MICKEY KAUS: “Why watch Saturday Night Live in L.A. when the twitters from back East say it’s weak?”

SONJA SCHMIDT: The Secret Code of Right-Wing Racists — Broken!

ADVICE TO CLARK HOYT: Have the NYT editors read InstaPundit. It’s painless, and they’ll learn a lot about political stories their own reporters are ignoring. Plus, frequent nanotechnology updates!

And they’ll enjoy it more than Fox News.

JOHN TIERNEY: Scrubbing The Atmosphere. “Governments are doing practically nothing to study the removal of carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere, but this technology could be a much cheaper form of climate protection than photovoltaic cells and other approaches getting lavish support, according to an article published today in Science.”

Not enough opportunities for graft and control, I’d guess . . . .

VIRGINIA POSTREL thinks the “jew boy” email is a fake.

ANN ALTHOUSE gets up close and personal. Very cool pic.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: “The most likely reason for Russia’s objections to US missile defense is not that it degrades their vast and unstoppable arsenal, which remains effective in any case, but it reduces the effectiveness of sock puppet proxies who threaten the US. Russia is not about to threaten the US directly. But wouldn’t it be convenient if others would? And wouldn’t it be even more convenient if the US could not defend against them.”

BIZARRO SUPERMAN.

JOHN BIRMINGHAM tells the zombies, “Eat My Dust.”

THE GHOULS surrounding Bill Sparkman. As with the NBC email controversy, why not find out actual facts?

CLAUDIA ROSETT: Learning to Love The French: When Sarkozy Spoke Truth To Obama.

MICKEY KAUS: “Hmmm. If voters oppose by a 64-34 margin a health care bill with individual mandates but no public option, doesn’t that mean voters will oppose by a 64-34 margin any health care bill that is likely to pass? … That would put Obama’s reform up in Dick Morris’ the-Democratic-party-isn’t-a-suicide-pact range.”

THE GENERAL’S BOOK CLUB: What’s Petraeus Reading?

BOMB PLOT AGAINST REP. AARON SCHOCK (R-IL): “I blame MSNBC, CNN, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the leftwing blogosphere for fostering this climate of hate against Republicans.” It’s a fair cop.

“I’M NOT INTERESTED IN VICTORY.” Reader C.J. Burch writes, “Well, I sure hope he isn’t interested in losing. Geez.”

EXCESSIVE POLICE FORCE at the G20 protests?

AND IN THE WAPO,, TOO: “I can recall no other major American speech in which the narcissism of a leader has been quite so pronounced.”

HEH: The lost Philip K. Dick, Anne McCAffrey collaboration.

MICHELLE MALKIN, NORMAN PODHORETZ, JAMES LILEKS, AND DR. HELEN: on the latest PJM Political.

FROM J.D. JOHANNES: The Soldier’s Experience: Iraq vs. Afghanistan.

Very nice piece. But I’m surprised he didn’t work in a plug for his fitness book!

WELL, THE NEXT JOHN RINGO NOVEL PRETTY MUCH WRITES ITSELF: Swords, Knives, and No Men: Ukraine’s All-Women Amazon Tribe.

OF LOUIS VUITTON and Armageddon.

STEPHEN GREEN: The Week In Blogs.

A.P.: Scrutiny rises over NJ kids singing Obama song.

Plus, a flashback.

PJTV: Virginia Healthcare Debate. Mark Hemingway interviews both Whip Cantor and Congressman Scott after an actual debate, sponsored by the Richmond Times Dispatch. PJTV producer Owen Brennan writes: “The best part is when Hemingway calls BS on the suggestion that Dems and Republicans are only separated in the debate on about 20% of the issues.”