BRIAN DOHERTY: Reality continues to vex our Salary Czar.

REMEMBER THE BUSH-IS-HITLER RHETORIC? I’d say that Obama hasn’t faced anything like that yet, particularly from sitting federal judges. But his presidency is still young!

UPDATE: Seen all over Missouri.

MATT WELCH: Who’s Ready for a New, Race-Based Government Entity Called the “Native Hawaiian Council”!

What could go wrong?

RADLEY BALKO: Cross-Examining Forensics.

MYTHS OR FACTS IN FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP: Christina Hoff Sommers and Nancy Lemon on Domestic Violence.

TEA PARTY PROTESTS ON OBAMACARE: Over 60 videos from over 25 states, compiled at the Club For Growth site.

UPDATE: Heh: “Maybe the media would be more sympathetic if the protesters were chanting, ‘No justice, no peace!'”

DEBUNKING all those conspiracy theories.

STEPHEN GREEN’S Hair of the Dog: Obama Unites GOP, Town “Hells” and Dean Scream Redux.

TASTES LIKE THE SINGULARITY, but less filling.

MEMORIES OF MEETING JULIA CHILD. I met her, in passing, as a kid — when we lived in Cambridge my mother used to shop at the same grocery store (Savenor’s) and we saw her from time to time. This excited my mother more than it did me at the time. Perhaps if I’d known of her espionage career. . . .

STEVE CROWDER MEETS VIOLENT, HATE-FILLED MOBS.

HAVE THE DEMOCRATS WON IN HONDURAS? I hope so.

PAUL KRUGMAN WANTS TO save galactic civilization. Interestingly, Newt Gingrich was similarly influenced by Isaac Asimov’s Foundation books.

HOW TO BUILD ANONYMITY INTO THE INTERNET.

BRIAN WANG: What if Nuclear Fusion Power Became Cheap And Abundant?

ASTROTURFING: SEIU Recruits Obamacare Supporters to ‘Drown Out Voices’ in Conn. (Pelosi Will Be Appalled at the ‘Un-Americanness’).

ECONOMIC GOOD NEWS: Tesla Motors turns a profit.

MARKDOWNS on new and used textbooks.

MICHAEL TOTTEN: Where the Middle East Fights Its Wars.

BLAST FROM THE PAST: Fear of bomb, proximity to Oak Ridge led families to build fallout shelters.

THE PORN-RELATED IMPLICATIONS ALONE ARE STAGGERING: Touchable Hologram Becomes Reality.

GOVERNMENT BY BASE-CLOSING COMMISSION: Outsourcing ethical issues.

NOBODY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO GO THERE, IT’S TOO POPULAR: Closing Abbey Road?

A DORM-ROOM NUCLEAR OPTION? “Panasonic even makes the dubious assertion that its oven won’t rob your meals of essential nutrients while pounding them with magical microwave energy. Admittedly, this is hard to test. But we will say we could practically taste the riboflavin in Jimmy Dean’s Pancakes & Sausage on a Stick.”

HOW TO reduce solar power costs.