BRIDGET JOHNSON: Sweetie, how dare you criticize Obama?

WHAT DO THE SAUDIS WANT? Nothing good.

SAY UNCLE: “Ya know, I write a lot of stuff here. I wonder why the LA Times would quote reader Chris? Well, I know the reason. . . . And why can’t reporters figure out hyperlinks?”

“THAT’S RIGHT — FIGHT AMONGST YOURSELVES.” John McCain on Saturday Night Live.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Low Levels of Vitamin D Spell Trouble for Breast Cancer Patients. But do more aggressive tumors use up Vitamin D, leading to lower levels in the blood?

SO I FINISHED ROLLING THUNDER LAST NIGHT, and it’s highly recommended. Quite enjoyable, and with a number of sly Heinlein references.

A PLEA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES: Please, think of the polar bears!

MORE ON FAKE WAR HERO TOM HARKIN, and the curious media unwillingness to call him on this stuff. If a Republican of Harkin’s checkered background did something similar, it would be the political story of the weekend.

Plus, trying to sort out the Democrats’ shifting views on the value of military service in a presidential candidate.

HILLARY TURNS FIRE ON MEDIA: “Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is increasingly aiming its punches not at her front-running opponent Barack Obama, but at the media.”

UPDATE: Hey, Obama’s doing it too! Obama blames Fox News, e-mail for likely loss in Kentucky. Blaming the media — it’s not just for Republicans anymore!

REINCARNATING OLD BRANDS: Hey, if they can do it with Kern’s Bread, why not Ipana toothpaste?

MORE HOPE AND CHANGE.

A LITTLE BIT OF authorial resentment toward Obama here, don’t you think?

PHIL BOWERMASTER: “The real problem, it seems to me, is not the belief that human moral progress is possible; the real problem is the idea that it’s inevitable.”

HEH: Tennessee cops caught by speed cameras.

NEWS FROM THE MODERN WORKPLACE: “This stealing of things, along with the pee-on-the-seat phenomenon that unfailingly occurs despite the twice-daily cleaned bathrooms that also offer paper seatcover dispensers, demonstrates that you may be able to give someone a top-tier MBA but, sometimes, it won’t change the fact that they were raised by wolves.”

ETHICALLY SPEAKING: Should you vacation in Burma?

SO I FINISHED ROBERT SAWYER’S ROLLBACK the other day and it was pretty good. Now I’m reading John Varley’s Rolling Thunder, and so far it’s excellent.

ANNOY THE LIBERAL MEDIA: Vote for Hillary!

DAVID POST ON TEACHING LAW THE HARD WAY: In my seminars I often substitute unedited cases for the casebooks, on exactly this basis: Real lawyers don’t read excerpts, they read cases.

DAVID POST ON TEACHING LAW THE HARD WAY: In my seminars I often substitute unedited cases for the casebooks, on exactly this basis: Real lawyers don’t read excerpts, they read cases.

THE POLAR BEAR: A new libertarian mascot. Yep, as with “racial harassment” complaints for saying bad things about Dead White Males at universities, use of environmental laws to stop government programs seems an area ripe for some guerrilla lawyering.

POLITICO: NARAL Reeling from Obama Endorsement.

TOM HARKIN, CONT’D: Phony Hero Blasts Real Hero. It seems like every election cycle, fake war hero Tom Harkin reappears with this stuff.

UPDATE: More on Harkin here.

A PACK, NOT A HERD:

A man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire at a festival outside a Southern California church Saturday, wounding three people, one of them critically, police said.

Shots rang out shortly before 11 a.m. outside St. John Baptist de la Salle, a Roman Catholic church in Granada Hills, Officer Norma Eisenman said. Bystanders tackled the man and held him until he was taken into police custody, she said.

Better than hiding under the table.

HEH: “‘Slutbucks’? Seriously? That’s not very creative. ‘Seattle’s Breast’ works much better.”

UPDATE: Some more background on the Starbucks logo.