WHEN YOU PAY NUBILE GIRLS TO POSE WITH YOUR GUN COLLECTION, you're a dirty old man and a pornographer. When Muammar Gaddafy does it, it's "an attempt to attempt to improve the situation of Libyan women." At least according to Dartmouth professor Dirk Vandewalle.

IS THIS THE HOPE, OR IS IT THE CHANGE? "The federal government’s largest housing construction program for the poor has squandered hundreds of millions of dollars on stalled or abandoned projects and routinely failed to crack down on delinquent developers or the local housing agencies that funded them." A few hundred million here, a few hundred million there, soon you're talking about a drop in the bucket!

AS USED CAR PRICES SOAR, clunkers are missed.  Unexpectedly!

PALESTINIANS TO TEST TACTIC OF UNARMED MASS MARCHES. It seems that the usual tactic of murdering defenseless women, children, and Olympic athletes is growing stale.

BRIAN TANNEBAUM, through Twitter:

I think I'm going to start a blog called "really bad stupid worthless advice for lawyers I read on the internet." I will blog 5x a day

One could blog thousands of times a day on that topic.

NOBODY TELL ANN ALTHOUSE:  Yet another reason to ditch Blogger in favor of real blogging software. Heavens, you'd think a law professor would have figured that out before the fit hit the shan, but then mere practicing attorneys like Eric Turkewitz pick up all sorts of knowledge that seems scarce atop the ivory tower.

CHANGE: "Instead of wanting a government that is limited to protecting our God-given rights, we seem to want a government that gives us things that it has, in effect, taken from others." Read the whole thing.

AT ETSY, it's the Distribution Plushy collection.  Who doesn't need a plush Poisson distribution?

DON'T TELL ALTHOUSE: A perfect storm of art, sex, polls, and dubious methodology at Muhlenberg College.

IN THE MAIL: Why Cats Paint.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, the government would start hawking annual lease sales in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve… and they were right!

WE'VE BEEN REMISS in mentioning that Rogier Van Bakel of Nobody's Business, Mark Draughn of Windypundit, and California criminal defense attorney Rick Horowitz have started a group blog, also called Nobody's Business. I've enjoyed all three authors through the years, and wish them every success.

HEH.

PERPETUAL DOOMSDAY PROPHET PAUL EHRLICH (most famous as the loser of a sucker's bet) whines that the world's worst problem is that there are too many rich people in it. Funny, I always thought the world's biggest problem is that there aren't enough rich people in it.

I AGREE THIS IS DISGRACEFUL, but if you burn the candle at both ends you will run out of wax twice as fast. Now would be a good time for the membership of California's education unions to evaluate what they've gotten from a leadership, and the political class class beholden to that leadership, that's made their state more hostile to the businesses that make up the state's tax base than even Massachusetts.