AT AMAZON, it’s the Friday Sale.

PUTTING SYNAPSES on a chip.

GIVEN HOW LITTLE THEY’VE DONE WITH THE REAL ETHICAL PROBLEMS OF CHRIS DODD AND CHARLIE RANGEL, THIS WILL PROBABLY BACKFIRE: Bogus Ethics Complaint Targets Coburn, DeMint, Brownback.

But I suppose GOP groups — seeing how this worked against Palin in Alaska — should be ginning up lame ethics complaints against Democratic targets, too. Turnabout is fair play.

THOSE SUPER-NICE CANADIANS: Toronto Muslim: ‘We need another Holocaust!’ Good thing he’s not blonde and female.

RICK MORAN: Don’t Slander States’ Rights.

Blaming the 10th Amendment for segregationists’ sloganeering is no fairer than blaming the 1st Amendment for communists’ sloganeering.

THE ABCS OF EDUCATIONAL TOYS.

COMFORTING THE ELDERLY with a Teddy bear robot that snores.

HOW YOUR BRAIN remembers the future.

HEH: “Access Of Evil.” “Basically, some of the folks who’ve been providing those BJs for free have discovered others are cashing in – and are starting to feel a bit under-appreciated.”

ADSCAM UPDATE: Inside the sponsorship scandal: How the Mounties got their man.

DAN MITCHELL: The Flat Tax: How it Works and Why it is Good for America.

REP. CLEAVER backing away from “spitting” charge.

MAKING CHEAPER SOLAR CELLS with black silicon.

CONSTITUENT TO CAROL SHEA-PORTER: “You broke the Constitution!”

RON BAILEY: What the new CAFE standards really mean.

SO I’VE GOT SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO: Self-Esteem Peaks At Age 60.

WHAT TO DO WHEN your boyfriend’s mother is racist. “I’m really good friends with one of his cousins, and I’ve met some other younger members of his family (everything went swimmingly), but unfortunately, he’s been very hesitant to have me meet his mom, even though she lives just a few blocks away from him. I know why, too: she doesn’t like white people. This isn’t me making things up: he’s explained it all. She still asks him when he’ll be getting back together with the girl he dated before me—because she was black. . . . This is pretty much the only area of our relationship where that fact that we’re interracial has had a negative effect. Do I push the issue to make a point, or should I just let it go?”

GREENHOUSE HYPOCRISY: Exclusive: EPA Wasted $13,000 on Low-MPG Car Rentals in Copenhagen — Were Offered Free Zero Emission Cars.

AUTOBLOG: Plug-in vehicle industry responds to Nissan Leaf’s low price.

ELECTRIC IDEAS at the New York Auto Show.

BLOWING THE NARRATIVE (CONT’D): Indicted Militia Member A Registered Democrat. “Jacob J. Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio, voted as a Democrat in the 2004 and 2008 primary elections, and in 10 other elections since 2000.”

IN THE MAIL: From Sean Hannity, Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda.

REASON TV: Cocktail Shakedown: The New War Against Classic Mixed Drinks.

DAVE KOPEL: Destroying the Constitution’s Structure Is Not Constitutional.

Speaking of which, here’s a Commerce Clause paper I wrote for Cato some years ago that’s still relevant.

RADLEY BALKO: This Week In Innocence: News From The World of Wrongful Convictions.