CAN TESTOSTERONE MAKE YOU RICH?

Er, aside from Arnold, who’s an obvious case . . . .

FROM LES JONES: More flashlight-blogging.

THE SCANDAL ISN’T DEAD YET: “For three days in a row now, Barack Obama’s remarks about bitter churchgoing gun-clingers have been on the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer.”

Advice to Obama — when you’re trying to counter charges of elitism, don’t use the word “conflate.” It’s a perfectly good word, but . . . .

RAND SIMBERG NOTES the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

And here’s a piece that Dave Kopel and I wrote on the surprisingly good miniseries on that topic a few years back. And here’s an interview that’s worth your time. So is this.

TECHNOLOGY SMOOTHS THE WAY for home wind-power turbines. I’m guessing that my neighborhood association might object. But maybe not.

OOPS: “The worst moment in history to demand biofuels.”

HILLARY FACES “malignant misogyny.” But something’s missing.

JAMES JOYNER: Barack Obama is a socialist. Well, not really, after that attention-getting opener: “He’s as close to a socialist as it gets in serious contenders for the presidency; but that’s not very close. He’s part of a long movement that has adopted some of the tools of socialism in an effort to make society better, with decidedly mixed results.”

Plus, Bredesen on Obama. “Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen says he disagrees with remarks by Barack Obama that some small-town voters are bitter over their economic circumstances and ‘cling to guns and religion’ as a result.” And, thoughts on Obama and culture:

I found “Dreams From My Father” a perplexing read. For me, the most moving part is the introduction to the new edition, in which he says that he really ought to have written about his mother — as if her “dreams” have more to do with what he is. Certainly, they should. He lived with her (and her parents), and the father abandoned him. Why does his book consign her to the background? His narrative is based on the idea that his absent father represents his true identity, and I had the sense that, for some reason, he decided that the story of embracing his patrilineal racial identity would make the best story. After all, he sold the book proposal based on the excitement created by his distinction as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. The story he tells culminates with a trip to Africa as an adult to meet the many relatives who had nothing to do with his upbringing. This he presents as the ultimate homecoming. From a feminist perspective, this troubled me.

There’s talk of socialism there, too.

Also, a Bittergate roundup.

WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS: More Rezko real-estate questions for Obama.

SLOWING TUMOR GROWTH, with nanotechnology.

JAY SOLO is having a rough time. I hit the tipjar; if you’ve enjoyed his blogging (“Carnival of the Capitalists,” etc.) you may want to do so too.

CABLE-CUTTING SHIPS nabbed via satellite.

RASMUSSEN: Pennsylvania: Clinton 50% Obama 41%. They had her lead at 5% a week ago.

SOME NEWS FROM BASRA: “Three weeks after Iraqi troops swarmed into the southern city of Basra to take on armed militiamen who had overrun the streets, many residents say they feel safer and that their lives have improved. . . . Residents say the streets have been cleared of gunmen, markets have reopened, basic services have been resumed and a measure of normality has returned to the oil-rich city. An AFP correspondent said three northwestern neighbourhoods once under the firm control of the Mahdi Army militia of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr — Al-Hayaniyah, Khamsamile and Garma — are now encircled by Iraqi troops who are carrying out door-to-door searches. Two other neighbourhoods once dominated by the Mahdi Army, Al-Qiblah in the southwest and Al-Taymiyyah in the centre, have been cleared of weaponry and many people have been arrested, military officials say.” Not perfect, so far, but not the disaster we were hearing about from the media coverage of a couple of weeks ago.

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: McCain’s Speech Shows He’s a Pro-growth Populist, Like Reagan. I’d certainly like that to be true.

TEST DRIVING THE NEW HONDA PILOT: But why isn’t there a hybrid version?

CLUELESS: “Barack Obama’s San Francisco-Democrat comment last week – about how alienated working-class voters ‘cling to guns or religion’ – is already famous. But the fact that his aides tell reporters he is privately bewildered that anybody took offense is even more remarkable.”

NOT AS DUMB AS THE VACCINE THING, BUT STILL DUMB: McCain backs shield law for journalists. Funny how the “Free Flow of Information Act” is about letting people keep secrets.

My thoughts on the general subject are here.

THIS WEEK’S GRAND ROUNDS IS UP! And so is the latest Blawg Review!

IN THE MAIL: Doug Feith’s War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism. Apparently the war is being refought with even greater ferocity in the reader-review section . . . .

BILL BRADLEY GOES DEEP INSIDE “BITTERGATE:”

It’s one of the great ironies of the campaign. The resolutely pro-Obama Huffington Post, the site Barack Obama chose last month to put out his statement on Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s outrageous comments, this month is the source of one of his biggest campaign crises. Its namesake co-owner, the conservative-turned-liberal commentator profiled recently in the New York Times as “Citizen Huff,” Arianna Huffington, was on David Geffen’s yacht in Tahiti when the deal went down.

Read the whole thing.

YEAH, THIS’LL HELP THEIR P.R. PROBLEM: “Bristling at criticism in the run-up to the Summer Olympics, China is lashing back at its foreign critics — by name.” Personally, I think Nancy Pelosi’s criticism was dead-on.

HOW TO GET enough Vitamin D.

RENT-TO-OWN UNIONISM.

IS IT WRONG TO TAKE A NAP AT WORK? I hope not.