COLLAPSE: NBC Poll: Public Sours On Health Reform. “As the Senate sprints to pass a health-care bill by Christmas, the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll finds that those believing President Obama’s health-reform plan is a good idea has sunk to its lowest level. Just 32 percent say it’s a good idea, versus 47 percent who say it’s a bad idea. In addition, for the first time in the survey, a plurality prefers the status quo to reform.”

GEORGIAN BRITAIN: A “wonderland of sex.”

ROGER SIMON REPORTS FROM COPENHAGEN: “Before I head out to the demonstration this morning, I thought I’d throw up the first of my notes on the Copenhagen Climate Conference. First the good news: it’s snowing out (big flakes, beautiful) and I didn’t drink too much last night. Now the bad news: The rest. This whole event so far, what I can see of it anyway, is just silly.”

HOW LIKELY is hyperinflation?

INVISIBLE TO COPS? The 10 Least-Ticketed Vehicles.

DAVID HARSANYI: Hide The Decline: Why Government-Funded Scientists Should Release Their Data.

MILBLOGS GO DARK FOR THE DAY, in support of C.J. Grisham.

SOME DANGERS OF the expansion of “federal regulatory crimes.”

IN THE MAIL: From Louis Menand, The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University.

IMPLODING? Politico: Chaos At Climate Conference.

RAND SIMBERG: The Precautionary Principle And Global Warming.

CLIMATEGATE: Something’s Rotten in Denmark … and East Anglia, Asheville, and New York City.

EUGENE VOLOKH: The First Amendment and the Race Discrimination Bogeyman.

THE FIRST global map of Mercury.

FINALLY: Europe’s Long Banana Nightmare Ending.

SHOULD CIA DRONE OPERATORS worry about legal liability?

PLAYING GAMES WITH HEALTH CARE NUMBERS: “Proposals that would result in a complete cost estimate are dropped. Because we can’t let the public see how much this thing really costs.”

A BUNCH OF clever kitchen gadgets.

SALENA ZITO: Tea Party Responds to “Code Red” Alert.

ASKING THE TOUGH QUESTIONS: Batts, Polymers or Recycled Jeans: Which Insulation is Sexiest?

“DOPPELBLOGGERS.” “That’s the Andrew Sullivan I remember working for.” Love the coinage.

YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO bigger than thought.

OOPS: Energy-Efficient Stoplights Can’t Melt Snow.

BRIAN MICKLETHWAIT: Climategate – the reversing of the burden of proof. “You can feel that most crucial of propaganda processes happening with Climategate: the reversing of the burden of proof. Unfair to all the fraud detectives (Watts, McIntyre, and the rest of them, including Monkton himself) though it undoubtedly was, those noble toilers, until the Climategate revelations erupted, had to prove everything, in defiance of the default position. Their every tiny blemish was jumped upon. Their major claims were ignored. Now the default position is slowly mutating into: It’s all made-up nonsense. And the burden of proof is shifting onto the shoulders of all those who want to go on believing in such ever more discredited alarmism. In short, our side is winning this argument, big time.”

CHARLES SCHUMER DISPLAYS HIS BREEDING: Schumer curses flight attendant.