CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS ON NORTH KOREA: Kim Jong Il’s regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought.

MAYBE THEY SHOULD CHANGE THEIR POLICIES: Car bombs today killed 32 Shia Muslims in Iraq, and 25 Shia Muslims in Pakistan. On the other hand, terrorists might be motivated by something more significant than policy disagreements.

A CONVERSATION WITH William Baldwin.

THE PRESS CONFERENCE: Funny to think that the Tea Party movement is less than a year old, and that when it started only bloggers were covering it.

NOW IT’S brake issues for Ford hybrids. Funny how these problems keep hitting non-bailout companies.

THEODORE DALRYMPLE: Save the planet by outlawing lampshades!

GOOGLE ASKS NSA FOR help with cyberattacks.

ISRAEL THREATENS SYRIA’S BASHAR ASSAD with regime change.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The Great Peasant Revolt of 2010.

MATT WELCH on the inherent instability of corporate monopolies.

HI EVERYBODY. Glenn is busy with some PJTV coverage in Nashville today, so I’ll be helping him out here for a bit. He’ll be back in a few hours, and perhaps intermittently in the meantime.

A DEPRESSING REPORT on anti-Semitism in Britain.

GOING OFF THE RECORD, about going off the record.

REPLACING ASTRONAUTS with Robonaut2.

HERE’S THE LINK TO PJTV coverage of the Tea Party Convention. I’ve just arrived in Nashville myself.

IN THE MAIL: From Scott Rasmussen, In Search Of Self-Governance.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Why Climate Science Is On Trial.

HOW CLARENCE THOMAS PROMOTES DIVERSITY:

He says he thinks it’s important to have diversity, and his idea is to concentrate on his circuit, the 11th Circuit. So he’ll look for law students who are near the top of the class in schools in that circuit (which includes Florida).

He’s explicitly scornful of the bloggers who refer to the students at the less highly ranked law schools as “TTT” or “third tier trash.”

Plus: “And for law clerks he chooses ‘the kids I like,’ with “a preference for non-Ivy League law clerks, ‘because “I’m not part of this new or faux nobility.'”

BRITISH AUTHORITIES LOOK AT criminal liability in ClimateGate.

L.A. TIMES: Politicizing Justice? Obama names DNC member Tim Purdon as a U.S. Attorney.

IT WOULD BE A BIGGER STORY IF IT WERE AT FOX: NBC Cafeteria Celebrates Black History Month With Fried Chicken Special.

PFIZER’S BAD POLITICAL BET: “Fortune 500 execs could stand up for a free market that benefits consumers and shareholders, or hitch their cart to the new Democratic majority. Pfizer’s Mr. Kindler is a case study in the hitch-and-hope mentality—a CEO who became the motivating force behind Big Pharma’s $80 billion ‘deal’ on reform, and industry support of ObamaCare. With that health agenda burning, the choice isn’t looking so grand.”

EXPERTS WEIGH IN on Mac vs. PC security.

PJTV LIVE COVERAGE OF THE NATIONAL TEA PARTY CONVENTION is here.

BROCCOLI REVISITED.