NORMAN BORLAUG, the man who saved more human lives than any other, has died.

This article by Gregg Easterbrook is worth reading. Borlaug may have saved a billion lives, yet he’s barely known. The lives he saved were poor people, and he saved them with science. Doesn’t fit the narrative.

ON SALE: Automotive Diagnostic Scanners.

UPDATE: Reader Rainer Kissel writes:

Re. the Amazon auto scanner sale: Be advised that these scanners can only monitor those items covered by the OBD II standard, namely those deemed important for emission control.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBD-II_PIDs

They can not work with the numerous proprietary codes governing transmission, brakes, suspension, climate control and much more.

To get those codes, a scanner tool containing vehicle specific software is needed. Tools like these typically run in the $ thousands range. Then the yearly updates for the new car models cost extra, many hundreds at least.

Often the factory-issue tool/software combo is the only one covering everything. Now we’re talking tens of thousands of $$. Quite an investment. Not practical for most independent shops. One reason they need to charge high hourly rates, something many customers don’t appreciate.

I didn’t know that.

COLOR ME SUSPICIOUS: “The man federal prosecutors pressured to cooperate in the corruption probe of ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich died of an apparent aspirin overdose on Saturday, law enforcement sources said.”

ROGER SIMON: America Goes to Washington: I Was Wrong About The Tea Party Movement. “Boy, was I wrong. I can remember telling Glenn Reynolds during CPAC that these Tea Party demonstrations were rinky-dink and going nowhere. Barely more than a half-year later, they’re putting two million people on the Washington Mall. Wow! If I were Obama & Co., I’d be afraid, I’d be very afraid. . . . Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod are going to be looking at each other like nervous apparatchiks in the Politburo because someone is going to have take the bullet for the disaster they have wrought. Emanuel is looking like a particular dummy right now for opening his mouth about not missing a good crisis.”

UPDATE: “Two million people with jobs.“

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MATT WELCH POSTS a report from today’s Washington march.

Quincy, Illinois.

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HEADLINE: Up to two million march to US Capitol to protest against Obama’s spending in ‘tea-party’ demonstration.

So maybe I was wrong to be so skeptical. But cut it in half and it’s still a huge number. And this is priceless: “Many protesters said they paid their own way to the event – an ethic they believe should be applied to the government.” Why is the British press more honest in its reporting on this stuff than the American press?

Meanwhile, a reader emails: “I’ll tell you what I find impressive. I’m watching the Fox news video about 15 minutes after the end of the event. The crowd has thinned out enough that you can see the ground and there is not a speck of trash on the grass. Absolutely clean. To contrast, google ‘pictures of litter on the mall after the inauguration.'”

AERIAL TIME LAPSE VIDEO of the 9/12 march in DC.

I CAN’T SAY I’M SURPRISED TO HEAR THIS: Early Risers Crash Faster Than People Who Stay Up Late.

THE BOY WHO harnessed the wind.

FROM ED FRANK, VIDEO FROM TODAY’S D.C. TEA PARTY:

STEPHEN GREEN IS continuously updating with reports from DC. He says CNN has estimated the crowd at 2 million. That seems improbably high to me, but hey, what do I know — I’m in Quincy, Illinois. On the other hand, the weather here is a lot better, so maybe I know something . . . .

Meanwhile, Robert Mayer writes: “The crowd surrounds the capitol and extends past the washington monument!” If somebody’s got a link to some reasonably trustworthy estimates of crowd size, please send it. I’m kinda busy doing PJTV stuff here in Quincy and don’t have time to look around.

Andrew Breitbart, speaking in Quincy.

MORE ON THAT bomb threat against the Tea Party organizers in DC.

QUOTING ANDREW SULLIVAN on the importance of administering the law evenhandedly, without favoritism.

Mary Katharine Ham emails this pic from the Newseum balcony in DC.

And Stephen Green is posting reports from the ground.

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