“SCHOOL-HOMING:” Alas, not an April Fool’s joke.

IS THIS HEAVEN? NO, IT’S IOWA. “You know, I judge the states by their rest stops. Iowa rules supreme. It’s breezy and 77°, the sun is setting over the semis on I-80, and we’re sitting outside with our laptops at a picnic table — and we can plug in our power cords and pick up free WiFi.”

UNDEREMPLOYMENT RISES to 20.3%.

THE ABSURDITY OF GOVERNMENT-MANDATED WARNINGS: Saving the poor, one prawn at a time.

RELATIONSHIP ADVICE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: “Facebooking a booty call can be a double-edged sword, so think hard before you hit ‘Request.'”

THE TROUBLE WITH Tuna.

MARK STEYN: “Watching the Commander of the Pacific Fleet’s deadpan face as Congressman Hank Johnson (D., Ga.) asks him about the danger of the island of Guam tipping over and capsizing is a glimpse of how the viziers to the loopier Ottoman sultans must have felt.”

UPDATE: Johnson says it was just an out-of-control metaphor. Frankly, I find this explanation more plausible. . . .

HEH: Behold, the terrifying true nature of the Tea Party!

PROGRESS IN monitoring cancer progression.

MARKDOWNS ON MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS. I still subscribe to magazines. Does that make me old-fashioned? I get Popular Mechanics, and Forbes, and of course the indispensable Garden & Gun.

UPDATE: Reader John Scott writes:

Love, love, love Garden and Gun. It captures so much of what is true and good about the South and being a Southerner. It is indispensable and even my wife — who is, ahem, a Yankee and who laughed at me when I told her I had bought a subscription to a magazine called Garden and Gun — loves the magazine. (My only quibble is that I’d like to see a little more gun and a little less garden.)

I agree.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Julie Kelleher Stacy writes: “My dentist has Garden and Gun in his waiting room. He is an awesome dentist.”

VERONIQUE DE RUGY: “Stimulus” money turns out to be political pork. “Republican districts get $362 per capita on average. Democratic districts get $692 per capita on average.”

UPDATE: Shockingly, Nate Silver disagrees.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Veronique de Rugy responds.

PHYLLIS CHESLER: Is Being “Americanized” a Capital Crime in America For Muslim Women?

HEH: Doctorow and Stross to Pen Sequel to Atlas Shrugged. What, Ken MacLeod wasn’t available?

ANN ALTHOUSE: “So, one man served in the military for more than 2 decades and then misplaced an apostrophe, and another is skilled in the detection of racism and the use of mental disability as metaphor.” It’s all in what you value.

ANONYMOUS COMMENTS AND SOURCES: Michael Silence responds to Leonard Pitts and Connie Schultz.

REASON TV ANNOUNCES THE NANNY OF THE MONTH!

KRUGMAN, KING, BLOW AND RICH: BLINDED BY HATRED OF TEA PARTIERS. Millions of law-abiding, peaceful, middle-aged female protesters, and they see firehoses and “good ol’ boys.” Tell ’em to watch Letterman.

And “firehoses?” Wasn’t Bull Connor a Democrat? And one who was — like Krugman, King, Blow, and Rich — frightened into wild overreaction by people peacefully protesting?

PRAISE FOR OBAMA ON TERROR, FROM VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Bush Without The Stetson. “There is much to criticize about President Obama on foreign policy, but increasingly, despite all the ‘reset button’ rhetoric and the obligatory nods to the Left, his anti-terrorism policies are becoming near identical extensions (if in cynical fashion) of George Bush’s.” Well, honestly, wasn’t it mostly the Stetson that people objected to?

MIKE RAPAPORT on Gary Johnson. “Its good that someone, besides Ron Paul, is taking these positions. The public needs to hear the reasons why Social Security and medicare were bad ideas the day they were passed. I particularly like his focus on the fact that the government is now spending 43 cents on the dollar with borrowed money. But I doubt he is the person to beat Barack Obama in 2012.”

FROM AMANDA REEVES AND MAURICE STUCKE, some thoughts on Behavioral Antitrust.

SEX SCHOLAR: Decades before Kinsey, Stanford professor Clelia Mosher polled Victorian-era women on their bedroom behavior—then kept the startling results under wraps. . . . The Mosher Survey recorded not only women’s sexual habits and appetites, but also their thinking about spousal relationships, children and contraception. Perhaps, it hinted, Victorian women weren’t so Victorian after all.

DANIKA QUINN, ON BOARD THE TEA PARTY EXPRESS: Tea, Strategy & the New Revolution: From Reagan’s Ranks to the Tea Party Express, with Sal Russo.

AT AUTOBLOG, covering the New York Auto Show.

THE “MOMMY TRACK:” A retrospective.

WILL CHRIS DODD destroy Silicon Valley?