THE INSTAWIFE: If we had more altruists like Andrew Breitbart, the world would be a better place.

MARCH MONEY MADNESS: Which schools in the NCAA tournament saddle their students with the most debt?

BARBARIANS: Egyptian women protesters forced to take ‘virginity tests.’

CLIENT 9 UPDATE: Spitzer’s Former Madam Considering Run For New York Mayor If Spitzer Does. Heh.

REMAIN CALM, all is well.

MARKDOWNS ON external hard drives in various sizes. Up to a whopping 4 TB.

JIM TREACHER: Rule of thumb: Liberals want conservatives to shut up, and conservatives want liberals to keep talking.

THE BELMONT CLUB on Syria’s massacre of protesters. “The events in Damascus are being keenly followed in Beirut, where a collapse in Syrian power would immediately change the correlation of forces.”

UPDATE: Reader Marc Greendorfer emails: “You’ll know that the Syrian protesters are on the verge of pushing out Assad when the missiles start flying south from the Lebanon/Israel border.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Protests and shooting in Syria as unrest spreads.

HEH: At the Planned Parenthood rally, Meade’s conversation with Brett Hulsey is aborted. Maybe Hulsey just thinks conversations with Meade should be safe, legal, and rare.

ROGER SIMON: My Suggestion To Replace Katie Couric.

AT AMAZON, it’s the Friday Sale.

PJTV: Kruiser Control: Obama Doctrine: Run to France for Help? Plus, Matthews Turns on Obama.

PRIORITIES: “I’m a very good mother. But I’m a terrible wife.” Being a good wife is part of being a good mother. If you’re a terrible wife, you’re not actually being a good mother.

FEDERAL PROSECUTORS tempt the Streisand Effect.

GREG BEATO: How the underground press of the 1960s revolutionized the American media.

SHOWCASING gentlemen.

SYRIA GUNS DOWN PROTESTERS, international community yawns.

If Iranian Revolutionary Guards are in Syria, maybe it’s a good time for a revolt in Iran. . . .

ENERGY SHORTAGES IN JAPAN: “We all take electric power for granted . . . . But as the Japanese are finding, we are one disaster away from electric power shortages.”

Plus this: “You might think the Japanese could save electric power by rapidly switching to more energy efficient appliances. But their standards for appliance efficiency are already very high (higher than the United States) and they’ve already made many of the easy changes for boosting energy efficiency. High energy efficiency has a curious side effect: If a single unit of energy enables production of a large quantity of goods and services then elimination of that unit of energy causes a larger reduction in total output than would happen in a less energy efficient economy.”

MARY KATHARINE HAM: Obama Makes Another Surprise Phone Call On Health Care.

FDR AND anti-semitism. “The President stated that his plan would further eliminate the specific and understandable complaints which the Germans bore toward the Jews in Germany, namely, that while they represented a small part of the population, over fifty percent of the lawyers, doctors, school teachers, college professors, etc., in Germany, were Jews.”

SARAH PALIN: “I need NOW’s defense like a fish needs a bicycle.” And Ann Althouse comments: “Sarah Palin’s joke writers are better than Bill Maher’s.”

CAN’T ANYBODY PLAY THIS GAME? Anthrax Redux: Did the Feds Nab the Wrong Guy?

THOUGHTS ON airplane etiquette.

CHOOSE YOURSELF.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: The Professor’s War. “A man who dithers over parchment. Who starts a war from which he wants out right away. Good God. If you go to take Vienna, take Vienna. If you’re not prepared to do so, better then to stay home and do nothing.”