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SO MY TALK WENT PRETTY WELL. My proposal to ban Senators from ever serving as President seemed particularly popular.

DOING IN ONE TERM WHAT BUSH DID IN TWO: POLL: Majority Rates Obama ‘Same’ as or ‘Worse’ Than George W. Bush.

YOU HAVE NO FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT to eat food that you grow yourself, says Wisconsin judge. Foodies upset, discover relevance of libertarianism.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Nanoscale nonlinear light source created.

WELL, OBAMA DID THREATEN TO INVADE PAKISTAN BACK DURING THE CAMPAIGN: Walter Russell Mead: Next: Drone Strikes on Pakistan’s ISI? It’s not like they don’t deserve it: “One should be clear about this; attacks on embassies and on military personnel and positions are acts of war. They are not college pranks, they are not ‘signals’, they are not robust statements of policy disagreement and they are not bargaining chips in an extended negotiation. They are acts of force in violation of international law and they can legitimately be met by acts of force and war in return.”

MYTH: College As A Fairy Tale.

WASHINGTON POST: Five Myths About Millionaires. Including this one: “In a speech on Monday, Obama said raising taxes on millionaires isn’t class warfare, but ‘math.’ His math may be off: According to the IRS, those with adjusted gross incomes of more than $1 million paid an average of 23.3 percent in federal income taxes in 2008; those earning between $100,000 and $200,000 paid 12.7 percent; and those earning between $50,000 and $100,000 paid 8.9 percent. Half of American families don’t make enough money to pay income taxes at all.” And that’s the real problem. Everyone should have skin in the game.

UPDATE: A couple of readers suggest that payroll taxes provide the necessary skin. Well, yes and no. On the one hand, payroll taxes for Social Security, etc., are allegedly more like insurance premiums — and they’re not paid by those who aren’t working, or who are working under the table.

On the other hand, the fact that we’re currently enjoying a payroll-tax reduction that will be politically hard to eliminate suggests that where more people have a stake, there’s more pressure for lower taxes. Want to bet that if everyone paid income taxes, and if, as I’ve suggested before, the amount always went up when federal spending went up, we’d see a lot more resistance to increased federal spending?

CAMPAIGNING AGAINST false rape accusations. “How would the Justice Department respond if 25% of all black murder suspects were falsely accused of the crime by white accusers? . . . Now what if I told you that studies over the last ten years have shown that false rape accusations are likely in the ballpark of 25%, and could even be as high as 40%?”

Larry Lessig, at the ConConCon opening.

TEN STAR TREK EPISODES we’re glad they never filmed.

I’M IN CAMBRIDGE FOR THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION CONVENTION. Here’s the agenda. And here’s a news story.

UPDATE: We’re already being attacked in the Harvard Crimson.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Ann Althouse invokes Edmund Burke. My own speech will analogize a Constitutional Convention to the “hyperspace” button on the old Asteroids videogame — worth pressing, but only in extremis. Are we in extremis now? I’m not sure, but there’s this.

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REDISTRIBUTING WEALTH ON A PERSONAL LEVEL: ‘In a Rush to Meet Your Deadline, We Made an Honest Mistake.’

MAKING THE SOCIAL SECURITY CRISIS WORSE VIA POLICY: Cost Of Raising A Kid Rose 40 Percent In Last Decade.

Some related thoughts here and here.

BOB KRUMM IS ASKING FOR YOUR HELP on a counter-terrorism problem.

POLLS: Problems For The President: Americans Give Him Lowest Approval Rating Ever.

MISSING A CAR as a place to keep your stuff.

ED DRISCOLL: Morgan Freeman Admits Hollywood has Failed Its Progressive Mission.

MICKEY KAUS: Is The UAW Running Out Of Money?

DON’T THEY CARE ABOUT THE VICTIMS? Democratic Senate Blocks Emergency Disaster Money.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN you write about sex on the Internet.

“WE WON’T PAY:” Greek Middle Class Revolts Against Higher Taxes. “Small business owners in Greece have long been the backbone of the economy and reliable taxpayers in a country where tax evasion is rampant. That, though, is now changing. Self-employed workers like Angelos Belitsakos have had enough of rising taxes and have begun to revolt.”

SATELLITE CRASHES: But where?