ADVICE TO THE MCCAIN-PALIN CAMPAIGN: Change your slogan.

HOW MUCH IT WILL COST to run your electric car. Figuring this stuff is “squishy.”

THIS SEEMS KIND OF IFFY: AFL-CIO reps coordinated anarchists for RNC. “University of Minnesota staff were key coordinators of the recent violent protests at the Republican National Convention (RNC). The university employees are also members of the local clerical union of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees. The AFSCME is part of the AFL-CIO union.”

RUSSIA WANTS TO PARTNER WITH ISRAEL in nanotechnology research.

BUILDING A more efficient hybrid engine.

THOMAS FRIEDMAN INTERVIEWS FAREED ZAKARIA: Or is it the other way around?

R-E-S-P-E-C-T — Find out what it means to me voters! “If only the Democrats could contain their sense of entitlement to govern in a rational world, and their consequent distaste for wide swathes of the US electorate, they might gain the unshakeable grip on power they feel they deserve.”

I’ve written on this theme of respect myself, in the context of Phil Bredesen.

FIGHTING GLOBAL WARMING with cloud-seeding ships? “It should be possible to counteract the global warming associated with a doubling of carbon dioxide levels by enhancing the reflectivity of low-lying clouds above the oceans, according to researchers in the US and UK. John Latham of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, US, and colleagues say that this can be done using a worldwide fleet of autonomous ships spraying salt water into the air.”

IS SARAH PALIN overshadowing John McCain?

Judging by the news coverage in recent days — and by measurable reader response to items about the Alaska governor, including this widely-viewed Palin fashion photo gallery — Palin is No. 1 on the Republican ticket, even though she’s really No. 2.

With Sen. John McCain, the presidential nominee standing there grinning, their joint crowds spontaneously break out in chants of “Sar-rah! Sar-rah! Sar-rah!” Her upswept hairstyle is reportedly being widely copied, according to people who notice such things.

Will McCain be pleased, or threatened, by this?

HMM: “Did the ‘belief that women can balance family life with ambitious careers’ just become right wing? If so, wow! That is perhaps the most amazing political flip I’ve seen in my life.”

LATEST NEWS ON IKE from Brendan Loy.

WASHINGTON POST: Ms. Palin’s Pipeline.

Related item here.

BEWARE THE ANGRY MEN: “Internet security officials just got another shock, when a British survey of network administrators (the people who run the networks, and Internet access, in large companies) revealed that 88 percent admitted they would take company Internet secrets (passwords, system layout and the like) with them if they were ever suddenly fired.”

AT GAY PATRIOT, a look at blogospheric diversity.

WITH A STRAIGHT FACE and a pure heart. “Sarah Palin is running for Vice President. Obama is running for President. Maybe it is time for an independent look at his record. Or maybe a candidate’s history and experience with public school reform (and current cover-up of same) is simply not as newsworthy or relevant to the average voter as a story about a candidate’s pregnant daughter.” Plus, noses wrinkled in disgust.

FROM THE TIMING-IS-EVERYTHING-IN-BOOK-PUBLISHING DEPT: Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska’s Political Establishment Upside Down.

UPDATE: The book’s actually been out for a while, even though the Amazon page says Sept. 1. Here’s a review by Beldar from June.

A NEW INSTA-POLL: With the benefit of some experience.

A MEN’S FASHION EEEEW! from Ann Althouse.

MICHAEL TOTTEN: Russia and the Kosovo precedent. He doesn’t think there’s much to it: “Kosovo is a viable nation state of more than two million people, greater in size than its neighbors Montenegro and Macedonia which also broke free of Yugoslavia recently. . . . South Ossetia, meanwhile, has a population of around 60,000 people, the size of a small American suburb. Abkhazia’s population is less than 200,000, around the size of a large American suburb. These are not viable nation states.”

PUT YOUR HANDS UP FOR DETROIT: Auto industry to press Congress for $50B in loans. Now slooowly reach for your wallet.

CHARLIE MARTIN ROUNDS UP PALIN RUMORS, and debunks the bogus ones. PJM seems to be doing that for both candidates.

UPDATE: So I was at the gym this morning and who was on Fox but Charlie Martin, talking about this post.

TAMMY BRUCE on Sarah Palin.

STEVE CHAPMAN LOOKS AT THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN CONVENTIONS, and doesn’t like what he sees. “You will scour the presidential nominees’ acceptance speeches in vain for any hint that your life is rightfully your own, to be lived in accordance with your beliefs and desires and no one else’s.” They’re giving people what they want.

SLASHDOT: 4,000 Anti-Scientology Videos Yanked From YouTube.

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE on law professor salaries.