FLASHBACK: SEIU Brags About WI Local Media’s Help to Smear Then-Candidate Scott Walker.

POPULAR SCIENCE: Archive Gallery: How The World Will End.

WHY YOU SHOULD OWN A LEATHERMAN, courtesy of Chicagoboyz: “Never go to Costco hungry. But if you do, a Leatherman tool works really well for cutting up the roast chicken you start eating in the parking lot. And you will be extremely grateful for that roll of paper towels you find in the trunk of your car, trust me on this. ”

I recommend the Skeletool. Or the Freestyle, your choice.

UPDATE: From the comments: “This is a classic of bachelor cuisine.”

ON THE HUNT: Wisconsin “Fleebagger” Spotted In Illinois.

SMALL-SCALE DISASTER PREP: 30 Quick Fixes And Tips For Everyday Disasters.

JAMES TARANTO: “It’s quite striking the way almost every lie the left ever told about the Tea Party has turned out to be true of the government unionists in Wisconsin and their supporters.”

AMERICA’S MOST LIVEABLE CITY: Pittsburgh?

AT AMAZON, markdowns on DVD and Blu-Ray.

UNIT 731: Japan unearths site linked to human experiments.

A LOOK AT what law school deans make. Apparently my dean is underpaid.

WHETHER AWARE OF IT OR NOT, men can tell when a woman is fertile.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Mechanical Control of Conductance Through A Single-Molecule Junction.

A BUDGET-CUTTING IDEA FROM DAVID FRIEDMAN that’s much too sensible ever to be implemented.

MORE ON WISCONSIN, from Walter Russell Mead.

PERSONAL RESPONSES to large-scale collapse.

THE WHITE ROSE: An Anniversary Of Three Executions.

IMPORTANT NEWS: Toyota says plural of Prius is “Prii.”

KATIE GRANJU: Dear AWOL Wisconsin legislators: this isn’t how we do democracy.

UPDATE: Now Democratic legislators are cutting and running in Indiana. Plus, the inevitable Monty Python reference.

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE: How do law schools teach students to think like lawyers while hiring PhDs to teach?

YA THINK? White House Denies Assisting Wisconsin Union, But Ties Run Deep. That Obama is backing away from this is a clear indication of how things are going for the unions.

UPDATE: Politico: White House Throws DNC Under The Bus.

BIG NEWS AT AMAZON: “Unlimited, commercial-free movie streaming” for Amazon Prime members, at no extra charge.

IN THE MAIL: The False Promise of Green Energy.

CHANGE: Companies Raise Prices As Commodity Costs Jump.

IMPROPER FEDERAL PAYMENTS CONTINUE TO INCREASE: “According to the 2010 Financial Report of the United States Government, $ 2.3 trillion in outlays were reviewed by federal executive branch entities for improper payments last year; 5.5% of these payments, or $125.4 billion were found to be improper. This represents an increase of $16.2 billion from the fiscal year 2009 estimate of $109.2 billion. Furthermore, the GAO estimates that at 5.49%, the rate of error across the entire federal government is roughly the same. Put differently, this means that in fiscal year 2010, $189.7 billion in federal spending, or 5.49% of $3.5 trillion, was overt waste.”

INFLATION PREDICTIONS: The U.S. Is A Late Riser.