THE NEW ECONOMY: Interns actually paying to work.

THE SECRET INGREDIENT in the Obama formula for success.

STEWART BAKER: The Solicitor General Lays An Egg. “The brief is at best a hacked-together, please-no-one compromise. At worst it borders on the unprofessional.”

HEADLINE: At Least Ten Killed as “Peace Activists” Attack Soldiers.

WHAT WOULD A EURO COLLAPSE mean for the United States?

MEMORIAL DAY: Remembering The Fallen.

EIGHTIES MUSIC, CULTURE, AND TV, at LikeTotally80s.com.

IN THE MAIL: From William J. Voegeli, Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State.

DO FALLING HEMLINES tell a tale?

HUMAN BRAINS NOT WIRED FOR CONSUMER CREDIT.

Plus, “Governments, also made up of humans, similarly can’t handle debt rationally either.”

MARK TAPSCOTT: Will journalists wake up in time to save journalism from Obama’s FTC? “Release of the Federal Trade Commission’s working paper on ‘reinventing journalism’ makes it clear that there is no more time for diplomacy about this issue: Barack Obama is determined to federalize the news industry just as he has banking, autos, and health care.”

MARKETS IN everything.

THIS WEEK IN THE FUTURE.

ONLINE CONVENIENCE: Why I Steal Movies… Even Ones I’m In.

MARKDOWNS ON women’s jeans.

BOYCOTT CALIFORNIA! Poll: California voters favor Arizona law.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ on the Gaza “Aid” Flotilla.

UPDATE: Related thoughts from Claudia Rosett.

ANOTHER UPDATE: More from Allison Kaplan Sommer.

MORE: “Short video clips broadcast on various television stations showed demonstrators clubbing the navy personnel with metal bars and showed at least one soldier firing.” The Israelis should model their restraint on that shown by their opponents.

ON MEMORIAL DAY, remembering the forgotten.

COMBINING THE WORST TRAITS of Carter, Nixon, and LBJ?

SPANX FOR MEN. Leading a commenter to write: “Damn, I missed the male Spanx investiment opportunity. So to be ahead of the curve, I should start investing in codpiece companies?”

Sorry, dude. Too late.

DON SURBER: Witch Hunts: Approved and Disapproved. “Attorneys general in California and Virginia recently launched separate investigations into speakers at two state universities. The faculty reaction was different.”

FRANK J. FLEMING on today’s extreme rhetoric.

STILL NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME? An electric-car quick-charge test drive:

Their dream may be a good one. But it’s also problematic. There were, after all, five i-Mievs on this drive that needed charging, and with only one charger it didn’t take 20 minutes to fuel them. It took about an hour and a half.

Mitsubishi didn’t leave us to cool our heels during that charging, but took us to a nice lunch. Imagine how nasty the scene could get if five i-Miev owners showed up at one charger with the fifth in line finding out he’s going to be spending more than an hour cooling his heels at Sonic. So what if he has a coupon that gets him two milk shakes for the price of one?

A modest, average size gas station has, say, eight pumps. And usually those pumps push fuel at a rate of between five- and ten-gallons per minute. Going on the low end of the scale, lets say it takes three minutes to fuel up an average car with a 15-gallon tank. So in an hour, that eight-pump station could theoretically fuel 160 average cars from empty to full.

In contrast, a station with eight Eaton/TEPCO Quick Chargers could theoretically fuel just 24 i-Mievs to 80-percent full in an hour. To match the capacity of a modest gas station, completely filling 160 i-Mievs to 100-percent of battery capacity (on 25 minute charges) in one hour, would take at least 67 Quick Chargers with one parking space for each charger. Figure 300-square feet of space for each charger and parking spot and that’s a half acre of land before accounting for driveways or other infrastructure.

Ouch.

DON SURBER: “We have now seen the president handle 4 crises. He failed each time.”

Related item here. Don Surber and Maureen Dowd on the same page? Cats and dogs, living together!

FATHER’S DAY MARKDOWNS on video games.