ONCE AGAIN, not so sharp at The Awl.

AN INTERVIEW with Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.

REPLACEMENT PARTS: Grown Replacement Urethras Work In Kids.

ARIANNA’S FIRST MANAGEMENT MOVE AT AOL? Rand Simberg emails that AOL Opinion editor John Merline — whose stuff I’ve linked to regularly and who has recruited a number of first-rate writers there — has been laid off. Not an auspicious start.

ROGER SIMON: Of Sandmonkey, Peter King, Mao and my Islamophobia: a second letter to Salim.

DO DRIVERS WITH “GREEN CARS” put on more miles?

TEN THINGS NOT TO DO, in response to soaring gas prices.

WHY WOMEN SHOULD LOVE EVOLUTION: How Men Lost Their Penis Spines.

JONATHAN HAIDT heaves two bombshells at Social Psychology.

UTAH UPDATE: David Kirkham emails: “The Utah Tea Party is calling all Utah County and State delegates to the rotunda in the Capitol today at 3:00 and 5:30 pm for a press conference! Governor Amnesty Herbert blinked and has put off signing the unconstitutional Amnesty Bill HB116 for more public input because of immense pressure from our 100 state delegates who met with him on Tuesday. A legislator told me word on the hill is they view our last meeting as the equivalent of 30,000 people protesting.”

I predict that this will be more orderly than what’s going on in Wisconsin. The email to the Utah Tea Party even says, “Please come represent your neighborhood well by dressing nicely.”

UPDATE: C.J. Burch emails: “I love the tea parties. It’s like a political movement of Huxtables.”

ACADEMIC FREEDOM UPDATE: Widener Committee Advises: Withdraw Charges Against Law Prof Who Used Hypotheticals to Teach. As the headline suggests, this case — trying to fire a professor over a common law-teaching practice — is a deep embarrassment not only for Widener Law, but in particular for Widener Law’s Dean Linda Ammons. Can she remain as a viable Dean after this?

UPDATE: Eugene Volokh thinks that the committee’s letter is not as supportive as the story above suggests. Well, I read it before I posted the above, and it does recommend withdrawing the move for dismissal of Professor Connell. It’s true that it does recommend doing so “without prejudice,” meaning that it could be reinstated at some later date, but I don’t see that as a significant difference, since you could also, I presume, just start over. Double Jeopardy doesn’t apply here. The bottom line is that the Dean took an extraordinary action — trying to remove a tenured faculty over what, from all appearances, is nothing more than the use of hypotheticals involving the Dean, something hardly unheard of in law-teaching — and was rebuffed, without any suggestion in the letter that the professor in question did anything wrong.

PROFESSOR JACOBSON: The Other Loser In Wisconsin: Law-Enforcement Credibility.

UPDATE: Death Threats Against GOP Legislators in Wisconsin.

ANOTHER UPDATE: The “mob scene” at the Wisconsin Capitol morning aimed at preventing the Assembly from voting.

Legislators can get into the building, but Republicans are being blocked from getting to their offices and into the Assembly chamber. It’s the Assembly that needs to vote on the bill that the Senate passed last night, leading to the renewed protests. Meade heard from a source that Democratic legislators unlocked at least one door that leads to the doors for a cluster of Republican legislative offices. That would appear to be part of a scheme to prevent the vote.

“This is what democracy looks like” — that’s the chant we’ve heard for 3 weeks. How do you like this new democracy, that has a mob storming the Capitol and, with the aid of the minority party, blocking the access of the majority party into their offices and into the legislative chamber? It looks more like anarchy to me.

Or desperation. From the comments: “Let’s be honest. This is what Fascism looks like.”

Plus this:

When the TPers lost in their attempt to kill Obamacare, they went to the ballot box and voted.

That’s what representative democracy looks like. Not at all like the theatrics we are seeing in Wisconsin.

You’re right Althouse. What this crowd is clamoring for is anarchy. They are playing with fire.

Indeed they are. As I said before, they’re as politically shortsighted as they are fiscally shortsighted.

MORE: The New York Times misses the story. Probably on purpose.

WELL, YES: Ezra Klein admits: “Scott Walker’s procedural maneuvering last night was … legitimate.”

JEFFREY GOLDBERG: My Love Affair With America.

IN THE MAIL: Boombustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles Before They Burst.

DEBARRED SHORT-SELLER WITH CHECKERED PAST lobbied against for-profit colleges:

Before a jury found Manuel Asensio had illegally defamed a company whose demise he would profit from, and before securities regulators barred him from employment in the banking industry for the rest of his life, he used to take down companies with savage reports under the banner of his investment bank, Asensio & Company.

Then, as an “activist” short seller, he would compile damning research on a business, take a market bet its stock would go down, publish his report, and profit when it did go down.

Nowadays, Asensio is the director of the Alliance for Economic Stability (AES), a non-profit organization lobbying the Education Department on for-profit or “career” colleges, one of a group of short sellers who have teamed up with the Obama administration and a slew of left wing interest groups to push for strict regulations of the sector. . . . The revelations also come on the heels of charges by Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn that Education Department officials were “tipping hedge funds” with inside information, allowing them to take trading positions ahead of the market. Doing so, Coburn said at a Senate hearing last week, “is highly unethical and if proven to be the case, some people ought to be going to jail in the Department of Education.”

The more I look into this, the sleazier it looks. At first I thought the Administration was just trying to protect traditional colleges and universities, since they’re key Democratic constituencies and fundraising sources. But it seems that there’s far more than that involved.

LIBYA: “In simple English, we’ve got the usual intelligence failure.”

WHAT PASSES FOR PROGRESSIVE IN ARABIA: Saudi prince questions ban on women driving. Well, baby steps, baby steps.

CHANGE: Number of Americans renouncing citizenship, leaving country more than doubled last year.

PEJMAN YOUSEFZADEH: The Beclowning of Dan Froomkin. Perhaps he could change his name to Litella.

THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW: Robed, bewigged judge rugby-tackles prisoner.

THE SOLUTION, OF COURSE, IS TO CHANGE THE LAW: “Education Secretary Arne Duncan told Congress on Wednesday that 82 percent of the nation’s public schools could be failing by next year under the standards of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law.”

PATTERICO: Reckless Disregard for the Truth: My Incredible Interchange With the NPR “Ombudsman.”

LOOKING INTO Keith Ellison’s views.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UNLV Absorbs $2.26m Budget Cut: 97% on Students, 3% on Faculty.