DRILLING: Hitting a Tiny Bull’s-Eye Miles Under the Gulf.

POLL: 62% of Canadians, 70% of Toronto residents say hosting G20 was a mistake.

WAR AGAINST PHOTOGRAPHY (CONT’D)? We were permanently banned from the Miami-Dade Metrorail for taking photos.

STEVEN DEN BESTE: The Paranoid Answer. Actually, the reason the oil cleanup is so slow is that there’s no oil spill at all. Oil’s just a cover story. It’s really aliens on the seafloor. That’s why the press is being kept away, and that’s why they’re preparing the public by floating stories about the possibility of nuking the site. Those skimmer ships aren’t cleaning things up, they are actually releasing oil to support the cover story. That’s why they’ve found lame excuses to keep volunteers and foreign assistance away. It’s all obvious once you think about it! Wake up, sheeple!

UPDATE: I mean, come on. You’ve seen this movie already:

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services set up the facility on May 31. According to a press release, the medical unit is staffed by “a medical team from the HHS National Disaster Medical System — a doctor, two nurses, two emergency medical technician paramedics (EMT-P) and a pharmacist.”

For over two weeks, my NewsHour colleagues and I reached out to media contacts at HHS, the U.S. Coast Guard and everyone listed as a possible media contact for BP, in an attempt to visit the unit and get a general sense of how many people were being treated there , who they were and what illnesses they had. We got nowhere. It was either “access denied,” or no response at all. It was something that none of us had ever encountered while covering a disaster.

That’s because it’s not a disaster. But ignore Moe Lane’s disinformation. He’s obviously in on the plot, and trying to muddy the waters. But the truth is out there!

ANOTHER UPDATE: I’m sure this fits in somehow. “SIGA Technologies, Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!siga/quotes/nls/siga (SIGA 7.92, +0.27, +3.53%) , a company specializing in the development of pharmaceutical agents to combat bio-warfare pathogens, announced today that Andy Stern, labor leader and prominent advocate for reform, joined SIGA’s board of directors. Mr. Stern is the former president of Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the largest and fastest-growing healthcare union in North America. ”

MORE: What’s the best round against aliens? I favor the .300 Win Mag personally. At close range, shotguns are good.

STILL MORE: Further support for the alien theory: First Oil, Now Bombs: All Sorts Of Cool Stuff Washing Up On Alabama Beaches. “The device is disk-shaped and about 3 feet wide and appears to weigh about 500 lbs. It was found in the surfline. Crews have cordoned off about 30 yards of beach with construction fence.”

L.A. TIMES: Obama and Supreme Court may be on collision course.

CLIMATE UPDATE: Dutch Agency Admits Mistake in Climate Report. “A leading Dutch environmental agency, taking the blame for one of the glaring errors that undermined the credibility of a seminal U.N. report on climate change, said Monday it has discovered more small mistakes and urged the panel to be more careful.”

JOHN HINDERAKER: “Basically, Tea Partiers are people who have a more sophisticated understanding of current events than those who describe themselves as anti-Tea Party.”

MARKDOWNS ON headphones and earbuds.

THOUGHTS ON FREE WILL, SCIENCE, AND POLITICS, from the Insta-Wife.

Related: “Another manifestation of that trendy liberal theme: Choice won’t make you happy.” Unless it’s, you know, choice-choice, in which case it’s sacred.

UPDATE: Reader Donald Gately writes: “I’ve also noticed that AP has been running a series of ‘Americans are medically over-treated’ stories.” I question the timing.

GAIA’S REVENGE: SUV hits an eco-friendly mass transit bus, careens into a greenhouse. And, of course, there’s a huge heat wave in the Northeast. The Goddess is angry. Probably because of the Al Gore “sex poodle” incident. I guess we’d better push him into a volcano or something to appease her.

LIFE AMONG THE BARBARIANS: The Not-So-Charmed Life of Harry Potter Actress Afshan Azad.

AT AMAZON, summer gardening essentials.

FACING the Hotness Gap.

GOING MAINSTREAM: Tea party gatherings on the Fourth mix the educational and the patriotic.

CAN SHOPPING cause impotence?

ERIC SCHEIE: Guns Don’t Kill People, But Ideas Do? “This post was not my idea. M. Simon made me do it.”

INVESTING IN PRE-IPO NANOTECH FIRMS gets harder.

REASON TV: An interview with Adam Bellow about New Threats to Freedom, in which I have a chapter along with such other folks as Richard Epstein, David Mamet, Christopher Hitchens, Anne Applebaum, et al.

BP UPDATE: Hundreds Of Gulf Swimmers Complain Of Illness.

ED MORRISSEY ON Michael Douglas, McDonald, and the fruits of political activism.

UPDATE: Related: DailyKos: Why Liberals Should Love The Second Amendment.

POLITICO: Democrats Fear End Of New York Gravy Train. “Some Democrats called it the worst period for fundraising they’ve experienced in the New York area since 1994, the infamous midterm cycle after Bill Clinton was elected president but quickly became a lightning rod for Republicans and a disappointment to some of his own backers.”

UPDATE: “Ideas have consequences, and so do attitudes.”

DAN MITCHELL: “The fault line in American politics is often not between Republicans and Democrats, but rather between taxpayers and the Washington political elite.”

KEEPING IN TOUCH WITH THE COMMON PEOPLE: The White House now has a beekeeper. “The idea for a White House hive came up not long after the Obamas moved in.”

STIMULUS, SCHMIMULUS: Plenty of Schock, Very Little Awe at Mandatory Obama Signage.

THE FERRIS BUELLER CAST: Where Are They Now? (Via LikeTotally80s.com).