CHANGE: Survey: tablets chipping away at hours spent on computer, TV.

CHANGE: Americans Saving Money By Purchasing Old Military Equipment. Well, when Obama gets done with his defense budget, there will be a lot more surplus bargains out there!

OF COURSE THEY DO: TSA prioritizes screening of . . . people who complain about TSA screening. Especially if the citizens being screened are “arrogant.” Can’t have that. Pay your taxes and shut up!

LIVE STREAMING THE DENVER TEA PARTY AT DENVERTEAPARTY.ORG. Also here.

THE HILL: Chaos on House floor as Democrats try to unsettle GOP budget. 172 Democrats voting “Present?” Sounds like Obama has really set a standard.

BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS ADMINISTRATION POLICY: Is shrinking gasoline consumption bad for the economy?

I DON’T SUPPOSE I’M CUT OUT TO BE A “Brand Ambassador,” but it looks like a sweet gig.

WALGREEN’S TURNED INTO A SEX SHOP so gradually I barely even noticed.

SARAH PALIN WILL SPEAK at tomorrow’s Madison Tea Party rally in Wisconsin.

DO YOU REALLY WANT ME TO ANSWER THAT HONESTLY? “Do you think we’re stupid?”

“I DARE YOU TO COME TO A RALLY:” Rand Paul Defends Tea Party On Senate Floor. “Well you know what the Tea Party believes in? Good government. We believe in balancing the budget. We believe in reducing spending.”

CHANGE: “The budget deal, angrily rejected by Nancy Pelosi as it passed Thursday, was the last straw. Patricia Murphy on why some liberals are now pushing for a primary challenge to the president.”

IN THE MAIL: From Deborah E. Lipstadt, The Eichmann Trial.

BILL WHITTLE: Eat The Rich!

IOWAHAWK: 16 TONS OF DEBT. With an assist from Tennessee Ernie Ford.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: “Massive Resistance” in Massachusetts courts.

MIKE NIFONG, CALL YOUR OFFICE — Oh, right, you don’t have one anymore. History Repeating: Another Hoax College ‘Hate Crime’ Charge in North Carolina. More here.

THE ECONOMIST: China’s new rulers: Princelings and the goon state. “Since the late 1970s, when China began to turn its back on Maoist totalitarianism, the country has gone through several cycles of relative tolerance of dissent, followed by periods of repression. But the latest backlash, which was first felt late last year and intensified in late February, has raised eyebrows. It has involved more systematic police harassment of foreign journalists than at any time since the early 1990s. More ominously, activists such as Mr Ai have often simply disappeared rather than being formally arrested.” The nomenklatura take their privileged position in the Workers’ Paradise seriously. God help anyone who actually wants equality or freedom. All the talk about that stuff is just for the rubes.

DON SURBER ON DON TRUMP: “He is an entertainer. Republicans can wait till fall to send in the A team. By then, President Obama will have dropped himself down to Donald Trump’s level. Already it has begun.”

UPDATE: Reader David Bell emails:

You linked to Don Surber’s piece labeling Trump an entertainer. I think he’s more of a promoter. His gift is creating the illusion of substance and competence., promoting the Trump brand, which is a personality cult, really. What is underneath the facade is subject to question.

In that sense, he is just like Obama.

Indeed.

WHY ACADEMICS suffer burnout.