ARE DATE-RAPE DRUGS an urban myth?

JUNK IN THE TRUNK: What weight does to vehicle efficiency.

BLOOMBERG: ‘Jobs Created or Saved’ Is White House Fantasy: Caroline Baum.

TESTING cheap wind power.

HELPING YOU GET AROUND with an Intelligent Driving Agent.

CHARLIE STROSS: How habitable is the Earth?

HEH: CBO Health-Care Score Assumes Congress Sticks to Its Promises, Which Probably Won’t Happen, Says CBO. Well, there’s a confidence-builder.

OOPS: Hey, Ma’am, where are the jobs? Twice as many Californians lost jobs in one week in October than put to work in nine months by the “stimulus”.

TALKING ABOUT John Murtha and Afghanistan, over at The Hill. I recycle an old, but fitting, Las Vegas joke.

UH OH: The Doom that Fell Upon Medical Progress in the US. “The damage done to the rate of progress in applied biotechnology is enormous – we look at what is going on in the labs under present circumstances and are impressed by progress. What we don’t see is what might have been in the absence of overwhelming regulation and FDA roadblocks. If there is little or no prospect for profit at the end of the day, vast swathes of privately funded research simply don’t take place.”

IN THE MAIL: Jim Cramer’s Getting Back to Even.

PJTV: Stem Cell Myths And Facts.

Quincy, Illinois.

POLITICAL INTERFERENCE? Senior House Democrat questions role of White House in EPA chemical testing. “A senior House Democrat has voiced concerns that the White House is interfering in tests of potentially harmful commercial chemicals. Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) has flagged an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) decision urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to use test data from companies and other existing data in judging whether chemicals found in pesticides and plastics could disrupt the human endocrine system, which releases hormones. Markey argued that the EPA should be allowed to conduct its own tests to determine the safe exposure levels of chemicals, such as pesticides and contaminants in the environment.”

RICH GALEN: Turn Your Head And Cough. Or bend over, whatever.

GAY PATRIOT endorses Doug Hoffman.

NICHOLAS JOHNSON: Supply Restrictions at the Margins of Heller and the Abortion Analogue: Stenberg Principles, Assault Weapons, and the Attitudinalist Critique.

DEMOCRAT DEFENDS FOX NEWS: “They actually put more women on as experts during the day than MSNBC or CNN.”

DOUG MATACONIS: Virginia GOP Poised For Big Comeback.

DAVID BERNSTEIN: “The mystery of just what JStreet is, or intends to be, is growing deeper.”

MICHAEL MCCONNELL: The Pay Czar Is Unconstitutional. You know, if a Republican President were doing this many bizarre things, public-interest lawyers would be suing right and left to stop them. Where are the lawsuits now?

AN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION “TRIUMPH:” Honduran Government Caves to U.S. Pressure.

HOW’S THE ECONOMY? The “Distress Index” says not so great.

NOBODY TELL STEPHEN GREEN: An Electric Martini Shaker. (Via the skeptical Megan McArdle).

PATRICK RUFFINI: NY-23 Across America? “The key fact that sticks out in my mind about Doug Hoffman’s incredible momentum in NY-23 is that his election would not have been possible had he been the Republican nominee.”