RANKING LAWPROF BLOGS by traffic.

GRAND ROUNDS is up!

HOW TO TURN THE UNITED STATES into a “wonderland.” Who knew it was so easy?

TEMPTING THE YOUTUBE GODS, and facing their wrath.

UPDATE: David Bernstein emails: “Isn’t Obama saying ‘we can pull up [McCain’s] quotes on Youtube,’ and it’s inaccurate to say he distorted those quotes, not that it’s inaccurate to say that Obama said McCain wants us in a hundred year war?”

Hmm. I didn’t hear it that way, and neither did Politico, but that’s possible. However, as the CJR has noted, this wouldn’t really help Obama out much.

TEN PIECES OF U.S. INFRASTRUCTURE we must fix now. Alas, you don’t get to do much of a ribbon-cutting on infrastructure repairs, so they tend not to rise to the top of the list.

TIRESOME.

GO FIGURE: “Start with Barack Obama. Americans care more about him than John Yoo because, well, John Yoo isn’t running for president.”

VIDEO SHOT inside a BMW engine. Cool. “They had three complete engines shipped out to Belgium, where manifolds were cut, cylinders were shaved and lighting holes were drilled to mount special cameras, lenses and lights. After two weeks of intensive study and preparation, the team took another four, 20-hour days to film what happens inside the 420 hp mill during a single revolution. The completed spot was filmed at 10,000 frames-per-second and doesn’t utilize any form of computer-generated effects.”

MICHAEL SILENCE is evolving. I think it’s a shrewd move.

ROBERT BIDINOTTO is making trouble for Starbucks.

IN THE MAIL: Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness.

UPDATE: Oh, and just arrived — a copy of Michael Yon’s new book, Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New ‘Greatest Generation’ of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope. It’s now at the top of my list.

MCCAIN ON DEMOCRATS ON IRAQ: “Failure of Leadership.”

ABSOLUT COLLABORATION.

DON SURBER: How will senators react when Gen. David Petraeus gives them good news from Iraq today? He’s got the answer!

UPDATE: Video of Petraeus, and of McCain’s opening remarks.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Emailed from the White House, a transcript of Petraeus’s statement. Click “read more” to read it.

HILLARY: Victim of media sexism?

BUILDERS OF NATIONS: Michael Totten posts another report from Fallujah.

AFTER THIS ELECTION, A SHORTAGE OF PRESIDENTIAL PROSPECTS who have served in the military.

DELEGATE FOR OBAMA QUITS OVER REMARKS: “Barack Obama’s campaign persuaded a delegate to step down after she was ticketed for calling her neighbor’s African-American children ‘monkeys.’ . . . The only Hispanic on the board, Ramirez-Sliwinski has been a strong voice for Carpentersville’s 40 percent Hispanic population. She and Village President Bill Sarto opposed an English-only proposition and an ordinance to crack down on illegal immigrants.”

Ticketed? It doesn’t say for what.

UPDATE: Tom Maguire emails that she was ticketed for “disorderly conduct.” Seems weak to me.

VIRGINIA TECH says no to the Brady Campaign.

OOPS: “Shadow of Wright Still Hangs over Obama Campaign.”

“WHAT DO MY COLLEAGUES THINK?”

AUSTIN BAY: No, Sadr did not win. “The quick damnation of PM Maliki and the Iraqi Army’s efforts last week reveals an immense ignorance of warfare, one still rampant despite six-plus years of alleged experience; it displays not simply hasty, herd-mentality judgmentalism, but demonstrates in trump cards the sensationalist, fear-leveraging slant of most media coverage.”

Related item here. “On the political front, Sadr now finds himself completely isolated.”

UPDATE: Mahdi Army offers to lay down its arms. Plus, Top-level Iraqi Body Calls for Immediate Disarming of Militias.

TOO CORRUPT FOR THE REAL POLICE, just right for the Canadian Human Rights Commission?

WANT TO SEND A Thank-You Card to General Petraeus? Follow the link.