SUSANNAH BRESLIN reports from SXSW.

COST: How much will the EPA’s new fuel economy standards cost each automaker?

SOME HUMOROUS BREAKUP SONGS, including one for Charlie Sheen and CBS.

IN THE MAIL: Welcome to the Greenhouse.

IOWAHAWK: Feed Your Family On $10 Billion A Day.

JAPAN TIMES: The Mobile Internet Is A Lifeline For People In Post-Quake Confusion.

JESSE WALKER: Resilient Japan: Three Lessons From The Week’s Disasters. And note this: “When Hollywood shows you an earthquake, an eruption, or a towering inferno, you see mass panic, stampeding crowds, maybe a looting spree. When sociologists study real-life disasters, they see calm, resourceful people evacuating buildings, rescuing strangers, and cooperating nonviolently.” Somebody should write a book about this phenomenon.

YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK: ATF let hundreds of U.S. weapons fall into hands of suspected Mexican gunrunners.

POPULAR MECHANICS: How Worried Should We Be About Radiation From Japan’s Nuclear Plant? “Fukushima—however badly it turns out—is not Chernobyl.”

ONE CAMPAIGN PROMISE that Obama has kept — to raise the price of gasoline.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED REPUBLICAN, THEY’D BE HANDING OUT GIFTS TO WALL STREET. And they were right!

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Guns On Campus Bill Advances in Texas.

BILL HENDERSON AND ANDREW MORRISS: It’s Time to Restore Morality to Law School Rankings. “If the ABA does not act in the next few months, the Department of Justice, Congress, and the state supreme courts that regulate the legal profession should move to take away the ABA’s accreditation authority and act directly. This is an issue that should transcend partisan differences. We are out of options. It is time to do the right thing.”

HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Sunshine Award Event Postponed for Unspecified Reasons. “President Obama was due to accept an award from a coalition of good government groups recognizing ‘his deep commitment to an open and transparent government’ in conjunction with Sunshine Week, the UPI reports. However, reporters were told the event was postponed ‘due to changes to the President’s schedule.’ No other reason was given.”

PETER SUDERMAN: Save The Internet From Al Franken.

LIST: Basic Disaster Survival Items.

Plus, recommended preparedness books.

INSTAVISION: Regressive America: Joel Kotkin on Elitist Efforts to Destroy America’s Standard of Living. And why automobiles are so hated in some quarters.

TRANSPARENCY: Obama’s ‘Openness’ a Transparent Lie: The media and Congress finally discover the truth.

ROGER KIMBALL: “Where Are The Americans?” “President Obama has managed the impossible-seeming feat of making a President of France appear as decisive and effective.”

INDEED: Long Pause for Japanese Industry Raises Concerns About Supply Chain. When I wrote about this the other day, a reader with a manufacturing business emailed that in response to disruptions in the past, they’ve modified their just-in-time system to what he calls a “just in case” system that maintains modest stocks of critical inventory.

TODAY ONLY: A sale on Panasonic wet-dry shavers.

WISCONSIN GOV. SCOTT WALKER in the Washington Post. “Contrary to what the Obama administration would lead you to believe, most employees of the federal government do not have collective bargaining for wages and benefits. That means the budget reform plan we signed into law in Wisconsin on Friday is more generous than what President Obama offers federal employees. . . . It’s enough to make you wonder why there are no protesters circling the White House.”

UPDATE: Reader Erik Fortune writes: “Given Scott Walker’s observation in the Washington Post today, WI Republicans should introduce legislation tying Wisconsin state collective bargaining rights to those of federal employees. Protesting _that_ would require some delicate maneuvering.”

MOVIE EXPOSING POLITICAL CORRECTNESS PRODUCES DEATH THREATS:

The McGill administration is currently investigating Haaris Khan, a McGill student who, using Twitter, threatened to shoot a roomful of other students last week at a campus film screening.

Khan made the threats at a screening of “Indoctrinate U,” a documentary, on March 8 hosted by Conservative McGill and Libertarian McGill. “I want to shoot everyone in this room,” he tweeted at one point during the film, adding, “I should have brought an M16.”

Loser.

THE HILL: DEMS TRY TO GET AHEAD OF SKYROCKETING GAS PRICES.

ANTI-TEA PARTY ELECTION FRAUD IN MICHIGAN: “Two former leaders of the Oakland County Democratic Party are facing a total of nine felonies for allegedly forging election paperwork to get fake Tea Party candidates on November’s ballot. . . . Former Oakland County Democratic Chair Mike McGuinness and former Democratic Operations Director Jason Bauer face up to 14 years in prison if convicted.” (Via Gateway Pundit, who notes that McGuinness is a “progressive blogger who managed former state Rep. Andy Meisner’s successful campaign against GOP incumbent Patrick M. Dohany for Oakland Country treasurer in the November election.”)