FOR THE BLACK PANTHER CASE, a media blackout.

BLOGGINGHEADS: Megan McArdle on the joys of nerd marriage.

Plus, a nerd honeymoon: A man, a woman, an Xbox.

WISCONSIN DISTRICT ATTORNEY takes broad view of Second Amendment.

It’s nice to see this civil rights revolution gaining steam . . . ..

JOBS AMERICANS WON’T CAN’T DO.

TIM CAVANAUGH: California Still Going Off the Rails On a Crazy Train.

WHAT IS THE TEA PARTY? “A growing state of mind.” Emphasis on the “growing.”

PROTECTING MAYOR DALEY: “Since 2003 the city has paid some $7 million in legal fees to fight five police torture lawsuits it probably can’t win. The latest turn in this saga involves a secret settlement agreement designed to protect Daley.”

CNN: The feds are trying to block media coverage of how bad the oil spill is. Hope, change, and transparency!

A STRANGE DEFINITION OF “public domain.”

QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Does the Madison Police Department understand the meaning of the word ‘genitalia’?

SUPERSONIC JETS without the sonic boom.

FROM RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE TO MERELY EXPENSIVE: 40% off Tag Heuer watches.

TESTOSTERONE GEL INCREASES HEART RISKS. At least in older men with diabetes, etc. Speculation: “The problem is that as we age lots of mechanisms have gone so awry that stimulating them just causes them to go wrong faster. Though another recent study found that ovary transplants improve the health of aged female mice. Those ovaries pump out a lot of hormones and yet they deliver a net benefit. Maybe the reason the transplants deliver a net benefit is that the ovaries excrete multiple kinds of hormones and with hormone release patterns optimized to improve health. Internal organs have complex regulatory mechanisms. Whereas testosterone gels are not released in ways that precisely mimic what the brain will do.”

SUPERMODELS, then and now.

TIP: Use Scotch Tape or Nail Polish to Relieve an Itchy Mosquito Bite.

GULF SPILL UPDATE: WH Admits Missed Oil Containment Deadline Missed.

Related: Volunteers Beached In Gulf By Feds? “Over 20,000 people have offered assistance in on-shore cleanup efforts in the region, but only a sixth of those have been put to work. . . . The cleanup effort has run aground, and it’s a failure of leadership. Small wonder House Democrats blocked its members from traveling to the Gulf to see the situation for themselves and the White House is blocking media access.”

VIDEO: Swarm of maggots forces plane to land. “There was no explanation given for why someone wanted to transport rotten meat or how the TSA screeners missed the live insects but won’t let anyone else through security with 4 ounces of contact solution.”

AT AMAZON, it’s the Friday Sale.

REASON TV: 3 Reasons The New Financial Regs Won’t Fix Anything.

EXPLAINING THINGS to Lindsey Graham.

WHY IS GAS so cheap now?

SCOTT ELLIOTT: So What’s Wrong with Research 2000’s Polling? “Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas Zúniga is suing the polling company for fabricating results. What were the tip-offs that led to R-2000’s downfall?”

AN INTERVIEW with Vox Day on his new and cheerful book, The Return of the Great Depression.

THE SCARIEST JOB CHART EVER gets uglier.

BILL ARDOLINO SENDS photos from Afghanistan.