CHANGE: New CNN GOP Presidential Poll: No Frontrunner, Ron Paul in Double Digits.

HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: Explaining College as Oversold and Underperforming.

A LOOK AT OBAMA’S post-Osama-shooting polls. Some weird results: He got a bounce, but “according to Quinnipiac, his re-elect among independents actually went down.”

HEART MUSCLES AND FAT: “How many people has the FDA and the nutrition/industrial complex killed with the fatophobia over the past decades? I’m pretty sure my father was one of them.”

THE OTHER NIGHT I SHOT OSAMA IN HIS PAJAMAS. How I wound up in his pajamas I’ll never know. . . .

UPDATE: In Pajamas.

SPOTTED: A Very Rutan-Looking Experimental Aircraft Cruising California Skies.

TONY KATZ: The “Racer” Conspiracy Goes Mainstream. With Stephen Kruiser and AlfonZo Rachel.

UPDATE: Owen Brennan: Truthers, Birthers, and Deathers Got Nothing On Racers. “The problem – for America – with the Racer Movement is that it’s not a fringe movement.”

TAKING A PAGE FROM WIKILEAKS, with the WSJ SafeHouse.

CHANGE: Boehner “optimistic,” demands trillion-dollar cuts.

TRANSPARENCY: Judicial Watch Files FOIA Request Seeking Bin Laden Photos & Video.

ENERGY: The Return Of The Republicans. Well, I paid $4.05/gallon yesterday, so it’s about time.

UPDATE: Obama oil subsidy plans a boon for big oil. “The Obama plan would give Big Oil a huge win by making their smaller competitors less competitive.”

MY UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEAGUE BARB KAYE is doing another survey of political blog readers. If you’ve got a few minutes, please help her out by taking it.

UBIQUITOUS VIDEO: Amazon offers a markdown on this Playsport camera bundle. Not bad, and the rugged, inexpensive PlaySport is a good camera for recording protests, townhalls, etc. There’s also a markdown on the camera alone. Yeah, you can shoot video with your cellphone — but if, as happened with New Media Meade, somebody tries to wrestle your camera away, do you want it to be your smartphone with all your contacts, etc.?

UPDATE: A reader writes: “I just ordered the playsport for my honeymoon in Punta Cana. I was really bummed out about Flip getting discontinued, thanks for the new recommendation.” Yes, they’re good for honeymoons as well as Tea Party events.

FASTER, PLEASE: Protein, RNA, DNA: Nanotechnology finds a multitude of paths to attack cancer cells.

OBAMA AND OSAMA: The Vindication Of President Bush? “In one event, on May Day, the entire case against President Bush was demolished by one of his greatest critics: President Obama. . . . President Obama, one of the Bush administration’s most strident and vocal opponents, used the very tools, techniques, and tactics that he attacked previously and very publicly to accomplish it all, vindicating former President Bush and six years of the War on Terror before Obama took office.”

CHANGE: UN Reports April Food Prices Climb Again, Hit Second Highest Ever.

Meanwhile, in the midwest you see a lot of stories about a wet, cold spring delaying spring planting.

HEH: UK Paper Runs “Sting” on OBL’s Likely Successor al-Awlaki. “On the other hand, there is a timely quality to this investigation. It shows that al Qaeda rolls on despite bin Laden’s death. And while OBL lived in an compound with no internet access and was thus nearly impossible to contact, al-Awlaki’s advice is available to anyone interested in waging jihad right from their home computer. We can only hope that al-Awlaki is right about anyone who contacts him bringing surveillance upon themselves.”

CONFESSIONS OF A CAR SALESMAN.

REPORT: Ford’s Aggressive Efforts to Lower Hybrid Costs Are Paying Off.

UM, ISN’T THIS HOW WE WOUND UP WITH THE REAVERS? Scientist seeks to banish evil, boost empathy. More here.

MICKEY KAUS: “They aren’t celebrating Osama bin Laden’s killing in the Bay Area. … You can’t accuse them of treating Obama’s ‘assassination team’ differently from Cheney’s.”

IN THE MAIL: From Adam Mitzner, A Conflict of Interest.

ON CBS ATLANTA, the Insta-Wife talks about kids who kill.

CHANGE: Newspapers fight to keep public-postings revenue. “Even as newspapers attempt to monetize their web publications, they still get much of their revenue from print advertisements, which include these public notices. State-required legal notices are the bread and butter of many business newspapers in particular.” At this point, it’s basically just a taxpayer subsidy.

UPDATE: A reader emails: “The issue about public postings is not just about the newspapers keeping their subsidies at taxpayers expense; it is about them keeping their subsidies at the expense of better protection of individual rights too. Perform a thought experiment comparing publication of any legal notice in a newspaper versus on-line. The benefits of on-line publication include: 24/7 availability, world-wide availability, indexable in search engines, and the availability of on-line translation tools. Compare that to print publication which is available (typically): once a week for three weeks, only in the narrow geographical confines of distribution, in english, and not searchable. Of course, as a taxpayor, I’m concerned about expenses, but as a citizen, I’m more concerned about effective notice.” Yes. A search-engine-indexed webpage is much more effective than a printed classified ad.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST: Chile Economy Expanded at Record Pace in March on Recovery. But they’ve taken a free-market approach.