ROGER KIMBALL is harshing your mellow.

MOE LANE: 61% of Americans un-American?

BLOGGERS start young. Kids these days. . . .

ELECTRIFICATION EFFORT LOSES SPARK: Michael Yon posts another dispatch from Afghanistan.

IN THE MAIL: From Michael Ledeen, Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War Against the West.

BILL WHITTLE: Warmongers or Peacemakers? Who Will Be Responsible For Scorching The Earth?

RASMUSSEN: “The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 27% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -13. That’s just a point above the lowest level ever recorded for this President. It’s also the sixth straight day in negative double digits, matching the longest such streak.”

Plus this: “Just 31% of voters believe that Congress has a good understanding of the health care proposal.” That many?

NOW GO AWAY, or I shall taunt you a second time!

After telling Ralph Lauren, Greenberg Traurig and PRL Holdings, Inc. they can “sue and be damned,” the post says BoingBoing intends to “publish your spurious legal threat along with copious mockery, so that it becomes highly ranked in search engines where other people you threaten can find it and take heart.”

Good for them. And both Lauren and his attorneys deserve mockery here, for a ridiculous claim. Plus, even the clothes were ugly. As ugly as the behavior. Ugly, ugly, ugly. Just thought I’d point that out. And here’s the BoingBoing post, which I mentioned here earlier.

DAN RIEHL says the White House’s “containment” strategy won’t work. It does have a 1990s feel to it. . . .

TOM MAGUIRE notes that the parting on the right is now a parting on the left.

COMPETITION IS GOOD: Barnes & Noble Aims to Take Down Kindle, by Hook or by Nook. “After weeks of rumors, speculation and leaked photos, Barnes & Noble has released official details on the Nook, its upcoming e-reader device. The Nook features wireless downloads like the Amazon Kindle, but it has a dual touchscreen interface. In price, the Nook matches the domestic Kindle at $259, and it will be available at the end of November.” I wonder if you’ll be able to buy it through Amazon . . . .

Plus this: “Another key difference: the LendMe technology that allows users to lend the books they’ve downloaded to anyone else who is using another Nook, or is using Barnes and Noble’s e-reader software on a smartphone, PC or Mac. The ‘borrowed’ books disappear after 14 days. The Nook can also access Barnes & Noble WiFi hotspots in stores for downloads and browsing.”

JONATHAN TURLEY: Obama Administration Accepts “Blasphemy” Exception to Free Speech. “Around the world, free speech is being sacrificed on the altar of religion. Whether defined as hate speech, discrimination or simple blasphemy, governments are declaring unlimited free speech as the enemy of freedom of religion. This growing movement has reached the United Nations, where religiously conservative countries received a boost in their campaign to pass an international blasphemy law. It came from the most unlikely of places: the United States.”

UPDATE: A reader suggests that this is because they regard criticism of Obama as a species of blasphemy. Heh.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Secret Video: New U.N. Blasphemy Policy In Action. Thanks to reader Neil Sorens for the suggestion. It seems there’s one of these for every Administration policy . . . .

REASON: Should Libertarians Care About Culture? A Debate. My answer: Yes.

The discussion in the comments to Robin Hanson’s robot post seems related.

SHOCKER: U.S. bailout program increased moral hazard: watchdog.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHANCELLOR RESIGNS. “University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman resigned today in the latest fallout from an admissions scandal that has rattled the Urbana-Champaign campus and upended its leadership. . . . Herman, 67, was the principal enforcer of a shadow admissions system that allowed subpar but well-connected students to get into the state’s premier public school. His resignation follows that of U. of I. President B. Joseph White, and six university trustees also have been replaced in the wake of the scandal.”

BETTING against the dollar.

MORE APPLE NEWS: Apple Releases New Desktops, Unibody MacBook, and Multi-Touch Mouse.

RYAN MAURO: Love him or hate him – the president actually has improved America’s image in the world.

STIMULUS BACKER WALKS BACK SUPPORT after miserable failure at job-creation.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN to be too big to fail?

PROTESTING AN INTERNET TAX in Mexico.

CHUCK SIMMINS: CDC shocker: Swine Flu killing young people at surprising rate.

COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS PROSECUTOR wants to know journalism students’ grades. “Given the number of wrongful convictions in Cook County over the years, Alvarez should probably be more concerned about policing bias among the county’s prosecutors.”

JOHN HINDERAKER: Dems Flee Countrywide Vote.

AFTER YOU UNCLENCH YOUR FIST, you can still cross your fingers.