JENNIFER RUBIN: “If we can’t persuade the U.N. to stop its anti-Semitic agenda, isn’t it at least time to stop funding it?”

VIDEO: Wingsuit formation flying.

WELL, NOBODY ASKED ME: UT Faculty unanimous against allowing guns on campus. I assume by this they mean the Faculty Senate was unanimous. However, I’m perfectly okay with letting permitholders carry guns on campus. I’ve had a number of students with carry permits, and honestly, I would have felt safer if they had guns on campus. Here’s something I wrote about that back in 2007 for the New York Daily News, and here’s a related piece I wrote for the New York Times.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, WE’D SEE INCESTUOUS TIES WITHIN THE DEFENSE-CONTRACTING WORLD: And they were right! I’m not sure there’s all that much here, really, but I couldn’t resist the headline.

A STRANGER’S JUST A FRIEND YOU HAVEN’T MET: “Situationist is an iPhone App that makes your life more thrilling and unpredictable.” Sounds like a watered-down version of Neal Stephenson’s Reformed Distributed Republic.

CHANGE: Government Posts Largest Monthly Deficit Ever.

How big? Bigger than Bush’s entire deficit for 2007. A lot bigger. This is what you voted for when you voted for change.

UPDATE: Reader Jacob Allen writes: “The 2007 total fiscal year deficit number being bandied about is inaccurate. Thanks Drudge! As your link shows, that was the CBO estimate for 2007. The actual, hard number ended up being $244.2 billion. So February 2011’s #s would fall just short of 2007’s total (and, 2006 and 2008 which were $248.2 billion and $239 billion (estimated) respectively).” Well, that’s so much better, then.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Bob Meadows writes:

I think you gave in too easily to your reader, Jacob Allen, who claimed that the federal budget deficit in FY 2007 was $244.2 billion.

Here is the “historical data” from the CBO, showing that the deficit in FY 2007 was $160.7 billion—very close to the “about $161 billion” estimate at the link you provided.

Hmm. I wonder where Allen got his number.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: Repeat of 1859 Carrington Event would devastate modern world, experts say. “But the big fear is what might happen to the electrical grid, since power surges caused by solar particles could blow out giant transformers. Such transformers can take a long time to replace, especially if hundreds are destroyed at once, said Baker, who is a co-author of a National Research Council report on solar-storm risks. . . . The eastern half of the U.S. is particularly vulnerable, because the power infrastructure is highly interconnected, so failures could easily cascade like chains of dominoes.” Perhaps we need to make that infrastructure more robust. Plus, we can do more with warning: “In a pinch, power companies could protect valuable transformers by taking them offline before the storm strikes.”

ROGER SIMON: Qaddafi meets Harvard: Do all college professors love dictators? No, but I can see why you might get that impression. . . .

MICHELLE MALKIN’S COUSIN, Marizela Perez, is missing. “She is a University of Washington undergrad and she has been missing since Saturday afternoon, when she left the Rainier Beach neighborhood headed to the UW Seattle campus.”

AT AMAZON, markdowns on spring garden and patio stuff.

MARY KATHARINE HAM: The F#&king New Tone Is Finally F#&king Here!

INTRODUCING the Toyota Yaris hybrid.

3D VIDEOS of live cells in action.

CIVILITY IN POLITICS: Sarah Palin’s parents worry about all the death threats.

REMEMBERING FRANCIS GARY POWERS and the Cold War.

READER BRYAN RILEY NOTES a new Rainmakers album. Plus, they were inducted into the Kansas City Music Hall of Fame, along with Count Basie. Well-deserved!

FORGET THE ROBOT LAWYERS: “Imagine a robot judge accepting filings from robot prosecutors and robot defense attorneys.”

UPDATE: Patrick Carroll emails: “Charles Stross has written about this sort of thing in Accelerando.” Yeah, that didn’t work out so well.

AN EARTH-SHATTERING Kaboom.

KATIE GRANJU has gone public.

THE BLOOMBERG BUBBLE BURSTS: I linked to an excerpt of this piece over the weekend, but the full piece is now available for free at Commentary.

LAST CHANCE FOR AN AUTOGRAPHED COPY of Michael Totten’s new book.

AN ALL-ELECTRIC RENAULT for just $9,700.

ON THE HILL, bipartisan opposition to a Value-Added Tax.

IN THE MAIL: The Dark Side of Innocence: Growing Up Bipolar.

THE HILL: Future Depends On Cutting Debt, Voters Say.