SO I GOT EXCITED FOR A MINUTE BY THIS HEADLINE: Aerojet Tests Prototype of Orion Propulsion System in the latest Space News, (sorry, not online) but it was about this Orion, not this one. Oh, well, there’s always China.

SOMEWHERE, LESTER MADDOX IS LAUGHING: Congressional contempt for “race-blind” hiring.

THE DOCTOR WITH THE “funny accent.”

THE NEXT RIGHT is a project of Patrick Ruffini, Jon Henke, and Soren Dayton. Check it out.

JENNIFER RUBIN on the media wars. Conclusion: “It would also be nice if, as a result of all the scrutiny, the mainstream coverage actually got better–but that may be too much to ask.” Yeah, that was my hope years ago, but so far it hasn’t panned out.

On the other hand, at least it’s harder to keep people in the dark.

EUGENE VOLOKH looks at California’s proposed porn tax.

TOM COBURN: Republicans Are In Denial.

He’s right. At least, the GOP leadership is. Grassroots Republican seem to be in despair . . . .

And read these diagnostic quotes from Jon Henke. I’ll take Reagan over Santorum any day.

RELYING ON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS for blood supplies? “The country is increasingly dependent on high school blood donors to maintain the nation’s blood supply. Restrictions limiting donation by people who have recently had tattoos or who have lived in high-risk countries have caused the pool of eligible donors to shrink to less than 40 percent of the United States population.”

Well, you can’t expect law professors to carry the whole load . . . .

PAGING DAN AYKROYD: Gaffe-o-Matic!

IF YOU READ BLOGS, you knew this a long time ago, but if you read the L.A. Times you know it now: Iraqis losing patience with militiamen.

Of course, not everything on blogs is reliable.

UPDATE: Read this, too.

DO YOU HAVE SYNESTHESIA? I do. I see sounds as visual analogs with shape, color, and texture. Based on my own conversations, this is quite common among people who do sound engineering, and probably helpful.

NOT UNTIL RICH CELEBRITIES AND GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS FLY COMMERCIAL: Every adult in Britain should be forced to carry ‘carbon ration cards’, say MPs.

GRAND ROUNDS is up!

IN THE MAIL: Julia Gorin’s Clintonisms: The Amusing, Confusing, and Even Suspect Musing, of Billary.

DOG BITES MAN: U.N. Peacekeepers and aid workers abusing children. Again. Think how much more attention this would get if these were American soldiers. Instead, we get this: “A UN spokesman, Nick Birnback, said that it was impossible to ensure ‘zero incidents’ within an organisation that has up to 200,000 personnel serving around the world.”

MORE EMBARRASSMENT FOR THE HARVARD LAW REVIEW.

CARBON TRADING: Not bad in principle, but more like Oil-for-Food in practice? That’s how I’d bet.

A MCCAIN-OBAMA TRIP TO IRAQ? Well, that would show renewed interest. But don’t count on it.

UPDATE: Reader Matthew Conlan notices something:

Within the link you provided on a McCain-Obama Trip to Iraq, there seemed to be an explanation for Obama’s “I See Dead People” comments yesterday. Perhaps he and his campaign honestly don’t know the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day. The quote from the article:

Obama spokesman Bill Burton replied: “Senator Obama thinks Memorial Day is a day to honor our nation’s veterans, not a day for political posturing.”

Shouldn’t this Elementary School-knowledge be a pre-requisite for the position of Commander In Chief?

Or at least for spokesmen. To be fair to Obama, he spent those elementary school years in Indonesia, where that distinction probably wasn’t emphasized.

HAS OBAMA lost interest in Iraq? Well, unfortunately things aren’t proceeding according to the narrative.

RON BAILEY REPORTS from the Copenhagen Consensus Conference.

LOTS MORE BLOGGING FROM THE SASQUATCH! FESTIVAL: Just keep scrolling.

RAND SIMBERG: Time to head for Mars?

REASON TV: Are sports subsidies worth it? Er, no.

BECKY JACOBS on clinical legal education.