MEDIA BATTLESPACE PREPARATION in advance of Petraeus’s testimony. “I think it will take a willing suspension of disbelief to trust much of what you read about it in the MSM.”

MOANING IN AMERICA: Shockingly, no Eliot Spitzer jokes are involved.

Plus this: “What would Barack Obama look like if he were a woman? Would he look like Susan Estrich, Geraldine Ferraro, or Oprah Winfrey? When Oprah endorsed him, ‘race rushed in.'”

YEP: “What does this all have to do with my blog…nothing really, except that there’s a lot going on in these clubs, and that a bubbly little girl with an innocent smile running around the club might blow down the walls of Jericho someday.”

IT’S National Potato Chip Day.

And it’s another — perhaps not safe for work — culinary holiday, too. Celebrate one or the other. Or Pi day. Or all three!

UPDATE: Plus, something to look forward to in April. (Possibly NSFW).

LAUGH AWAY, but I actually think it looks kind of cool.

UPDATE: Not quite what it appears. Thanks to multiple readers for the link. Still looks cool, though.

JEREMIAH WRIGHT leaves Obama campaign.

UPDATE: A Goolsbee echo?

THE UNIVERSAL SPITZER: “We ought to think of all politicians as Spitzers. No, they don’t all have lurid involvements with prostitutes. But they all have an inflated view of their superiority over the rest of us. . . . What about the rest of us? To the extent that we root for strong politicians, join political cults, invest our hopes and desires in charismatic leaders, all of us are Spitzer wives.”

LARRY VAN GUILDER is having some tough times with his wife’s severe rheumatoid arthritis. If you’ve got any words of help or encouragement, drop by his blog and leave ’em. (Via Katie Granju).

OBAMA RESPONDS ON THE JEREMIAH WRIGHT SCANDAL, and Tom Maguire has it unpacked. “Whoa. It is hardly as if this is the church Obama’s parents selected and he inherited. He sought out Wright, was moved by Wright, and is now pretending he had no idea Wright said these things.”

UPDATE: It’s coming fast-and-furious: Obama Says Rezko Played a Bigger Fundraising Role Than Previously Known.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Ed Morrissey emails: “I sat in his church, but I didn’t inhale.”

MORE: Airbrushing the “radical roots” at Rolling Stone?

STILL MORE: “A very temporizing sort of visionary.”

MORE STILL: Richard Miniter writes In Defense of Obama’s Pastor: “It is a lack of understanding of the black church that contributes to the blogosphere’s and MSM’s mistaking Rev. Wright for a hate-monger. The time has come for some balance.”

But John Hinderaker has questions about AIDS.

HARRY REID’S Fireside Chat.

AN OBAMA SUPPORTER describes Hillary as “Eliot Spitzer in pants.” Double-ouch.

MORE ON THE JEREMIAH WRIGHT SCANDAL, from Juliette Ochieng.

THIS SHOULD BE INTERESTING: Larry Kudlow interviews Bush on the economy on his show tonight. CNBC at 7 pm Eastern.

WHY HILLARY IS STAYING IN THE RACE: “She’s staying in the race to see what happens — to lengthen it so that there is a chance Obama will implode for some reason or combination of reasons, leaving her to pick up the pieces.”

UPDATE: Teaching the horse to sing.

SPRING BREAK: Not really living up to the hype:

Out of the over 11 million full-time college students in America, only tens of thousands make it to the kinds of places documented in the Girls Gone Wild series. According to a survey conducted this year by the National Association of College Stores, 37 percent of students who responded said they were going home for the break and 28 percent said they would work, while 5 percent were going on volunteer trips and 6 percent simply said they would “do nothing.” Just under a quarter said they were “taking a special trip.”

Rough estimates provided by Jeff Jacobsen, president of the college tour operator Student Travel Services, suggest that 85,000 to 95,000 students visit Cancún, Acapulco, Jamaica and the Bahamas combined each year.

So if you’re a student and feeling left out, you’re not as left out as you think.

HOUSE PASSES FISA BILL without telecom immunity. I love this passage from the story:

Congress then defiantly left Washington for a two-week spring break.

My spring break’s only one week. Maybe if I were more defiant . . . .

GOOD POINT: “Furthermore, the cherry-picking defense, even when plausible, has never been accepted when it comes to racism. Don Imus, for example, has received widespread condemnation for very occasional statements that showed racial insensitivity. Trent Lott was condemned for one statement praising Strom Thurmond’s 1948 presidential campaign.”

UPDATE: Having it both ways. The Internet makes it harder to tell different audiences different things.

PREDICTING THE FUTURE, with the help of asparagus.

NORMAN HSU IS BACK IN COURT: “As the trial of embattled Illinois political insider Tony Rezko creates headaches for Sen. Barack Obama, the legal fate of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s famously disgraced campaign financier is playing out as well. Norman Hsu, who on Feb. 28 pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he cheated investors out of $20 million, appeared in the Southern District of New York on Friday. There was no trial. Rather, the former Clinton backer and his lawyers were there to structure the process for upcoming legal proceedings.” Hillary will love those.

MY UNDERWATER TEST OF THE SPARE AIR DEVICE — a report, with video, at Popular Mechanics.

OH, JOY: Uncle Sam Nears a Massive Banking, Housing Bailout.

UPDATE: From the comments: “As usual, there are no penalties for foolishness. The people like me who made rational housing/mortgage decisions and make their payments on time get to bail out the fools.”

IS “FANNIE MAE” TOAST? Plus, “lush executive compensation.” Which is only bad in the non-government-related corporate world . . . .

WHY GREEN CARS NEED to be sexy. Indeed.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER on today’s identity politics. (Via Vodkapundit).

A SURPRISE GUILTY PLEA from famed trial lawyer Dickie Scruggs.