L.A. TIMES: After 18 months of Obama, Americans already feeling fonder of Dick Cheney, less so of Al Gore. Huh. Maybe somebody can, er, massage the numbers a bit . . . .

TEN SIMPLE THINGS men want.

AGAIN: Congressman Rothman Loses His Cool at Town Hall Meeting. “Not true.”

ANOTHER DOCTOR running for Congress in response to ObamaCare.

IT COULD WORK! Now Al Qaeda is racist? Next up, we accuse them of sexism! “I am not sure whether Obama is dumb enough to believe this, or simply hopes his audience is dub enough to believe it. But in this YouTube age, our media-savvy Pres has to know that he can’t deliver laugh lines to South African television without seeing them all over the world.”

But Sissy Willis has figured out that it’s all about domestic American politics: If Tea Partiers = Racist, and Terrorists = Racist, then Tea Partiers = Terrorists? Haven’t they tried that one already? It’s pretty early in the term to be repeating the playbook. But it’s not like they’ve got many plays in there . . . .

I’M A LITTLE LATE TO THIS, BUT HERE’S Brendan Loy’s obituary for Seablogger Alan Sullivan.

I BLAME THOSE RACIST TEA PARTIERS: “An Aryan Glow From Head To Toes.”

DEALS AT the Amazon Outlet Store.

HMM: Scholar’s libel suit proceeds against Southern Poverty Law Center. It’s hard for me to believe that the Armenian genocide didn’t happen, but it’s easy for me to believe that the SPLC issued an off-the-cuff smear.

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE: I’m Not Kingsfield, And I’m Proud.

NEW SNIPER TOOL: Anatomy of an M24 Remington Bolt-Action Rifle.

AT AMAZON, it’s the Summer Toy Sale.

INSTAVISION: I talk with Mark Levin about the collapse of the Welfare State, the state of the Department of Justice, and what Tea Partiers and others should do between now and November.

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HOW OBAMA is like the iPhone 4.

JAMES JOYCE was a geek?

A KEY SENATE SPACE VOTE TOMORROW: An urgent call to action from Rand Simberg and others.

WAS MYSPACE THE VICTIM OF “White Flight?” I dunno, crappy design and rampant viruses and spam may have had something to do with it too. My daughter, who is largely white, preferred it to Facebook, though, because she could code her own page.

I love this comment, though: “Compared to Facebook, MySpace just seems like the other side of the tracks – I’ll go there for fun, but I wouldn’t want to live there.”

MORE THOUGHTS ON PICKUP ARTISTS. But once again, the really interesting stuff is in the comments.

THIS WOULD SEEM TO HAVE OBVIOUS DISASTER-RESPONSE IMPLICATIONS: New project enables mobile phone use in areas with no reception.

The project includes two systems that can operate separately or be combined. One is specifically for disaster areas, and consists of a temporary, self-organizing and self-powered mobile phone network that operates via small phone towers dropped into the area by aircraft.

The second system consists of a permanent mesh-based phone network between Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones, with no tower infrastructure required. Eventually, the system will also include the “Batphone,” which will be a specially designed phone able to operate on other unlicensed frequencies.

The systems use open-source software developed by the team and dubbed Distributed Numbering Architecture (DNA). The software allows mobile phones to make calls out and receive calls on their existing numbers. The mesh network technology was developed by Village Telco and is integrated with the software to create a mesh network in which each phone acts as an independent router. . . . Dr Gardner-Stephen said the system could be operational within 18 months provided the project receives adequate funding. He said his dream was for every mobile phone to be equipped with the system so that if there is a disaster all the phones in the region will automatically switch to the mesh network mode of operation as a fallback.

Read the whole thing.

REASON TV: Obscenity and Free Speech.

CHANGE: 5 Ways The New CAFE Rules Will Change The Way We Drive.

MANKIND’S DREAM: A burger made entirely out of bacon.

FASTER, PLEASE: Gene Therapy Trains Immune Cells Against Cancer. “Some day you’ll be able to get your immune cells reprogrammed to go on hunter killer attack missions against tumors.”

CHANGE: Washington, DC now not only the seat of government, but the richest city in America.

CLIVE CROOK IN THE ATLANTIC: Climategate and the Big Green Lie. “I had hoped, not very confidently, that the various Climategate inquiries would be severe. This would have been a first step towards restoring confidence in the scientific consensus. But no, the reports make things worse. At best they are mealy-mouthed apologies; at worst they are patently incompetent and even wilfully wrong. The climate-science establishment, of which these inquiries have chosen to make themselves a part, seems entirely incapable of understanding, let alone repairing, the harm it has done to its own cause. . . . I am glad to see The Economist, which I criticized for making light of the initial scandal, taking a balanced view of these unsatisfactory proceedings.”