The International House of Bacon

It is too hot right now. I’m not going to do well this summer if I can’t handle heat in early June.

* I was amused by this: Kay Barnes is running for a Congressional seat in Missouri. One of her main platform pieces, as linked, is the price of gas. Why doesn’t she know the price of gas in her own district?

* Speaking of oil prices, George Will maps out how Congress has affected the prices. The ANWR point (where, if we drilled in 1995 like proposed, the oil would be flowing by now) is an especially good one. More on the basic voting records of the parties in Congress on energy issues, although the lack of nuclear discussion is disappointing.

* Part two of Cato’s series questioning the importance of global warming.

* Patterico on the unemployment hike and real-world application. I had to chuckle a little bit at the surprising jump in unemployment in May following the discussions last week - I’m interested in the longer-term trends on that one.

* There’s only one word for this sort of mentality: stunning.

* Finally, I really think the Malkin/Little Green Footballs area of the internet could disappear and no one would be worse for the wear. Patrick Ruffini discusses the anti-Jewish sentiment posted on one of the my.barackobama user sites that the campaign has since removed and scrubbed. That the campaign decided that a pseudo-networking site within its own website was a good idea is a fine discussion, but I also think it’s unfair to expect them to see everything that’s posted. Thus, when they’re given the heads-up about inappropriate content and they remove it, that’s a good thing. S’not hard, folks. Of all the things wrong with Barack Obama - and there are many - the exploitation of an otherwise apparently useful campaign feature shouldn’t be one of them.

Stay cool, or something.