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HOW TO MAKE HUNTING POLITICALLY CORRECT: Call yourself a committed locavore.

LINDA ELLERBEE AND SEX: Bad marketing? “I wouldn’t want my kids to learn the facts of life from Linda Ellerbee.”

UPDATE: Reader Gerald Dearing sees an upside: “Linda Ellerbee teaching kids the facts of life? Could lead to a resurgence of abstinence!!!”

MORE: Reader Chuck Pelto emails: “Another reason to kill your television.”

RON PAUL: Bad for both parties? One can only hope . . . .

THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED, sadistic minions of the state would torture those who got out of line with cruel electric shocks. And they were right!

A state report identifies multiple failures by staff members of a group home that allowed two emotionally disturbed teenagers to be given dozens of electrical shocks at the direction of a caller posing as a supervisor.
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The report says none of the six staff members in a Stoughton residence run by the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center on the night of Aug. 26 acted to stop the harrowing events for three hours, despite ample reasons to doubt the validity of the caller’s instructions to wake the boys in the middle of the night and administer painful shock treatments, at times while their arms and legs were bound.

I blame Dick Cheney and the neocons.

OH, GOOD, MORE NANNY-STATERS IN THE RACE: Bloomberg & Hagel talking about a third-party run? Hagel’s got no GOP support, and Bloomberg is just Rudy Giuliani without Rudy’s virtues. I can’t imagine that they’d pull many Republican votes — my guess is they’d hurt the Democrats more, but I think that they’re unlikely to catch fire with very many people regardless, as neither has much in the way of charisma.

UPDATE: TigerHawk: “Good news for the Republicans, I would say. In particular, the regular running of advertisements with Hagel’s profoundly incorrect predictions about ‘the surge’ (‘This is a dangerously wrong-headed strategy that will drive America deeper into an unwinnable swamp at a great cost… We cannot escape the reality that there will be no military solution in Iraq’) should both interdict Republican defections to Bloomberg and promote Democratic ones.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: The Hagel kiss of death?

TANCREDO DROPS OUT, endorses Romney.

MORE ON GROWTH AND STAGNATION among lawprof blogs.

WHAT BILL CLINTON AND VLADIMIR PUTIN have in common. An amusing pair of photos.

Plus, who knew that Putin was so literary?

UPDATE: More on Putin here.

MOVING THE GOALPOSTS? I think this is rather unfair to the netroots crowd.

COINCIDENCE? We talk to Huckabee, he surges in the polls. We talk to McCain, he surges in the polls. Rudy, Fred, what are you waiting for?

UPDATE: An emailer asks, what about Mitt? We interviewed him just about a year ago.

IRAQ ELECTRICAL POWER hits postwar high.

Much more here, courtesy of Michael Yon.

WHERE DO I ORDER ONE? Toshiba’s home nuclear reactor.

UPDATE: Reader M. Simon says he can’t find any confirmation from Toshiba, and suggests that this is a hoax. Too bad, if so.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Dave Moelling emails: “The Toshiba mini reactor is for real. They’ve been having some discussions with remote towns in Alaska. It’s an updated version of the old Army mobile reactors from the 1950’s that were used in Greenland and Antarctica. The idea is to have a very stable, safe plant with a very long life without refueling. The real market is future industrial applications.”

And reader Thomas Wunderlin of Arctic Green Energy writes: “This is decidedly not a hoax. The first installation is slated for Alaska. Here are a couple of links:” Link 1, Link 2.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Matt Szekely sends this 2005 New York Times report.

AND THAT’S EVEN WITHOUT COUNTING THE SPEARS FAMILY: U.S. fertility rate on upswing.

THE TWO MANOLOS are getting along better than the two Roger Simons.

DON SURBER SPOTS a genuine Iraq quagmire.

CLINTON LAUNCHES Obama attack websites.

SCALIA LECTURES EUROPEANS on jurisprudence.

ANN ALTHOUSE ON THE NEW HILLARY AD: “Isn’t this like when you get presents from family members and you know they charged it on your credit card?”

HOWARD KURTZ: “Just back from Iowa, and I’ve got a theory about why Hillary Clinton has been having a difficult time. It’s because she is the issue.” Plus, an Al Gore / Hillary comparison.

THE JAMIE LYNN SPEARS STORY occasions a look at statutory rape law. I agree that the laws in that area offer great potential for injustice.

ROGER SIMON ON ROGER SIMON: “Having viewed the video, I can say this: I don’t know what the hell the other Roger Simon was talking about.”

CHRIS CUOMO on America’s “inherent racism.” (Via Extreme Mortman.)

IN THE MAIL: Roy Gutman’s How We Missed the Story: Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban and the Hijacking of Afghanistan. Looks interesting.

WATCH OUT, POLITICO: Bob Owens is on the case.