FASTER, PLEASE: Brain surgery using sound waves.

REP. TOM PERRIELLO DIDN’T CALL THE COPS ON TEA PARTY PROTESTERS. According to this report, it was the neighbors.

SAVING AFRICA: Everything old is new again.

AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN STAUFFER on his Civil War novel, The State of Jones, soon to be a motion picture. It’s no surprise to East Tennesseans, of course, that many white Southerners opposed secession.

AN ELECTRONIC SAFETY NET for the homeless.

GOVERNMENT MOTORS: Chevy doesn’t want to sell you a Camaro. Or, at least, they didn’t want to sell one to this guy.

MICHAEL TOTTEN: What the West Bank Actually Looks Like.

HEADING INTO COMBAT IN AFGHANISTAN, Michael Yon posts his “last peaceful dispatch,” as he calls it in an email. Remember that he’s supported by reader donations, so if you like his work, consider hitting the tipjar.

MORE ON THE KINDLE DEBACLE. “Most commentators are painting Amazon’s actions as some sort of isolated brain fart, but I think it’s not actually an Amazon-specific problem. . . . The underlying issue here is that Amazon, among many others, see the rules for digital as different than those for other things. It would never have crossed Amazon’s collective mind to grab a physical book from you if the company had shipped you one that it did not have the right to sell. But, maybe because it could, Amazon just did what it has the ability to do without thinking to see if the ability to do something automatically meant that it was the right thing to do.”

SEN. KENT CONRAD: A Thorn In Obama’s Side?

IN THE MAIL: From Alex Wellen, Lovesick.

JOEL KOTKIN ON FINANCES: The Blue-State Meltdown and the Collapse of the Chicago Model. My PJTV interview with Kotkin is here.

“FREE MARKET WARRIOR” STORE shut down by Simon Properties. First the Tea Party thing in Georgia, now this. Seems unwise.

1933 FLASHBACK: Hitler on Advertising. “[Hitler] has depended almost entirely upon slogans made effective by reiteration.”

RASMUSSEN: 53% Now Oppose Congressional Health Care Reform.

DOES “Wonk-Snark” have a future? I’m pretty sure it does.

LESSONS from TennCare. “Tennessee was home to a failed attempt at universal single payer care, and has lessons to teach a President who has promised that in pursuing his goal of universal health care, he will learn from the policy failures of the past.”

“YOU’RE GOING TO DESTROY MY PRESIDENCY.”

KEITH HENNESSEY: 20 Questions for the President’s Press Conference. From a guy who knows what to ask . . . .

HOW TO BE COMPETITIVE IN TODAY’S GLOBAL ECONOMY: French Workers Vote Against Blowing Up Plant As Long As Demands Are Met.

HOPE AND CHANGE: Democrats Challenge Obama Signing Statement. They told me if I voted for John McCain we’d have a President who used signing statements to rewrite legislation according to his whim. And they were right!

HARRY POTTER ACTOR CHARGED FOR MARIJUANA after being seized under the Terrorism Act for photographing police. Sounds like Cornelius Fudge isn’t all that fictional a character . . . .

CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY: Pelosi’s Door Revolves for Top Lobbyist. “The revolving door is wide open in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office just two years after she promised to crack down on the practice of congressional aides moving into lobbying shops and then back into government. Pelosi announced Monday that she is hiring one of Washington’s top lobbyists, Richard Meltzer, to be her policy director. It is a position in which Meltzer, a longtime Pelosi friend, is certain to have tremendous input into the shape of legislation affecting the more than 200 clients he represented according to federal lobbying disclosure records.”

When she talked about “draining the swamp,” I didn’t realize she meant, “and refilling it with my friends.”

STACY MCCAIN: The Mother Of All Inspector-General-Gate Updates.

HOW GROUND-FAULT CIRCUIT INTERRUPTORS WORK.