AND YET, NOW HE’S UNDER THE BUS: McChrystal The Liberal. “The story about him voting for Obama is not contrived. He is a political liberal. He is a social liberal. He banned Fox News from the television sets in his headquarters. Yes, really. This puts to rest another false rumor: that McChrystal deliberately precipitated his firing because he wants to run for President.”

THE INJUSTICE OF “social justice.”

CHANGE: “Is the ‘shabby chic’ trend coming back? Because I lived through that in the 1970s — and stayed clear of it myself — and it goes to a terrible place where you do not want to go.”

SHOCKER: NBC/WSJ poll: Americans losing faith in Obama.

FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL vs. the Second Amendment.

MARKDOWNS ON men’s shorts.

UPDATE: A reader emails: “Don’t tell Ann Althouse.” Heh.

BAD IDEA: Attacks On The Electoral College Gain Momentum.

WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON: Obama Takes Petraeus Out Of 2012 Race. “Obama has reason to be delighted with himself right now: He has sacked a recalcitrant big-mouth; he has entrusted said big-mouth’s job to a certified hero and military star; and he’s taken that star out of contention for 2012, making his own re-election that much more likely, given the headless turkey that is currently the GOP.”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: McChrystal’s Tragedy.

LUCKILY, THIS COULD NEVER HAPPEN HERE: “The head of Canada’s spy agency says foreign governments have infiltrated Canadian politics, CBC News reported Tuesday night.”

XENI JARDIN tests out video recording on the iPhone 4. Amazing video for a phone, and good sound, too.

KEVIN RUDD WILL BE MISSED BY FEW: Julia Gillard is Australia’s new Prime Minister.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY: 7th-Graders Discover Mysterious Cave on Mars. “A group of seventh-graders in California has discovered a mysterious cave on Mars as part of a research project to study images taken by a NASA spacecraft orbiting the red planet. The 16 students from teacher Dennis Mitchell’s 7th-grade science class at Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood, Calif., found what looks to be a Martian skylight — a hole in the roof of a cave on Mars.”

ROGER KIMBALL: No Representation Without Taxation.

MARKDOWNS ON point-and-shoot digital cameras.

REASON TV: Sweden: A Supermodel For America?

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, THOUGHT POLICE WOULD ARREST PEOPLE FOR PASSING OUT LITERATURE THAT OFFENDED RELIGOUS FUNDAMENTALISTS. AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Video: Cops arrest Christians for handing out gospel at Dearborn Arab festival?

JAMES TARANTO offers some racial perspective to the Associated Press.

MARK TAPSCOTT: Big Government Is Dying In The Gulf Oil Spill. Well, regulators droppped the ball and let it happen, and now all the king’s horses and all the king’s men can’t seem to plug that hole . . . .

OH, GOOD GRIEF: Al Gore implicated in sex assault on Portland masseuse.

UPDATE: More on the case here. I’m underwhelmed, but if he were a Republican this would be a huge scandal and proof of the entire party’s hypocrisy on sexual morality or something.

ANOTHER UPDATE: On Facebook: “He wanted her to warm his globe.”

MORE: Reader Heather McFarlane writes: “You may be underwhelmed, but I am not. Gore, according to the masseus’s description, is not only deeply weird, but also a thug who committed a sexual assault upon that woman. As far as I am concerned, that is serious stuff.” If true. Stay tuned.

TUNKU VARADARAJAN: Are the World Cup Refs Against the U.S.?

MORE PEOPLE ARE HAVING SEX, but fewer single people are using protection. That seems unwise.

FASTER, PLEASE: Scientists Crack Chemical Code that Controls Bacterial Swarms.

IS THERE A growing geek iPhone backlash?

SERVING UP “a yummy plate of Eliot Spitzer.”