* Kevin Drum ponders whether 24 is really liberal or conservative.

* Curbed L.A. helpfully points to a haunted Victorian on the market in Monrovia.

* Lonewacko catches the ACLU comparing U.S. immigration enforcement to Slobodan Milosevic's ethnic cleansing.

* The artist known as Zuma Dogg piles on Eric Garcetti for his union-hotels letter.

* Noah Shachtman explains how a few raindrops can disable the U.S. missile defense system.

* Mitt Romney enthusiast Hugh Hewitt attacks a fellow righty for engaging in an "effort to mainstream religious tests and even religious bigotry."

* Bill Bradley reports that Phil Angelides is asking his e-mail list to pony up cash to run ads against 19 Republican members of Congress from California for opposing Nancy Pelosi's Iraq-pullout plan.

* Defamer warns of a proposed 50-foot statue of Michael Jackson in Las Vegas.

* Amy Alkon wonders whether President Bush is promoting socialism in South America.

* MediaBistro's FishbowlLA does the 20 questions thing with journalist-turned-novelist Denise Hamilton.

* Patrick "Patterico" Frey argues that the Americans with Disabilities Act is out of control.

* Over at the L.A. Zoo, Mark Frauenfelder captures video of a "happy tapir" getting a massage.

* And Don Garza makes a startling discovery in skid row.