HILLARY: Three ways to win? Or only one plausible path to nomination? Actually, there’s less difference between these stories than the headlines suggest. Plus, good advice for McCain: “All of this is a windfall, surely, for McCain — unless he forgets that his party is in trouble and that he needs to make an affirmative case for himself and his policies. And loudly enough to overcome the din as Clinton and Obama pummel each other.”

CHICAGO SUN TIMES: Rezko cash triple what Obama says. Is it just me, or is the press on Obama turning more negative? [LATER: Link was bad at first. Fixed now. Sorry!]

UPDATE: And the answer to my question is no — at least not from this story, which turns out to be from last summer. Several people sent it to me (I don’t know why) and I was still on my first cup of coffee and missed the date. Sorry.

Or maybe I should just blame daylight savings time! Okay, actually I like daylight savings time. Not so much the transition, though.

OBAMA IN THE SENATE: Star Power, Minor Role. “Well, I guess I could pass a law or something.”

DOES VITAMIN D PREVENT CANCER? A roundup on the latest research.

THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED, lawyers who challenged the powers-that-be would be subjected to secret disbarment proceedings.

And they were right! (Via Michael Silence, who has much more). The lawyer in question, Herb Moncier, has been instrumental in exposing a lot of political corruption in the area. Whether or not there’s a basis — and the secrecy will encourage some people to think the worst — a lot of people are going to see this as a payback, one implicating the federal judiciary. It seems as if this would have been better handled in the open. I don’t know if the rules permitted that, though it’s hard to see why they shouldn’t.

TAEGAN GODDARD: Could Gore be the nominee?

MORE ON REBECCA AGUILAR’S FIRING.

JEROME ARMSTRONG: Follies in the blogosphere.

YALE UNIVERSITY TARGETS JUICYCAMPUS.COM:

Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry has consulted the University’s general counsel about the possibility of blocking the site from Yale’s network or punishing users who log onto it. Yale’s lawyers have contacted JuicyCampus about University concerns, Gentry said.

Choices currently on the table, administrators said, include asking JuicyCampus to remove offensive posts, trying to identify and discipline posters of allegedly defamatory or harassing comments, or banning access to the site from on-campus Internet access.

“When you have a forum that’s on the computer, that’s anonymous, that’s the only place where you can say those things without getting punished — it’s a problem,” Gentry said.

When you have a university whose first response to unwanted speech is to try to ban it and punish students who take part, it’s a bigger problem.

A USEFUL LESSON from Josh Marshall.

MORE ON MCCAIN and his dumb endorsement of a vaccine/autism link, for which there’s not any real evidence.

WOULD PLUG-IN CARS USE too much water? Some skepticism in the comments. I can attest locally, though, that nuclear plants sometimes have to shut down when streams get too low, because of a shortage of cooling water.

THE GIRL IN HILLARY’S 3 A.M. AD is actually an Obama supporter.

SO I TRIED TO WATCH this video from MSNBC on the Obama/Rezko land deal, and instead it says that the video is no longer available due to “usage restrictions.”

UPDATE: I’m still getting the “usage restrictions” message, but several readers report that it’s working for them. Go figure.

CHALK UP ANOTHER CAUCUS FOR OBAMA: Obama takes Wyoming.

YESTERDAY’S POST ON THE ROBOT LAWN MOWER inspired this email from reader Reid Reynolds (no relation) who owns one:

It’s been almost 3 years since you posted my review, and 5 years since I bought the gadget. Perusing the Amazon site, I see people have had mixed experiences, but positive overall. My RL800 is still going strong. I’ve had to replace the battery a couple of times and the blades, but it was still gettin’ ‘er done at the end of last season. We’ll see how “Herbie” made it through the most winter in the next few weeks.

I can’t believe how expensive these things have become. I bought mine for $699 in 2003, but the newer model is about 3 times that. I guess demand grew as word got out. Amazon also links to what appears to me to be a new competitor at http://www.lawnbotts.com/lawnbott.html which has both cheaper and more expensive models.

I just wish they could make it more convenient. Laying down perimeter wire is hard work and, as it sinks into the ground over time, it becomes virtually impossible to find a break if it occurs and you just have to lay new line. Additionally, the random mowing pattern makes it take a long time to finish, and even then it can miss some spots, especially if you let it out after dark and you can’t see what it missed when you think it’s done – though being able to let it out in the dark is one of the greatest advantages to it.

I wish someone would create a system that utilzed a set of beacons that you could locate in the corners of the plot you want to mow. The mower would sense its distance to the beacons like your standard GPS receiver and triangulate its position. It would then know precisely where it was and could mow a specific pattern to finish the job as quickly as possible. If you post any of this, and assuming nobody else has already filed for intellectual property rights on the idea, let me state to any party interested in pursuing it that I freely relinquish all rights and privileges to it. But, it would be gracious of that party to provide me with a free model when they start production.

Take it away, inventors. And I’d forgotten this robot roundup post.

UH OH: “While Russia has, over the past nine years, eliminated separatist and Islamic terrorists from Chechnya, they now find themselves with a potentially worse situation in neighboring Ingushetia.”

THE THUNDERBIRDS OVER LAS VEGAS: A pretty cool picture.

QUESTIONS ABOUT NEWS PRIORITIES, from Roger Kimball.

OKAY, this article on newly predatory French women got a lot of play, but the underlying stats seem kind of . . . unimpressive:

The proportion of French women who claim to have had only one partner has dropped from 68 per cent in 1970, to 43 per cent in 1992 and 34 per cent in 2006. A woman’s average number of partners has risen from under two in 1970 to over five today, while a man’s has remained the same for four decades, almost 13.

French women’s first experience of sex is now almost as early as that of the opposite sex: in 1950 there was a two-year difference, but the gap has narrowed to four months, to around 17 and a half.

I mean, it’s not exactly the Playboy Mansion over there.

JOHN TIERNEY: Global Warming Payola.

ADDRESSING NANO-FEARS at Oak Ridge National Lab.

AN INDIANA JONES TRAILER. Er, a Lego Indiana Jones trailer.

OOPS: “Democratic presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton tried to backpedal Friday from comments she made in October suggesting Mississippi was a backward place for women’s progress. . . . Clinton was on a campaign swing through Mississippi before Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary.”

SALIM MANSUR: Multiculturalism Cannot Survive.