BRUCE STERLING: Practical Tips for Combatting Swine Flu In Your Home. Including useful advice on not panicking.

PRESS AND PUBLIC KICKED OUT of DVD copying trial.

TIGERHAWK: The GM bankruptcy and a test for American socialism. “The federal government and the workers will own one of our largest and most storied industrial companies. That has never really happened before. In other words, the governmental restructuring of General Motors is a social experiment that will shortly teach us two things: Whether businesses can be managed to a profit when in the hands of bureaucrats and union officials, and whether American consumers will trust such people to stand by the products that they make. I, for one, am eager to learn the answer, because it will tell us what we should and should not do about health care.”

VIA EMAIL, I’m told that Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny has sold over a million copies. It’s already in the 18th printing.

UPDATE: My mistake — that’s 1 million copies in print; not all of them actually sold. He has, however won out over Dan Brown on the Amazon list.

HOW SWINE FLU SPREADS. Link is safe for work, but if you go to the whole blog you’re on your own . . . .

TOP TEN THINGS FROM YOUR 20S that you’ll regret when you’re 40.

OBVIOUSLY, THE GOVERNMENT MUST REGULATE THIS FOR OUR OWN GOOD: Salads on menus result in more french fry sales?

REMEMBER WHEN SATURN WAS GOING TO SAVE G.M.? Now they’ve killed it. But only after neutering all the revolutionary stuff that promised to, you know, actually save GM — but that threatened the rice bowls of unions and middle-management. Plus, R.I.P. Pontiac.

SCOTT RASMUSSEN: “To be relevant in politics, you need either formal power or a lot of people willing to follow your lead. The governing Republicans in the nation’s capital have lost both on their continuing path to irrelevance. The disconnect between D.C. Republicans and Republicans throughout the country has been growing for nearly 20 years, but it became more intense and noticeable during the waning years of the Bush administration.” Plus, what the “tea party” protests mean. His conclusion: “The future for the GOP is beyond the Beltway.”

TRUTH IN LABELLING: Specter switches to Democrat. Given how miserably he was doing in primary-polling against Pat Toomey, this is no surprise. Of course, this gives Obama a filibuster-proof majority.

THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS: Dying For An “A.”

UPDATE: Charles Austin writes: “Apparently grade inflation is much more serious and pervasive than I thought.” Heh.

IN THE MAIL: Outcasts United: A Refugee Team, an American Town.

CHENEY FOR PRESIDENT: “Watching Dick Cheney defend the Bush administration’s interrogation policies, it’s been hard to escape the impression that both the Republican Party and the country would be better off today if Cheney, rather than John McCain, had been a candidate for president in 2008.”

PANDEMIC POLICE: A look inside America’s top infectious disease laboratory.

ROBERT GIBBS, buffoon. Janet Napolitano wasn’t much better. The country’s in the very best of hands.

UPDATE: Reader Stephen Eisenbies writes: “I suppose the administration just got a reality check that people really do actually remember that 9/11 happened.” Indeed. The administration, it seems, not so much . . . .

ANOTHER UPDATE: Press spin: “I have to say I’m fascinated by how the media create distance between this truly outrageous administration behavior and President Obama. . . . Why do I think that if this had happened during the last administration, no one would know the name of the guy running the ‘White House Military Office’?”

ANDREW IAN DODGE’S TEA PARTY VIDEO, CRY FREEDOM:

GOING JOHN GALT MICHAEL CAINE. “The 76-year-old film star has revealed in colourful terms that he has had it, and will leave Britain if taxes get any higher.” Plus, what New Labour has wrought: “Everything Sir Michael has made, he made by his hard work. That his story is much more difficult to imagine in contemporary Britain demonstrates how far backwards we have slid. Privilege is once again becoming the key that unlocks the right doors.” That’s how it will be here, too, it the current crowd gets its way. All in the name of equality!

“FELONY STUPIDITY.”

A TEA PARTY MOM on Obama. More here. And here.

NEWS-BOOSTED BOOK OF THE WEEK: Flu : The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic.

DAN RIEHL: Get a clue, Republicans.

SWINE FLU UPDATE: Use antiviral drugs carefully, health officials warn.

BORDERS ARE TIGHTENED as flu cases rise.

CHEESINESS ALERT: MacBook Air hinge defect not covered by Apple’s warranty?

CHRIS DODD UPDATE: Nobody Wants to Be Part of the ‘Friends of the Indicted Guy’ Program. “So if, hypothetically, Mozillo were to be indicted, what could he tell prosecutors in exchange for a reduced sentence?”