FIRST HEARING: 8 month old hears for first time as cochlear implant is turned on.

This is the kind of thing I’m talking about when I say “Faster, please.”

PETER SUDERMAN ON Consumer-Driven Health Care.

WHY ARE WE AWARDING so few Medals of Honor?

GEORGE WILL: The Tea Party’s Wisconsin Hope.

A NOT-SO-POSITIVE TAKE on the whole “swarm power” thing.

HOW NOT TO DATE like Carrie Bradshaw.

WELL, THESE WERE JUST A MATTER OF TIME: the George W. Bush “Miss Me Yet?” T-Shirt.

IN D.C., Democratic hearts are breaking.

HEH: “Delightfully, innocently, acerbically self-unaware.” Indeed.

TAR BALLS IN THE TRUNKS: Today in “Imagine If Bush Said It.”

FEMALE LEGAL SECRETARIES SOUND OFF:

One discovery: Legal secretaries said they preferred to work for male associates and partners. In written responses, the secretaries said females were emotional and demanding, with “more to prove” and a penchant to “put on airs,” the story says.

This was the pattern at my old law firm, but that was 20 years ago. I would have expected more change since then.

DAILY CALLER: What Obama has been doing while the Gulf Coast dies.

OOPS: He Was Supposed to Be Competent: The spill is a disaster for the president and his political philosophy. “This is his third political disaster in his first 18 months in office. And they were all, as they say, unforced errors, meaning they were shaped by the president’s political judgment and instincts.”

RAYMOND IBRAHIM: Obama’s Top Counterterror Adviser’s Inability to Think Outside the Box Bodes Disaster.

HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Palin’s Douchebag Stalker Suddenly Concerned About His Privacy.

CONGRESS TAKES TIME to remember Gary Coleman.

OUCH: “There are legitimate questions as to whether he’s out of his depth or not.”

PRE-EMPTIVE DENIAL: Harry Reid: ‘I had nothing to do’ with Sestak deal.

GOOD GRIEF: Pathetic: BP Buses in Temps for Obama Photo Op. “Well, we all figured this would be a carefully choreographed photo op for the current occupant of the White House, but little did we know having their boot firmly on the neck of BP meant the folks at BP were obliged to send in some stooges for the visuals.”

FORESIGHT: Obama proposed downsizing Coast Guard crisis center three months before spill.

WHEN GERM WARFARE HAPPENED. “These attacks, orchestrated by Japan’s infamous Unit 731 between 1932 and 1945, are the only documented mass use of germ weapons in modern times. Scholars say that we will never know exactly how many were killed. Sheldon H. Harris, the late American historian, estimated in a pioneering work that between 10,000 and 12,000 Chinese prisoners perished in the bloodcurdling experiments that Unit 731 performed in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. Another 300,000 to 500,000 civilians died, he wrote, as a result of Japan’s massive germ assaults on more than 70 Chinese cities and towns.”

HOW TIME FLIES: “So it’s not youth that slows our time perception, but the fact that grammar and middle school involve incredibly long stretches of boredom.”

MICKEY KAUS demands a retraction from Salon and Alex Pareene.

MARKDOWNS ON Wusthof cutlery.

AS PART OF A SERIES ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS, Steven Pressfield interviews me on time-management and more.