AMBIVALENCE ON IRAQ, at the Huffington Post.

MOVING beyond carbon offsets.

MICKEY KAUS is “eerily prescient.”

MEASURING “LAW STUDENT QUALITY” with the LSAT: but not well.

LES JONES liked Shooter.

UPDATE: Rob Port, not so much.

BIZZYBLOG ON THE TRIBUNE CO. SALE: “I believe that the sale of The Tribune Company last week to investor Sam Zell is an unrecognized low-water mark in the newspaper publishing business. In fact, after subtracting the value of the Tribune’s non-newspaper properties from the deal, what little value remains indicates that the value of having access to a newspaper’s readers is a mind-boggling 70% less than it was a mere seven years ago.”

UPDATE: Doc Searls says that Zell is “clueless.” And see this from Rex Hammock, too.

ANOTHER UPDATE: William Beutler: “Not only does Zell have no idea what he’s talking about, he has no idea what he’s doing.”

This consensus almost made the contrarian in me want to bet on Zell. But only until I read the interview.

ADVICE ON HOW TO CHOOSE A LIGHT BULB from the Washington Post. (Thanks to reader Silvio Florito for the tip).

I continue to be happy with the fluorescent bulbs described here. I’ve now replaced something like 20 bulbs in the house, and continue to replace the old incandescents as they fail. I’ve used both the 75-watt equivalents and the 100-watt equivalents. So far, none have failed.

ZERO TO SIXTY IN 3.1 SECONDS in an electric-powered race car.

PREGNANT ST. PAUL WOMAN OKAY, after fending off robber.

THIS SEEMS RIGHT TO ME: “Speaker Pelosi’s adventure in Damascus has cost her a lot of political capital.”

But not with the Angry Left that dominates the Democratic party today.

N.Z. BEAR: “It is one thing to have an opposition party (call them ‘loyal’ or not) who is actively opposing the particular strategies that the administration in power is taking to achieve victory for America’s goals. It is quite another thing entirely when the opposition becomes fully and totally invested in failure. That is the choice that the Democratic leadership has made, and regardless of what the outcome in Iraq and in the 2008 elections turn out to be, the country is worse off because of it.”

CARL LEVIN VS. HARRY REID ON THE WAR: “We’re not going to cut off funding for the troops. We shouldn’t cut off funding for the troops.”

A NICE EASTER LAMB RECIPE.

Here’s my recipe. And speaking of recipes, here’s my recipe for pasta with tomato, basil, and chevre sauce. Easy, quick, and good!

AN EMAIL FROM BAGHDAD.

1235 MILES IN ONE DAY: The longest drive I ever did was Amarillo to Knoxville, which is just over 1100. I suppose I could have driven further, but I was extremely happy to be done when I got home.

ERIC SCHEIE IS standing up for secularism.

A STORY OF HEROISM DROPPED because the BBC found it “too positive.”

The corporation has cancelled the commission for a 90-minute drama about Britain’s youngest surviving Victoria Cross hero because it feared it would alienate members of the audience opposed to the war in Iraq.

That says it all, doesn’t it? (Thanks to reader Amit Singh for the link).

UPDATE: Eugene Volokh isn’t sure about the Telegraph’s sourcing on this story — a fair point — but adds “appalling, if true.”

LESSONS OF HEART DISEASE: Learned and ignored. “Medical research has revealed enough about the causes and prevention of heart attacks that they could be nearly eliminated. Yet nearly 16 million Americans are living with coronary heart disease, and nearly half a million die from it each year. . . . In many ways, scientists’ hard-won and increasingly detailed understanding of what causes heart disease and what to do for it often goes unknown or ignored.”

DEFINING STALINISM DOWN: Eugene Volokh notes a rather silly remark from Rush Limbaugh.

APRIL SNOW in Richmond. I don’t think it’s really Al Gore’s fault, though.

UPDATE: “Since when is ‘Let it Snow’ an Easter song?”

Does this cold weather disprove global warming? Nope. And hot weather this summer won’t prove its existence, either. For that matter, no particular spell of weather proves or disproves any climate theory — something that press reports tend to miss. Hence the fun in posts like these!

MORE: Apparently Al Gore’s mysterious powers are shared by others. Can anyone acquire the coldening mojo? If so, a solution is in sight!

And here are some further thoughts on how the press handles the topic. In a word, badly.

MORE STILL: Ah, it is the “Gore Effect” at work, in a way, as the cold snap happened just as ABC News launched a series on global warming. If we can just harness this coldening power for good, who knows what we can accomplish?

STILL MORE: Global warming hits Cleveland.

ARE WE DOOMED? So the three top things that Amazon was touting to me when I visited their main page today were:

Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes;

Crash Proof: How to Profit From the Coming Economic Collapse; and

America’s Bubble Economy: Profit When It Pops.

It’s like they’re reading Bill Quick’s blog, or something! I worry about this stuff. Of course, it’s when Larry Kudlow writes a book along these lines that I’ll really start worrying . . . .

WAR AMONG THE PEACE ACTIVISTS: “With allegations of money mismanagement, threats of court action and some members leaving, a group that has sponsored war protests in President Bush’s adopted hometown has been anything but peaceful.”

UPDATE: A very different kind of mom talks about the war.

IT’S BETTER THAN THIS WEEK! The latest Corn & Miniter Show is up!

A LOOK AT BMW’S HYDROGEN POWERED 7-SERIES HYBRID: And it can run on ordinary gasoline, too. Video at the link.

HILLARY’S INEVITABILITY vs. Obama’s audacity: “It may not be showing up in polls just yet. But the people who pay the most attention — the activists, the super-hyper-progressive bloggers who give money and encourage their friends to give money — certainly are gravitating toward Obama.”