MAYBE WHAT WE NEED IS an army of John Hamiltons.

THE IRANIAN ELECTION CIRCUS.

“The top 10% of prolific Twitter users accounted for over 90% of tweets. Twitter is dominated by men, whereas other social networks tend to be dominated by women. Is Twitter biased towards men?” Twitter is supposed to be about not talking too much. So if you’re talking a lot, are you doing it right? A conundrum! As I said about blogging a long time ago: “Be concise and write a lot. You must do both!” Who knows which way that bias cuts?

CUTENESS.

BEAUTIFUL WHILE OLD — and looking old.

LEE SMITH IN SLATE: Obama has not learned from Bush’s errors and is playing into the hands of Iran.

MICKEY KAUS: “Some unnamed administration officials (rhymes with Shatner!) recently visited the WaPo ed board to sell the GM bailout deal. They were less than fully successful, to judge by the Post’s latest editorial–at least once you get past the third paragraph.” Should’ve threatened ’em with audits.

ADVICE FOR BARACK OBAMA from Lebanon.

“YOU WANT FRIES?” asks Obama — playing a burger-gofer in an inane sequence for NBC cameras. And no, despite that HuffPo headline, he does not get “frustrated.” He’s being comical. Watch the video. You’ll see. You’ll also see Brian Williams — I’m thinking of the car scene — gesticulating in a way that can only be described as douchey.

FROM PATRIARCHS TO PATSYS: The latest Ask Dr. Helen on PJTV.

AL QAEDA MURDERS a British tourist in Mali.

WHEN EGYPT WAS IN GAZA.

THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES. I opened comments on the Rush/Sotomayor/abortion post, so let’s see what Insta-readers do with a hot topic. I’ll moderate quickly and liberally, and I won’t miss the commenters who get misfiled as “spam” by WordPress — as I did for that last post until just a few minutes ago. Carry on!

OBAMA PRESSURES ISRAEL on settlements, and Democrats pressure Obama on Israel.

“IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HEAR ABOUT the suit, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is what ‘fair use’ is, and what Section 107 of the Copyright Act says and all that Mel Nimmer kind of crap but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. I don’t really write this blog for people who don’t know that kind of stuff already.” But you really do want to click on that link if you want to know why Sonia Sotomayor had something to do with why J.D. Salinger filed his lawsuit in the Southern District of New York.

ON THE RADIO JUST NOW, RUSH LIMBAUGH toyed with the idea of supporting Sonia Sotomayor — on the theory that, raised as a Catholic, she might be secretly pro-life. Is it a risk Obama would have taken? Perhaps it is. I assume the Democratic Party would do very well if the Supreme Court happened to overrule Roe v. Wade.

ADDED: “I think she is a woman who is well-steeped in the law and well-steeped in precedent. And I believe that she has a real respect for precedent, and that she was not just saying that. And if that is really true, then I would agree with her. And I believe it is.” The Senator attests too much, I think.

AND: I think I’ll try another comments experiment on this one. I noticed that Dr. Helen was impressed that, on my previous experiment, there was “no anger, mudslinging or trolling.” But there also wasn’t really a topic, other than commenting per se. This post is much more of a challenge. I’ll be moderating — with a light hand. Stay on topic, and let’s see how good the discussion here can be.

YET MORE: I’ll have to listen again in the podcast of the radio show, but I suspect Mr. Fastbucks is right when he says: “This is reverse psychology. He’s baiting the libs into a litmus test on her.”

WHAT “DUTY OF CARE” DOES A REALITY SHOW OWE A CONTESTANT? That’s an issue I used long ago on a Civil Procedure exam. You can squeeze a lot of jurisdiction questions out of it without worrying about whether there is a valid tort claim. But the linked article is not about a lawsuit, and, in any case, Simon Cowell is paying for Susan Boyle’s mental health treatment.

IN THE MAIL: From Bob Seelert, Start with the Answer: And Other Wisdom for Aspiring Leaders.

A TINY PORTION. “The British captive was killed so that he, and with him the British state, may taste a tiny portion of what innocent Muslims taste every day at the hands of the Crusader and Jewish coalition to the east and to the west of the world.”

“DAD, ARE YOU TURNING INTO A CHICK?” When treatment for prostate cancer gives you — ???! — menopause.

TRADEMARKING A SOUND. In this case, a quack.

THE VIEW FROM MY WINDOW, 8:04 a.m. this morning.

THE EFFECTIVENESS of Tim Geithner.

WHAT WAS PLAYBOY THINKING?  Is it really fine to hate on conservative women?  I myself lamented the days when people really used to read Playboy for the articles.  Now they apparently don’t even read it for the porn.

CAMP IGUANA. “As you can see, they are pretty much free.” “Obama didn’t release us. Why?”