ANDREW BREITBART: “Kate Zernike. . . you’re a despicable human being.”

OXYTOCIN IMPROVES SOCIAL SKILLS OF AUTISTICS.

MAKING SOLAR CELLS MORE EFFICIENT with nanoparticle optical antennas.

ANNALS OF THE MOSSAD: What happened in Dubai?

DANNY GLOVER: “A monstrous vision for media reform.” Let’s be clear: The apparatchiks want a system where taxpayers subsidize their views, and also pay for the apparatus that suppresses views they don’t like.

DAN MITCHELL: A Value-Added Tax Is Not the Answer…Unless the Question Is How to Finance Bigger Government.

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY: It’s been a year since Rick Santelli’s “rant heard ’round the world.” What hath Santelli wrought? Rather a lot, really. . . .

ON THICK ICE: Drilling in Antarctica.

AT THE OLYMPICS, a condom shortage. Only 14?

UPDATE: Reader Mike Morrow writes: “Condoms are only worn by half the winter Olympians so it’s more like 28.” Good point. Well, that’s a reasonable number.

WHY PIRATED DVDS are a superior product to purchased DVDs. The unskippable intro stuff drives me crazy.

INFLIGHT: What’s the right thing to do if you sit next to a fat guy?

LAYING OFF TENURED FACULTY at Florida State.

RAND SIMBERG CHARGES PROF. JACK LEVIN OF NORTHEASTERN with bigotry. I noticed that, too. Honestly, I think the University of Alabama at Hunstville is at least as high a quality institution as Northeastern.

UPDATE: Matt Edens writes:

The suggestion that Huntsville = Hicksville jumped out at me, too (wrote a City Confidential about the place back in the day).

Did a quick google trying to compare percentage of PhD’s but came up dry. But I did discover that Hunstville’s median household and family incomes are both higher. $41K/$52K for Huntsville vs. $39K/$44K for Boston.

Oh, and Forbes named it one of the ten best cities for recession recovery.

Really, he should have considered his words more carefully. Casual uninformed bigotry never looks good.

IN MINNESOTA, snow-testing AWD systems. “If powersliding a Lamborghini across a hastily patched airfield is the culmination of a childhood fantasy, then managing to maintain a ten-foot-tall wall of snow behind a luxury crossover is the arctic equivalent.”

TEA PARTY TV: I interview Karen Harrington and Adam Andrzejewski. Karen Harrington is running for Congress against ObamaCare booster Deborah Wasserman Schultz.

UPDATE: Reader Michael Cummins writes: “Thank You, Thank You, Thank You. I live here in District 20, but I learned about Karen Harrington from you.” It’s more of that Internet delocalization I was talking about . . . .

MAKING UNIVERSITIES BETTER by buying out deadwood faculty.

HAROLD KOH AND OTHERS talk “targeted killing.”

BAD NEWS FOR THE CAR BIZ: Study: 77% of people are, on average, planning on driving their current cars at least 50,000 miles more than their previous cars. See, the Nader folks campaigned against “planned obsolescence,” and now that cars last longer the car companies are going broke . . . .

DAVID BOAZ ISN’T SURE that Republican pols have learned their lesson.

ROLL CALL: Lautenberg diagnosed with Lymphoma.

AN AIDS VACCINE using a “safe” HIV virus.

JOE BIDEN’S “IRAQ ACHIEVEMENT:” A skeptical look from Omar Fadhil Al-Nidawi and Austin Bay.

UPDATE: Heh.

IN THE MAIL: From George Gilder, The Israel Test.

HEH: Politics: Proles Have Gotten Under the Egalitarians’ Skin. “Progressivism purports to protect the toiling and exploited masses from the amoral rapacity of big banks, big insurance, big tobacco, and whatnot. It must be exceedingly frustrating to have the toiling and exploited masses turn against the policies you have designed for their own good. . . . The Tea Party proles who reject the interference, reject also the premise that the Obama administration and its progressive supporters constitute a superior class: America’s would-be overseers really are no better than anyone else. For those who profess to care about equality, this must be terribly hard to hear.”

BYRON YORK: Obama Flip-Flops On His Own Record.