BOB ZUBRIN ON WHAT TO DO ABOUT OPEC. Plus, over at Jerry Pournelle’s place, a Zubrin discussion. Just keep scrolling.

ARTIFICIALLY ENHANCED cell metabolism.

FATHER’S DAY CARDS:

Fathers sleep a lot, and they snore loudly. When they’re awake, they like to fish or golf, but they’re comically bad at both. They drink so much beer they’re practically alcoholics, and they’re complete couch potatoes, always watching television and hogging the remote.

At least, that’s the less-than-favourable image of Dad on Father’s Day greeting cards. It’s a striking contrast to the poetic praise often expressed at Mother’s Day.

Perhaps the market will take care of that. But why not branch out from cards?

UPDATE: More thoughts on this here. “That’s what really matters in the end — the personal intent and affection that accompanies the card and/or gift. It seems odd to undermine that emotion by depicting Dad as someone more absorbed with his golf game than his family, eager to belch beery cheers at his favorite team, or only around to provide spending money to his herd.”

HILLARY: I’m staying in the race in case somebody assassinates Obama! Okay, that’s how it’s being spun, but I don’t think she actually meant it that way. I think she was just pointing out that when Bobby Kennedy was shot the race was still alive, and that was June. Still, it’s a pretty impressive gaffe.

UPDATE: More thoughts from A.C. Kleinheider.

Meanwhile, Andy McCarthy credits Operation Chaos.

ANOTHER UPDATE: It’s IowaHawk’s world; Hillary is just living in it. Or maybe it’s Michelle’s.

NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT OUR SUN, in terms of characteristics needed for life.

MCCAIN’S SHORT LIST FOR VP: Shockingly, Bill Frist is omitted.

REVIEWING VH1’s SERIES, Sex: The Revolution. “What if documentary-makers aimed the camera at fewer celebrity has-beens – instead giving scholars a chance to talk? The result would be a very counterintuitive picture of life before the sexual revolution.”

I haven’t seen the VH1 show, but I highly recommend Gay Talese’s history of the sexual revolution, Thy Neighbor’s Wife, which we read in my “Law and Sexuality” seminar, taught by Harlon Dalton. I often draw on it when teaching in Constitutional Law, because today’s students don’t really have any grasp of what life was like in an era without freely available porn and socially-approved consensual sex. That said, the review above is certainly right in suggesting that the conventional narrative (bad, repressed Puritans) is highly misleading.

MORE KNIFEBLOGGING: The Throwzini. Duck!

NOAH POLLAK ON THE BLACKOUT on Doug Feith’s new book. Too many inconvenient truths?

MICKEY KAUS on McCain’s immigration flipflop: “McCain to GOP: ‘Suckers!'”

SECRETARY OF ENERGY IN AN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION? I certainly hope not.

UPDATE: Or maybe in a McCain Administration? Jeez.

TIGERHAWK: “While I believe — on little more than gut — that Hillary Clinton would be a better president than Barack Obama, I also believe that Obama would be insane to let the Clintons — they come as a pair — into his campaign or administration in any way, shape, or form. Indeed, nothing would more completely prove that Obama lacks the judgment necessary to be president than selecting Hillary as his running mate. Whatever one thinks of the Clintons, this much is virtually incontestable: The Clintons are too powerful to control, too ambitious to control themselves, and too untrustworthy to appease.”

THOUGHTS ON bigotry, extremism, and academia.

WHERE’D THE SUPREME COURT’S 5-4 splits go?

10 EASY MPG-BOOSTING TIPS for Memorial Day weekend.

HMM: Ethanol usage up exponentially in U.S. and Brazil; not as much in Europe. If we’d drop the tariff on Brazilian ethanol, it would be better still.

IN THE MAIL: Benjamin Wittes’ Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror.

JOHNATHAN PEARCE: Scientology is nuts and we should be able to say so. That sounds like a brave statement on a British blog, these days, but in a victory for free speech, British prosecutors have dropped the “cult” prosecution, saying that it doesn’t make out a crime.

OKAY, I LIKE MY BACKYARD, but at the moment I’m kinda jealous of Jim Fletcher’s.

BUY A HONDA, kill a polar bear?

A CHE HAGIOGRAPHY that gives even The New York Times problems. “Guevara was an important player in the Castro government, but his brutal role in turning a revolutionary movement into a dictatorship goes virtually unmentioned.”

THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE is 125 years old today. Compare it to today’s civic works. . . .

UPDATE: Does the Internet count?

LENTIL STEW FOR EVERYONE! That’ll solve the gas shortage.

ENVIRONMENTALISM as a religion? Say rather as a substitute therefor, without the troubling discerning-God’s-will-and-following-it part.