MICKEY KAUS: Now Angelo Mozilo can safely title his autobiography “Dodd is My Co-Pirate.”

FIRST CALIFORNIA, NOW THE FEDS? Tinkering with tax withholding. If this is true, it’ll make for some good campaign ads. . . .

UPDATE: Or maybe not. I emailed this link to Paul Caron of the TaxProf blog, and he said after running the numbers that it doesn’t amount to much.

AMAZING PICTURES of humpback whales.

SISSY WILLIS: Democrats Leaving A Sinking Ship: The TeaParty Effect?

Plus, more discussion at The Hill.

HARRY REID’S HOLDING A HEALTH CARE EVENT IN LAS VEGAS TOMORROW. If you’re in the area and would like to attend, you’ll need to RSVP here, apparently. They won’t let just anyone show up. . . .

MATT WELCH: Does Newt Gingrich Speak for Either Republicans or Tea Partiers? He’s always interesting, but . . . no.

YOUNG IRANIANS vs. the Motorbike Thugs.

HEY, NANCY PELOSI ISN’T FAT: The Reason Why Obama’s Agenda May Fail Is That Liberals are Fat Capitalists. Soros is a bit tubby, though.

CNN LOOKS AT THE Andy Stern lobbying issue.

AN INTERESTING class project.

UH OH: Brits Dime Out Obama On Intel.

BRUCE BAWER: While Europe Sneered.

WELL, GOOD: Common anti-inflammatory drug could help prevent skin cancers, Stanford researcher says.

THE PROBLEM WITH PROFILING: “There just aren’t enough smart people with the desire to work a screener’s job in the US.” And it’s hard to imagine the current batch doing a decent job if given more discretion.

UPDATE: More from Jules Crittenden: “I understand that in the case of TSA, we are putting a lot of pressure on them to perform, and they have to deal with huge volumes of people who are often tired or stressed. However, there is no excuse for a lack of professionalism and some common-sense standards in one of the government’s more intrusive interactions with a largely law-abiding and compliant public. If TSA doesn’t already have an aggressive program to monitor and address professionalism and standards, it should start one. Nearly a decade in, if incidents like this are happening, I’d suggest they need an aggressive program to monitor and address the professionalism of whoever is supposed to be monitoring and addressing the professionalism in the first place.”

WHY CHRIS DODD pulled the plug. “The healthcare bounce was showing no signs of making an appearance. The imminent passage of the behemoth bill is hardening, not easing, the public’s hostility to incumbents.”

TOURISTS BEWARE: Tourists Beware: Jihadist Kidnappers Plague North Africa.

HOMELAND SECURITY INSPECTOR GENERAL: The System Isn’t Working. Well, that’s easy to fix. Fire the Inspector General! Hey, it worked with Walpin.

IN THE MAIL: From Mark Gilbert, Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable.

GLENN DERENE: Do Google And Apple Make the Consumer Electronics Show Irrelevant?

No. But since I wound up deciding not to go this year, I’m glad people are at least asking the question. ‘Cause I was feeling a little bad about missing it. . . .

KEEPING IT OUT OF THE SUPREME COURT: “Yesterday a settlement ended Pottawattamie County v. McGhee, a Supreme Court case that raised the question of when prosecutors can be held personally liable for misconduct they commit while accumulating evidence against a defendant. Terry Harrington and Curtis W. McGhee, who served 25 years for the 1978 murder of a retired police officer before being released, sued Dave Richter and Joseph Hrvol, the Pottawattamie County, Iowa, prosecutors who sent them to prison, accusing them of fabricating evidence, coercing witnesses, and hiding exculpatory evidence.”

TOM BEVAN: Obama’s C-SPAN Problem. They look like promise breakers because they are. They look like they’ve got something to hide . . . because they do.

UPDATE: “Obama lied, healthcare died.”

CLIMATE CHANGE, INCOME EQUALITY, AND overly credulous journo-bloggers.

THE FIVE BEST PLACES to watch TV on the Internet.

MORE ON the Google Nexus One phone. Also, Walt Mossberg likes it (subscriber only, alas): “In my tests, overall, the Nexus One worked very well. The latency I had seen in earlier Android phones is gone, due to a slicker version of the operating system and faster chips. The phone feels good in the hand and the screen is magnificent, with much greater resolution than the iPhone’s. . . . But there are some downsides to the Nexus One. Like all Android phones, it relies too much, in my view, on menus that create extra steps, including some menus that have a built-in ‘more’ button to display a secondary menu of choices.”

DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO: Conspicuous Sacrifice vs. Conspicuous Consumption. It’s all about that oozing sense of entitlement that the AP’s Ron Fournier noted.