THE CURE FOR EXHAUSTION: More exercise.

TOM MAGUIRE: “Kevin Drum either has a huge story in which Evil BushCo has misled Congress for months, or he has nothing.”

WAS HILLARY SET UP on the Obama/Muslim thing? “Clinton’s initial response is completely appropriate, and, to my ear, it seemed as if the backing off in the end was a lawyerly precision about her lack of personal knowledge of the subject rather than a sly attempt to stimulate doubts. . . . Instead, the Obama interview is edited to allow him the chance to profess his longstanding belief in Christianity and to say some magnanimous things about Muslims. Obama seems delightfully warm and flashes a beautiful smile. Hasn’t he — with the help of ’60 Minutes’ — just slyly facilitated the rumor that the Clinton campaign is the source of the email?”

SONY IS SCARED of the Asus Eee PC, for fear that it will cause consumers to realize that — given how powerful even cheap computers are now, and given that most computers are mostly used for websurfing and email – it may cause a race to the bottom in prices, instead of a race for expensive new features of the sort Sony prefers.

They’ve got a point. I wouldn’t want the Asus to be my main computer, or maybe even my main laptop. But though I usually go laptopless on diving trips, I needed something for photos and videos so I took the Asus along. It’s so small that it fit in the zipper pocket on the back of my backpack, it’s so light that you couldn’t tell it was there, and it’s so cheap that I didn’t worry about leaving it in the hotel room, etc. That’s a real market niche. Here’s my Popular Mechanics review of the Asus. And Charles Stross has some similar thoughts about the Asus.

HMM: “I suggest that any GOP voter in TX or OH take a Democrat ballot and vote for Hillary.”

DAVID ADESNIK: Can a Republican be open-minded?

JOHN FUND ON the Rezko trial. “John McCain’s dealings with lobbyists have properly come under a microscope; why not Mr. Obama’s? Partly, says Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass, because the national media establishment has decided that Chicago’s grubby politics interferes with the story line of hope they’ve set out for Mr. Obama.”

And here’s more from Robert Novak.

HMM:

Sen. Hillary Clinton’s advisory panels are mostly old retreads from her husband’s administration who retain the belief that she will return to the White House. These are not team members of a Clinton administration but those seeking to regain their power base and over-remembered youth. . . .

Obama is surrounded by failed policymakers, including unreformed Students for Democratic Society leader Bill Ayers, now an education professor; Susan Rice, who, while at the State Department alienated the Eritrean Americans so that all 270,000-plus voted in bloc against Al Gore and was so slow that Osama bin Laden escaped the Sudanese police; and Tony Lake, who changed his mind at his nomination hearing as Bill Clinton’s CIA director.

We’re not hearing as much about McCain’s advisers, for some reason.

HILLARY’S 3 A.M. AD, explained: “Hillary knows she’s going down. They issued that ad because they want McCain to win. She thinks she can be a star in the Senate, leader of the Democratic party when [Obama] loses. So the commercial is her gift to John McCain.” Are the Clintons capable of such breathtaking cynicism and selfishness?

UPDATE: Related item: “Hillary will probably become the new Teddy K. –a lioness of the Senate, serving there until the end of days for most of us. She will even enjoy and perhaps earn a unique sort of authority, an uber ‘been-there-done-that’ wisdom. If she ever writes a candid book, it will be riveting.” [LATER: Sorry — this link was wrong before. Fixed now.]

MORE: Drudge: “Hillary: Obama Not Muslim ‘As Far As I Know’...”

HOW THE SAUSAGE GETS MADE: “The heated interaction between Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign and Politico’s national political editor Saturday afternoon and evening was in many ways routine. But it was also a window into aspects of the political process outsiders do not usually see or understand.”

MCCAIN CAMPAIGN stumbles early.

UPDATE: More stumbling: John McCain’s junk science.

A MEDIA SALUTE TO THE MEDIA.