THE S.E.C. spitting in the faces of fans. A roundup from Michael Silence. What are they thinking?

UPDATE: From the comments: “If the SEC wants to act like a commercial entity, they should have their tax exemptions yanked.”

SETTING SHATTERED BONES with glue. “Shattered bones pose a difficult problem for surgeons, who currently must use tiny screws and plates to hold fragments in place long enough for the break to heal. But a new glue, which has the sticking power to adhere to bone, could one day help orthopedic surgeons fix difficult breaks, researchers announced today at the American Chemical Society conference in Washington, DC. “

HOW TO RUGGEDIZE YOUR OWN GADGETS. With bonus abusive video. I don’t think the Toughbook folks have much to worry about. But all cellphones should be waterproof.

PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP NO LONGER REQUIRED at the Y-12 nuclear plant.

KIM DAE JUNG HAS DIED. I interviewed him for WYBC back in 1983, back when he was a dissident; he was a very pleasant and earnest man, and apparently quite religious — telling me that Jesus Christ had once personally intervened to save him from being killed. I think he was more successful as a dissident than as a ruler, though.

SINGLE WOMEN FIND “TAKEN” MEN MORE ATTRACTIVE: “Burkley and Parker speculate that single women may be more drawn to attached men because they’ve already been ‘pre-screened’ by other women and found to be satisfactory as a mate, whereas single men are more of an unknown quantity. Burkely said that similar mate-poaching strategies have been reported in birds and fish. But previous studies of people had only asked whether participants found other potential partners attractive, so she designed hers to specifically probe whether participants would pursue a relationship.”

OUR GLORIOUS FUTURE: An All-Electric Makeover for the Trabant.

THE CARS THAT (THEY HOPE) will save GM.

IN THE MAIL: Ron Kessler’s In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect.

JOEL KOTKIN: Oregon at risk of contracting “California Disease.” “Key symptoms of California disease are forgetting that quality of life begins with a job and negative domestic migration.”

DON’T WORRY, YOUR GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE RECORDS WILL BE SAFE: Fifth person pleads guilty to passport snooping. “A fifth State Department worker has been convicted of snooping into the passport files of famous Americans. Kevin Young, a 22-year veteran of the State Department from Temple Hills, Md., pleaded guilty Monday to illegally accessing more than 125 confidential passport applications for celebrities, professional athletes and a politician.”

WHY OBAMA’S ratings are sinking.

BYRON YORK: For the Left, War Without Bush is Not War At All. “Remember the anti-war movement? Not too long ago, the Democratic party’s most loyal voters passionately opposed the war in Iraq. Democratic presidential candidates argued over who would withdraw American troops the quickest. Netroots activists regularly denounced President George W. Bush, and sometimes the U.S. military (“General Betray Us”). Cindy Sheehan, the woman whose soldier son was killed in Iraq, became a heroine when she led protests at Bush’s Texas ranch. That was then. Now, even though the United States still has roughly 130,000 troops in Iraq, and is quickly escalating the war in Afghanistan — 68,000 troops there by the end of this year, and possibly more in 2010 — anti-war voices on the Left have fallen silent. . . . For many liberal activists, opposing the war was really about opposing George W. Bush. When Bush disappeared, so did their anti-war passion.”

So much for all that fierce moral urgency. I guess what was really urgent was regaining political power.

EVAN COYNE MALONEY: It’s Almost Like They Don’t Want to Hear From Voters.

KEN GLADNEY UPDATE: Black Conservatives Hold Protest at NAACP Over Ken Gladney Attack. As Jim Treacher notes, if he were an Obama supporter beaten by white Tea Party folks, he’d be more famous than Rodney King. But since he’s a Tea Party supporter beaten by white Obama folks, it’s a non-story. Can’t blow the preferred racial narrative. . . .

UPDATE: Related: Video from the Carnahan crew. Unsuccessful provocateurs.

RAND SIMBERG: Panel Recommends Major Changes in Space Policy. “The good news is that for the first time a major panel of this sort has explicitly stated that the goal of having a human spaceflight program has to be for the ultimate settlement of space, and if we aren’t aiming toward that, there’s not much point. Also, for fans of sending humans to Mars, all of the options are designed with that end in mind, though probably not fast enough for them. The other good news is that the panel seems to strongly support commercial space and believes that the new policy should be much more supportive of it than NASA’s current plans. But for advocates of anything resembling the current four-year-old plan to do ‘Apollo on Steroids,’ with new launch and crew delivery systems dubbed ‘Constellation,’ none of the options will be pretty.”

GREG GUTFELD: Thank You, Old People. “So right now the public option part of Obama’s health care reform bill is in free fall, and many are blaming Republican opposition. Which, of course, is giving the Republicans way too much credit. Fact is, the people you have to thank for this surprising turn of events are old people. . . . Pre-election, the media became so obsessed with the youth vote, that we overlooked the sheer determination of the elderly. And it left the pols caught like deer in a mobilized scooter’s headlights. How ironic is it that the folks most easily called to action are those with the poorest of hearing.”

AT BOINGBOING TV, more on The Mighty Boosh.

SO LAST NIGHT I FINISHED WALTER JON WILLIAMS’ This Is Not A Game, a novel that has an Army of Davids sort of premise. I enjoyed it.

BILL WHITTLE: The Power & Danger of Iconography: The Resistance Steals Obama’s Weapons.

Is it just a Reverse-Alinsky?

UPDATE: You can get that bumpersticker here.

MAYBE HE SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT A GUN? Second Amendment-Loathing Mayor Attacked With Lead Pipe.

PETER SUDERMAN: Government-Designed Polices From a Government Store. “As the public plan’s prospect dwindle, opposition switches tactics.”

HOPE AND SPAM: “After insisting no one was receiving unsolicited e-mails from the White House, officials reversed their story Monday night and blamed outside political groups for the unwanted messages from the tech-savvy operation.” Tech-savvy?

WHAT? IT’S ALL SOME SORT OF TRICK? Say it ain’t so! Cato: Co-ops: A ‘Public Option’ By Another Name.

TENS OF THOUSANDS quit AARP over health care “reform.”

CBS News has learned that up to 60,000 people have cancelled their AARP memberships since July 1, angered over the group’s position on health care. Elaine Guardiani has been with AARP for 14 years, and said, “I’m extremely disappointed in AARP.”

Retired nurse Dale Anderson has 12 years with AARP and said, “I don’t wanna be connected with AARP.”

Many are switching to the American Seniors Association, a group that calls itself the conservative alternative as CBS News Investigative Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports.

It’s probably a lot bigger than the Whole Foods boycott, but it’ll probably get a lot less press.