FILE THIS ONE UNDER “TOO GOOD TO CHECK:” Did Pork-Fat-Coated Bullet Kill Bin Laden? Sounds like a cheap PR move to me. But it’s good enough for the Southern Poverty Law Center to get involved over “hate.” Shark, jumped again.

RIIIIIGHT: “I’m from the UAW and I’m here to help.”

DAVID HARSANYI: The Age Of Obama #Fail. “Republicans might have the wrong answers. They usually do. But what exactly has this administration done right?”

SIX DRIVING TIPS to save gas this summer. At these prices, you’ll need to!

RICHARD POLLOCK: Commerce Nominee Entangled With Chinese Business. “John Bryson, President Barack Obama’s nominee for commerce secretary, may be best known as co-founder of the radical activist group Natural Resources Defense Council and as CEO of Edison International, parent company of giant electric utility Southern California Edison. But one of his biggest obstacles to Senate confirmation may be his relationship with troubled Chinese-backed electric car company Coda Automotive.”

SO WHILE EUROPEANS ARE PROTESTING GENETICALLY-MODIFIED FOOD, they’re dying from old-fashioned contamination. “The food-poisoning outbreak in Germany, which has so far sickened more than 1500 people and killed 18, involves a novel kind of Escherichia coli bacterium never seen before. Researchers in Münster, Germany, announced yesterday that the new E. coli is a hybrid of two other disease-causing types.” One that’s being addressed by, ironically enough, genetic-engineering techniques: “The rapid whole-genome sequencing results enabled us to discover within days a unique combination of virulence traits.”

UPDATE: Several readers email that food irradiation — banned in Europe — could have prevented this. Can you irradiate fresh vegetables?

ANOTHER UPDATE: Multiple emails say that you can, indeed, irradiate fresh vegetables.

WANT MORE TESTOSTERONE? Get more sleep. “Getting less than 5 hours sleep per night will lower testosterone as much as aging 10 to 15 years.”

WELL, NOBODY EVER GOT HIRED BY A POOR MAN: “Soak The Rich” Policies Losing Popularity.

IT DOESN’T BLOW, IT SUCKS: Experts Warn That UK Wind Farms May Run Out Of Winds.

R.I.P. JOEL ROSENBERG. Who was not only a pioneering concealed-carry activist, but also a science-fiction/fantasy writer of some note.

CHINA’S EDUCATION SYSTEM: Not so hot?

PETER SUDERMAN ON HUMAN ENHANCEMENT: Are we all superheroes now? Well, I’m married to a cyborg.

By the way, she’s recovering nicely, since many have asked.

MCJOBS: As disappointing as last month’s employment report was, half of last month’s jobs came from a single employer, McDonald’s. “That is hardly the sign of a healthy economy.”

UPDATE: Various readers note that McDonald’s got an ObamaCare waiver. So give everyone an ObamaCare waiver, and watch employment skyrocket!

Which it will need to do: US Has To Create 250K Jobs A Month For 66 Months To Return To December 2007 Unemployment By End Of Obama’s Second Term.

Related: Rich Galen: “This time last year the Obama Administration assured us we were heading into the ‘Recovery Summer.’ Didn’t happen. And this won’t be a Recovery Summer, either. The question for the Obamas is: Will the economy begin recovering by NEXT summer? “

COLLUSION: Documents show FCC coordinated ‘Net Neutrality’ effort with outside group.

IN THE MAIL: From Glen Cook, A Matter of Time.

RECOVERY SUMMER II? The sequel won’t be as good as the original, and the original stunk. Michael Walsh: Who’ll Save Us From This “Recovery?”

Two years into the Obama administration, the country’s finances are a looming calamity. An unemployment rate of more than 8 percent has become the new normal, and even that understates real unemployment, because so many Americans have simply left the job market.

The $800 billion stimulus was a complete failure, unless you count “government jobs saved” as a useful goal. “Quantitative easing” — the Federal Reserve’s printing money to buy Treasury debt — has already failed twice, yet it’s being contemplated again.

And does anyone doubt Obama and the Democrats would have hiked taxes last fall had they not suffered such a humiliating defeat in the 2010 election?

Read the whole thing. And weep.

SO IS THIS THE HOPE, OR THE CHANGE: Low wages, low growth, low employment: Brace for the age of contraction.

IT’S NOT THE CRIME, IT’S THE COVERUP: John Edwards Indicted.

SOLICITOR GENERAL: GO JOHN GALT! “President Obama’s solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn’t like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money.” Judging by the economy’s peformance, some people already are. . . .

KEVIN WILLIAMSON: Hope Is Not A Policy. “It is important to work toward growth, of course, and to adopt good economic and monetary policies that we think will encourage it. (Gold standard? I would prefer privatizing the money supply.) But counting on optimistic assumptions about growth beyond current projections is, for the most part, a way to evade the very difficult business of reconciling our public income with our public spending. We have to work with what we have, with the reality before us. By all means, encourage production wherever you can, but stop trying to sell us a free lunch.”

STANDARD ADVICE, BUT PROBABLY WORTH REPEATING: Why You Should Never, Ever Cosign a Loan for Anyone. My grandfather went bankrupt in the Depression because he cosigned a loan for a friend. The business plan looked good, but it turned out that 1935 was a bad time to start a trucking company.

I THINK I’D RATHER HOARD NICKELS, THANK YOU: Invest in Bull Semen?

TODAY ONLY: Canon Powershot A490 Camera for $49.99. Hard to beat that price, and those are good little cameras.

ANDREW KLAVAN’S ONE-STATE SOLUTION: Give The Middle East To The Jews.

MARKET DENIALISM: Stocks Fall 279 Points—Mainstream Media, Google Search: It Didn’t Happen?