JOHN SCALZI: You know, I like being the places I am going. It’s the going there that wears on me. Some rich guy should give each Hugo Award winner a jetcard or something . . . .

LOOKING FOR WAR ON TERROR NEWS? Be sure to check out Fred Pruitt’s Rantburg.

TOO MUCH: Glitch shows how much US military relies on GPS.

MARKDOWNS ON TomTom GPS.

JENNIFER RUBIN: Why Shouldn’t Helen Thomas Be Expelled from the White House Press Corps? Because she’s a lefty, of course. Duh.

MY SUNDAY WASHINGTON EXAMINER COLUMN IS UP: Higher Education Bubble Is About To Burst. (Bumped.)

ERDOGAN WILL SAIL TO THE BRINK: “This is not a game theory scenerio. This is real.”

WATCHING California wind power output.

HOW TO BE A HEGEMON.

REMEMBERING D-DAY, 66 Years Ago.

MARKOS THINKS TURKS ARE ARABS? Well, it was live TV, so perhaps he just misspoke. It’s common for uninformed Westerners to use “Arab” as a synonym for “Muslim,” which is probably what he meant.

UPDATE: Did Markos Moulitsas Sleep Through Lawrence Of Arabia?

WASTED TIME ONLINE WITH AT&T DSL HELP THIS MORNING, problem didn’t get fixed. Now online again, being told that they’re experiencing “unusually heavy call volume.” Er, maybe because they didn’t fix the problem?

UPDATE: An hour on the phone and I’m told that the problem is at their end, but they can’t do anything because “the engineering department is closed.” So I should call back tomorrow. Jeez. Any recommendations as to a new Internet provider? My choices are basically Comcast, Knology, TDS Telecom, and I’m not sure who else.

ANOTHER UPDATE: How am I blogging now? Backup wireless broadband. It’s not that easy to keep me off the Internet!

HMM: Two N.J. men arrested at JFK airport before boarding plane to join Islamist terrorist group, authorities say.

THE JERSEY SHORE: A “Herpes Nest”?

MAGIC WORDS: “YOU ARE SO HOT.” Really?

IN THE MAIL: From David Williams, The Machinery of Light, the third in his Autumn Rain trilogy.

IF YOU MISSED IT ON SIRIUS/XM SATELLITE RADIO, the latest PJM Political is now online. With an exclusive interview with Senate Candidate Mickey Kaus!

MICHAEL BARONE: Oil slick, joblessness may stymie Dems’ rebound. “The Democrats’ stimulus package kept many unionized public employees on the job. But, as liberal economists Paul Krugman and Robert Reich have pointed out, it has not done much to stimulate private-sector job creation. Maybe the contrary. We may be seeing something like the ‘capital strike’ of the late 1930s, when investors and entrepreneurs held onto their money and refrained from creating jobs because of high tax rates and intrusive government. Meanwhile, the Obama Democrats’ legislative agenda threatens recovery.”

SO IS THIS THE HOPE, OR THE CHANGE? Disturbing Job Ads: ‘The Unemployed Will Not Be Considered.’ “Still waiting for a response to the 300 resumés you sent out last month? Bad news: Some companies are ignoring all unemployed applicants.”

So does this open an economic niche for people who provide fake jobs for unemployed applicants?

ASSESSING the Chrysler bankruptcy.