FURTHER THOUGHTS ON health care and bureaucracy in Britain. My earlier tar-and-feathers observation still holds.

REVOLUTIONARY ENERGY STORAGE? Well, I certainly hope that this stuff performs as promised.

THOUGHTS ON stopping mass killings.

RON ROSENBAUM worries about accidental nuclear war. Now I’m worried, too.

DID BANKRUPTCY “REFORM” touch off the mortgage bubble?

I MENTIONED THE BRITISH TRADITION OF TAR AND FEATHERS yesterday, but I had no idea that it was still alive. This part seems key: “The community responded in the way it did because it had no confidence in the police.”

ANOTHER (RELATIVELY) POSITIVE PIECE ON IRAQ, in The New York Times.

MUCH MORE on the Goose Creek indictments.

ALL THAT IS OLD is new again: Some thoughts on the Clinton campaign-donation brouhaha.

MICHAEL YON has posted a new dispatch from Iraq.

THOSE “CHRISTIANISTS” ARE EVERYWHERE! Guess who said this: “Iowa, for good reason, for constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord should be the first caucus and primary.” Hint: Not Pat Robertson. (Via Say Anything).

UPDATE: Best line from the comments at Say Anything: “Is this heaven?” “No, it’s Iowa.”

HURRICANE FELIX hits Central America.

IN THE MAIL: Sgt. David Bellavia’s Fallujah memoir, House to House. Follow the link to see how the Publisher’s Weekly reviewer delicately holds his/her nose at the thought of pro-military sentiments. And note the non-nose-holding blurbs by Bing West, Tom Ricks, etc.

THOUGHTS ON older men and younger women.

A FOILED AL QAEDA PLOT in Denmark. “Police report that the men had been under surveillance for quite some time. They had begun producing an ‘unstable explosive’ in a densely-populated area in preparation for an attack. They had lived in immigrant neighborhoods, but six of the eight have Danish citizenship.”

A PETITION TO STAND BY THE SURGE.

Sorry — had the petition embedded but it was cutting off the rest of my page for some reason. Just follow the link.

IT’S A QUAGMIRE: Dispatches from the war on drugs.

NANO MEMORY: 30,000 movies and nothing on. But they’re in HD, and they fit in your pocket!

FIGHT OR SURRENDER?

POTEMKIN JOURNALISM: “The story line is clear.” It always is.

WASHINGTON STATE THINKING OF regulating campaign speech by blogs.

THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY sponsored a lengthy and sometimes heated debate on the Second Amendment in which I played a small part.

And here’s a bit of commentary.

MORE ON THE CONTINUING dustup at Dartmouth.

MEDBOTS POWERED BY heart muscle tissue. Bring it on.

“HSU-ICIDE?” I’m happy that people are managing to come up with names for this scandal that don’t involve the suffix “-gate.”