A DISCUSSION OF which Pontiac models are worth saving.

A LOOK AT WHAT WIND DOES to wholesale electricity prices in West Texas. “I suspect the wind power generators have an incentive to drive power prices negative due to a production tax credit on wind power generation. The wind generators can not earn the tax credit unless they sell what they generate. So they pay to use the transmission lines so they can sell their electric power to more distant customers. What I want to know about wind power and electric transmission costs: Will industries with high electric power needs migrate to where the wind blows strongest? Or will transmission line build-out enable the wind farms of West Texas to eventually sell their electric power over much greater distances?”

“ENABLE COMMENTS! We have stormed the Bastille!” I asked for suggestions, and I got one. I’m intrigued. And I see the check box… so… Let the blood flow! UPDATE: I’m just seeing that I need to approve comments, and there are a ton of them. Unfortunately, I started doing it in reverse chronological order. (How like a blogger!) So hold on. I’m not rejecting anything. Just going backwards… AND: I’ve moderated all the pending comments. It really was too hard, especially in this software. You can’t “select all” as you can in Blogger. And I prefer to allow all the comments and then delete as needed. Maybe that wouldn’t work here. A lot of people found it fun to say Wow, I’m commenting on Instapundit! I wonder what would happen if comments were the norm around here. Would people say a lot interesting things? Or would too many readers go into the comments instead of clicking off to the linked articles and blogs. And you know, what I like is when you follow links over to my blog… and then hang out in my comments…

17 ONLINE DATING PROFILE CLICHES for women to avoid. Why women? The author of the linked post — who, full disclosure, is my older son — has not spent time perusing the profiles of men.

TWO-FACED PRONOUNCEMENTS TAKEN AT FACE VALUE — a nice Matt Welchism. Matt’s discussing this column by Robert J. Samulson on the press’s infatuation with Obama: “The press has become Obama’s silent ally and seems in a state of denial. But the story goes untold.” Well, yeah. The truly insane are the ones who never look into the question of their possible insanity. What’s to report? ADDED: As an emailer points out, the two-faced/face value witticism is in the original Samuelson article.

I’M GRADING EXAMS at a Starbucks in Cincinnati. They’ve got The Doors streaming out of the ceiling speakers, and I can tell you for certain: I don’t give a damn about Morrison’s mojo rising. Just shut up about it already, Jim.

THE HIP BONE is even more connected to the knee bone than previously thought.

THE MOST DANGEROUS ROOM in the house.

“HECKUVA JOB, DEESIE! “

IN THE MAIL: Michael S. Malone’s new book, The Future Arrived Yesterday: The Rise of the Protean Corporation and What It Means for You.

PJTV: Chris Matthews’ career change. The most embarrassing thing to Matthews is . . . the footage of Matthews talking.

ANDREW REVKIN: On CH4, Poverty and CO2.

GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS.  As some of you know, I’m the Business and Economics Editor of The Atlantic, the editor of Atlantic Business, the business section of our website, and a blogger in my own right.  I also enjoy travel, fine dinings, and romantic moonlight walks on the beach  . . .

Right now, as you might expect, I’m thinking a great deal about the de-facto nationalization of General Motors, and what this means for America.  Nothing good, I’m pretty sure.  On the other hand, our own Conor Clarke has crunched the numbers on the percentage of American companies owned by the government, and come up with some encouraging results.

MICHAEL YON meets Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Singapore. “Secretary Gates has made it clear that we have no intention of rewarding bad behavior, as we have done in the past with North Korea. Many readers seem to hold a special disdain for President Obama, and I actively campaigned for McCain, but I get the feeling that Obama is tougher and proving wiser than many people seem to think. I do not detect that we are slinking away from North Korea. “

WELL, GOOD: Study: Radio waves erase pre-cancer cells in esophagus. “Heat generated by radio waves erases most pre-cancerous cells associated with chronic acid reflux, providing an alternative to surgery or the current wait-and-see approach.”

“8 NEW WAYS YOU MIGHT BE INSANE.” One is “Internet Addiction”:

According to an article in the American Journal of Psychiatry, this is a disorder “that involves online and/or offline computer usage and consists of at least three subtypes: excessive gaming, sexual preoccupations, and email/text messaging.” It has several components, including excessive use, which is “often associated with a loss of sense of time or a neglect of basic drives”; withdrawal, which leads to “feelings of anger, tension, and/or depression when the computer is inaccessible”; tolerance, meaning “the need for better computer equipment, more software, or more hours of use”; and negative repercussions, “including arguments, lying, poor achievement, social isolation, and fatigue.”

Whew! Fortunately, it didn’t say anything about blogging.

ADDED: Heh.

THANKS, GLENN. And if anyone wants to email me, it’s my full name (with no space) @gmail.com. Do we still have to act all coy about writing out email addresses, or does that make me look like I don’t know my way around the internet? Anyway, send me some tips and suggestions. I’m looking for stuff to link, so I can be more Glenn-like and get Rick Brookhiser off my case.

LEGAL REALISM. A new/old bugaboo for Sotomayor opponents. I would love to have a sophisticated national dialogue about Legal Realism (which is much-discussed here at the University of Wisconsin Law School), but so far it looks as though the discussion will not be too sophisticated. It’s pretty much: she talked about Legal Realism, Legal Realism is judicial activism, and judicial activism is judges imposing their own political preferences, so Sonia Sotomayor is unfit for the Supreme Court. But, as University of Chicago lawprof Brian Leiter said:

“Everybody who knows anything knows that Legal Realism is a description of what judges really do… I give [Sotomayor] a lot of credit, frankly, for talking about it openly. It’s unusual for a sitting judge to say it openly, because judges don’t want to attract the political heat from acknowledging what everyone already knows, which is that appellate judges especially have to make new law – that they can’t just apply the law as written.”

I would love to have more Supreme Court Justices who say what they really think. Imagine if, when reading a “decision,” we were actually reading the decision.

IT’S LIGHT BLOGGING FOR ME THIS WEEK, especially when the posts I’ve scheduled for today run out, but my excellent suite of guestbloggers — Ann Althouse, Megan McArdle, and Michael Totten will be picking up the slack. Enjoy ’em. Email to me will be iffy all week, I’m afraid, as I’ll be trying to stay offline as much as possible. If you see a real problem on the blog, email the guestbloggers — they’ll probably see it before I do.

SWINE FLU UPDATE: Flu Has a History of Foreshocks. “In past decades, a smaller influenza wave has preceded pandemics, but experts say there is no way to predict if H1N1 is such a precursor. . . . Scientists think the spring swine flu epidemic may be a ‘herald wave’ of what’s to come. In 1918, a milder wave of flu cases occurred in late winter and early spring, before the deadly pandemic surge in the fall of that year. In 1957, Asian flu was causing unremarkable illness in China, before landing on American soil for the summer outbreaks and a severe winter season.”

CANDOR REJOINDER. “I think most scholars and commentators who study the judicial appointments process would agree with the statement that candor has not been considered a positive characteristic for Supreme Court nominees for quite some time.”

NICE LAMBSCAPE. From my colleague Nina Camic, who’s hiking, photographing, and blogging her way across the Great Glen Way Trail in Scotland.

FAME HURTS. “Susan just wants to come home and see her cat.”

SAY A PRAYER. “The plane disappeared from the screens several hours ago.”

IN YOUR FACE. Really in your face, Eminem.