Return of the son of the totally moronic baby smears: the seventeen-year-old daughter of Sarah Palin is pregnant. There are political points to be scored here, both about the unhappy consequences of abstinence-only education, about the parental choice to run for national office under these circumstances, and about the unlikely-in-context claim that McCain knew but chose Palin anyway—but let other people score them. I don't plan on saying anything else about this.

Day -4 link rodeo.

* John Tierney writes up the Singularity in the New York Times: When do the post-humans show up? Via the Valve.

* The Index of Plagiarists.

* Shelby Knox, star of the Texas abstinence-education documentary The Education of Shelby Knox, has a blog.

* McCain up by only 2% in North Carolina. I've said it before: I really think Obama can win here.

* And, via Drawn!, Zombie Daily.

Abstinence-only driver's ed.