PROGRESS: The thinnest, most colorful TV yet.

“WHY ARE MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT AND NANCY PELOSI EMAILING ME?” asks . . . Michelle Malkin.

Maybe they just want to stay on the good side of those “powerful bloggers” who deep-sixed Chas Freeman . . . .

BASRA’S back in business. And now that the election’s safely over, they can give us news like this . . . .

IN THE MAIL: Rich Lowry and Keith Korman’s new thriller, Banquo’s Ghosts. With blurbs from Bill Bennett, Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh. More importantly, the reader reviews are good.

MICKEY KAUS:

Auto czarito Seven Rattner’s $245 million investiment in Maxim, Blender and Stuff isn’t looking very good these days. Stuff was closed long ago. Now Blender’s print edition has been shut down. Luckily, Rattner is one step ahead of the posse now busy restructuring the American automobile industry.

The country’s in the very best of hands.

NEW YORK TIMES: Obama Will Face a Defiant World on Foreign Visit. Hey, wait — “defiant?” I thought that once we elected Obama people were going to love us.

THE DANGERS OF printing money.

MORE VIDEO FROM THE MASSIVE CROWD AT TYSON’S CORNER, where Mark Levin drew thousands as he signed his new book. Clearly, the Topham Girls video is following Bob Krumm’s advice.

UPDATE: A report, and photos, here. Readers say there were 5-7,000 people there.

HARTFORD COURANT: Tea Party Crowds Protest Federal Spending And Intervention.

JOHN TIERNEY on Freeman Dyson.

TAX POLICY LESSONS FROM Ten Years After.

A CONFERENCE ON THE ETHICS OF Nanotechnology and human enhancement.

A BIG SALE ON women’s shoes.

MORE “SMART DIPLOMACY:” The country’s in the very best of hands.

TOM MAGUIRE: “Remember the key rule – ‘rich’ is a bit more than our pols pull down.”

Or our top journalists.

CHANGE COMES TO the Easter Egg Roll. Hope, not so much.

UPDATE: Reader Richard Palmer writes: “Glenn, I think there is a deeper lesson to the Easter Egg fiasco. Did it never occur to anyone in the loop at the White House that the tickets would be scalped? It is yet another indication of how far removed this administration is from concepts of Free Markets.” Good point.

I PREDICT THAT THE PRESS WILL NEVER CALL THEM “OBAMAVILLES:” Modern-day Hoovervilles.

“Barackburgs” has a nice ring to it, though . . . .

WELL, GOOD FOR THEM: Germans wreck ‘global new deal’. Let’s hope things really work out that way, since it’s a lousy idea.

RELIABILITY PROBLEMS WITH COMPACT FLUORESCENT BULBS. The first batch I bought — from Feit, as in the story — was no good. The Sylvanias were so ugly that I replaced them with better-looking GE bulbs almost immediately, so who knows how they would have worked out over time. The GE versions I bought produce nice light and haven’t had any failures. On the other hand, I’ve put in over two dozen bulbs in the house, and I haven’t noticed any drop in my electric bill. With weather, etc., it’s hard to really compare, but it’s about the same as last year. That’s kind of disappointing. If you made a shift, what’s your experience been?

RON RADOSH: The Washington Post’s Anti-Semitic Cartoon.

ADVICE FOR TEA PARTY ORGANIZERS. Also here.

MICKEY KAUS: Time to Feast on the LAT‘s dying carcass!

THE “RANSOM-NOTE METHOD” and the Twelfth Commandment.

LOTS OF spring markdowns on cookware.

TONIGHT AT 8:30, CELEBRATE HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT HOUR.

Unless, you know, you’re one of those people who doesn’t believe in human achievement.