ANOTHER RECESSION CASUALTY: Recent college graduates. ”’I’ve never seen it this low and we’ve been analyzing this stuff for over 20 years,’ said center director Andrew Sum.”

They’re just part of the latest hot new hipster trend.

GREEN JOBS! Chevy Volt Will Be Built, Sold in China.

MAN BITES DOG: Joe Biden Gaffe update: He fires N.J. gov, moves another guy in. Just one heartbeat away . . . .

THOUGHTS ON EDUCATION, from Jerry Pournelle.

DAVID HYMAN: Health Insurance and the Public Plan: Where’s The Beef? “Leaving all that aside, it is important to remember that consumers are harmed by both monopoly and monopsony. So, proponents might view the monopsony purchasing power of a public plan as a feature, but its actually a bug.”

15 REASONS TO oppose the climate bill.

IN THE MAIL: From Michael Stone, M.D., The Anatomy of Evil, A neuroscience-based take on “hideous killers.”

“CULTURE OF CORRUPTION” UPDATE: Conyers abandons plan to probe ACORN. Why? “The powers that be decided against it,” says Conyers. I’m sure they did. . . .

UPDATE: Reader Jim O’Neill writes:

From your current front page:

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MONICA CONYERS GUILTY OF BRIBERY CONSPIRACY CHARGES, faces up to five years. Her husband is Rep. John Conyers (D-MI).

“CULTURE OF CORRUPTION” UPDATE: Conyers abandons plan to probe ACORN. Why? “The powers that be decided against it,” says Conyers. I’m sure they did. . . .
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Gee, do I see a narrative here? What deal did they offer Conyers to play ball? Or what threat, I should ask?

Hmm. This is the sort of thing a free, independent watchdog press would look into, if we had such a thing . . . .

NEW YORK POST: Another week, another Rangel probe. “What took so long? The committee waited more than nine months after the trips were first disclosed. . . . Rangel’s fellow Democrats have rebuffed GOP demands that he temporarily relinquish the chairmanship of Congress’ key tax-writing committee while he’s under investigation. But then, Charlie Rangel has always been better at writing tax laws than obeying them.” He seems to have plenty of company in that regard. . . .

UPDATE: Reader Dan Simmons writes:

With the threat of probes, Pelosi has Rangel on a short leash. Isn’t it curious that House Ways and Means Committee took a pass on cap and trade, even though for all intents and purposes, it is an energy tax.

Boy, my readers have nasty, suspicious minds this morning.

GREENPEACE OPPOSES WAXMAN-MARKEY CAP-AND-TRADE.

MONICA CONYERS GUILTY OF BRIBERY CONSPIRACY CHARGES, faces up to five years. Her husband is Rep. John Conyers (D-MI).

CATHY YOUNG: Intellectual Property vs. Creative Freedom.

TRANSPARENCY:

The stink surrounding the Pelosi-Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax bill has become vomit-inducing overnight. Representative Waxman has decided to replace the 1091-page bill with a 300-page bill that will be debated for no longer than three hours today. So your elected representatives will have virtually no time to debate the merits of an economy-spanning bill they will not have had time to read. Speaker Pelosi and her sidekick Waxman are displaying nothing more than complete contempt for the democratic process.

If you’re as utterly disgusted by this as I am, you can send a message to Pelosi and her cronies by telling your Congressmen to vote against this bill. You can e-mail them, call them (202-225-3121), or text the National Taxpayers Union on 54608 and they will help.

This is not the “more open government” we were promised.

UPDATE: Email link was bad before; fixed now. Plus, Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation writes:

I think the Corner was a little off on what’s going on with Cap ‘n Trade. We’re not shrinking to a 300 page bill, we’re adding those 300 pages to the 1,201 page bill, ballooning up to a 1,501 page bill.

Here’s an excerpt from Paul Blumenthal’s latest:

1. The original bill, H.R. 2454, approximately 1,000 pages, was reported out of the Energy & Commerce Committee.
2. It was replaced this week by H.R. 2998, 1,201 pages, which will be voted on as an amendment in the form of a substitute.
3. The Rules Committee, last night, released a committee report that includes a 300-page amendment to H.R. 2998. This 300-page amendment, the Waxman amendment (#121), is considered as adopted upon an affirmative vote for H.R. 2998, the amendment in the form of the substitute.

This means that we are looking at 300 extra pages added to the bill overnight. Stay tuned for more and go to ReadTheBill.org to tell your congressman that we need time to read the bills.

I stand corrected. I should’ve known that a net shrinkage of over 900 pages was too good to be true . . . .

PRESIDENTIAL POLL TALK: Forward, into the past!

MURTHA UPDATE: GOP zeroes in on Democrats’ ties to PMA.

MOE LANE: Meet Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL).

A little more aggressive than Tim Bishop.

TAX AND END: Amazon Closes Associates Program in North Carolina Over Tax Concerns.

NOKIA AND SIEMENS BEWARE: Foreign Firms Trading With Iran Face Limits. “Lawmakers are seeking to crack down on foreign companies that provide spy technology to Iran with a bipartisan bill that would bar firms that provide sensitive technologies to Iran from doing business with the U.S. government.”

A POSTHUMOUS HIT: Thriller hits #1 on Amazon.

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY ON WAXMAN-MARKEY: “The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on an anti-stimulus package that in the name of saving the earth will destroy the American economy. Smoot-Hawley will seem like a speed bump.”

REASON TV: What If Government Ran Health Care.

MICKEY KAUS: “Wagner Act Unionism is bringing its benefits to the Bay Area, where the BART transit system may go on strike despite having negotiated what seem to be generous wages and benefits.”

DRAINING THE SWAMP! Dems put Congressional Black Caucus member in charge of Congressional Black Caucus investigation.

POST-RACIAL AMERICA: U.S. Capitol is too white, say critics.

Related: Blacks in survey say race relations no better with Obama. Hope and change!