FERTILIZING THE FIELDS for middle-class anarchy?

SHARING the Google Sky.

ACADEMIC CREDIT: Colleges’ Common Currency Has No Set Value. “Such designations, based more or less on time, depend on institutional discretion. No Fort Knox backs the currency of credit.” That’s okay, it doesn’t back the currency of dollars, either . . . .

150 BUCKS OFF ON Rosetta Stone Spanish. It’s still not what I’d call cheap, though. Is this stuff any good?

GRASSROOTS ATTACK: Dennis Kucinich in trouble?

Here’s his opponent.

CELLPHONES REVEAL emerging disease outbreaks.

THIS WEEK in the future.

PHOTOBLOGGING THE Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheeseburger.

CELL PHONES as eye doctors.

BLOWBACK: VFW Commander Dissolves VFW-Pac over its Congressional endorsements.

ADVICE: HOW TO DISASTER-PROOF YOUR LIFE.

ALASKA NEWS: Miller’s security detains blogger after shoving incident. “It’s hard to imagine Tony Hopfinger as a cause celebre in a Senate race, but in Alaska’s wild campaign, this may be the topic to watch in tonight’s debate. The Alaska Dispatch blogger found himself detained by Joe Miller’s security force after an altercation, one apparently started by Hopfinger himself. The Alaska Daily News gives a mostly-dispassionate look at the curious incident. . . . If a reporter starts shoving security guards in any setting, he should expect to get arrested by the security guards as a consequence. That’s battery, and that charge does result in arrest. . . . Throwing the first punch doesn’t make one a martyr for the cause. It may, however, make for a lively debate tonight.”

If it had been a Tea Partier shoving security guards, then it would be much bigger news! But this will still get more national attention than when a Democratic Congressman assaults a reporter, I predict.

UPDATE: Some perspective from Dan Riehl.

SO I JUST GOT AN EMAIL FROM LINDA MCMAHON’S CAMPAIGN, PROCLAIMING: “Dick Blumenthal Earned As Much As $250,000 Of Income In The Year Leading Up To His Senate Run From Investment Accounts In The Cayman Islands.”

I don’t know that there’s anything wrong with that, but I think that Pajamas Media should send me there immediately to, er, investigate.

MASSACHUSETTS NAIL-BITER: “The race for the 10th Congressional District between Democrat William Keating and Republican Jeffrey Perry is a statistical dead heat, according to poll results released Sunday afternoon by WGBH and MassInc.”

UPDATE: A reader asks if it’s called a “dead heat” because that’s when the dead turn out to vote. . . .

IN THE MAIL: From William E. Wade, Jr., Facade: Musings On Living Life And Coping With Death.

IF YOU MISSED IT ON SIRIUS/XM SATELLITE RADIO THIS WEEKEND, the latest PJM Political is now online.

REASON TV: WHO’S AFRAID OF ANONYMOUS POLITICAL SPEECH? Heh. I’d like to see this get some network play . . .

ANN ALTHOUSE: Let’s look closely at what White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said today on “Meet the Press” about Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.

DAVID FREDDOSO: Axelrod, the Chamber of Commerce, and glass houses. “This issue came up Friday, when one of the pioneers of undisclosed election spending in the post-McCain-Feingold Era — DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse — lied to The New York Times about the ads his 501(c)4 ran during the 2008 cycle. On top of that, let me bring up a seemingly forgotten point about one of the main caped crusaders on the issue of undisclosed campaign spending. (If someone else already connected these dots, then I apologize, but I couldn’t find it.) This Newsweek piece from 2008 references a scare campaign that David Axelrod’s firm once ran with undisclosed corporate money, in order to drum up public support for an electricity rate increase.”

The “D” stands for “Desperate.”

SHOCKER: The Hill: Dem ads against GOP not accurate on crux of FairTax proposal.

FROM STEVE HENDRICKS, A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION: A Kidnapping in Milan: The CIA on Trial. I haven’t read the book yet, but I’ve known Steve for years and he’s a smart guy. (Bumped).

OOPS: Dems take in twice as much “foreign” money as Republicans “Over the weekend, some Democrats began questioning the White House strategy of demonizing third-party groups for potentially using foreign-raised money in political messaging. Now we know why. Apparently, the shrieking over foreign influence was yet another case of projection.”

THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED THIS WEEKEND:

Standing up to terrorism.

Congressman hits reporter, lies about it.

Stalin vs. Hitler.

The Glenn & Helen Show, slight return.

Latinos supporting the Tea Party.

A new song from Anne McKinney.

No, really, don’t get cocky.

Only you can prevent bacon abuse.

Standing up against historical ignorance.

Law professors clinging to their guns. But not bitterly!

The coming Middle-Class Anarchy.

BEDBUG UPDATE: Bedbugs Infest Lawrence Townhouse: “A 2-year-old girl is banned from her daycare because of bed bugs. The problem is spreading in the metro. Now, the country is facing a bed bug problem like it’s never seen before. The mother of a 2-year-old girl says they’ve been dealing with bed bugs for some time now and the property manager of the complex here will not provide a permanent solution. Experts say bed bugs are difficult to treat and for the metro, this may be only the beginning of the problem.”

VIOLENCE AGAINST Students For Concealed Carry at Texas A&M. “We did have an incident of someone tearing down our fliers and lighting them on fire in one of the buildings, but they were luckily arrested for attempted arson.” Plus, this chapter has 1,389 members.