THE BEAUTY OF bananas.

FALSE MEMORIES. If only . . . .

ROB NATELSON: Is ObamaCare constitutional?

BURGER KING IS HAVING A GIVEAWAY based on The Dangerous Book for Boys and The Daring Book for Girls.

SILICON GRAFFITI: Ed Driscoll interviews Chris Muir of Day by Day cartoon fame.

THE CLASSIC RICE KRISPIES OPERATIC COMMERCIAL.

“WHAT WAS UNSEEMLY IN JANUARY is almost risible now.” Almost?

WELL, GOOD FOR HIM: “President Obama made clear Monday that he favors the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, and intends to ask Congress to repeal the 13-year-old law that denies benefits to domestic partners of federal employees and allows states to reject same-sex marriages performed in other states.” I wonder how hard, and how publicly, he’ll be willing to push for this?

UPDATE: Reader Brett Deal writes: “I know this is your issue, so you only want to promote good feelings on the subject, but you might at least point out that Obama claimed to be opposed to gay marriage during the general campaign for election, gaining the votes of many with a simple lie.” Well, I think he told some people he was against it, while he told other people he’d come out for it when the time was right. My suspicion is that as he loses the allegiance of the some he feels more pressure to cement that of the other.

UNIVERSITY earmark rankings. Mississippi certainly seems to be doing well.

IT’S OFFICIAL: NASA is a jobs program.

CHANGE: “Self-identified conservatives outnumber self-identified liberals in all 50 states of the union, according to the Gallup Poll. At the same time, more Americans nationwide are saying this year that they are conservative than have made that claim in any of the last four years.”

A LUNAR NUCLEAR REACTOR. “Researchers at NASA and the Department of Energy recently tested key technologies for developing a nuclear fission reactor that could power a human outpost on the moon or Mars. The tests prove that the agencies could build a “safe, reliable, and efficient” system by 2020, the year NASA plans to return humans to the moon.” I’d be happy to see more nuclear power on the Earth by then.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our Ongoing Catharsis.

THE CARNIVAL OF CARS is up!

CASH FOR CLUNKERS NOT EXACTLY A BARGAIN: “Getting low-mpg vehicles off the road in favor of ones that are more fuel efficient is a good idea, but a new report by UC Davis says that the cost to reduce CO2 via C.A.R.S. is about ten times as high as it would be to lower them using carbon credits.” On the other hand, carbon credits have their own problems.

WITH VIDEO: 5 UAVs That Are Going Somewhere.

IN THE MAIL: From Harry Turtledove, Hitler’s War. “If Neville Chamberlain hadn’t appeased the Nazis, would the Allies still have won World War II?”

MICHAEL YON posts a report and some very cool photos from Afghanistan.

TIM CAVANAUGH: Shepard Fairey makes irony feel new again.

UPDATE: The Race Card Gets Trumped. “But what is old is the predictable smearing of legitimate opposition as somehow racist in spirit. It is an unfortunate act of desperation, but one that if pursued will probably take the president’s ratings down another 4–7 points and accomplish in 9 months or so what took the similarly once-popular George Bush 6 years.”

ROUNDING UP THE MILK-CARTON POLITICIANS. “It seems to me that we need to start a list of Milk Carton Politicians — members of the House and Senate who go MIA when they should be meeting with their constituents to hear their concerns over the health-care overhaul, cap-and-trade, the failure of the stimulus package, and the exploding federal deficit.”

REPAIRS FOR BROKEN SYSTEMS: Citizens in California and New York are pushing for constitutional conventions. “Frustrated with steep budget deficits, unprecedented spending, and chronic government dysfunction, citizens in a growing number of states are calling for constitutional conventions. In recent weeks, both former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and former New York governor Mario Cuomo have authored op-eds in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, respectively, arguing that the political circus in Albany compels a constitutional convention. Such efforts are already well underway in California, alongside burgeoning drives in Alabama, Arizona, and Michigan. Altogether, 25 percent of the U.S. population lives in these five states. These growing grassroots movements are a sign of the times.”

The real problem is that we’ve got the worst political class in American history.

BOINGBOING TV: Crimpin’ Ain’t Easy.

THE JOYS OF GOAT MILK BUTTER. I’ve been buying this stuff for a while, and it’s great.

POLL: 57% DON’T SEE STIMULUS WORKING. “Six months after President Obama launched a $787 billion plan to right the nation’s economy, a majority of Americans think the avalanche of new federal aid has cost too much and done too little to end the recession. A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll found 57% of adults say the stimulus package is having no impact on the economy or making it worse. Even more — 60% — doubt that the stimulus plan will help the economy in the years ahead, and only 18% say it has done anything to help improve their personal situation.” (Via NewsAlert).

THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS WEEKEND:

We have always been at war with EastAsia Obama’s Grandmother.

Bob Dylan, Skip Gates, and the state of policing in America.

Some people never come clean. I think you know what I mean.

In jail for blogging about the police.

Sneering at Town Hall attire.

Despite the scare-mongering, Town Halls not producing more threats.

War? What War? We have never been at war in Central Asia!

Obama’s grassroots effort fizzles again.

They went in without a plan, and now it’s a quagmire. Insurgents are popping up everywhere, even in locations previously thought safe.

“I’m not a white supremacist, but I play one on Facebook.”