IT’S A MYSTERY: What’s Perez Hilton’s problem with women’s crotches?

JESSICA WAKEMAN: “A man who can provide for me and our children is just much more attractive to me.”

BUILDING THE WORLD’S LARGEST TELESCOPE, a mile under the Antarctic ice.

JUST WHAT AMERICA NEEDS: More food rules from “experts.”

I WONDER IF THIS WOULD WORK FOR ME? Flirting For Favors.

AT AMAZON, it’s the Friday Sale.

JIM GERAGHTY: If Weigel Had to Go, What Other MSM Figures Wrote Terrible Things on Journo-List?

UPDATE: Michael Walsh on the Weigel flap.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Weigel to HuffPo.

MORE: A roundup at Reason, including a report that Journolist is shutting down. But then, so did the Townhouse list that preceded Journolist . . . .

And what will happen to the Journolist archives?

STILL MORE: Rand Paul?

Plus, questions from the other Rand.

FINALLY: Sorry — “Townhouse” list. And I hear it’s still going on.

IN JUST A FEW MINUTES: The Ed Morrissey Show.

WHO’S “HEARTLESS” NOW?

TEST-DRIVING the new Saab 9-5 Aero XWD.

FOREIGN CENTRAL BANKS going for the gold?

ROGER SIMON: AL GORE JUMPS 25 SHARKS. Is it “Cap and Trade” or “Cap and Rough Trade”?

JOBS: Private Sector Losses vs. Public Sector Gains. “Since the beginning of the recession (roughly January 2008), some 7.9 million jobs were lost in the private sector while 590,000 jobs were gained in the public one. And since the passage of the stimulus bill (February 2009), over 2.6 million private jobs were lost, but the government workforce grew by 400,000. I will leave it up to you to draw conclusions.”

POLL: Have you ever thought of Al Gore as a “sex-crazed poodle?”

Related: Portland massage therapist who accused Al Gore of groping confided in a friend shortly after the 2006 incident.

POLITICO: Why the Weigel mess is the Post’s fault.

UPDATE: Hot Air: “I’m actually surprised and disappointed that the Post didn’t do more to defend Dave in this instance. The real problem, as I note above, is the lack of balance in the paper’s approach, and not any of the reporting that Weigel has done.”

Will Collier: “I still don’t think Weigel’s obnoxious JournoList rants were a firing offense, although failing to disclose his membership in Ezra Klein’s invitation-only Leftie club was a much more serious offense against Weigel’s readership. That said, I can understand why Weigel would leave at this point, and why the Post wouldn’t argue with him. Prior to yesterday, Weigel could claim to be something other than just another hostile Leftie journalist thanks to his previous stint at Reason. Once the mask was ripped off, though, the odds that anybody to the right of David Gergen would take Weigel’s calls dropped to somewhere around absolute zero.”

MORE: Jeffrey Goldberg: An Unhappy Day At The Washington Post.

Put aside the controversy over whether the Post, which was advised by its star blogger, Ezra Klein (who once advised parties unknown, via his Twitter account, to “fuck tim russert. fuck him with a spiky acid-tipped dick”) that Weigel would do an excellent and balanced job of reporting on conservatives, even understood that it was hiring a liberal, and not a conservative (Ben Smith has more on this aspect of the controversy), the issue in the newsroom today is, How did the Post come to this?

“How could we destroy our standards by hiring a guy stupid enough to write about people that way in a public forum?” one of my friends at the Post asked me when we spoke earlier today. “I’m not suggesting that many people on the paper don’t lean left, but there’s leaning left, and then there’s behaving like an idiot.”

I gave my friend the answer he already knew: The sad truth is that the Washington Post, in its general desperation for page views, now hires people who came up in journalism without much adult supervision, and without the proper amount of toilet-training.

I think there’s a shortage of adults to do the supervision. Plus, A Teachable Moment: If You Want Friends, Get A Dog.

CHEVY VOLT BUYERS will get extra-long OnStar subscriptions.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Researchers Create Self-Assembling Nanodevices That Move and Change Shape on Demand.

BRIAN NOGGLE looks at the bright side of a “double-dip” recession. Gee, thanks Brian.

SHOULD EVERYONE DRIVE an algae-fueled Prius? Well, maybe in China.

RON BAILEY: On Being a 21st Century Peasant. The people who want us to be peasants imagine themselves as the nobles.

BLURRING THE LINE between amateur and professional. Hey, somebody should write a book on that!

SEEMS UNNECESSARY: Dave Weigel resigns. Unless there’s more we haven’t heard.

UPDATE: Various readers suggest that the email-leaker was after Dave’s job. I think the WaPo should have a no-journolister rule for Weigel’s replacement, which would solve that problem, among others.

JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN: Debt Greatest Threat To National Security.

IN THE MAIL: Soccer, the Left, & the Farce of Multiculturalism.

MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: Full Frontal Stalinism: Deciding Who Counts as a Feminist.