THE INSTAWIFE has the Sex and the City book, and has some thoughts on the movie — plus, in the comments, the cure for low testosterone!

UPDATE: Related post here.

MAKING A SACRIFICE for the greater good.

THOUGHTS ON manliness and the notion of black privilege. “Can’t we please have something that’s just ours? Please?”

Oh well, you wouldn’t understand.

BOB BARR TO STORMFRONT: Drop dead. Well, good.

I FILE A SPACE TOURISM REPORT from this year’s ISDC, over at Popular Mechanics.

TURNING A ROOMBA into Pac-Man.

FOR THE PRIUS, an awkward confession of love: “In most car enthusiast circles, admitting affection for a Toyota Prius is like putting a ‘Kick Me’ sign on your own back. While I like the Prius, I can understand the antipathy.”

VIDEO: David Plotz and his wife get close. Very close.

MARK STEYN’S CANADIAN KANGAROO COURT: Andrew Coyne is liveblogging the proceedings. Excerpt: “Lots of media interest, it seems: CBC, CTV (I’m told), the National Post, local media, and a guy from the New York Times, who’s doing a piece comparing how the two countries’ legal systems deal with speech cases. Needless to say, he can’t believe what he’s witnessing…”

It’s a police state with a smiley face. . . .

THE DOWNHILL SLIDE OF THE AMERICAN TV FAMILY: “It used to be kids in TV families who caused the problems and the parents who solved them. In the brave new world of reality television, parents are the problem.”

THE TELEGRAPH: Afghan insurgents ‘on brink of defeat.’ Let’s hope they’re right.

I’M ALMOST DONE / THIS AIN’T NO FUN: Is Hillary Clinton Preparing For The End?

I always knew the truth, though it’s nice to have some proof. Still she looks like she’s managed to have some fun.

WILL LIBERTARIANS BE electoral tie-breakers? The problem with Bob Barr: “I’m not sure he’s the optimal messenger,’ said Charlie Cook, the political analyst.”

HOW THEY DO THINGS IN CHICAGO: Alderman OKd zoning for developers who retained his wife as sales agent. She sold homes worth $22 million.

UPDATE: A Blagojevich angle.

YALE WANNABES:

The faculty at Stanford Law School voted last week to approve a grade reform proposal that would eliminate letters and replace them with four levels of achievement. The decision came after a long period of discussion among students and faculty that weighed issues such as collegiality, anxiety and fairness. The debate may be spreading to other law schools across the country.

Stanford’s new system — which will award grades of honors, pass, restricted credit and no credit — resembles that at Yale Law School, whose four grades are honors, pass, low pass and fail.

Imitation, flattery, yada yada.

IT MIGHT CUT DOWN ON CRIME AGAINST THE DISABLED: A flamethrower-equipped electric wheelchair.

IN THE MAIL: Andrew Yarrow’s Forgive Us Our Debts: The Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal Irresponsibility.

MICHAEL TOTTEN REPORTS from a dark corner of Europe. Like Michael Yon, he’s supported by readers, so if you like his work, consider hitting the tipjar.

BILL ROGGIO REPORTS on what the Iraqi Army is doing along the Iranian border.

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME: No longer seen as “yuppie flu.” “Some scientists and many patients remain highly critical of the C.D.C.’s record on chronic fatigue syndrome. But nearly everyone now agrees that the syndrome is real.”

FROM METROSEXUAL to retrosexual.

BOB KRUMM REPORTS FROM IRAQ:

Yesterday ended the month with the fewest Coalition casualties since nearly the beginning of the war in Iraq. There were only about 20 combat-related deaths during the entire month of May. Hopefully portending even better things to come, only about five of those deaths occurred during the final two weeks of the month.

It isn’t about body counts, however, since one way to ensure a low casualty rate is to sequester American forces on forward operating bases. What makes the statistic even more impressive is that the low death total came even as the operational tempo was as busy as ever.

Read the whole thing.

OBAMA: The apologists are stymied.

USING NANOTECHNOLOGY TO BUILD ARTIFICIAL VIRUSES, for therapeutic use.