IN THE BOSTON GLOBE: Mike Stopa: The Reality of “Death Panels:” ObamaCare’s end-of-life planning comes down to economics.

PROF. JACOBSON: If “she can’t win” is the means by which one of the candidates wins the Republican nomination, then we can’t win either.

THIS IS OLD NEWS TO INSTAPUNDIT READERS: New Hampshire GOP Faces Tea Party Takeover? It won’t just be New Hampshire, either, I suspect.

THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG: Sheriff Dupnik now facing recall bid.

TIM PAWLENTY’S BOOK SALES NOT TOO IMPRESSIVE. Well, he wrote a book called Courage to Stand, but then — the week it came out, when tested publicly at a crucial moment — he sat.

And yeah, that matters. As I write this, his Amazon rank is 5,185 — which seems about right.

WORRIES ABOUT THE GROWTH IN “populist resentment of public employees.” Now where could that come from? Something that can’t go on forever, won’t. The current system of public finance can’t go on forever.

MSNBC SAYS SAYONARA TO KEITH OLBERMANN.

Or as some call him, he who must not be named.

UPDATE: Reader Adam Kiwiatkowski emails: “His viewer is going to be bummed.”

And, apparently, Comcast has now become the evilest corporation on the planet.

Plus, from Don Surber:

The FCC just approved GE’s sale of MSNBC’s parent company — NBC/Universal — to Comcast. The Obama administration just hired GE’s CEO to a big position.

I think some moves are being made behind the scene.

Hey, Olbermann, this was the president you wanted.

He was a useful idiot for a while. Now he’s no longer useful. Expect to see more of this kind of thing.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Goodbye to one of the world’s worst people.

MORE: Top 10 New Job Suggestions For Keith Olbermann. My favorite: “Audition for the part of the creepy gym teacher on MTV’s ‘Skins.'”

I was only on Olbermann’s show once, on election night 2004, when he was still more or less sane.

LAW PROFESSORS KISS A PIG FOR CHARITY.

RELEASES: New Fantasy and Science Fiction Releases For The Kindle.

POLIWOOD: Predicting the Oscar nominees. Plus why conservatives should stop dissing Hollywood and take it over.

THE MOST-EMAILED New York Times Article Ever. That this parody is spot-on doesn’t make me feel good about the NYT’s future.

JON STEWART blasts Steve Cohen for Nazi comparison.

WELL, THAT WOULD BE NICE: A biofuel breakthrough that could yield $30/barrel oil?

AT AMAZON, it’s the Friday Sale.

MILITANT ISLAM in Norway.

BACKDOOR BILINGUALISM? “As Stoll notes, legislation that did what the FCC just did would never pass Congress. I don’t even think it would have passed last year’s Congress. But don’t lawmakers have the power to reverse the FCC?”

IOWAHAWK: Dear Nazi.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Everything Starts With Repeal.

THIS MUST BE MORE OF THAT “SMART DIPLOMACY” I’VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT: CHINESE TIGER ATE U.S. DOVE FOR LUNCH.

COMPANY FIRES LAW FIRM because of unfounded legal threat on company’s behalf. As I’ve noted before, lawyers need to be more careful about these threats. There’s even potential professional-responsibility liability for making unfounded legal threats, and — thanks to the Internet — more and more people are willing to punch back twice as hard, and expose you as a bully and a fool if you overstep.