MATT WELCH: “Remember, the Democrats Are the Party of Sex, Drugs, and Free Speech! Except when they’re not. Which is every day.”

SEE THE POWER OF THIS FULLY OPERATIONAL BLOGOSPHERE: Gates Revises Tax Return Based On Blog Post.

KATHARINE HEPBURN’S brownies.

GATESGATE TAPES: Out, but inconclusive. Oh good: Nothing to shut down the blathering just yet . . . .

IF YOU’RE READING THIS, you’re probably already a federal criminal.

DEBATING GUNS IN PARKS in Knoxville.

THIS IS USUALLY GOOD ADVICE: Do not put that into your butt. Next time, try Ex-Lax instead of . . . hammers?

CAN SCIENCE RULE SOCIETY? Why not? It worked on Krypton! Er . . . didn’t it?

GERMAN WIND POWER proving expensive.

SO I’VE NOTICED: Morality and Charlie Rangel: It’s much easier to raise taxes if you don’t pay them. “Ever notice that those who endorse high taxes and those who actually pay them aren’t the same people? Consider the curious case of Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel, who is leading the charge for a new 5.4-percentage point income tax surcharge and recently called it “the moral thing to do.” About his own tax liability he seems less, well, fervent.” Then there’s Tim Geithner. . . .

BILL WHITTLE on politics, Sarah Palin, and some lessons from the Marines at Guadalcanal.

WOODWORKING TOOLS under a hundred bucks.

PJTV: An advocate of single-payer healthcare tells me why it’s great.

Plus, defining the debate.

CSI: FAIL. The Shaky Science Behind Forensics. “Forensic science was not developed by scientists. It was mostly created by cops, who were guided by little more than common sense. And as hundreds of criminal cases begin to unravel, many established forensic practices are coming under fire.”

TIME-LAPSE VIDEO: Building Disneyland.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST? Susan Bayh an issue in fight over health care: In 2 years, she earned $2.1M on health company boards. “But for Bayh, health care isn’t just the latest high-stakes political fight in Congress. It’s also a substantial part of his family’s income. As the debate over health-care reform intensifies, Bayh’s wife is receiving lucrative payouts from some of the companies that could be most affected by that legislation.”

A MODEST PROPOSAL for bar exam reform.

JENNIFER RUBIN: FIVE REASONS WHY GATES-GATE MATTERS.

CLINICAL TRIALS for swine flu vaccine. “We especially need people over 65.”

100 THINGS your kids may never know about. Here’s one: “Inserting a VHS tape into a VCR to watch a movie or to record something.” And one I won’t miss: “Using jumpers to set IRQs.”

REDUCING DRIVER FATIGUE with aromatherapy?

GET (TELE)FUNKY: When Microphone Geeks Party. I was never as much of a mic geek as my brother, but now that I’m focusing on video I’m even farther behind the curve . . . .

MOE LANE: Release the Crowley/Gates tapes.

ROBERT SAMUELSON: Obama’s Misleading Medicine. “If you listen to President Obama, his ‘reform’ will satisfy almost everyone. It will insure the uninsured, control runaway health spending, subdue future budget deficits, preserve choice for patients and improve quality of care. These claims are self-serving exaggerations and political fantasies. They have destroyed what should be a serious national discussion of health care.”

Plus, wrong on tonsillectomies. Earlier discussion on that topic, here.

DEFENDING THE FREE MARKET: An interview with Guy Sorman.