FASTER, PLEASE: Masses of data in every sample. “The combination looks to me like something that could totally change the way people do histology.”

RATS WHO EAT GRAPES have better blood chemistry.

MISSILES IN BOXES: The Pentagon Cancels Plans, Russians Market Theirs.

MORE INSURRECTIONIST RHETORIC: Linda Greenhouse calls Arizona a “police state.” Somebody tell the SPLC!

UPDATE: More embarrassing (well, maybe) Greenhouse was analyzing the wrong bill. There’s a correction, but . . . .

VARIOUS BLOG EDITORS talk about the Gizmodo case. As for whether Gizmodo is doing journalism, all I can say is Keep Rockin!

GRASSROOTS SALES: BlogAds rolls out new functionality.

AIR NEW ZEALAND introduces “cuddle class.” I flew Air New Zealand once, from Auckland to L.A., with the New Zealand national rugby team, but I didn’t see anyone I wanted to cuddle with . . . .

WHEN SMUT is good for you!

IN THE MAIL: From John Samples, The Struggle to Limit Government: A Modern Political History.

MICKEY KAUS: “It’s a stark illustration of the inequities of capitalism that organized labor can only afford to buy one political party, but Wall Street can buy both of them.” Plus, why aren’t you people hitting the contribution button?

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: Reid, Not Graham, Killed The Climate Bill.

SHOCKER: Lawmakers Accuse GM, Administration of Misleading Public Over Loan Repayment.

The TARP inspector general, Neil Barofsky, bluntly told the Senate Finance Committee during a hearing last week that the repayment “is just other TARP money” and lawmakers should not “exaggerate” the feat.

“It sounds like they’re kind of like taking money out of one pocket and putting it in the other to do that,” Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., said at the hearing.

Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., expressed similar concerns Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” saying it’s “misleading” for the administration to claim the company has paid back its loans.

The GM ad could potentially land the company in trouble with the Federal Trade Commission over its truth-in-advertising laws, which prohibit ads that are “likely to mislead consumers.”

Indeed. (Via Is That Wise?).

SHOCKER: Obama covered up HHS report until after healthcare vote?

UPDATE: The actuary says this is untrue.

WILL COLLIER: When Is A Horrific, Politically Motivated Beating Newsworthy?

SHOCKER: Chris Dodd’s Carve-Out For Cronies.

I BELIEVE THE CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE: Helen interviews kids at the Cincy Tea Party. With an intro by Sonja Schmidt.

RADLEY BALKO: A Right To Photograph The Police.

In fact, under Maryland law what Graber did isn’t actually a crime. For a recording to be illegal, one of the parties being recorded must have a reasonable expectation of privacy. A cop, acting as a cop, with his gun drawn, while standing alongside a public roadway, has no such expectation. On April 15th, Graber was released and the charges against him were dropped. As he told Miller, “The judge who released me looked at the paperwork and said she didn’t see where I violated the wiretapping law.”

Graber was harassed, intimidated, illegally arrested, and jailed for an act that clearly wasn’t illegal. According to Graber, the name of the judge who signed off on the raid of his parents’ home doesn’t appear on the warrant. As Graber told Miller, “They told me they don’t want you to know who the judge is because of privacy.” If true, that statement is so absurd it’s mind numbing. A judge issued an illegal warrant for police to invade the private residence and rummage through the private belongings of a man who broke no laws, and we aren’t permitted to know the judge’s name in order to protect the judge’s privacy?

Judges shouldn’t have “privacy” regarding judicial acts. They shouldn’t even have immunity. The doctrine of judicial immunity, as I’ve noted before, was created by . . . judges!

NOT ALL OF THEM AT THE S.E.C. WERE MEN: Top 10 Reasons Women Watch Porn.

TAKING IT EASY in Molto Gusto.

EVERYONE DRAW MOHAMMED: The Blog.

More here.

FROM BEN CUNNINGHAM, a roundup of Tea Party news headlines.

SO HOW’S THAT GUN CONTROL WORKING FOR YOU? A Community Disorganized: Chicago Democrats Want National Guard Brought In. “In order to curb Chicago’s rampant and increasing outbreak of violence, State Representatives John Fritchey (D-11th District) and LaShawn Ford (D-8th District) want to call in the National Guard. Yesterday, the legislators urged city and state officials to use the Guard to bolster a thinly stretched Chicago Police.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS: Unemployment challenges Obama’s economic narrative. “Even as he touts his efforts to put more Americans to work, President Barack Obama faces a public increasingly skeptical of his ability to bring jobs back to Main Street. . . . That’s a far different reality than what the administration predicted last year, when Obama rallied support for the $787 billion economic stimulus package. At the time, the White House said the massive infusion of taxpayer funds would keep the unemployment rate from topping 8 percent, though the administration later revised those estimates, saying the recession proved to be worse than it expected.”

DAN RIEHL: If a dead tree drops in the forest and there’s no one there to read it, does it make a sound?

WAXMAN FAIL: “When major companies declared that a provision of the new health care law would hurt earnings, Democrats were skeptical. But after investigating, House Democrats have concluded that the companies were right to tell investors and the government about the expected adverse effects of the law on their financial results.”

Kind of embarrassing, but another illustration of the Knowledge Problem.