33 YEARS AGO, VHS came to America.

AT THE DAWN OF THE AGE of tissue engineering.

ORBIT ACHIEVED: Congratulations to SpaceX. Obama’s policies may be failing on other fronts, but his commercial space policy is looking pretty good.

REPORT: REGULAR CAFFEINE USE doesn’t make you as alert, as your body develops a tolerance. I think I’m a naturally sleepy person who needs coffee just to function normally. In the middle ages, when people drank small beer instead, I’d have been the village oaf.

UPDATE: Science fiction author Sarah Hoyt emails: “I’ve often wondered if the acceleration in human development was in truth NOT due to the enlightnment, humanistic philosophies, new lands to colonize etc, but simply to the usage of coffee (and other caffeinated beverages.) Dumas left out of the three musketeers that hot chocolate vendors were ubiquitous on the streets of Paris at the time. Think about this ‘Ah, Monsieur, we shall have a duel, but first, a cup of hot chocolate!’ — now that I think about it, some chocolate company should so do a commercial like that.) becoming more and more widespread. I mean, I’m all for a less oppressive society, but without caffeine I’d be a walking zombie and I doubt I’d ever have finished a short story, much less a book. And I doubt I’m alone.”

AT AMAZON, a roundup of Father’s Day Gift Ideas.

REASON TV: Nick Gillespie interviews U.S. Senate Candidate Mickey Kaus. I notice Nick’s interrupting more than usual on immigration, though he’s respectfully quiet as Mickey explains how he got the Velvet Underground to play his high school.

If you like Kaus’s campaign, you can contribute here.

JOHN STOSSEL: Fight Bigotry Without Government.

DISSING THE BUSH YEARS, EXPLAINED: “I’m not surprised that mantra is still hanging around. I mean, do you think they want to talk about the last 18 months?”

SPIN ZONE? Laura Ingraham vs. Bill O’Reilly.

IT’S NOT A SELLOUT, it’s just that high-paying jobs in journalism are getting scarce.

REPORT: SEIU Threatens Red Cross, Blocks Blood.

JUST A WEEK AWAY FROM THE Humanity Plus summit at Harvard. Alas, I’ll be busy with family stuff or I’d be there.

AN EARLY LOOK AT faster cell-phone speeds. “When the EVO locked on to a WiMAX signal, the difference was obvious. Web browsing became smoother, videos loaded more quickly and skipped less often, and streaming video live to the Web via Qik was much improved. The Android app provided by Speedtest.net reported download rates consistently over four megabits per second, compared to the consistent one megabit per second I saw using 3G on the same device in the same spot. (WiMAX seems to consume the phone battery faster, too, alas.) With the EVO’s hot spot feature, I got it to function like a pocket-size wireless router so that my laptop could share the connection.”

$6 TO $8 GAS? Prices Will “Skyrocket” If U.S. Stops Drilling, Says Former Shell Exec.

VERONIQUE DE RUGY: Athens On The Potomac. “When the markets do lose confidence in a government’s fiscal rectitude relative to others, a crisis can arise quite quickly, forcing countries into painful political decisions. And this could very well happen to the United States. . . . And don’t forget, the United States has a far shorter maturity of government debt than most other countries, meaning that even if it weren’t borrowing extra cash it would have to issue a large chunk of new stuff over very short periods of time. In other words, the United States is like an addict always looking for his next fix.”

REP. ALAN GRAYSON (D-FL) wants Republicans sent to prison.

PUNISHING LEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

40 MPG CHEVY CRUZE ECO to start at about $19,000.

HELEN THOMAS: Jews, get the hell out of Palestine, go to Poland. Coming next: Blacks, go back to Africa?

ARE WE RUNNING OUT OF places to build wind farms? I would have thought Ted Kennedy’s death would have opened things up . . . .

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE on National Donut Day.

REVOLVING DOOR: What liberal media? ABC News deputy political director goes to work for SEIU. It’s like they’re all part of one big, incestuous political machine or something.

IN THE MAIL: From Tyler Cowen: The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy. Tyler’s a good guide.

STEWART BAKER: Smallpox In The Garage.

Related: New frontiers in terrorism?

MICKEY KAUS ON the angry electorate.