REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A roundup of book reviews from all over.

REPUBLICANS HAVE HEALTH CARE IDEAS? Actually, yes.

SENATOR DICK DURBIN BLACKLISTS RADIO STATIONS: “A spokesman for U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) says the senator’s office will no longer send media information to Quincy’s oldest radio station because the station decided to let the public know he was coming to town. . . . Moyers said Angarola was not pleased that WTAD chose to make public the time and place of Durbin’s September 4 visit to Quincy’s Blessing Hospital to hold a meeting on health care with officials from the hospital, Quincy Medical Group and Quincy Mayor John Spring and State Senator John Sullivan (D-Rushville).”

It says a lot about the health care debate when a senior Senator feels he has to sneak around his constituents.

ANDREW BREITBART responds to his critics.

MORE SINGULARITY SUMMIT BLOGGING.

ANSWERING THE REALLY IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What does a beer taste like after the Singularity?

GREG GUTFELD’S RED EYE IS BOOMING: More Demo Viewers Watch Fox At 3am Than CNN at 8pm. “Let’s just let that one sink in – Fox News had more people in the all important A25-54 demographic watching their channel at three in the morning (east coast time) than CNN had for the show that leads off their prime time. This says as much about Fox News as it does about CNN. Wow.”

THE CADILLAC OF Neighborhood Electric Vehicles?

REASON TV: Light Bulbs vs. The Nanny State.

SIT UP, SPEAK UP: Your grandmother was right: “Want to feel more confident in what you’re saying or writing? Sit up straight. That’s the conclusion of a new study out of Ohio State University.”

LONGER LIFE THROUGH better cellular demolition.

ANN ALTHOUSE ON THE FTC’S BLOG-REGULATION INITIATIVE:

The most absurd part of it is the way the FTC is trying to make it okay by assuring us that they will be selective in deciding which writers on the internet to pursue. That is, they’ve deliberately made a grotesquely overbroad rule, enough to sweep so many of us into technical violations, but we’re supposed to feel soothed by the knowledge that government agents will decide who among us gets fined. No, no, no. Overbreath itself is a problem. And so is selective enforcement.

Indeed.

DAN MILLER: The U.S. is Losing Its Sense of Humor.

G.M.’S LAST COMPETITIVE RESOURCE: The local dealers it’s getting rid of.

WHAT “SUPER ACHIEVERS” KNOW about time management.

OOMPH: UT’s Kraken Supercomputer First Academic Computer to Break Petascale. “The University of Tennessee’s supercomputer, Kraken, has broken a major barrier to become the world’s first academic supercomputer to enter the petascale, performing more than 1 thousand trillion operations per second, a landmark achievement. Kraken is only the fourth supercomputer of any kind to break the barrier.”

IN THE MAIL: From Ali Eteraz, Children of Dust: A Memoir of Pakistan. I got to spend some time with him when he spoke at UT a while back; a very sharp and perceptive guy whose book is worth your time.

MICKEY KAUS: Another Prestigious Error from The Atlantic.

WHY AREN’T FEMINISTS MAD AT LETTERMAN? Doesn’t fit the narrative at the moment.

LOOKING THROUGH the Obama archives.

SERGIO RODRIGUERA: Support The Troops By Actually Counting Their Votes.

GOOD GRIEF: Obama Cuts Off Funding for Iranian Human-Rights Documentation. “The Clinton State Department has decided to cut off all funding for the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC), which was compiling lists of protestors imprisoned in this summer’s unrest, as well as those who were killed in the crackdown. IHRDC is what human-rights advocates should be: methodical, precise, and apolitical in their work. And yet, the Obama administration has, without explanation, cut off all federal funding to the group which has consistently fulfilled its mandate.”

They’re planning a sellout, and data on what the Iranians are doing to their protesters would make it more embarrassing.

RADLEY BALKO: Police Overkill at the G20 Summit. “These are precisely the kinds of events where free speech and the freedom to protest is in most need of protection. Instead, the more high-profile the event, the more influential the players, and the more high-stakes the decision being made, the more determined police and political officials seem to be in making sure dissent is kept as far away from the decision makers as possible. Or silenced entirely. “

TRANSPARENCY! Congressional Leaders Fight Against Posting Bills Online.

JONAH GOLDBERG defends Glenn Beck. “Liberals never see the antics of their more flamboyant celebrities as an indictment of liberalism itself. Perhaps it’s time conservatives adopted a more liberal standard.”