BARACK OBAMA: The Rules Girl Candidate?

HEH: Big Media Doesn’t Like Tea Partiers, Example #12,456. “What do you do with this stuff at the end?” Put it on YouTube, where it probably gets as many viewers as your local newscast . . . .

MARKDOWNS ON Acer laptops and netbooks.

SENATE HEALTH BILL: 1502 pages of hilarity. Or tragedy, whatever. But hey, if you read 20 pages an hour, you’ll be done in just over 75 hours. No stopping to rest your eyes . . .

RADLEY BALKO: We’re All Felons, Now.

IF YOU DON’T WANT YOUR TAXES INCREASED, you’re a conspiracy theorist like Joe McCarthy.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Confessions Of A Cultural Drop-Out.

ROBIN HANSON on anti-robot sentiment. “On Tuesday I asked my law & econ undergrads what sort of future robots (AIs computers etc.) they would want, if they could have any sort they wanted. Most seemed to want weak vulnerable robots that would stay lower in status, e.g., short, stupid, short-lived, easily killed, and without independent values. When I asked ‘what if I chose to become a robot?’, they said I should lose all human privileges, and be treated like the other robots. I winced; seems anti-robot feelings are even stronger than anti-immigrant feelings, which bodes for a stormy robot transition.”

The robophobes are everywhere.

HMM: “If you think moderate Democrats are afraid of voting for ‘Obamacare,’ you should see how they react to a potential vote on the Countrywide Financial loan scandal.”

MAPPING every space mission from the last 50 years.

THE CRAFT of baking.

JAMMING WITH IROBOT’S shape-shifting robot. Looks creepily organic.

HOWARD ROARK IN NEW DELHI: India’s Ayn Rand boom.

GOING ELECTRIC: Ultracapacitor buses.

WINDOWS 7: Don’t upgrade, buy a new PC. That’s pretty much my thinking. I won’t upgrade my old machines, just wait until I replace ’em.

I AGREE WITH GLENN GREENWALD — this new, federalism-respecting policy is a good one: “The Obama administration will not seek to arrest medical marijuana users and suppliers as long as they conform to state laws, under new policy guidelines to be sent to federal prosecutors Monday.”

Now if they’d just show a similar respect for federalism on other subjects. Oh, well. Baby steps, baby steps. And it sounds like California, at least, needs to step up some local oversight. If you’re in danger of losing Xeni Jardin. . . .

MICHAEL BARONE: Don’t Reinflate The Housing Bubble.

PROGRESS: Stem Cells from Fat Used to Grow Teen’s Missing Facial Bones. Faster, please.

RASMUSSEN: Americans Oppose Obamacare 54-42.

IN THE MAIL: From Terry Anderson and Richard Sousa, Reacting to the Spending Spree: Policy Change We Can Afford.

THEN WHY DON’T YOU get William F. Buckley to kill the spider?

“THE ABU GHRAIB OF THE GREAT SOCIETY:” Andrew Breitbart on ACORN.

SALENA ZITO: The Gap Between Main Street And The Elites. “A lethal combination of distrust and apprehension is escalating not only with the media but with the government it covers. Part of the problem is the perception beyond the beltway that the media actually made Barack Obama president.”

Plus, “The point must be made that this is not a Democrats-specific problem.”

SPENDING HUGE SUMS ON NEGATIVE ADS WORKS: Walter Shapiro on the New Jersey governor’s race. “Even with a generous state program that matches campaign donations, Daggett will end up spending less than $2 million. Corzine, in contrast, is expected to exceed the $40-million mark.” If the parties were reversed, we’d be seeing a lot of chin-tugging analysis about the evils of money in politics.

Plus this: “The Obama campaign’s 2008 mantra of hope will have absolutely no connection with anything that will happen in the cynical precincts of New Jersey politics.”

JONATHAN ADLER: Where are Obama’s judicial nominees?