TAX LAWYER ANNE MCKINNEY’S BALLAD OF TIM GEITHNER has amassed over one million views on YouTube.

BEST HEADLINE: Nancy Pelosi Caught Voguing.

UPDATE: Related thoughts here. “The interesting thing for me here is not that a politician might choose to dissemble over an embarrassing revelation, but that an arm of the federal bureaucracy would so deliberately impeach one of the most powerful (and vindictive) members of the political branch. CIA could have chosen to let sleeping dogs lie and give Pelosi a pass, but instead the spooks chose to publicly confront her with inconvenient facts. . . . Either they’ve got more on her than they’re showing and this is a shot across the bow, or else they’ve taken the measure of her juice and they’re just not that impressed.”

DAVID SKEEL: Why the Chrysler Deal Would Horrify a New Dealer.

GOOD THING NOTHING LIKE THAT EVER HAPPENS HERE: Porn and cookies: UK lawmakers’ odd expenses claims.

HOW AN INTERN stole NASA’s moon rocks.

WHAT COMES AFTER HUBBLE: A look at the James Webb Space Telescope.

CHANGE: Obama, DOE slash hydrogen fuel cell funding in new budget.

DANIEL DREZNER: Why Libertarians are Skeptical About Democracy.

IN THE MAIL: From Joshua Muravchik, The Next Founders: Voices of Democracy In The Middle East.

Plus, the book every InstaPundit reader has been waiting for! Well, that and waterboarding. Which was no secret!

REASON TV: How the Private Sector is outperforming government on tracking the stimulus money.

PROP 1A POLL REPORTED BY TALK RADIO: “It looks like you wouldn’t know about this poll if you got your news from the L.A. Times. Now that KFI and the W.C. Varones Blog are breaking news stories, will the loudmouths at the L.A. Times at least make some uninformed comments? Will they be wearing pajamas when they do? “

HOPE AND CHANGE: Lawmaker Defends Imprisoning Hostile Bloggers.

A THOUGHT: You know, if someone asked me to go hire a a gay Arabic linguist, I wouldn’t know where to start. But the federal government seems to be firing them every time I turn around.

Best headline on this story is here. But I think that this is the best topless gay-marriage opponent picture. Heh. As far as I can tell, it’s genuine, and not photoshopped — at least it looks real, and it’s in the Chicago Tribune. (Note that I don’t know what the guy on the left thinks about gay marriage, so it’s quite possible that this picture shows only one topless gay marriage opponent.)

(Pic removed because it was slowing page-loads — you can still see it at the link.)

WELL, IT’S CHANGE: Worst Unemployment in 25 Years. “In his first three months as president, Barack Obama has oveseen a net job loss of nearly 2 million jobs. No president since Herbert Hoover has overseen a net job loss on his watch. At this rate, 30 million jobs could be lost by the time this guy is through. But I remain optimistic. It won’t be that bad. There will not be a net loss of 30 million jobs over the next four years.” Well, that’s a relief, anyway.

HAPPY V.E. Day!

HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF DECENCY, SIR? “In order to preempt attacks on their upcoming Supreme Court nominee, the lefties are already trying to Bork his or her chief examiner, Sen. Jeff Sessions, new ranking member of Senate Judiciary.”

HEY, LET’S DESTROY CARRIE PREJEAN for agreeing with the President! The point isn’t policy — it’s to have someone to hate, and to throw a scare into others.

TOM BLUMER: Non-TARP Lenders Aren’t Making Up the Stories of White House Pressure. “Does that mean the media will investigate? Not yet.”

CPSC: Your Yard Sale Is Illegal. In the future, your excess household goods will be identified and disposed of by officially recognized Gatherers and Sharers.

NIXONIAN TENDENCIES: Investors on the Enemies List.

WHATEVER YOU DO, don’t mock the mustard. “Insecurity breeds anger, and nowhere is that insecurity more evident than on left-wing blogs. Some seek to impose a new commandment, ‘thou shall not mock Obama.’ And if that means ‘thou shall not mock Obama’s mustard,’ then so it is written, so it is done.”

Personally, I’m quite fond of Grey Poupon — but then, I’m a pointy-headed law professor who went to Yale, so what do I know? Gulden’s is nice, too. But in a different way. Still, my condiment-blogging first love remains ketchup.

Plus, a divider, not a uniter?

And, not exactly Commander-in-Brief? See, now that lefty political uber-God Jon Stewart has said it’s okay to make fun of Obama on the burger thing, doesn’t John Amato feel silly? It’s like being Lillian Hellman after the Hitler/Stalin pact fell apart. Left hanging. Only with mustard instead of mayo.

DOES AN IPOD help you concentrate?

SPACE UPDATE: White House orders review of NASA space plans.

MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: I.F. Stone and the KGB.

PELOSI LIED, THE WATERBOARDING ISSUE DIED: CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of ‘Enhanced Interrogations’.

Plus this: Americans think the Bush Administration used torture. But wait, they approve. Well, possibly. But at any rate, the torture issue was mostly a political tool designed to cow right-leaning members of the punditocracy by calling them Nazis. Now that it’s not needed so much, it can be allowed to die. Those pushing it are much quieter about the Obama Administration’s positions.