THE AMAZING ORIGIN OF PLAY-DOH.

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY:

PITTSFIELD — A woman who allegedly intended to artificially inseminate her wife with her brother’s semen has been charged with domestic assault and battery.

Good grief.

ROSS DOUTHAT: The case for small government.

A TEA PARTY CLAIMS VICTORY. Plus, there’s going to be a PJTV contest for the best sign photo from a tea party protest — not sure of the details, yet, but you can upload your pics for the events here and they’ll be eligible.

WASHINGTON POST: Obama’s New Tack: Blaming Bush.

Hope and Change and it’s not my fault! But Bush didn’t make him spend a trillion dollars on partisan pork, or spook the markets with destructive talk and policies.

TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE PUBLICITY: A summer student conference on Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged.

NOT LIKELY: Will Krugman Call Obama Narcissist-in-Chief?

LOTS OF men’s clothing on sale. Cheap!

DODGING THE Palmieri police?

BY A TAX ATTORNEY: The Ballad of Tim Geithner.

TODAY KANSAS CITY SAW ITS fourth weekly “tea party” protest. Pictures and video at the link.

And here’s some excellent video from last week. Note that they marched on Claire McCaskill’s office and she wound up voting against the Omnibus bill. As the photo below demonstrates, while these things aren’t getting a lot of national coverage so far, they’re getting plenty of local media, and that’s something that Congressional offices notice. Scroll down or click here for pics and a report from Columbus, Ohio.

UPDATE: More on the Columbus Tea Party here. And I love this picture.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Columbus Tea Party video. (Bumped).

ADVICE TO THE PRESS: Give Us The News, or Go Away.

MICHAEL BARONE: Obama Is Losing Focus. “We’ve been hearing a lot of criticism of Barack Obama in recent days from pro-Obama corners — from celebrity investor Warren Buffett, from moderate conservative columnist David Brooks, from one of the Democratic Party’s deepest thinkers, William Galston — all along the same lines.”

R.S. MCCAIN: The Re-Education of David Brooks.

TAXPROF: “State Tax Revenues Fell 3.6% in 4Q 2008.”

JAMES LILEKS, STEPHEN GREEN, AND MORE, on the latest PJM Political.

CALLING FOR A Million Middle-Aged Men and Women March.

STRING THEORY: Anecdotes from Jim D’Addario.

TOM MAGUIRE: “They told Glenn that if he voted for McCain we’d have a President who was an out-of-touch cheerleader for the economy. And they were right!”

You know, the great thing is that I don’t even have to do the work anymore — just come up with the idea and let others run with it. . . .

THIS WILL MAKE PEOPLE MISS BLAGOJEVICH: Illinois Governor to Propose 50% Increase In State Income Tax.