WHAT’S WITH THOSE 10% OF BLACK PEOPLE who don’t support Obama? Yeah, get with the program.

COMMERCE AND COMMERCIALS: “I’m going to be straight with you—if you don’t click one of the ads on this page, we’re all doomed.”

MY REVIEW OF THE HP MINI-NOTE LAPTOP is now online at Popular Mechanics.

HERE’S MORE ON MASSACHUSETTS’ anti-Income Tax crusade.

CALIFORNIA’S SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN the state’s ban on gay marriages. Did it just hand the state to McCain? Well, possibly.

Personally, I favor gay marriage, but I think it would be much better if it were adopted through political, rather than judicial, channels — though I realize that some would call that a distinction without a difference where California is concerned. . . .

UPDATE: More thoughts here.

MEMO TO THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN: When somebody condemns appeasement, it doesn’t help things to jump up and yell “Hey, he’s talking about me!“

SO I’M IN LOUISVILLE, where I’ll be talking about the Second Amendment and the Heller case tomorrow. (“Scheduled posts” kept the site hopping while I drove, somewhat blearily, up from Knoxville, though I did stop at a Cracker Barrel in Lexington for coffee and a quick blog-and-email check.) I don’t think I’ll see much of the fleshpots while I’m here, though there’s a blogger get-together in an hour or so that I’ll visit. After last night’s limited sleep, I don’t think I’ll be out late tonight. . . .

THE PRIVATE SECTOR ROLE in global higher education. ” in many countries, as in the United States, demand for higher education is growing fast, sometimes outstripping the ability of traditional colleges — which, in many countries, means government-run institutions — to fulfill the need. . . . And to kick off the meeting, the group turned to Douglas L. Becker, chairman and chief executive officer of Laureate Education, Inc., whose company has built a 300,000-student, $2 billion a year enterprise by focusing solely on creating private institutions in foreign lands — so far, 70 campuses in 17 countries.”

THE NEXT THING for Fred Thompson.

DYING LAW PROFESSOR teaches last class.

IRON MAN: Beneath the Armor.

SIX WAYS THE G.O.P. CAN save itself. It had better do something.

DATING THE DIVORCED: The latest Ask Dr. Helen column is up!

MORE RAMPANT CHRISTIANISM.

LOOKING INSIDE Britain’s alien files. “Although they didn’t want their names to be included in the report covering the event, they believed it was a UFO. And they were sober.”

GOOD QUESTION: What could Hillary Clinton want from Obama?

MEGAN MCARDLE ON JOB INTERVIEWS: “Frankly, it’s a miracle unemployment is as low as it is.”

NANOTECHNOLOGY gangs up on cancer cells.

MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT OBAMA, from Steve Gill.

HACKING A GEO METRO with the Cornell X-Prize team.

IN THE MAIL: Instructions for American Servicemen in France during World War II.

CONGRATULATIONS TO RANDY NEAL as an accredited blogger to the Democratic Convention. (Via Michael Silence).

THOMAS EDSALL: Union Leaders’ Clash Over Dem Endorsements A Sign Of Racial Polarization.

Plus, apparently, rampant sexism!

UPDATE: Had the wrong link for Edsall before. Fixed now. Sorry!

ANOTHER UPDATE: NARAL Affiliates Question Obama Endorsement.

BILL ARDOLINO: From Rusafa to Sadr City.