FRAUDULENT CRUNCHBERRIES. The failed lawsuit. AND: Did anyone ever sue Grape-Nuts?

ADDED: Eugene Volokh tells us about a 1912 case in which Coca Cola was challenged over the lack of coca leaves.

MORE DAVID CARRADINE CLIPS.

AND: I suppose it’s good to know he wasn’t suicidal (so it seems).

TAXPROF: Obama Tax Plan Would Increase Progressivity, Decrease Economic Growth.

IAN McKELLEN’S “KING LEAR.” On line.

FLAUNTING FRUGALITY.

BITTER WOMAN. Not what I was. What I had, last night.

4 TIPS TO OBAMA. How to modulate the abortion debate.

MICKEY KAUS JOINS THE Fix Medicare First chorus.

UPDATE: Mickey emails with a clarification:

I actually don’t think I’m in the Fix Medicare First camp. I’m in the “Enact Health Care But Don’t Expect It Not to be Wildly Expensive On the Basis or Orszag’s Theories” Camp. Orszag himself apparently claims not to be relying on Orszagism: We’ll see!

Indeed. And happy to clarify.

ROGER SIMON: Burning Down the New York Times in Three Acts: Act One.

I WOULD HOPE THAT A WISE WOMAN would not keep recycling the same speech year after year.

CIVIL RIGHTS PROGRESS: “Guns in restaurants” bill in Tennessee gets veto override, and Tam comments from Indiana:

Now Tennesseans can look forward to the same kind of blood-soaked carnage I have to face every time I go to the Broad Ripple Brew Pub. Which is to say “none at all”. (And Indiana doesn’t even care if you tip back a few wet ones while you’re packing, so long as you don’t go ventilating passersby with your hogleg.)

Tennessee hasn’t achieved Indiana’s level of liberality yet.

CHRIS DODD UPDATE: Feds Charge Countrywide Execs.

Or, if you prefer, SEC Busts Dodd’s Friend.

HERE’S A REPORT FROM THE RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA “tea party” tax protest.

SELF-TAUGHT: How I Learned Geography.

MICHAEL GREENSPAN WRITES THAT Flip video cameras have been marked down to 49 bucks at Amazon, from $149. While they last.

RISK-TAKING and “the golden third.” “Fugu (tiger pufferfish) sushi in Yokohama – Golden. Boiling up a pot of pufferfish soup at home – stupid.”

FROM GATES TO GALT: Microsoft will move jobs overseas if Obama tax plan passes. “We’re better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S. as opposed to keeping them inside the U.S.”

STEVE JOBS WAS, ESSENTIALLY, STARVING TO DEATH.

“GAY MEN HAD SYMMETRICAL BRAINS like those of straight women, and homosexual women had slightly asymmetrical brains like those of heterosexual men.”

DR. BOLI INVITES YOU TO test your own IQ.  But I guarantee you are not smarter than Dr. Boli.

ELIZABETH WARREN PRODUCES ANOTHER MISLEADING BANKRUPTCY STUDY, along with her friends at Physicians for a National Health Program.  Quel surprise.

ADVICE ON traveling with preschoolers.

HUFFINGTON POST: Let Women Wear the Hijab: The Emptiness of Obama’s Cairo Speech. “It betrays a naiveté, perhaps feigned, about how the Arab world works.”

Hot Air: Obama’s Cairo speech: Surprisingly good. They told me that if I voted for McCain, we’d get a President whose speeches on Islam were praised at Hot Air and criticized at the HuffPo. And they were right!

Full text here, so you can make up your own mind.

KEITH OLBERMANN SMACKS DOWN PJTV commentator Steven Crowder.

DOES A VALUE-ADDED TAX mean Big Government?

Plus, IRS Files Notice of $800k Tax Lien Against John Kerry’s 2004 Campaign.