS AT DAN RATHER’S LAWSUIT against CBS. And finds it hard not to giggle.

Maybe Rather could get a job as a New Republic Diarist?

DO DO THAT VOODOO THAT HSU DO SO WELL:

Hsu admitted coercing political donors, indictment says

Norman Hsu, the Democratic fund-raiser with a habit of fleeing the law, confessed to FBI agents last week that he pressured investors in what he now admits were phony business deals to contribute to political campaigns, prosecutors said in an indictment.

The plot keeps thickening.

COASE, CLOTHESLINES, AND CLIMATE CHANGE: That would be a cool title for a law review article, too.

LESSONS FROM JENA.

UPDATE: More thoughts here. And read this post, too.

ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC DEBATE LAST NIGHT: Somehow I missed it entirely. Luckily, Jim Geraghty gets paid to keep track.

THE TOUGHEST GUY WITH NO ARMS I’ve ever heard of. “Snelville, Georgia police are investigating whether William Russell Redfern, who has no arms, may have caused the death of his neighbor after head-butting and kicking him in a fight.”

MORE TALK OF A BREAKUP in Belgium. “With the headquarters of both NATO and the European Union in Brussels, the crisis is not limited to this country because it could embolden other European separatist movements, among them the Basques, the Lombards and the Catalans.”

ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE: Alan Greenspan was saying that he wished the Bush Administration had been more like the Ford Administration economically, and now we get this: Canadian Dollar Trades Equal to U.S. for First Time Since 1976.

U.S. RESUMES Blackwater convoys in Iraq.

NORMAN HSU VS. OPRAH WINFREY: Maybe one big difference is that one was a fugitive felon with no visible means of support? The Los Angeles Times editorial kind of underplays the significance of that distinction.

GOOD QUESTION: “I have a question for the Columbia crowd, since Holocaust deniers are welcome, would you allow a speaker in favor of a return to black slavery? I hope not. Well, that’s how I feel about Holocaust deniers. What are the speaker rules at Columbia? Does anybody know? How far can you go?”

As far as you want, but only so long as the message is sufficiently anti-Bush.

UPDATE: Columbia won’t cancel Ahmadinejad speech. Their concern for the free exchange of ideas seems a bit . . . selective.

SECRETLY TAPING TED: “The FBI, working with an Alaska oil contractor, secretly taped telephone calls with Sen. Ted Stevens as part of a public corruption sting, according to people close to the investigation. The secret recordings suggest the Justice Department was eyeing Stevens long before June, when the Republican senator first publicly acknowledged he was under scrutiny. At that time, it appeared Stevens was a new focus in a case that had already ensnared several state lawmakers.”

The GOP really needs to encourage him to take early retirement, but I doubt it has the will.

A LAPTOP WITH 640GB of storage.

MORE ON MURTHA and the Marines.

REALCLEARPOLITICS now has its own political futures market.

BLAUPUNKT: Too hip for CDs?

KATHLEEN PARKER: “The latest smack-down of former Harvard President Lawrence Summers should extinguish any remaining doubt that political correctness is the new McCarthyism.”

MARC AMBINDER: Obama’s campaign brings in a consigliere.

AL QAEDA’S SECRET WAR with itself.

A NORMAN HSUPDATE: “U.S. Attorney Outlines Hsu’s Alleged Fraud Scheme; Sen. Clinton Distancing Herself From Sticky Situation.”