PHIL BOWERMASTER: Should I put my weight loss on my resume?

MY BROTHER AND HIS BANDMATE’S Top Ten Places To Have A Beer.

AT AMAZON, 30% or more off on men’s Dockers pants.

Also, today only, Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF3 12.1MP Interchangeable Lens Camera $314.00 (55% off).

SORRY, CHARLIE: Bill Clinton Abandons Old Ally Charlie Rangel.

BUT DON’T WORRY, IT’S NOT RACIAL: Another gang beating in Baltimore. “In Thursday’s reported assault, Guglielmi said the 19-year-old victim was white and the attackers were all juvenile black males.”

SCIENCE: Singularity University launches synthetic biology accelerator. “The new program will give three initial companies a leg up in getting their startups off the ground. . . . Those companies are Evolutionary Solutions, which is building a genome synthesis device; Modern Meadow, which is using tissue-engineering techniques to generate large amounts of animal protein for textiles and food; and SoilGene, which is blending bioinformatic and metagenomic strategies to ‘survey land opportunities for the natural resources and agricultural sectors’.”

HMM: Forget Greece: China Is The Biggest Risk To The Global Economy.

NILE GARDINER: The UN proposal for a global financial transaction tax is socialism writ large on a world scale. Our horrible global political class should have fewer resources at its disposal, not more.

CONSERVATIVE BLOGS LEARN OF BRETT KIMBERLIN.

HOW CHANGES IN STRAIGHT MARRIAGE paved the way for gay marriage.

THE WISDOM OF Captain Mal Reynolds.

CINEMA: A graphic, unflinching look at the delicate interplay of desire, money and power among European women sex tourists and African gigolos hit the screen yesterday in the Cannes contender “Paradise: Love”.

HEH: Mark Zuckerberg: example of somebody who left Harvard. Elizabeth Warren: example of somebody who stayed there.

TAR. FEATHERS. Gibson Update: Feds Threaten To Raid Summer Concerts To Seize Guitars.

LOWER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Half of Florida high school students fail reading test.

More on the lower education bubble, here.

WISCONSIN: Judge deals setback to state unions on dues withdrawals. “State unions were dealt a setback Friday when a federal judge said they would have to get their members to opt in, rather than opt out, to having the state deduct union dues from their paychecks.”

SPACE-X ROCKET LAUNCH aborted. “The engine ignition sequence for the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket started up at the three-second mark Saturday morning, but the onboard computers automatically shut down. So instead of blasting off on a delivery mission to the space station, the rocket stayed on its launch pad amid a plume of engine exhaust. . . . Tuesday is the earliest that SpaceX can try again to send its cargo-laden Dragon capsule to the space station. The California-based company — formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp. — is targeting every third day for a launch attempt to save fuel in case of rendezvous problems at the space station.” Well, it is rocket science.

A KINDER, GENTLER APPROACH to analyzing nuclear weapons parts.

HOWIE CARR ON ELIZABETH WARREN: If The Moccasin Were On The Other Foot. “But aren’t the rich Trustafarians who want to pretend there’s no story here the very same liberals who supposedly believe so fervently in affirmative action?”

Personally, I’d consider Elizabeth Warren a hero if her intent had been to so thoroughly undermine the “diversity” ideology. Maybe she’s still an accidental hero, sort of. . . .

IN THE UK, the Nanny-State Apocalypse Is Now.