IN SWEDEN, a looser definition of masculinity. Except among the muslim immigrants.

PAM GELLER MAY SUE PAYPAL FOR CALLING HER BLOG A “HATE SITE.”

AT AMAZON, Warehouse Deals.

CRATERING ON everything the public cares about.

BP: “I knew these guys were cooked when they changed their name from British Petroleum to ‘BP’ — and then spread the insane story that they were now ‘beyond petroleum — the first green global energy company.’”

NOT TRUSTING OBAMA, Karzai hedges his bets.

NOBODY TELL LEON KASS.

He’d disapprove.

PRIORITIES: “A recent Gallup poll shows the mounting debt tops American fears and yet Congress continues to pursue legislation that would deepen the debt crisis.”

I DUNNO, THE TAIWANESE SNAKE-PENIS DRINK WAS PRETTY DISGUSTING: Tarantula cocktail – the worst cocktail ever? Really, just some straight Tullamore Dew, or maybe a Beefeater’s and tonic is just fine.

FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES: The Obama Justice Department went to bat for the New Black Panther party—and then covered it up. “With Adams’s resignation and letter, a clearer picture is finally emerging of what led to the dismissal of the case, the actions of DoJ political appointees, the department’s misrepresentations about the case, and the Obama administration’s approach to civil rights enforcement.”

SO MUCH FOR THAT PROMISE ABOUT KEEPING YOUR OWN HEALTH CARE: ObamaCare will kill 51% of companies’ health plans. “Internal White House documents reveal that 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage by 2013 due to ObamaCare. That numbers soars to 66% for small-business employers.”

LAW SCHOOL: A GREAT WAY TO KILL TIME? But who’s the chick in the photo? She looks familiar. . . .

A BP SHAREHOLDER FATCAT speaks out.

MARK STEYN on shaped news vs. the real world.

WELL, DUH: Social networking popular among boomers. And the Twitter demographic is older than Facebook’s. Blogs, on the other hand, are favored mostly by those who are young and hip. And good looking!

FRINGE MEDICINE: Stem-cell Tourism.

CAR LUST: The Mercury Marauder.

BUT OF COURSE: POLITICO: Environmentalists give Barack Obama a pass on oil spill.

Some say there’s little doubt that if a spill like the one in the Gulf took place on former President George W. Bush’s watch, environmental groups would have unleashed an unsparing fury on the Republican in the White House. For their liberal ally, Obama, they seem willing to hold their tongues.

“These guys have bet the farm on this administration,” said Ted Nordhaus, chairman of an environmental think tank, the Breakthrough Institute. “There has been a real hesitancy to criticize this administration out of a sense that they’re kind of the only game in town. … These guys are so beholden to this administration to move their agenda that I think they’re unwilling to criticize them.”

Environmentalists, like feminists, are just another arm of the Democratic establishment: “running dogs” to be loosed or reined in as politics require. It is thus unnecessary to pay attention to what they say, since it’s just politics anyway.

STEVEN DEN BESTE: What A Difference A Year Makes. Yeah, the magic’s gone away.

I DON’T THINK IT USED TO BE THIS LUCRATIVE: Life In A Harem.

GULF OIL SPILL UPPING PRICE FOR DOMESTIC SHRIMP.

TODAY ONLY: 60% off men’s dress pants.

CHANGE: Did a ‘sleeper’ field awake to expand the universe?

OIL FLOW strains the system.

YOUTUBE PULLS “WE CON THE WORLD” VIDEO, but it’s rehosted elsewhere. YouTube’s reputation, on the other hand, takes another hit. Perhaps the perception is inaccurate, but people on the right are beginning to feel that YouTube can’t be trusted. If I were YouTube, I’d be trying to address that somehow.

UPDATE: Ed Driscoll blames Warner.

Warner Brothers of course, are the second half of the business entity Time-Warner, which also owns as part of its conglomeration of businesses CNN. In 2009, CNN tried to claim a copyright violation over the video shot by an individual of the Tea Partiers grilling then CNN “reporter” Susan Roesgen, until the guys at Founding Bloggers fought for their clip to be restored at YouTube.

And that’s what a lot of this is all about: by claiming copyright violations real or imagined, Warners and other entities can get clips pulled from the Internet’s largest host of videos for several weeks or months. These videos frequently wind up on smaller sites of course (such as the aforementioned Eyeblast), and those who initiate claims against them often lose their battles, if the video makers are prepared to fight back. But by then, much of the news value of these sorts of clips has dissipated.

So that’s at least three conservative clips pulled by Time-Warner-related entities. As a certain A. Goldfinger once said, “Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: ‘Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.”

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Related: PayPal cutting off Pam Geller? [Later: A couple of readers wonder if this will hurt Meg Whitman’s candidacy. Someone should ask her . . . ]

ANOTHER UPDATE: An entertainment-lawyer reader thinks that Google/YouTube may well be innocent in this, and notes that Warner Music hasn’t been part of Time Warner for several years. I’ve also heard, unofficially, from InstaPundit readers who work at YouTube who say they’re caught between a rock and a hard place on these takedown notices. May I suggest that YouTube should reach out to rightbloggers — officially, not just through employees who happen to read blogs — and talk about this?