THE DARK AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL: Stephen Green on James Webb on race in America. “Webb’s column is a virtual declaration of war on President Obama — at a time when Obama’s head must be already spinning after two weeks of racial strife from the NAACP and Andrew Breitbart. And a ‘recovery summer’ that’s anything but.”

SPITZER TELESCOPE FINDS first-ever buckyballs in space.

IN CONNECTICUT: John Galt In Skirts?

SITTING IS BAD FOR YOU: Get Out Of Your Chair Or Die. “We did not evolve to sit. Just like there’s a Paleo Diet to bring us back to the diet evolved to eat we need Paleo Furniture for our workplaces. Office chairs should be relabeled death chairs.”

ROGER SIMON ON THE BORINGNESS OF RACE-TALK.

KCRW CHANNELS MONTY PYTHON in the course of defending Sarah Spitz’s Limbaugh-death-wish email. Not many people will swallow Spitz’s defense, I’m guessing.

JOHN NOLTE TO EZRA KLEIN: Put Up Or Shut Up. “Please, Ezra, if dirt is being done, please release the full archives so we can all the see the full context in all its fully contextual glory.”

UPDATE: Jonah Goldberg: JournoList Is A Symptom, Not The Disease.

DON SURBER: Hey, McClatchy, fact-check Biden. “What readers got was something from a JournoList, not a journalist.” There’s a lot of that going around.

JAMES TARANTO: David Frum Is Silly: Does he really think Dan Rather was the liberal Andrew Breitbart?

Are we to believe that Ben Jealous thought Breitbart was what Dan Rather, before his fall, claimed to be–an impartial and reliable purveyor of facts? In the unlikely event that the answer to that question is yes, doesn’t his failure to know better reflect a stunning incompetence?

No, you can’t cheat an honest man. Breitbart set a trap for the NAACP, and the NAACP walked right into it. He was able to do so because he correctly identified the organization’s moral weakness. Confronted by a video showing apparent racism at an NAACP function, its leaders appear to have panicked and made a snap decision to denounce one of their own so as to pre-empt the charge of employing a double standard.

It was a very effective bit of Alinskyite political theater, and in a way more so for Breitbart’s having gotten the story wrong. As it turned out, the NAACP condemned Shirley Sherrod based on a false, secondhand accusation of racism. Members of the Tea Party movement know just how she feels.

And when the Tea Party was facing false accusations David Frum joined the pile-on. So spare me the notion that he’s a voice for journalistic ethics.

VIDEO: Journolist’s success in setting the message.

SHIRLEY SHERROD, BENEATH THE HEADLINES: “CNN is strongly pushing the notion that Shirley Sherrod is a uniter, dedicated to bringing people together. However, her rhetoric beneath the headlines hardly supports that conclusion. . . . I’ve seen people, including some on the Right, claiming Sherrod deserves an apology from Andrew Breitbart. Fair enough, though I disagree. But I wonder, will those same truth seekers call on Sherrod to apologize for charging that, what Breitbart really wants is a genuine return to slavery? Or, shall we assume that the apology seekers actually agree with her? Come on, pundits. Don’t let your inkwells go dry, now. This is just getting fun. . . . Sorry, friends. But when I look below the headlines at the real Shirley Sherrod, as opposed to the fast spun media myth – I think I see her for what she really is. And it’s a very clear portrait painted in sharp contrasts between black and white. Far from bringing the races together in America, the Shirley Sherrods of the world accomplish nothing but maintaining any distance, if not actually driving them apart. It’s amazing how the conditions for having sainthood bestowed upon oneself have changed over the years.”

Maybe someone should ask Sen. James Webb (D-Va) to weigh in.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Reader Rob Cantor writes: “Shirley Sherrod has become a constant presence on TV. The White House ought to get Vernon Jordan to find her a job in the private sector, because she’s giving off definite Cindy Sheehan vibes. The question is, will she attempt the rare Full Ginsburg?“

HAPPY National Hot Dog Month.

INTERESTING: Elton John Hatching ‘Animal Farm’ Musical.

WHEN WOMEN CHEAT, it’s men’s fault. Everything is.

PROTECT YOUR CASH WHILE TRAVELING using the multi-stash method.

LEAF FAR FROM SOLD-OUT, Nissan Encourages More Pre-Orders. Huh. I put down my $99 pre-order fee (heck, it’s refundable) but while they promised me I’d hear how to order one by June 30, all I’ve gotten is pointless promotional spam.

SPENCER ACKERMAN’S FLAIR for “imaginary keyboard violence.” “I have no idea how widespread this fantasy psycho behavior was at the Journolist, or how well it was received. Maybe the Daily Caller could sift their archives and run some denunciations of these sorts of posting. These libs spent years deploring Bush’s macho cowboy act and declared it to be the end of Western Civilization when Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded, so I would like to hope that one or two pushed back against the plate glass window smashing and heart attack eye-bugging.”

HOW YOU CAN GROW A GARDEN In A 5-Gallon Drywall Bucket.

IN THE MAIL: Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History.

PAUL HSIEH: Donald Berwick, the Pro-Gun Control Lobby, and Paternalism.

UPDATE: Reader Charles Quinn writes: “I read the link you gave about Mr. Berwick @ 10:46 am. One sentence stands out. ‘Berwick has explicitly called for doctors to relinquish their ‘clinician autonomy’ and instead follow standardized government treatment guidelines.’ This sentence cuts right at the heart of Roe vs. Wade does it not? Didn’t that case enshrine into the Constitution that government make not interfere in the relationship between a woman and her doctor? Wouldn’t it be the supreme irony if the Supreme Court, or an inferior court for that matter, struck down Obamacare using Roe vs. Wade as a precedent? The agony for the right and the left would be excruciating.”

COORDINATION: Obama Journolist Operative Invited Other Journolistas to White House. “So… An Obama campaign operative interacted on the Journolist with sympathetic media types in the run-up to the election, and then rewarded favored Journolistas with a visit to the White House. Nothing to see here, move along.”

WALTER SHAPIRO: The Shirley Sherrod Saga: Lessons From Bureaucratic Blunders. “Playing the role of Inspector Clouseau was Tom Vilsack, a former two-term governor of Iowa, who briefly was an active 2008 presidential candidate. For all of his executive experience and soaring ambition, Vilsack and his henchwoman, deputy undersecretary Cheryl Cook, made every wrong decision in a reign of error that produced Sherrod’s forced resignation.”

THE SUDDENLY-UNDERSTOOD IMPORTANCE OF CONTEXT: Waiting For Some Apologies.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: GOP Spoiling For A Fight Over Berwick Appointment.

POLLING: Obama Era Makes Clinton, Bush Look Better.