POWER OUTAGE AT LAX. Plus, Patrick Stewart is more equal than others.

BARRY RUBIN: At Public School, Anti-Americanism Hides in Plain Sight. Tax-supported, like most of it is.

Related: Campus alert regarding student who made anti-American threats. When will someone speak out against the “climate of hate?”

YOUR NUCLEAR-APOCALYPSE NIGHTMARE JUST GOT WORSE: “The silly blanket-robe hybrid is suited to the missile force, keeping an officer toasty while allowing him to interact with the weapons console unobstructed.” Well, not worse, exactly, but tackier.

Obviously, our nuclear technology is lagging. Shouldn’t they have been upgraded from the Snuggie to the Forever Lazy by now?

MEDIA MATTERS: Just “a different branch of the family tree.”

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Illinois: A Kleptocracy In Action.

AMY CHUA responds. Plus, was she treated unfairly?

WHY ARE STATE GOVERNMENTS putting money in the ABA’s pocket?

TUNISIA: The first WikiLeaks revolution, or the first Food Crisis revolution? When things are rickety, there’s often no single cause for the collapse.

AT AMAZON, markdowns on printers and ink.

SARAH PALIN snares Andrew Cohen. As I’ve said before, her great gift — or is it a curse? — is her ability to bring out the ignorance, the dishonesty, and the sheer meanness of the credentialed-but-not-educated gentry class in full Technicolor glory.

UPDATE: A reader emails:

I was amused to hear on one of the NPR talking head shows this morning the indignant comment that the right’s political rhetoric was “beyond the pale”, when terms like “blood libel” were used. Not amused enough to pay any attention to who was beclowning himself, but amused enough to mention to a few folks that NPR was obviously anti Semitic, because it was not sensitive to the Jewish ghetto meaning of ”the Pale”.

Maybe he meant the Irish one, or the Catholic one. But that just makes it more racist, in a different way, I’m sure. Or would, if Sarah Palin said it.

JAMES TARANTO: EASY RIDER IN BIZARRO WORLD: “Back in the 1960s, who’d have imagined that a septuagenarian white sheriff from Arizona with a hostility to free speech would one day become a hero to the left?”

UPDATE: Reader Neil Sorens writes:

Old narrative: dissent is patriotic.

New narrative: dissent is dangerous.

Heh. Indeed.

DAVID FRUM in a Twit-fight.

THEY’RE NOT ALWAYS PARANOID: Brooklyn College student committed to mental institution after hidden camera complaint — but there really was a hidden camera in her apartment.

ALL ABOUT BEER AND HOMEBREWING. I thought about putting in a Kegerator a few years ago. I’m sure I weigh 20 pounds less as a result of not moving ahead with those plans. But was it worth it?

YOU’VE HEARD OF THE “OXFORD COMMA.” Now, behold the, Shatner, comma.

TALKING CARS with the Car Lust guys.

JAMES JOYNER: Why Are Libertarians So Danged Libertarian?

QUESTION OF THE DAY: “Why are all these bloggers so hot?”

Reminds me of this picture.

SARAH HOYT, SCIENCE FICTION AUTHOR, ON PUBLISHING: What Baen Does Right. I talked to her on PJTV yesterday — the interview is here.

A LOOK AT the Audi A6 Hybrid.

WHY THEY’D RATHER TALK ABOUT SARAH PALIN (CONT’D): The Worst Combo: Consumer Spending Is Mediocre, Gas Prices Rising, And Retailers Have No Pricing Power. “Things are starting to look a little stagflationary.”

UPDATE: Consumer Confidence Slips Surprisingly on Jobs, Fuel Costs.

NARRATIVE FAIL (CONT’D): Quinnipiac Poll: More Americans Say Left Contributes to Heated Rhetoric Than Right.

UPDATE: Ann Althouse corrects Paul Krugman:

Advocating violence is terrible, but it is also terrible to try to delegitimize vibrant criticism of the government, to have a biased view of where the least valuable speech is coming from, and to connect speech to violence when there is no connection. The truth is we should dismiss the massacre as the mere act of a deranged individual and go on as before. Why should we change because a madman shot people?

Ironically, saying that a massacre can change the course of American politics encourages massacres! Why would you put such a thought into the heads of madmen? Hell, sane men might put the pieces together and plan a massacre to disrupt the work of the politicians who won the last elections. We need to turn away from the bloody slaughter and go on as before.

The notion that people respond to incentives appears to be alien to Krugman. But he’s underscored his own irrelevance this week.

JOURNALISM: National Media Was First, And Wrong, In Tucson. “Score a couple for local journalists, who typically are more careful — and caring — when tragic stories hit their communities.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY: “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it.”

THINNER WIFE, HAPPIER MARRIAGE? “Researchers find marriages tend to be more satisfying for both spouses when the wife is thinner than the husband.” Well, so maybe the According to Jim / King of Queens model — chunky guy, hot slim wife — is the way to go. . . .