TWO RELATED STORIES:

Judge Rules Rezko Will Stay Behind Bars.

Obama Cuts Rezko Ties.

STILL MORE ON THE BRANDEIS DEBACLE: I encourage conservative and libertarian — or just mischievous — students to flood the system with complaints about anything that offends them. In particular, any criticisms of white, straight, male military veterans. A three-fer!

UPDATE: Er, actually, that would be a four-fer, wouldn’t it? Oh, well — all the better!

VOTE FRAUD ARRESTS: “A ward superintendent handpicked by the City Council’s 80-year-old elder statesman, Ald. Bernard Stone (50th), was arrested Monday and charged–along with another man–with improperly steering primarily Indian and Pakistani voters toward absentee ballots for Stone. Anish Eapen, a 37-year-old employee of the city’s Department of Streets and Sanitation, faces two counts of official misconduct, three counts of absentee ballot fraud and one count of mutilation of election materials. He allegedly worked in tandem with 34-year-old Armando Ramos, an unemployed student. Ramos faces two counts of absentee ballot fraud and two counts of mutilation of election materials.” (Via NewsAlert.)

OKAY, THIS IS SILLY: “Disposable batteries, no matter how efficient, should be considered a controlled substance and, as such, should be sold under the same restrictions as, say, prescription drugs or guns.”

A BLOG-REPORT FROM THE GUANGZHOU TRAIN STATION, where half a million people are stranded. Honestly, it doesn’t look as bad as I would have expected. Some of the people even look kind of cheerful.

UPDATE: A reader emails:

Am in Guangzhou now at the Holiday Inn. The west train station, which is the origin of trains heading north, is where all the action is. There are reports from the scene on TVB, the Hong Kong TV station, as well as local news. The interesting thing is the link you posted doesn’t work from behind the Great Firewall!

China Daily (the Party’s English newspaper distributed in the mainland) had a front page story on deicing – by hand, using hammers – power lines north of us. There workers died when a pylon collapsed. Anhui and Hunan are particularly hard-hit, with China Daily reporting food shortages in some cities and traffic jams tens of kilometers long.

We are not going north, but south to Hong Kong (after we leave the US consulate) from the east train station, which still has a large crowd, even though the trains go south and east. I am glad we got out of Chongqing with our newly-adopted baby on Tuesday, as flights were cancelled and delayed.

Good luck.

THIS IS INTERESTING: “We were captivated by the Karma plug-in hybrid when it was unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show earlier this month. Its curvaceous, aggressive design combined with its ability to go 50 miles without using any gas seems like a bargain at the projected starting price of $80,000. . . . Vic Doolan, director of retail development for Fisker, says the company is considering metro Detroit to handle production. The combination of unused capacity, close proximity of suppliers, and availability of experienced workers make Detroit an ideal location.”

WISH I’D HELD ON TO THAT SKYLAB CRASH HELMET: “The U.S. military is developing contingency plans to deal with the possibility that a large spy satellite expected to fall to Earth in late February or early March could hit North America.”

WHO KNEW THAT DIEBOLD’S TENDRILS REACHED SO FAR? ACLU sues to block paper ballots.

CRITICISM FOR DIGG.

STEPHEN GREEN: “Get ready to see a slew of McCain/Giuliani bumper stickers at the Republican convention, if not sooner.”

HILLARY: It all depends on what the definition of “pledge” is.

AIR FORCE BLOCKS BLOG that reported on Air Force problems.

FOX CALLS IT FOR MCCAIN. Time is claiming that Giuliani will quit and endorse McCain, probably tomorrow.

UPDATE: CNN and AP have called it for McCain, too.

FRED BARNES ON HUCKABEE: “There’s no such thing as a strong fourth-place finish.”

THAT SEEMS FITTING: I’m watching Alcee Hastings endorse Hillary now.

UPDATE: Video.

GETTING A 1960s VIBE from Barack Obama.

FOX PROJECTS HILLARY TO WIN FLORIDA, though with no actual delegates at stake. Obama is a distant second, Edwards an even more distant third.

MEGAN MCARDLE defends pharmaceutical profits.

STEPHEN GREEN IS drunkblogging the Florida primary results.

SO MY REVIEW OF THE Asus Eee PC is up over at Popular Mechanics.

Here’s a picture of the Asus on top of my MacBook Pro.

REPLACING BRITISH BLASPHEMY LAWS with a ban on being thoughtless and cruel.

How about a law against being laughable and pathetic?

SAYING “JEHOVAH” AT BRANDEIS. This remains a disgraceful incident, based on all the reports I’ve seen.

JOHN NOBLE WILFORD OBSERVES the fiftieth anniversary of the U.S. space program.

BILL BRADLEY is reporting from Florida.

CELL NOISE: “Although they won’t win a Grammy anytime soon, the various audio blips produced by cells are giving scientists insight into cellular biomechanics and could even be used to help detect cancer.”