SUSANNAH BRESLIN: How To Be A Freelancer, And How Not To Be A Freelancer.

ANN ALTHOUSE: A protester sits in the center of the Capitol rotunda floor, day after day, with posters spread all around, facilitated by Democratic Assemblyman Brett Hulsey. No wonder these people assumed the Tea Party movement had to be some kind of astroturf. They were just relying on their own experience.

HMM: Former SEIU official demanded action to destabilize banking system, overthrow capital. “Apparently, Lerner comes from the ‘you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet’ school of economics, because Lerner’s ideas of bringing stability seem to be taken from the ending of Fight Club.”

EATING ON less than $7 a day.

IN THE MAIL: From Nancy Rommelmann, The Bad Mother: A Novel.

REASON TV: Who Wants to Live Forever? Dr. Stephen Coles on the Secrets of the World’s Oldest People.

ALL YOUR ENCRYPTIONS ARE BELONG TO US: Quantum computing device hints at powerful future.

TAXPROF: U.S. Taxes Rich More Heavily Than Any Other Country.

BYRON YORK: U.S. pilots face tight restraints in Libyan war.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: A plan to increase teaching loads for faculty in Ohio.

PHOTO QUIZ: Who Looks More Comfortable With Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Obama Or Palin?

FORBES: Documents Reveal TSA Research Proposal To Body-Scan Pedestrians, Train Passengers. Plus, a TSA response.

HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: ABA Softens Proposal to Eliminate Faculty Tenure as Accreditation Standard.

AT AMAZON, a sale on the telescoping Gorilla Wrench. Plus, the enthusiasts’ car care kit.

UPDATE: Reader Brian Tucker offers this advice:

When loosening or final tightening auto wheel lug nuts, use the largest muscle in your body, not your arms.

Put the wrench on about level with the ground, and step on the end. My 100 pound daughter can do this.

Be sure the car isn’t up on a jack while you do this. And I’m not sure I’d tighten them this way, unless I weighed 100 pounds.

LIBYA: So what’s our strategy again?

UPDATE: They said if I voted Republican US jobs would be outsourced. Well I did & now Nicolas Sarkozy of France is our President. Heh.

MARK STEYN: “By the way, I always love the way the west gets blamed in the Middle East for supporting despots and thugs. C’mon, all you Arab ‘intellectuals’: Who else is there? Where’s your Havel or your Corazon Aquino? Amr Moussa, a shifty devious suck-up to dictators his entire life, has hopes of becoming the president of the ‘new’ Egypt. Great: a ‘Facebook Revolution’ with the same two-faced faces.”

JAMES TARANTO: Neo-Bam: Eight years after Iraq, the Bush doctrine lives on.

KHADDAFY HAS plenty of gold to pay mercenaries with.

UPDATE: Hmm. Iran’s buying a lot of gold.

POLITICO: Did Obama Lose Congress On Libya?

NOW HOLD MY BEER, AND WATCH THIS! Obama: We Know What We’re Doing.

“CONSUMER ADVOCATES” want FCC to regulate political ads. Of course they do. But while we’re talking about the need for disclosure, how about having newspapers note on every story about unions that the Newspaper Guild is a member of the CWA, and that reporting on unions may be influenced by reporters’ affiliations? Or requiring similar disclosures that the local NPR affiliate gets donations from the teachers’ union? In the interest of consumer information, don’t y’know?

UPDATE: Speaking of conflicts of interest, a reader reminds me of this: LA police union wants San Diego Union-Tribune editorial writers fired. “The San Diego paper’s new owner relies on a $30-million investment from the pension fund of Los Angeles police officers and firefighters to help fund its acquisitions of companies; the union says that makes it a part owner of the Union-Tribune.”

AN ASSIGNMENT FOR SOME enterprising young journalist. Don’t expect the juiceboxers to touch this one.

THE FIRST drone test pilot.

A “MOST DESPICABLE” theory of Presidential power. Which is not the same as saying that it’s wrong. Indeed, if our political class is itself despicable, then isn’t a despicable theory likely to be . . . right?

GEORGE MONBIOT: Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power.

You will not be surprised to hear that the events in Japan have changed my view of nuclear power. You will be surprised to hear how they have changed it. As a result of the disaster at Fukushima, I am no longer nuclear-neutral. I now support the technology.

A crappy old plant with inadequate safety features was hit by a monster earthquake and a vast tsunami. The electricity supply failed, knocking out the cooling system. The reactors began to explode and melt down. The disaster exposed a familiar legacy of poor design and corner-cutting. Yet, as far as we know, no one has yet received a lethal dose of radiation.

Reader Doug Levene writes: “What is the world coming to? Even an old lefty like Monbiot can see that the Fukushima disaster was, well, not a disaster.”