CATERINA FAKE EXPLAINS what to do in an emergency.

DAVID BROOKS goes after the “netroots.”

MAYBE IT’S BLOG SWEEPS MONTH: Power Line is blogging about beauty pageantry, and Amit Varma has more on bikinis. And the history of south Indian porn.

A PYTHON STRATEGY AGAINST NORTH KOREA: And if you were offline this weekend and missed it, check out our podcast interview with Austin Bay and Jim Dunnigan, which spends a lot of time on North Korea and the surrounding region.

STAKING OUT ON ANTHILLS SHOULD BE RESERVED FOR THE VERY CLEVEREST: Cory Doctorow looks at the adware arms race.

IN LIGHT OF THE SOLAR ENERGY DISCUSSION last week, some people might be interested in this solar home blog from Popular Mechanics, describing one family’s effort to be (nearly) self-sufficient in energy at home.

IN CASE YOU WERE THINKING OF THE 1990S AS A HEYDAY OF CLEAN GOVERNMENT, Ed Morrissey has some evidence that suggests otherwise.

EDWARD BOYD: “I know quite a few people in law enforcement. A few of them are narcotics detectives with local law enforcement agencies and one is with the DEA. About two weeks ago, one of the local detectives (with the Phoenix Police Department) told me that the street price of methamphetamine, cocaine, and non-hydroponic marijuana has risen since the Feds deployed national guard troops at the border. He also said that large quantities of methamphetamine and cocaine are a lot harder to find right now. He said that a rise in the price of marijuana is common during the summer because of the growing/harvesting season, but he thought that the price spike for cocaine and methamphetamine was unusual. After he told me that, I made a point to ask my friend in the DEA if he was observing the same thing. He said that he only been working methamphetamine investigations lately, so he couldn’t comment on cocaine and marijuana. He confirmed that the price of meth has risen lately and that he’s aware of at least one large-scale undercover deal that fell through because the suppliers claimed that they couldn’t get that much product up from Mexico.”

Hmm. I’d be surprised if it made that much of a difference.

JEFF GOLDSTEIN EMAILS: “My new host is undergoing a DoS attack, so my site is down again. Just FYI.”

This is really getting out of hand.

UPDATE: Heh: “Achieving Malkinesque levels of hate mail is a noteworthy event; achieving Malkinesque levels of hate mail that actually reference Malkin, racism and chipmunks has got to be some sort of milestone in the annals of online animus.” Especially the chipmunk part.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Dan Riehl is worried about the blogosphere.

MORE: More on what’s going on at Flopping Aces.

NORMAN GERAS looks at root causes. And selective memory.

TOM MAGUIRE: “Is the Times kidding? The Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is “convinced” that a CIA faction is intent on discrediting the Administration and that the Plame story is part of their scheming, and the Times can barely mention it?”

MICKEY KAUS ON IMMIGRATION: “I suspect the pro-legalization forces have vastly underestimated the symbolic ability of fences and walls–especially real, as opposed to ‘virtual’ fences and walls–to placate the Tancredo anti-illegal faction.”

ATLANTIC REVIEW says that an earlier report that I linked here is in error:

“Deutschland über alles” (‘Germany above all’) is not the national anthem, but the first stanza of the Deutschlandlied (Song of the Germans) written in 1841. Because the Nazis misused and reinterpreted the first stanza, Germany’s national anthem consists now only of the third stanza of the Deutschlandlied, i.e. the crowd was singing “Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit” (‘Unity and rule of law and freedom’). In fact, singing the first stanza, “Deutschland über alles”, is associated with the Nazis only. It is the Nazi anthem. More background in the box to your right:

This means Matthew Beard, the reporter for The Independent, did not listen very well and does not know much about the country he is reporting about. Winds of Change and Instapundit did not notice the mistake, but unintentionally spread it on the internet.

I lived in Germany as a kid, when my dad taught at Heidelberg, but didn’t absorb enough to notice that mistake. (Thanks to Joerg Wolf for the tip.)

I’LL BE ON CNN’S RELIABLE SOURCES around 10:30 Eastern time this morning, talking about new media and old.

UPDATE: Illustrating the topic of our discussion, Ian Schwartz has the video for your perusal.

IRAN: “JUMP!”

IAEA: “How high?”

High enough to fire an inspector at the Mullahs’ demand, according to this report.

JOE LIEBERMAN’S unforgivable sin.

IF IT’S WORTH DOING, IT’S WORTH OVERDOING: I want one. It can’t be worse than wakeboarding with my brother at the controls. Or slaloming with one of my colleagues, which netted me 12 weeks of physical therapy a few years back. . . .

THE MIRACLE OF SALT WATER: Dean Barnett of SoxBlog has Cystic Fibrosis, and has experienced tremendous results with a new treatment that isn’t exactly high-tech. It involves inhaling aerosolized salt water. He writes:

For years good people, the world’s best, have been pouring their hearts, souls and money into finding effective treatments for CF and generally coming up with very little. And all of a sudden, a super-promising new treatment comes along. And it’s salt water!

There’s also the additional minor miracle that being just salt water, the treatment didn’t have to spend the better part of a decade navigating the FDA approval maze before reaching the general CF public that so desperately needs it. If a similarly effective treatment had been a medicine hatched in the labs of Genzyme, the FDA would have kept it out of the hands of the seriously ill people (who would eagerly roll the dice on an experimental treatment) until those seriously ill people had become seriously dead.

As an additional benefit, because it’s just salt water and thus cheap to make, no one will make much money off of it which means the CF community will be spared the ghastly sight of our nation’s Ted Kennedy types demonizing the pharmaceuticals who just pioneered a life-saving treatment for being profit oriented.

In other words, everyone wins!

Read the whole thing, in which he also notes the strange emotional impact of realizing that he might live longer than he had expected.

ED DRISCOLL interviews Chris Anderson for TCS Daily’s podcast series.

VARIOUS LEFTY EMAILERS are taunting me to say something about Ann Coulter’s alleged plagiarism.

Okay, I’ll say it: I agree with Kos! Happy now?

(Via Steve Smith via Mickey Kaus). My thoughts on plagiarism generally can be found here. Read this, too.

JEFF GOLDSTEIN’S SITE seems to be back online now.

THIS IS COOL:

In an unprecedented industry move, Nashville ABC affiliate WKRN-TV announced tonight that it would begin paying local bloggers for approved video stories they submit and running those stories on its Website and in its newscasts. WKRN president and general manager Mike Sechrist told a “meet-up” of local bloggers that he could envision the day when a daily program would be made up entirely of material submitted by the community. . . .

Sechrist told the group of bloggers that they had already had a significant influence on the news programs the station produces, simply by doing what they do. The station has pursued stories first raised in the blogging community and has used local bloggers as a sounding board at various times.

It’s a real Army of Davids approach!

GAY MARRIAGE UPDATE: “Presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton has disappointed the New York gay community by specifically leaving out any pledges on gay marriage in her call for equality for gay people.”

Michael Petrelis is critical. “Speak up on gay marriage, Senator Clinton, if only because it is never acceptable for public officials to remain silent on important civil rights issues.”

UPDATE: The Boston Globe is ordering gay employees to get married or lose their benefits.

THE EVER-WIDENING GAP: A look at the financial fortunes of The New York Times.

MARY KATHARINE HAM finds a Porkbusting sports columnist.