HOW COME I NEVER GET ASSIGNMENTS LIKE interviewing swimsuit models-turned-swimsuit-designers?

REASON TV: Do Vaccines Cause Autism?

SHRINKWRAPPED: The Future Of Sex.

HOW TO Trim Your SIM.

EMILY BAZELON: Miranda worked with Shahzad!

SHOCKER: Barack Obama Doesn’t Care About Southern People. Hey, this sounds familiar, sorta . . . .

JOE LIEBERMAN’S TERRORIST EXPATRIATION ACT. I think this is a terrible idea. As I’ve said before, we need a bright-line distinction between citizens and noncitizens to reduce the temptation of political abuse. This blurs that distinction, which is a bad thing.

HOW ISPs COULD combat botnets.

MORE ON THAT CALIFORNIA FLAG-SUPPRESSION CASE, from Eugene Volokh. And here’s a further report, from Zombie. “So here we have the Principal and the Vice-Principal of an American high school treating the Stars and Stripes as if it was a gang bandanna; even worse, the school administrators took sides in this imaginary US-vs.-Mexico gang fight by allowing the widespread display of Mexican flags on campus but banning (under threat of punishment) any display of the American flag.”

ED MORRISSEY: Nashville: The Disaster America Ignored?

Plus, from Michael Silence, a poll.

UPDATE: This Story Intentionally Left Blank.

HMM: Report: Nissan Leaf battery pack costs only £6,000 ($9,000) or $375/kWh! “If a report in the Times of London is accurate, it would go a long way toward explaining Nissan’s claims that the Leaf electric car will be profitable at just $33,000. The report, which focuses mainly on Nissan executive Andy Palmer, states that the 24 kilowatt-hour lithium ion battery pack for the EV costs only £6,000 (about $9,000) to produce. That works out to just $375 per kWh, a figure that no one else in the industry is currently claiming is possible.”

IN THE MAIL: Husband and Wife: A Novel.

ROGER SIMON: How much would you pay for Newsweek?

JESSE WALKER: The Myth of the Menacing Militias. “Think the Hutaree are the leading edge of a vast new paramilitary threat? Think again.” It was just one narrative they were testing out against the Tea Parties. Now largely superseded, except in the wishful statements of some MSNBC hosts and the like.

DON’T SAY NOTHIN’ TO THE MAN: Criminal Tax Lawyers Accuse IRS of ‘Double-Cross’ in Prosecuting Taxpayers Who Voluntarily Disclosed Overseas Accounts.

TRANSPARENCY: Treasury Dept. Ignores FOIA Despite Obama Open Government Initiative.

MARK TAPSCOTT: GOP Establishment’s Resurgence Plan More Of The Same.

UPDATE: Dan Riehl: Why The “New” GOP Plan Really Sucks For Bloggers And Could Prove Disastrous.

HOW TO REVITALIZE a dying plant.

U.S. TAXPAYERS financing Greek bailout.

TODAY ONLY: Free one-day shipping on Kindles for Mother’s Day.

NASHVILLE FLOOD 2010: An undercovered disaster?

MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: If Only the Tea Partiers were More European.

Tea Parties? Not in Europe. Never. The pitchfork-toting crowd is a peculiar byproduct of the misinformed, disturbed politics of the United States, where Lindberghs, Limbaughs, and Levins have always proliferated. Protest movements on the continent, like the May 1st protests in Kungsträdgården, under a sea of Cuban flags and photos of Marx and Mao, are a more civilized celebration of dictatorship and egalitarianism.

Or how about the protests in Greece, where Tea Parti…errr…left-wing protesters took to the streets again today to demand that, as the government and economy collapses, that no austerity measures be taken. The result? Three people dead in the firebombing of a bank in Athens.

Indeed.

SO DOES THIS MAKE MINE A “COLLECTIBLE CLASSIC” NOW? Mazda RX-8 To Be Discontinued In US Market. It’s a great car.

A DIFFERENT KIND OF Whitewater Scandal?

WORRIES ABOUT A “MAD DUCK” CONGRESS.