GIRLFRIENDS AND DOUBLE STANDARDS: Before Max Baucus there was Paul Wolfowitz. Will the ethical uproar be the same?

FROM TUNKU VARADRAJAN: A Copenhagen Devil’s Dictionary.

SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADER HARRY REID COMES OUT in favor of abstinence-based sex education. Maybe he could give Max Baucus some advice. . . .

BRUCE BAWER IS IN COPENHAGEN covering the global warming conference for PJM and PJTV. Here’s his first (text) report.

JERRY POURNELLE PROPOSES a “JFK Stimulus.” “In other words, as much as possible, get out of the way, and let the engines of capital development work.” Problem is, that approach offers little in the way of opportunity for graft.

TEA PARTY outpolling GOP? (Via Panzramic.) “The more conventional route in the United States is for a potential third-party force to overtake one of the existing parties.”

FIRST ZOMBIE PIGS, then hibernating soldiers.

A.P.: A closed-door meeting on open government.

Related item here.

CLIMATEGATE: Eric S. Raymond reaches for the popcorn.

MORE ON domestic violence and double standards.

MERYL YOURISH: Things I’ve Learned About Credit Card Debt.

EASY edible gifts.

DAN RIEHL: Is Sarah Palin Redefining E-Campaigning?

PHOTOGRAPHERS WIN Britain’s War On Photography? “The harrassment of photographers by police officers is said to have senior officers ‘exasperated, depressed and embarrassed,’ and they characterize officers’ belief that anti-terror laws prohibit photography as an ‘internal urban myth.'”

Make a few examples and it’ll stop. Othewise they don’t think you mean it.

ROGER SIMON: ClimateGate: Why Obama Switched His Copenhagen Itinerary.

ALL IN ONE ACCORD, REJOICE!

BAUCUS SCANDAL UPDATE: Jon Tester: Nomination was ‘Max’s call’. “Sen. Jon Tester said Sunday he had limited involvement with fellow Montana Democrat Max Baucus’s decision to float his girlfriend as a possible nominee for a top prosecutor position in Montana.”

Plus, Baucus a repeat offender?

ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER: “Once the envy of the other 49 states, California has become the measure of failure. Historically a trend-setter, once again, as California goes, so may go the nation.”

MICKEY KAUS ON HEALTH CARE: “If you believe Orszag will bend the cost curve you maybe also believe that Uri Geller bends spoons.”

DAN MITCHELL: Stimulus Was A Flop.

WHAT BARACK OBAMA really thinks of the White House press. From the comments: “Talk about biting the hand that feeds you . . . .”

DEFICITS? WHAT DEFICITS? Deficits Running 25% Higher Than Highest Estimates. “Curiously, this report was issued late Friday — the slowest news day — and it has been completely ignored by state-run media.”

MOE LANE: “And the neocons laugh. Oh, how we laugh.”

Related: Afghan “exit plan” becomes a “transition.” “If things go well, Obama’s team can point to a promise kept come that July by flying a symbolic 20 soldiers home as the ‘beginning.'”

IF I WERE PRESIDENT OBAMA, I’D BE A BIT OFFENDED: Democrats consider new presidential nominating process.

CLIMATEGATE UPDATE: Physicists Ask American Physical Society to Rescind Its Statement on Global Warming Because It Was Based on “Cheat[ing]” and “Corrupted” Work.