#OCCUPYFAIL: The ultimate OWS slogan: “We need more; you have more.”

EUROZONE MILITARY RISK: Defence chiefs are drawing up plans to cope with the potential military fallout from the eurozone crisis, according to General Sir David Richards. “The military planning work has come to light after The Daily Telegraph disclosed last month that British embassies in the eurozone have been told to prepare emergency plans for the demise of the euro and the possible civil disorder that could follow.”

IF YOU USE A NETI POT, YOU NEED TO USE DISTILLED WATER OR STERILE SALINE: Two deaths from brain-eating amoeba linked to sinus remedy for colds. “Tap water is safe for drinking, but not for irrigating your nose.” Plus this: “If you are irrigating, flushing, or rinsing your sinuses, for example, by using a neti pot, use distilled, sterile or previously boiled water to make up the irrigation solution. . . . He added that it is important to rinse the irrigation device after each use and leave open to air dry.”

I favor this sterile saline spray in a can instead. Works just as well, less trouble.

SHOULD THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE LAW REVIEW CLOSE ITS DOORS? I think that law reviews provide a valuable experience for the students. Their value to the professors who publish in them, on the other hand, has declined sharply in the Internet / SSRN era.

SUFFERING FROM SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER? A “lightning deal” on the Philips GoLite for the remainder of the hour.

UPDATE: Expired.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: My husband is leaving me for my 25-year-old daughter.

AT AMAZON, up to 50% off on Bulova watches. For men and women.

Also, jewelry under $50.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Angela Merkel: Herding Cats Over A Cliff. “Fitch, the ratings agency that infuriated Europe yesterday by saying that the continent lacks the political and technical tools to save the euro, is right — at least for now. The latest European plan to fix the euro is already falling apart, just like all its predecessors have done.”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: ‘When the Legend Becomes Fact, Print the Legend.’ “Barack Obama is a myth, our modern version of Pecos Bill or Paul Bunyan. What we were told is true, never had much basis in fact — a fact now increasingly clear as hype gives way to reality. . . . In short, the myth of Obama’s brilliance was based on his teleprompted eloquence, the sort of fable that says we should listen to a clueless Sean Penn or Matt Damon on politics because they can sometimes act well. Read Plato’s Ion on the difference between gifted rhapsody and wisdom — and Socrates’ warning about easily conflating the two. It need not have been so. At any point in a long career, Obama the rhapsode could have shunned the easy way, stuck his head in a book, and earned rather than charmed those (for whom he had contempt) for his rewards. Clinton was a browser with a near photographic memory who had pretensions of deeply-read wonkery; but he nonetheless browsed. Obama seems never to have done that.”

OVERSTOCKED AT OVERSTOCK.COM: Internet retailer Overstock.com auctions overstocked goods by pallet at Salt Lake warehouse.

IS THE DEMOCRATS’ ATTEMPT TO RECALL SCOTT WALKER a mistake? “I certainly hope so, but that is an awfully optimistic assessment. Much more money will be spent to unseat Governor Walker than to re-elect him. On the other hand, the Democrats don’t have a candidate, and it is very weird to recall a governor for doing exactly what he promised to do when he ran for office.”

PATHETIC: Congress’s Techno-Ignorance No Longer Funny.

THEY TOLD ME IF SCOTT WALKER WERE ELECTED, ignorant yahoo state legislators would be pushing dumb laws. And they were right!

THE HORROR: When half of all households are below the median income. I blame Barack Obama, and I want a president who won’t rest until everyone is above the median income! But how likely is that when most people are perfectly satisfied to live in a society where twenty percent are in the bottom quintile?

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: The Giant of The 21st Century Begins To Awake.

The Asian unrest, a much bigger deal long term than the over hyped Arab Spring or even the crisis of the euro, is spreading from China to Indonesia, as strikes pop up across the fourth most populous country in the world.

The Asian industrial revolution is the single most transformative social event on our planet today. Hundreds of millions of people are moving from agricultural jobs to urban life, and from farming to manufacturing. They are doing it faster than Europeans and North Americans did during the western industrial revolution, and they are doing it in much larger numbers.

In the first stages of this movement, labor has been relatively docile. As the peasants come out of the rice paddies, they are bewildered by urban life and are struggling to gain a toehold. They still have the deferential social habits and strong moral values of the villages from which they come. They are used to hard work and low pay and they are often grateful for poorly paid, dangerous and hard labor.

But this changes over time. They learn more about how the city works. They lose the social habits and discipline of the countryside. Seeing how the rich live in their urban environment, and living in the media saturated environment of the modern world, they begin to grasp the immense distance between their lives and those of the rich and the middle class. Their ambitions — for themselves and for their children — rise and their expectations grow.

They also become aware that as industrial workers they have more group power than they did as peasants.

Read the whole thing.

BOYCOTTING CHIQUITA BANANAS over Conflict Oil. I say, Ethical Oil all the way!

More here.

THIS WEEK in the future.

AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, I DIDN’T KNOW TURKEYS COULD DRIVE: Don King’s Turkey Giveaway Canceled After Truck ‘Hijacked’. Okay, it wasn’t really hijacked by turkeys, but I couldn’t resist the allusion.

WELL, THEY COULDN’T GET MUCH DUMBER: How To Build A Smarter Airport Terminal.

OAK RIDGE: Are Former X10 Workers Getting The Shaft?

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: How To Tell Your Date You’re Carrying A Gun. “I generally try to bring this subject up when the date – and the conversation – is going well. Filling an awkward silence in an already strained conversation with ‘I have a gun’ is probably not going to turn out well.”

ALEXIS MADRIGAL: The Perfect Gadget For The Person With A Big House.

It’s a review of the Belkin Dual-Band Range Extender.

I also still use the Monster Cable Powerline Network Adapter.

UPDATE: Reader Tom Brosz writes: “Since my wi-fi is provided by an Apple AirPort Extreme for both PCs and Apples in my house, all I had to do was pick up a little Apple AirPort Express unit, plug it into an outlet in the middle of my house, and tell the AirPort Extreme to use it as an extender.”

And reader Dan Ballard writes: “The linked article refers to the Belkin F9K1106 which is a dual band range extender. Your Amazon link is to a very different product -the Belkin N600 dual band router. The first gets a one star rating while the N600 rates much better. No sure how well the N600 works as a range extender.” Oops — you’re right. Sorry! Fixed now.

ANOTHER UPDATE: A reader emails that this is the best range extender. “I bought one 3 weeks ago and it’s flawless. Very compact too. Look at the great reviews.” Well, except for the one about it not working with the Verizon FIOS router.

HOPE AND CHANGE: The latest MAD Magazine cover.

REPORT: SOPA Hearing Not Delayed Until Next Year — Rescheduled For the 21st In The Hope You Won’t Notice.