SEX ON CAMPUS, and the implications of female hypergamy. “As just about everyone (from Dennis Prager to pickup artists) has figured out by now, women tend to want men of high status, men they look up to — literally, in terms of height, and figuratively, in terms of social standing, income, and education. If women systematically outpace men on these status markers — as they are beginning to — they will have to compete for men they deem suitable at a less-than-even ratio. There’s nothing we can do about this that I can think of, but it will not be good for marriage.”

And here’s a much longer treatment from Slate. “When attractive women will still bed you, life for young men, even those who are floundering, just isn’t so bad.”

A PERFECT STORM in undergraduate education.

EUGENE VOLOKH ON Suppression of Jury Nullification Advocates’ Speech Outside Courthouse.

UNEXPECTEDLY: GDP Growth Revised Down.

PROTECTING CONSUMER PRIVACY in an era of rapid change.

ANN ALTHOUSE: Protesters at the Wisconsin Capitol disrespectfully have taped signs on and piled junk against the Veterans Memorial. “Meade and I confront them, and we’re told we’re the first people who’ve had a problem with it. I try to explain how that attempted defense of the behavior is only going to make it look worse. It means that of all these crowds of people in the Capitol, no one else has noticed or cared enough to say anything.”

AT AMAZON, markdowns on electronics.

REASON TV ON STATE BUDGET SHOWDOWNS.

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER:

We have heard everyone — from Obama’s own debt commission to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — call the looming debt a mortal threat to the nation. We have watched Greece self-immolate. We can see the future. The only question has been: When will the country finally rouse itself?

Amazingly, the answer is now. Led by famously progressive Wisconsin — Scott Walker at the state level and Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan at the congressional level — a new generation of Republicans has looked at the debt and is crossing the Rubicon. Recklessly principled, they are putting the question to the nation: Are we a serious people?

I’m thinking, I’m thinking!

SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY: Pharmacy association can’t sue Georgia over copyright.

HOW TO CASH IN on Borders’ bankruptcy.

HOW SEA TURTLES Navigate.

FATHERS separated from their kids.

HAPPY BACON DAY! “The Iowa House has declared Feb. 26 Bacon Day in honor of ‘nature’s perfect food.’”

FUN FACT: Rep. Michael Capuano, recently seen calling for union protesters to “get a little bloody,” has a wife whose maiden name is “Teebagy.”

BANNED IN AUSTRALIA: The new Mortal Kombat release.

ERRORS AND ODDITIES on the U.S. Citizenship test.

TAXPROF: U.S. Effective Corporate Tax Rate Among Highest in World.

TWO PLANETS sharing one orbit. “Buried in the flood of data from the Kepler telescope is a planetary system unlike any seen before. Two of its apparent planets share the same orbit around their star. If the discovery is confirmed, it would bolster a theory that Earth once shared its orbit with a Mars-sized body that later crashed into it, resulting in the moon’s formation.”

BRINGING MOBILE PAYMENTS to Afghanistan.

MARKDOWNS ON Brother printers, labelers, and faxes.

POLIWOOD: What Wisconsin Unions Could Learn from Hollywood Unions. Former union officials Roger Simon and Lionel Chetwynd offer advice.

AND ABOUT TIME: State Budget Battles Herald The Return Of The Grown-Ups.

SO IT’S SEVERE WEATHER AWARENESS WEEK, and Dave Foulk was on the radio here in Knoxville encouraging people to buy one of those automatic-alert weather radios. I’ve had this model for several years. I turned the audible alerts off except for the highest-level (tornado, tsunami, etc.) and it’s worked fine, letting us know when there’s a tornado warning and not bothering us over trivia. No tsunami warnings for Knox County yet, and frankly, we’d all better hope it stays that way . . . .

STILL NOTHING from Eric Lipton.