ROLLING OUT THE NEW PopularMechanics.com website.

PROMISES, promises.

GETTING HIS GOAT: Obama lashes out at Sarah Palin.

If only he hated America’s enemies half as much . . . .

A LIST OF RECOMMENDED SHOWS, from Terry Teachout.

MARKDOWNS ON videogames.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Climate Change As Malthusian Panic Attack. “My guess is that Malthusian panics are part of humanity’s coping mechanism. The problems to which Malthusians point are almost always real problems, but the solutions they advocate are usually not the way out. Malthusians classically go for big interventionist fixes, when humanity’s most efficient method of solving problems is to nibble them to death rather than swallow them whole. Billions of people change their behavior; innovators perceive the economic rewards of addressing a growing problem and little by little, bite by bite, we nibble the problem down to size. In its lunge for the grand global solution, the climate change movement was making the classic Malthusian mistake.” Yeah, but the problem with the bite-by-bite, Army of Davids approach is that it’s not a good source of power for politicians.

IS OUR UNIVERSE a wormhole inside a larger universe?

ROGER SIMON: BREAKING: Obama Administration Denies Visas to Israeli Nuclear Scientists. “This could be yet another flashpoint in the increasingly sensitive relations between the administration, the American Jewish community, and Israel.” Face it, Israelis — he just doesn’t like you that much.

SURVIVAL: Beating the odds in extreme situations.

CHANGING THE WAY WE EAT with “disruptive foods.” I had some pretty disruptive chile rellenos a while back, but that’s not what they’re talking about . . . .

WHAT MAKES A KITCHEN TOOL go viral?

REASON TV: Is California Too Big To Fail?

TIGER WOODS AND JOHN EDWARDS ARE JEALOUS: Bruce Springsteen cheats, and no one seems to care.

HEH.

VIDEO: What everyone needs: A hands-free electric unicycle.

THE BIAS OF veteran journalists.

A WINDOW INTO Amnesty International’s worldview.

HIGH FRUIT AND VEGETABLE CONSUMPTION doesn’t do much to prevent cancer. “People who hate vegetables will be happy about this report.”

RADLEY BALKO: Law enforcement agencies in Northern Virginia say you have no right to know what they’re doing.

STEPHEN L. CARTER: “The president’s announcement that he will not use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear nations has been controversial, but is unlikely to do the nation any harm. Falling behind in the race to develop the next generation of nuclear weapons could be infinitely more dangerous.”

SOUND BULLETS GENERATED BY METAMATERIALS for killing cancers, or submarines.

IN THE MAIL: If You Can Read This: The Philosophy of Bumper Stickers.

REP. THADDEUS MCCOTTER: A Crisis Of Consent.

IRAN THREATENS U.S. TROOPS: They seem kinda worried about something.

MICKEY KAUS ON PRE-SCREENING CANDIDATES FOR “VIABILITY:” “It means we’re always going to get the same person.”