HOW’S THAT SECOND CHAKRA? Two more Gore accusers surface. And I thought this was traditionally a slow news week . . . .

RECOVERY SUMMER! Many Teen Workers Are Going Jobless This Summer.

MICHAEL S. MALONE: AntennaGate And The Future Of Apple.

JAMES DELONG: JournoList As A Management Problem. “The real problem with JournoList is that much of it consisted of exchanges among people who worked for institutions about how to best hijack their employers for the cause of Progressivism. Thus, the J-List discussion revealed yesterday in the Daily Caller was about how the group could get their media organizations to play down the Reverend Wright affair and help elect Barack Obama. Were I an editor of one of these institutions, I would instantly fire any employee who participated in this gross violation of his/her duty. For example, the J-List included Washington Post reporters, and the idea that the paper has been turned into a propaganda organ is a big reason it is bleeding readers and influence. Of course, it is possible that the Post’s editors were on the list, since the membership is not known, in which case the corporate executives should fire the editors, or the board should fire the executives, or the stockholders should fire the board. (If Director Warren Buffet was on J-List, I give up.)”

SISSY WILLIS: NAACP and the Tea Party: Last throes of the fear-and-smear machine?

BYRON YORK: Limbaugh responds to JournoList death wish report.

POLLS: Obama Hits Low In Quinnipiac Approval Rating: “The public relations push at the White House has really flopped. Not only have the economic indicators made a mockery of Joe Biden’s ‘Recovery Summer,’ even Barack Obama’s approval ratings refuse to respond. The latest national survey from Quinnipiac of registered voters give Obama their lowest approval rating of his presidency, 44%, with 48% disapproving.”

LETDOWN: Jay Leno a Chevy Volt intender? Umm… not so much. “As America’s most recognizable celebrity car guy, you might expect that Jay Leno is anxious to put what might be America’s most recognizable and highly anticipated game-changing new car in decades in his Big Dog Garage. Apparently, you’d be wrong. The late night comedian spoke with The Detroit News about the upcoming extended-range electric car and, surprisingly enough, said he doesn’t plan to be one of the first in line to drive away in a 2011 Chevrolet Volt.”

GOING FOR THE GOLD? ABC News: Amendment Slipped Into Health Care Legislation Would Track, Tax Coin and Bullion Transactions.

JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Meet the new JournoList, smaller than the old JournoList.

UPDATE: It Begins: Journolistas Start Preemptive Confessions.

Plus, Enlighten Us, Ezra — Release All the Emails. Otherwise we might get things out of “context.”

WHAT WOMEN think guys look at on the Internet.

THE BLIND LEADING THE BLONDE: A Dating Blog.

PROTECTING HUMANITY FROM UNPLEASANT FUTURES: The Lifeboat Foundation: Battling Asteroids, Nanobots and A.I.

Only the evil nanobots and A.I. I’m on one of their boards. Here’s their website.

A SMALL CIVIL RIGHTS VICTORY: Florida ACLU Gets Sheriff’s Office to Return Man’s Guns. And I love this: “‘Just as a kind of a query, what legal authority does the sheriff or anybody have to walk in to someone’s home and take property?’ [Broward Circuit Judge Dale Ross] said. ‘Don’t we call that, in the business, stealing?’”

ED MORRISSEY: SHOULD SHIRLEY SHERROD GET HER JOB BACK?

UPDATE: Ann Althouse on Ben Jealous’s tendency to leap to conclusions.

IN THE MAIL: From Stephen J. Pyne, Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Green Dreams Die Ugly On Capitol Hill.

IF YOU MISSED IT YESTERDAY, check out my Popular Mechanics column on the War Against Photography.

RACISM TALK: Context For We, But Not For Thee.

RON BAILEY: Got Environmental Problems? Think Government.

The Gulf oil gusher may be capped (for now), but “many of the world’s greatest environmental catastrophes continue, with no end in sight,” according to Foreign Policy magazine. Foreign Policy lists five such catastrophes: Nigerian oil spills, Chinese coal seam fires, Haitian deforestation, desiccation of the Aral Sea, and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

While Foreign Policy identifies five true catastrophes, it fails to grapple with the main problem behind what is causing them. So what does the Gulf oil catastrophe have in common with the five ongoing disasters? The first question you should ask whenever you see someone behaving badly with respect to the stewardship of the natural environment is: What is the government doing that encourages people to act that way? It may turn out that government policies are not at fault, but history shows that it is usually a good place to start.

Indeed. Just look at China or the former Soviet Union. . . .

MICKEY KAUS: “So the Obama White House itself studied whether extended unemployment benefits have discouraged people from going back to work? What did they conclude? It’s hard to believe that long-term unemployment benefits, however justified on humanitarian grounds, don’t discourage people to settle for the jobs that are available. And if stimulus is what we care about–well, you’d think stimulus spending would be most effective if it didn’t come in the form of benefits that required non-work.”

TOM BLUMER: “Chokepoint Charlies:” Universities and Government Bureaucracies.

THE SOUNDS of silence?

WHISTLING PAST the JournoList graveyard: “Leftist writers and pundits have been trying to stroll past the crater left by the Daily Caller’s JournoList bombshell, hands stuffed in their pockets and eyes rigidly forward. . . . The symphony of whistles from the Left as they try to creep past the JournoList graveyard is deafening. It’s not going to work, comrades. This scandal is going to draw blood. Here are a few reasons why the wounds won’t be closing any time soon. . . . For independents who don’t follow politics closely, the JournoList scandal provides a simple, blatantly obvious narrative about fraud and propaganda. A sizable segment of the ‘journalist’ population stands revealed as sputtering extremists, who talk about killing stories and destroying people’s lives to protect their favored political candidate.” Sure makes reports like this 2004 story on Iraq seem a lot more plausible, doesn’t it?

Plus this: “The public is looking for ways to forget it voted for Obama. A narrative of fraud and deception is building around the 2008 election, as the polls for this disastrous presidency plummet. People who don’t want to admit they voted for Obama have an appetite for believing they were tricked into doing so. Laying blame at the feet of a media they increasingly distrust will be very attractive. . . . I don’t think it’s healthy, or desirable, for the public to let itself off the hook so easily. America must fully understand the Obama mistake to ensure it is never repeated. However, I can see why people would prefer to embrace a simpler explanation.”

A WORD OF THANKS to four black men and a gun.