BUSTING GLENN GREENWALD FOR DISHONESTY ABOUT THE POSITIONS OF PEOPLE HE DISAGREES WITH. My experience with Greenwald is that such is typical.

UPDATE: A defense of Greenwald.

A LIST OF KEY CONGRESSMEMBERS ON HEALTH CARE.

GENOME SEQUENCING for under five grand.

WANT TO HELP WOUNDED WARRIORS? Support Project Valour-IT.

DICTATORSHIPS AND DOUBLE STANDARDS: Tough on Fiji, Soft on Iran.

BITES FROM THE APPLE: A roundup of news from the Apple empire. Including an iPhone / Droid comparison.

UPDATE: Okay, played with a Droid at the Verizon store. I found the slideout keyboard nice, but the touch pad a bit clunky — though that might be b/c they still had the plastic cover on the demo model. No Kindle App, though, which is a deal-killer for me. No doubt they’ll come up with one later.

YOU CAN FIGHT CITY HALL: An election victory for the Tucson Tea Party. Next week they’re dropping by Rep. Gabriell Giffords’ office. . . .

SCENES FROM “THE MEAT MARKET.” Plus, in the comments we learn that the Florida International law faculty is “easily the best looking faculty appointments committee in D.C. Like the cast of CSI Miami.” Well, yes, but that’s because I’m not on the appointments committee for Tennessee this year. Hey, quit laughing!

PAUL MCCARTNEY SAYS THE BEATLES WEREN’T THAT GOOD when they started out. I’ve heard that first Beatles demo and, well, it sucked. I wouldn’t have signed them either. Which only says that (1) the guy who did sign them had a great ear for raw talent; and (2) there’s no substitute for experience.

On a related note, though, the InstaDaughter has been very into the Beatles lately (all her friends are into ’60s and’70s stuff now: Beatles, Stones, Cream, Kinks, etc.) and listening to a lot of those songs I’m struck again by McCartney’s virtuosity on the bass. Listen to the bass line on, say, Rain sometime. Being a Beatle, he rises above mere talk of performance skill, but, really he was amazing, particularly for the time.

ASSOCIATED PRESS: What recovery? Unemployment shoots past 10 percent.

FORT HOOD: Blaming The Victims. Again.

ED DRISCOLL: Godwin Weeps. A little more help for Robert Gibbs. Though I’ve met Mike Godwin, and he seems more likely to snort derisively than to weep . . . .

THIS IS COOL: MarineTraffic.com, tracking ships around the world. Try zooming for detail. (Via Caterina Fake on Facebook).

IN THE MAIL: From Steven Landsburg, The Big Questions: Tackling The Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics.

Title’s not bad, but I think More Sex Is Safer Sex has got it beat . . .

OBAMACARE: Shutting Off The R&D Spigot? That’s been my worry all along.

IT’S OKAY, HE’S NOT A REPUBLICAN: Barney Frank Present During Pot Bust. “Congressman Barney Frank was present during a marijuana arrest at James Ready’s home in Ogunquit, Maine. Ready is well-known for his relationship with Congressman Frank.” Now if this were Sarah Palin’s ex-stepcousin-in-law it would be real news . . .

I’m finding this kinda hard to believe, though:

Congressman Frank tells FOX25 that he was surprised and disappointed with what police found. He also tells us that he wouldn’t recognize a marijuana plant if he saw one because he is, “not a great outdoorsman,” and ,”wouldn’t recognize most plants.”

I thought only Republicans were supposed to be that stodgy and out-of-it. Anyway, Moe Lane offers him some help to avoid future unpleasantness.

UPDATE: A reader emails:

“Surprised and disappointed”? Frank has gone off-script.

“Shocked, shocked …!” is supposed to be the preferred adjective of Corrupt Public Officialdom.

I could see Claude Rains as Barney Frank, actually.

COLLEGES: Affirmative action for men?

Well, men are an underrepresented minority.

OBAMA RIDES TO CHRIS DODD’S RESCUE: Dodd Getting Presidential Help in Reelection Campaign.

Embattled Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-Ct.), whose low approval ratings make him one of the most vulnerable Democrats seeking re-election next year, gets help from President Obama tonight.

Obama will appear at a $1,000-per person fundraising event for Dodd in Stamford.

Dodd is crucial to Obama’s hopes for getting the overhaul of the regulation of financial services passed. The House Financial Services Committee is currently marking up the measure. Yesterday it approved the component that would create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. . . .

Dodd’s low approval ratings stem from several factors, including the sluggish economy and questions raised about favorable treatment he received on a mortgage from Countrywide Home Loans.

Dodd will need all the help he can get, though Obama’s record with Corzine and Deeds may worry him.

MIKE FLYNN: SEIU And Political Intimidation In St. Louis.

THOUGHTS ON the fall of communism.

SO I’VE BEEN USING THE NEW GPS for about a week, and it seems swell. The traffic feature seems to work — it warns me if I’m heading into traffic even if I don’t have a route programmed, and it seems to be reasonably accurate — I haven’t hit a traffic jam that it hasn’t warned me of, anyway. And, most impressively, the suction-cup windshield attachment actually works. The last one was a joke that fell off within an hour every time. I don’t know if the suction cup is better, or if it’s just that the new one is a lot lighter . . . .

Plus, it’s eco-friendly. I’m a Green Hero!

SOME PEOPLE ARE PUSHING THE STORY THAT HASAN WAS INVOLVED IN THE OBAMA TRANSITION, but that appears to be an unfair stretch. As you can see from the updates to this Gawker story, he seems to have attended some public events and gotten his name on a list of “participants,” but not to have actually been part of the process.

I DIDN’T LIKE THE EDITORIALIZING ON THIS CHART, and reader Paul Golba writes:

I wanted to comment about the House Republican Conference chart that you have on your blog. It is a piece of chartmanship, using a chart to mislead without actually making things up. You’ll notice that the bottom of the chart is roughly 7% with the top being the current 10.2%. While the numbers themselves are accurate, this setup uses a cherry picked range to make the differences look more dramatic. If the vertical range was 0% to 15%, which would be a fairly standard range for this sort of thing, the effect would be less impressive.

With that said, I would say this is just a minor violation of chartmanship. A chart with an unbiased setup still looks really bad. This just makes it look worse.

So how about this one?

JENNIFER RUBIN: Something Is Missing. Actually, I think I this is a law-professor thing. In the classroom you discuss all sorts of things without getting heated up, and you try to minimize the effect of any distractions on the lesson plan. I’m not sure it translates that well to the Presidency, though.

BOINGBOING: Leaked text of secret copyright treaty vs. bland bureaucratic press-release describing same.