NICK GILLESPIE: DRAMATIC OLBERMANN VS. DRAMATIC CHIPMUNK. “Like some small-screen, basic-cable Capt. Queeg without the strawberry fetish.”

FIRST CHEVY VOLTS won’t be E85 capable. I only know a couple of stations in my area that sell ethanol anyway, so I doubt this is a big deal.

CLIMATEGATE: Another resignation.

UPDATE: A Simon & Garfunkel inspired ClimateGate music video. From the comments: “This is my favorite desultory philippic on global warming so far.”

AT OVERLAWYERED, Walter Olson posts a bleg about clinical legal education.

AMANDA CONGDON enters the Black Hole.

TALKING ABOUT THE DEFICIT COMMISSION, over at The Hill.

IN PENNSYLVANIA, a call to emulate Chris Christie’s fiscal approach.

THE TRILLION DOLLAR GAP: A Pew Report on State Pension Systems. “Forty states were classified as needing improvement, having set aside less than 7.1 percent of the funds required. Twenty of these have no assets on hand to cover their obligations.”

WASHINGTON STATE SUPREME COURT finds Second Amendment is incorporated against the states.

WHY LAW REVIEWS are in decline.

LETTERS FROM the Fab Academy.

BYE, BYE BOUCHER? Losing coal country.

UH OH: Not only are jobless rates up, but so is inflation. It’s rising “faster than expected.” Just like the jobless claims! Can you say “stagflation?”

HMM: Small Plane Crashes Into Austin, Texas, Office Building. Conflicting reports on whether it was an “intentional act” or an accident here. Stay tuned.

UPDATE: Austin Plane Crash May Have Been Suicidal Attack on IRS. “A single engine plane smashed into the side of an Austin office buildling today and authorities are investigating reports that the pilot may have burned down his house down and then steered the plane into the building in a suicidal attack on the IRS, sources told ABC News.” I blame Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and the Tea Partiers. Just thought I’d get ahead of the spin on this one . . . . Oh, and Trig, too. I’m sure he’s responsible, somehow.

On the other hand, there’s this: “Federal officials said shortly after the crash into the Austin office complex that houses FBI and IRS offices that they had no reason to suspect the incident was terrorism related.” They say that every single time, it seems.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Oh, never mind: He was a crazed Bush-hater kinda like Amy Bishop. Nothing to see here, move along . . . .

MORE: A hero.

Fox News is interviewing a guy (former military) named Robin DeHaven who works for a glass replacement company named Binswanger.

He drove to the building after seeing plane and smoke from the crash, put his ladders up to the building — and when he saw that the people at the window were ‘panicked’ — climbed into the building, and helped get five people out.

Incredible.

Impressive. Much more on this at Hot Air. Also at JWF. And from Ace.

STILL MORE: TaxProf: Pilot Deliberately Crashes Into IRS Office Building in Austin, Blames Tax Reform Act of 1986.

Plus, lame tax protestors.

J. STORRS HALL: Ethics For Machines.

IN THE MAIL: From Roger von Oech of Ball of Whacks fame, the Y-Ball.

SPACE: RAND SIMBERG is liveblogging the Suborbital Researchers Conference in Boulder.

THIS MIGHT BE SCANDALOUS, if anyone watched CNN.

JOHN STOSSEL ON what’s wrong with public education.

WILL HAROLD FORD FACE GAY-RIGHTS PROTESTERS in New York?

BUSTING TOM FRIEDMAN FOR GLOBAL WARMING HYPOCRISY.

I’ve seen the photo of his house before, but you can never remind people too often.

MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: They burn the research of class enemies, don’t they? “Rudd’s recent memoir Underground: My Life With SDS and the Weathermen now acknowledges that it was his group that destroyed ten years of research conducted by liberal historian Orest A. Ranum, then an associate professor at Columbia and mild critic of SDS’s tactics, and not the New York City Police Department.”

THE “MOUNT VERNON STATEMENT:” Stuck in the Sixties?

PROF. KENNETH ANDERSON: The Obama administration’s contrasting on-defense, on-offense responses to terrorism. “Leading lawyers in the administration appear to be acting as though this were going to be a one term administration. Their failure to offer a robust defense of targeted killing, to the full extent that it would almost certainly be contemplated by an administration planning on being around for another seven years, rather than three, suggests that they are hedging their bets and, in effect, offering a kind of private intrade-style prediction market for the inside players that they, and the President, will be back to being law professors sooner rather than later.”

PROF. JACOBSON: One Year Ago, I Saved The Economy. Thanks!