LAW STUDENTS TAKE NOTE: Applications for the DoJ’s Honors Attorney Program are Due Tuesday.

JULES CRITTENDEN: I feel a book coming on. “Drink and Be Healthy.” Maybe an exercise video. “The Beer Workout.”

TEENAGE UNEMPLOYMENT at a record high. “According to today’s job report, the overall unemployment rate (the percentage of people in the labor force not working but looking for work) in August rose to 9.7 percent, its highest level in 26 years. The teenage unemployment rate, however, is at 25.5 percent, its highest level since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began keeping track of such data in 1948.”

UPDATE: Rand Simberg writes: “I’m sure it’s just coincidence that this happened right after Congress jacked up the minimum wage in the middle of a deep recession. This was the kind of thing that FDR did that made the Great Depression great.”

MICKEY KAUS: Health Care: What Went Wrong. “Obama does indeed appear to have misjudged the issue.”

COMPENSATING THE WRONGFULLY CONVICTED.

GORDON SMITH: Law Review Submission: An Anecdote.

I had good luck with ExpressO on my Is Dick Cheney Unconstitutional? piece. I’ve just tried it again — everything in between was pre-solicited — and we’ll see how it works out.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL BACON DAY!

It’s a day about Bacon! Did I mention that?

MEDIA SLIME MOLD.

RAND SIMBERG on the press’s non-feeding frenzy over Van Jones. It’s all about the narrative.

ZEROHEDGE: Real Unemployment Rate Hits 16.8%. This sounds upsetting, but when listening to NPR and reading the NYT I felt so much more reassured. They’re not unemployed, they’re funemployed!

MARK STEYN: Truther And Consequences:

Megan McArdle writes:

If the right ever wants to get back in power, it needs to start policing its lunatic fringe.

Er, okay. But the left is in power, and it’s got Van Jones the Truther in the White House. Which isn’t exactly the “fringe”. More of a lunatic mainstream, isn’t it? Which may be why The New York Times et al have decided there’s no story.

Indeed.

Related: 1600’s A Joke. Why buy the milk when you can nationalize the cow?

Also, Van Jones: The One-Man YouTube Channel.

WASHINGTON POST: White House Says Little About Embattled Jones. “White House officials offered tepid support Friday for Van Jones, the administration’s embattled energy efficiency guru, who has issued two public apologies this week, one for signing a petition that questioned whether Bush administration officials ‘may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war.'”

READER PATRICK MCHALE WRITES:

I was out tonight having some fun with the Lumix LX-3 that I bought after you wrote about it when I saw that the Ground Zero Towers of Light were back on. I took the following photo using the delayed shutter to make sure I caught the lights in the picture (I am guessing there are better ways of doing so but I am just starting out). I thought you might appreciate the picture.

CRITICS MARCH AGAINST HUGO CHAVEZ ACROSS LATIN AMERICA: “Thousands of opponents of Hugo Chavez marched against the Venezuelan president across Latin America on Friday, accusing him of everything from authoritarianism to international meddling. The protests, coordinated through Twitter and Facebook, drew more than 5,000 people in Bogota, and thousands more in the capitals of Venezuela and Honduras. Smaller demonstrations were held in other Latin American capitals, as well as New York and Madrid.”

STACY MCCAIN:

Think about this. Van Jones is a Yale Law School graduate (just like Glenn Reynolds) who according to a 2005 interview, had already landed a D.C. job after graduation but instead decided to move to the San Francisco area to become involved in a radical protest movement. He subsequently received a Rockfeller Foundation fellowship and, eventually, landed a “czar” job at the White House.

And yet, somehow, despite all his success, this Ivy League-educated Fortunate Son sees nothing but misery and oppression everywhere. Am I the only one who finds this bizarre?

It’s not bizarre at all. Unlike me, Van Jones has never been Yalie Of The Week. Hence, he’s oppressed and miserable. [And no matter what he does, he’ll never be the first Yalie Of The Week — ed. I thought of mentioning that, but it would have looked like bragging.]

KATHRYN LOPEZ interviews Michael Walsh, author of Hostile Intent.

HOW DR. COOK scooped the Times.

WALL STREET JOURNAL: Afghanistan Is Not ‘Obama’s War’: Republicans should never do to President Obama what many Democrats did to President Bush.

I agree, although I think it’s fine to rub it in a bit.

OUCH: Still Bitter: White House Goes After Santelli Again, but Santelli Fires Back.

THOUSANDS SHOWED UP for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ Town Hall in Tucson.

The auditorium at Sahuaro High School in Tucson quickly filled its 1500 person capacity, and the 1000 or more seats outside easily filled as well. It is easily possible that 3000-4000 people tried to attend Rep. Giffords’ townhall but could not make it inside. Even though the event started at 6 pm, people started lining up at 2!

It was obvious to anyone in attendance that 2/3 to 3/4 of the people there were against the public option. In fact, when one man who was able to speak into the microphone suggested that we throw all the bums out of Congress, nearly 90% of the people in the auditorium gave him a standing, shouting ovation that lasted nearly two minutes.

News report from KGUN TV9 is here.

CONDE NAST bending over for Putin?

PROTESTER TO MARK WARNER: Which part of the Constitution says you get to take over health care? Video at the link. Warner’s effort to answer the question with a question is lame and obvious temporizing. And where’s he getting this business about a constitutional right to a telephone? What’s that about?

RASMUSSEN: 60% Say Tax Hikes Hurt the Economy.

A FRIDAY SALE at Amazon.

A VICTORY FOR CAMERA ACCESS at Loudon County school board meetings.