CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS ON DORIS LESSING’S NOBEL: He’s pleased.

THIS IS KIND OF COOL: Shipping container architecture.

RETURN TO HSENDER, ADDRESS UNKNOWN: Hillary’s Norman Hsu refunds go astray.

LYNNE STEWART AT HOFSTRA: John Steele will be liveblogging.

DOUBLE STANDARDS ON DISSENT at George Washington University: “The President of The George Washington University, Steven Knapp , came out swinging when he thought that conservative students had hung pernicious, anti-Muslim fliers around campus. . . . So far, President Knapp has been less than enthusiastic about taking any type of disciplinary action now that liberals have been revealed to be the culprits.”

CAR LUST: Remembering the 1982 Firebird Trans-Am.

THREE WEEKS, THREE COUNTRIES, THREE PROTESTS AGAINST the U.S. Congress. New motto: “We’re not just unpopular here at home!”

DAVID CASSIDY CONFRONTS HIS PAST: A member of the InstaPundit ex-girlfriend correspondent network writes: “This is one of the funniest photos I’ve ever taken. David Cassidy was singing at the EPCOT Food and Wine Festival tonight, and a lady in the front row handed him a Tiger Beat magazine from the early 1970’s. He’s a geezer, but still adorable – there were lots of screaming women there. My husband has a conference here, and I tagged along. Chile has some really nice wines – who knew? Maybe Helen remembers David Cassidy. Heh heh.”

Helen has The Partridge Family’s Greatest Hits on CD. And I’m a big fan of Chilean wines — cheap and good.

SO THIS MEANS, LOGICALLY, THAT THOSE WHO SUPPORT THE WAR ARE MORE PATRIOTIC, RIGHT?

The Left is fond of saying that the majority of Americans don’t support the war. I guess then that as a supporter of the war that makes me a dissenter. And remember – dissent is the highest form of patriotism.

Heh.

AN UNWELCOME SURPRISE: Andrew Bolt notes another dropped ball by the media.

CAPTAIN AMERICA packs heat.

GUN-PACKING GRANNY SHOOTS HEFTY HOME INVADER clad only in his underwear.

How she got in his underwear, I’ll never know.

TOO SHY ON WI-FI? Steven Erickson emails: “Several months ago you mentioned on your website that Panera bread was offering free wi-fi. Indeed, they are and that is the sole reasons I now go there instead of Starbucks. But, Panera won’t let users run VPN, which is a pain for me given that Yale requires VPN to access library stuff. Plus, with all of the security holes in open wi-fi networks, VPN adds a greatly needed layer of security. Given how much your blog is read, perhaps a post might spur some interest in changing this policy?”

I doubt it, but good point.

UPDATE: Various readers email that they’ve used VPN successfully at Panera, and reader Bill Sommerfeld emails: “Part of the problem here is that there are a bunch of different technologies all called VPN which look kinda similar to the user but do very different things on the network. It is unfortunately not difficult for a network operator to inadvertently block one or more of these. It’s nearly impossible for a network operator to block all of them.”

SO I INSTALLED iWORK08 on my Macbook Pro, and I’ve been playing around with Pages. It’s still not my beloved WordPerfect, but I like it better than Microsoft Word. And it opens Word documents just fine — I got back the edited version of my Dick Cheney piece from the editors at the Northwestern University Law Review in Word and it opened up perfectly in Pages, with all the change-tracking and everything. (And boy are those Northwestern folks fast — they just accepted the piece a couple of weeks ago.) I’m not sure that Pages gives me quite the warm glow that Sarah Pullman experiences, but I like it!

IN THE MAIL: Daniel Solove’s The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet.

Plus, former blogger Telford Work’s new book, Ain’t Too Proud to Beg: Living Through the Lord’s Prayer.

MOVEON BACKS DOWN: “The left-leaning political advocacy group, MoveOn.org, is backing down in a flap over the use of its name in online advertisements, permitting an influential Republican senator to criticize the organization in a reelection ad on Google’s search engine. . . . Both MoveOn.org and Google late last week faced a barrage of criticism after an internet strategist for Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine complained that Google had blocked several re-election ads from the search engine’s advertising network because the ads contained the trademarked term ‘MoveOn.org’ in the text.”

This doesn’t get Google off the hook, though.

UPDATE: A reader emails:

I just notified Google that I am cutting my company’s Google advertising budget in half. The rest is in jeapordy as well because of their blatantly partisan behavior and their complicity with censorship overseas. We may not be General Motors, but if enough people say enough it will have an impact. Google is a money machine. Like all machines the greatest threat to its smooth operation is human stupidity.

I wonder if they’ll face more of this as they’re increasingly perceived as partisan.

TOM SMITH REPORTS on happenings in Lebanon.

MORE QUESTIONING THE TIMING on the Armenian genocide resolution.

HEH: Armed and dangerous grannies in Iraq.

VIDEO: Flying the Airbus 380.

UNLOCKING THE BENEFITS OF GARLIC: Anti-cancer, anti-heart-attack — and it’s yummy, too. No research yet on its purported anti-vampire benefits, though. But advice for cooks: “Many home chefs mistakenly cook garlic immediately after crushing or chopping it, added Dr. Kraus. To maximize the health benefits, you should crush the garlic at room temperature and allow it to sit for about 15 minutes. That triggers an enzyme reaction that boosts the healthy compounds in garlic.”

Should mean more sales for Garlic lovers’ cookbooks!

TNR UPDATE: It’s The Coverup That Kills You, Part 2.

GUESS WHO said it?

JOHN TIERNEY ON the evolution of gossip. I’m inclined to like any theory featuring the “Chico Marx Paradox.”

TIM WU IS WRITING ALL WEEK IN SLATE on prosecutorial discretion, tolerated lawbreaking, and related topics.