LOTS OF MISSISSIPPI PRIMARY COVERAGE from Bill Bradley.

HOW OUT OF TOUCH ARE THESE PEOPLE? Airport security panicked by a Macbook Air. It can’t be a real computer — it doesn’t have a disk drive! And it’s too thin!

UPDATE: Reader Sean Kerwin looks at the bright side:

The geekier corners of the bloghedron have been buzzing about the MacBook Air / TSA kerfuffle for the last day or so, and so far it’s all been laughing at the clueless security folks. My take is that that’s not very fair, and this is story is in many respects a positive sign. Think about it — not only does it prove that (some) inspectors are actually looking at the x-rays, it shows that they’re even sufficiently on-the-ball to notice that this computer doesn’t have a hard drive.

Well, that’s kind of positive, I guess.

ABC NEWS: “Spitzer in ‘Transition Talks’; Had Planned to Quit Last Night.”

UPDATE: How Spitzer gave his security the slip.

ORLANDO PATTERSON: Hillary TV ad is racist. Reader comment: “Last week Hillary Clinton was a monster. Now she’s the Ku Klux Klan? This is the real fear mongering.”

More thoughts at MooreThoughts: Barack Obama is lurking in your bushes! And more skepticism at Cadillac Tight.

UPDATE: An “insidious pattern” of racial remarks from the Clinton campaign? Or a depressing pattern of playing the race card in response to criticism? Or a clever Clinton tactic of bluffing Obama into playing the race card?

ANOTHER UPDATE: More from Ann Althouse, who was way ahead of Patterson on that ad . . . .

GERALDINE FERRARO: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.”

WILL GREEN CARS KILL OFF local mechanics?

IRAQPUNDIT: “What does Barack Obama really think about the U.S. involvement in Iraq? Who knows?”

GEEK HEAVEN: A Firefly angle on the Spitzer scandal.

A WEAPONIZED FLASHLIGHT?

IN THE MAIL: Jeff Gordinier’s X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking. Evocative subtitle.

ARTHUR SILBER: “The comedy of a significant portion of the progressive blogosphere’s reaction to the Eliot Spitzer revelations is…oh, hell, it’s transcendent!”

UPDATE: More Spitzer comedy, with links to Spitzer jokes from Letterman, Colbert, et al. Don’t you think he wishes the writers’ strike were still on?

ANOTHER UPDATE: Unintentional comedy from Alan Dershowitz: “America only? I’m assuming Dershowitz has been living in a cave somewhere for the last six months and missed the entire French nation getting in a twist over Sarkozy’s affair and then marriage to Carla Bruni – and that was completely legal and aboveboard. Only someone truly square (like a lawyer?) still believes that canard about sophisticated Europe/naive US. Moreover, the outcry against Spitzer was not because he was some man seeing a prostitute, but because he was a guy who puts prostitutes in jail seeing a prostitute.”

Okay, the lawyer thing hurts a bit. . . .

A TAX ANGLE to the Spitzer mess?

SOME SERIOUS global warming: “If nature is left to its own devices, about 7.59 billion years from now Earth will be dragged from its orbit by an engorged red Sun and spiral to a rapid vaporous death. That is the forecast according to new calculations by a pair of astronomers, Klaus-Peter Schroeder of the University of Guanajuato in Mexico and Robert Connon Smith of the University of Sussex in England. . . . Dr. Smith called the new result ‘a touch depressing’ in a series of e-mail messages. But ‘looked at another way,’ he added, ‘it is an incentive to do something about finding ways to leave our planet and colonize other areas in the galaxy.'” I guess we’d better make sure we’ve moved by then.

YES, THERE’S ANOTHER ONE TODAY: A roundup of Mississippi primary coverage.

ROGER KIMBALL: “My own feeling is that there are so many reasons to dislike Eliot Spitzer that I would hate the issue of hypocrisy to obscure his many other, more heinous faults. In fact, I am not entirely sure Mr. Spitzer rises to the level of the genuine hypocrite.”

PUSHUPS AS the ultimate barometer of fitness. Plus, what Jack LaLanne does at age 93.

ASTROTURFVINE? “Prospects for passage of legislation allowing Tennesseans to buy wine over the Internet may have diminished because of an organized attack from a group that is apparently sponsored by wine and liquor wholesalers opposing the bill.”

REVIEWING THE REVIEWERS: A roundup of book reviews from all over. Plus, announcing finalists for the Arthur C. Clarke award. I’ve only read one of these books — Richard Morgan’s Thirteen — and I thought it was pretty good. I think that Altered Carbon, etc. were better, though.

CHUCK SIMMINS: “This afternoon, the Rochester New York area experienced a foreshadowing of what medical care might be like during a pandemic. It wasn’t pretty.”

THOUGHTS ON THE STRUCTURAL FLAW OF THE VICE PRESIDENCY. I’ve had some thoughts on that subject myself.

OBAMA ACCUSES CLINTON OF USING “REPUBLICAN TACTICS.”

PIGS FLY.

THE EXAMINER: “There is no honorable alternative to Spitzer’s resignation.” Which doesn’t narrow the field as much for him as it might for some . . . .

UPDATE: No love for Spitzer from The New York Times: “New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer could not have been more wrong in his brief public appearance after the world learned that he was suspected of patronizing a prostitution ring. He did not just betray his family in a private matter. He betrayed the public, and it is hard to see how he will recover from this mess and go on to lead the reformist agenda on which he was elected to office. . . . His short, arrogant statement simply was not enough, not from the Sheriff of Wall Street, not from the self-appointed Mr. Clean who went to Albany promising a new and better day.”

GUNNING for Goolsbee.

RUNNING IN THE FALLUJAH 5K: No, really, it was a race.