Bubba's Got a Gun

Best line in this story:

Illinois gun laws are said to be among the strictest in the US.

• If it was scaled back before Comey signed off on it, how bad was the warrantless wiretapping program before?

• WarCzar anything else? Thank you for coming to Patsy Burger.

• Larry Flynt and Jerry Falwell: BFF.

• Hate Roe v. Wade? Welcome to the Iraqi Provisional Authority.

• And Carey can carry (nevermind that he's blind).

Incan Bridges and Other Things

• Incan bridges.

• I don't care what Rudy Giuliani did. I just don't.

• Satan's Pear Pickers are Coming!

• Nevermind that Triple-K business - he was just a "successful general."

• France: Your long national nightmare is over.

• Don't let them in the military.

• And The Long Take: The greatest tracking shots in cinema. (Via)

Big Bad Officials Afraid of Joan Baez

Won't allow her to sing with John Mellencamp at Walter Reed. Babies.

• Turkey rejects attempt to quash secular government. Will we have to do that?

• Israel's Foreign Minister calls on Olmert to resign over war debacle. More..

• Soldiers' right to freely blog - or email - stripped. (Personal emails have to be approved? WTF?)

• World Bank rejects Wolfowitz's medieval family planning plan.

• Falcon Cam.