OUTLAWING INCANDESCENT LIGHT BULBS, in Australia. I like compact fluorescents, but this is a bit extreme.

THOUGHTS ON THE POLLS and Murtha’s “slow bleed” strategy. Plus, Lilliputians on Capitol Hill.

SANDY BERGER UPDATE: Things just keep looking worse:

The commission’s former general counsel, Dan Marcus, now an American University law professor, separately expressed surprise at how little the Justice Department told the commission about Berger and said it was “a little unnerving” to learn from the congressional report exactly what Berger reviewed at the Archives and what he admitted to the FBI — including that he removed and cut up three copies of a classified memo.

“If he took papers out, these were unique records, and highly, highly classified. Had a document not been produced, who would have known?” Brachfeld said in an interview. “I thought [the 9/11 Commission] should know, in current time — in judging Sandy Berger as a witness . . . that there was a risk they did not get the full production of records.”

I don’t think we’ve gotten to the bottom of this story yet.

EUGENE VOLOKH on Paul Campos.

Related item here.

MICHAEL DEMMONS thinks that gay people should support the fair tax, as it makes the tax aspects of the marriage issue moot.

JOHN SCALZI’S THE LAST COLONY gets a very positive review from Professor Bainbridge, though with one complaint: “More than once, a new John Scalzi book has done terrible things to my productivity. Thank God for tenure.”

ISRAEL: The greatest threat to world peace? I’d say not so much.

MORE BECLOWNING.

DR. SANITY ON denial and outrage on the left.

MORE AL GORE CONTRADICTIONS on Iraq.

SOME INTERESTING POLLING ON IRAQ: Apparently, most Americans still want to win.

JOHN TIERNEY brings back some good news from the AAAS meeting.

A WORLD WITHOUT AMERICA: An interesting ad at 18 Doughty Street.

IF YOU’VE BEEN HAVING TROUBLE WITH PERMALINKS ON MY PAGE not being stable, it’s nothing I’m doing. We’re trying to figure it out. It seems to have started with the Movable Type upgrade, and it seems to be getting worse. Anybody know what causes this?

UPDATE: Oh noooo — it’s spreading!

BILL ARDOLINO interviews Iraqi soldiers: “Tell the American people we need the U.S. Army here.”

TERRY MORAN: “Is Giuliani ‘White Enough’?”

A MESSAGE TO REPUBLICANS from the modern world.

AMERICANS more likely to elect a homosexual than an atheist President.

DOC SEARLS has more thoughts on the XM / Sirius merger.

D.C. CIRCUIT ON DETAINEES: “Today a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that federal courts lack jurisdiction over the habeas corpus petitions filed by Guantanamo detainees.”

IS P.M.S. A TOOL FOR PERPETUATING MALE SUPERIORITY? The article, by my colleague Becky Jacobs, looks the use of PMS as a defense by female defendants, and in employment-discrimination and disability claims, and suggests that this tends to reinforce