• Jon Stewart makes Bill Kristol admit government health care is the best.

• Bill O’Reilly says Canadians have a larger life expectancy than Americans because we “have 10 times as many people” therefore “ten times as many accidents, crimes, and down the line.” Flawless logic as always.

• A homeless man left $4 million dollars in his will to NPR.

“Support for NPR comes from the estate of Richard Leroy Walters, whose life was enriched by NPR, and whose bequest seeks to encourage others to discover public radio.”

• Nate Silver shows how the Health Care bill, which will pass out of the Senate finance committee soon, is poorly designed, incomplete, and void of accurate math. Just another example of how, with all the staggering geniuses we have working on the Finance Committee, the handling of the greatest financial crisis in 80 years is in safe hands.

• Christopher Hitchens tells some amusing police stories and points out the real problem in Henry Louis Gates’ arrest was not his skin color, but the Constitution.

I can easily see how a black neighbor could have called the police when seeing professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. trying to push open the front door of his own house. And I can equally easily visualize a thuggish or oversensitive black cop answering the call. And I can also see how long it might take the misunderstanding to dawn on both parties. But Gates has a limp that partly accounts for his childhood nickname and is slight and modest in demeanor. Moreover, whatever he said to the cop was in the privacy of his own home. It is monstrous in the extreme that he should in that home be handcuffed, and then taken downtown, after it had been plainly established that he was indeed the householder. The president should certainly have kept his mouth closed about the whole business—he is a senior law officer with a duty of impartiality, not the micro-manager of our domestic disputes—but once he had said that the police conduct was “stupid,” he ought to have stuck to it, quite regardless of the rainbow of shades that was so pathetically and opportunistically deployed by the Cambridge Police Department. It is the U.S. Constitution, and not some competitive agglomeration of communities or constituencies, that makes a citizen the sovereign of his own home and privacy. There is absolutely no legal requirement to be polite in the defense of this right. And such rights cannot be negotiated away over beer.

• The Death of the Music Magazine

• Via Bill Simmons: Allen Iverson breaks down at his press conference for his scholarship program. Simmons says this about an upcoming documentary on Iverson:

For ESPN’s “30 For 30″ documentary series that premieres this fall, one of the first films is called “The Trial of Allen Iverson” (directed by Steve James of “Hoop Dreams” fame). I have only seen a rough cut. It has a chance to become one of the most important sports documentaries ever. Why? Because you will never think of Iverson the same way again. You will like him. You will feel bad for him. You will connect with him. You will admire him in a way that you never imagined. After witnessing what he endured legally and racially — how unfair it was, how un-American it was — and marveling at the dignity he showed as he put his life back together afterward, I promise, you will never bet against this guy.

Trevor Timm is a Blast Magazine staff writer