IT’S HARD TO ARGUE: “Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday branded Zimbabwe’s president a ‘disgrace’ to his people and to Africa, and expressed concerns about verifying whether the country held free and fair elections.”

IN THE MAIL: Jack Bauer for President: Terrorism and Politics in 24.

CASH-FLOW MANAGEMENT at Hillary’s campaign: “Hillary Rodham Clinton’s cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months — freeing up cash for critical media buys, but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small business circles.”

PROPERTY LAW in The Lord of the Rings: “Sadly, literary critics have neglected this crucial aspect of Tolkien’s masterpiece for too long.”

GORE-MENTUM BUILDS! Senior Democrats mull Al Gore’s nomination.

UPDATE: Brendan Loy notes a snarky response: “You know you got a problem if the answer is Al Gore.”

“KILLING FIELDS” PHOTOGRAPHER Dith Pran has died.

UPDATE: A Dith Pran slideshow.

ANN ALTHOUSE LOOKS BEYOND the Obama “law professor” controversy. “So, the ‘law professor’ puffery is something on its own. Not all that much, but something. Now, consider the other 9 items, and judge for yourself whether the Clinton campaign has made its point.”

UPDATE: A reader emails disagreement: “Hey, there is a lot to Obama presenting himself early on as a Chicago law professor. It might pass as just an embellishment now, but a year ago it carried some gravitas. To this layman, anyway, being a professor meant that at some point it was a full time job. So my first take on Obama was a law professor who was also politically active, especially in less privileged areas of the community. And that was cool. And that was not true. First appearances matter. But it did help get him in the door. Now I’m watching him try and get the super duper new vacuum working on the carpet and Hilary’s outside with the encyclopedias screaming about how I should never have let him in.” Hmm. Hillary and Obama as competing door-to-door salesmen. Sounds like an I Love Lucy episode — SNL writers take note!

AN ELECTION REPORT FROM ZIMBABWE:

Lines were long at the polling stations here well before morning had unscrolled its first light. And when the doors did not open exactly at 7 a.m., voters in the impoverished township of Warren Park rushed the schoolyard gate, most of them desperate to cast a ballot to oust the man who has been president for most of their lives, Robert Mugabe. . . . Still, Mr. Mugabe is so often accused of stealing the last presidential election that many Zimbabweans scoff at the very notion of a fair vote. In 2002, reported results had challenger Morgan Tsvangirai piling up a big lead. Then, suddenly, the announcements stopped. When they resumed, hours later, Mr. Mugabe was well ahead.

At the moment, the opposition is claiming an early lead, but don’t hold your breath. But there’s lots of coverage, including reports of the various swirling rumors, at the blog This Is Zimbabwe.

UPDATE: More here: “Zimbabwe’s opposition said on Sunday it had won the most crucial election since independence, but President Robert Mugabe’s government warned premature victory claims would be seen as an attempted coup.”

THE CARNIVAL OF THE LIBERTARIANS IS UP, over at The Line is Here.

MORE ON EVENTS IN IRAQ, from Bill Roggio.

IMMIGRATION IDIOCY, from Michael Totten.

TEACHING ABOUT RESPONSIBLE DRINKING. Unsurprisingly, the bluenoses turn out to be wrong.

MOHAMMED FADHIL: Whither Sadr and the Madhi Army?

EXTREME MACHINES: Wild Wheels.

ATTACKING EPILEPSY PATIENTS via computer exploits?

The incident, possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on the victims, began Saturday, March 22, when attackers used a script to post hundreds of messages embedded with flashing animated gifs.

The attackers turned to a more effective tactic on Sunday, injecting JavaScript into some posts that redirected users’ browsers to a page with a more complex image designed to trigger seizures in both photosensitive and pattern-sensitive epileptics.

Good grief. That’s just tacky.

A CTHULHU SIGHTING in Knoxville?

BEER YOU CAN LISTEN TO! Er, or something like that. It’s Craft Beer Radio.

MORE RESVERATROL NEWS: “Mounting evidence shows red wine antioxidant kills cancer.”

Drink up!

NORM GERAS ON Zimbabwe’s “elections.”

ANGELA MERKEL will boycott the Chinese Olympics.

OBAMA’S LATEST CAMPAIGN AD. Plus, James Pethokoukis on Obama and the budget.

THADDEUS TREMAYNE RAGES AGAINST the dying of the light. From the comments: “GOOGLE was black today, in honour of the Coming Dark Age.”

But resistance, apparently, is not futile.

A BUNCH OF INTERESTING PODCASTS, at Loquitur.

BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: Michael Totten in The New York Times.

WAS OBAMA A “REAL” LAW PROFESSOR? I don’t think that this dispute will swing many votes even within the legal academy. . . .