AT AMAZON, Outlet Deals on Bedding.

DO THE DUMBASS THING: Elderly Couple In Fear Over Spike Lee Tweet: Star erroneously linked Floridians to man who killed Trayvon Martin. “Bewildered by their sudden–and erroneous–connection to Martin’s killer, the elderly couple’s distress can only be heightened by posts made by Twitter and Facebook users who threaten to visit their residence in search of Zimmerman. Or other posts that goad followers to vigilante action.”

This is what happens when people succumb to rank prejudice and mass hysteria.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? “Political psychotherapy” from Stacy McCain.

JIM TREACHER: Open-and-shut Trayvon Martin case gets cluttered up with facts. “No, these new facts aren’t ‘complicating’ or ‘deepening’ the issue. It was deep and complicated already. Our moral, ethical, and intellectual superiors in the media have tried and failed to make it shallow and simple.”

And yet they’re always saying it’s people on the right who can’t handle nuance and want everything to be black-and-white.

ASSOCIATED PRESS: ObamaCare Has Disastrous Day In Court. “The fate of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul was cast into deeper jeopardy Tuesday as the Supreme Court’s conservative justices sharply and repeatedly questioned its core requirement that virtually every American carry insurance. The court will now take up whether any remnant of the historic law can survive if that linchpin fails.”

Well, who trusts the AP anymore? But here’s a summary of the arguments by Hans van Spakovsky.

UPDATE: The Hill: Rough day for Obama health law: Kennedy among mandate skeptics.

Also: “Constitutional Thunderdome”: Day Two of Obamacare Oral Arguments.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Audio: Scalia lectures Verrilli on enumerated powers. You know, this is beginning to remind me of the Lopez argument. In that case, most observers thought the key point was when Solicitor General Drew S. Days III couldn’t advance any sort of limiting principle with regard to the government’s commerce power. That’s very much like what happened here. Could the non-infinity principle apply again?

Heck, even Mother Jones is calling it a “disaster.” “Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. should be grateful to the Supreme Court for refusing to allow cameras in the courtroom, because his defense of Obamacare on Tuesday may go down as one of the most spectacular flameouts in the history of the court.” Ouch. From Mother Jones?

MORE: Jeffrey Toobin: “This was a train wreck for the Obama administration. . . . This law looks like it’s going to be struck down.” With commentary like that from the left, well . . . .

How bad is it? Did the Solicitor General take a dive? If I were him, I’d encourage that take.

STILL MORE: How bad is it? The Justices handed him one of these when the argument was over. . . .

But another reader emails: “After the seemingly wonderful news of today’s Supreme Court proceedings, it seems an apt time for one your ‘Don’t Get Cocky’ Warnings. Just sayin’.” Good point. And, actually, although I think the Court ought to knock the whole thing down and tell Congress to try again (or better yet, not) I actually think that Obama would be better off losing here in terms of November. ObamaCare is wildly unpopular and will be a drag on him and all the Democrats. If the Court kills it, it won’t get any more popular, but the unpopularity will be less . . . urgent. And Obama can tell his base that he tried, and that if they want to win on this they need to reelect him so he can appoint new Supreme Court Justices.

Meanwhile, reader John Steakley writes: “With expectations set this low by the left, almost any ruling can be called a ‘victory’ of some sort for the Obama Administration. Hey . . . wait a second . . .”

EVEN MORE: On the other hand, there’s this.

HEALTH: Drug To Cut Cholesterol Tests Better Than Statins. “An experimental drug that works in a novel way to lower cholesterol proved even more effective than statins and had few undesirable side effects, newly released data shows.”

But there’s a downside: “The drug will probably require regular injections.”

NASTY, VICIOUS, AND INEPT: Paper: Spike Lee tweeted incorrect George Zimmerman address, possibly putting Sanford woman in danger. “Picket also said several news agencies have showed up at the address looking for Zimmerman, which – with the crowds the Panthers, MSNBC’s Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have whipped up into a frenzy – may have put the woman, Elaine, in danger.”

Will Spike Lee make a public apology? I think he’s at risk for a lawsuit. And why is Al Sharpton still working at MSNBC if he’s whipping crowds into a violent frenzy?

UPDATE: Related: How Many Crimes Did The New Black Panthers Commit In Florida? I’m guessing Eric Holder won’t notice any.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Race-Relations Regression.

While it is natural that African-American activists need answers as to why the armed assailant Mr. Zimmerman was not charged in the shooting, they also cannot explain why their attention is not in commensurate fashion focused on the far greater number of young black males gunned down, many just last week in Chicago, by other black males. Nor can they explain to the non-African-American community why the far greater instances of black-on-white violent crime supports any such notion of a supposed war on young black males.

The net result of the demagoguery will be more racial polarization, as African-Americans believe that young black males are unfairly stereotyped by society and treated less fairly by police, while non-African-Americans will only be further convinced that the African-American leadership is not concerned with the vastly inordinate rates of black violent crime, given the small percentage of the African-American community within the general population, much less the much higher rates of black-on-white crime – and as both sides argue either for more money to be invested in social programs, or that too much has already been spent in counter-productive fashion.

So far all that is clear is that there is a growing anger among African-Americans about a failure to immediately arrest the shooter that in turn is provoking an even greater backlash against the antics of Al Sharpton, the creepy bounty offered by the New Black Panther Party, and others who inflame for their own careerist advantage, and no one — not the president, not the media, not the civil rights leadership, not the politicians — seems willing or able to call for a time-out until all the facts are reviewed and released. We have collectively regressed to the days of Rodney King and the L.A. riots and the O. J. Simpson trial — or to something far worse. Hope and change came and went.

So fast I barely even noticed.

CHANGE: Adding An “Enemy” Feature to Facebook.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Meet Kelli Space. She went to Northeastern University to get a degree in sociology. And she graduated in $200,000 of student loan debt. In the economy’s newest trillion-dollar crisis, she is the 1 percent.

And note this collections angle.

PHIL BOWERMASTER: Abundance Is Our Future (and We All Know It).

I got to participate in a live online event yesterday talking with Abundance authors Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler. What a treat. I put myself in the queue for questions and asked the authors the following: now that the book has been out for a few weeks, how has it been going dealing with the media?

Owing to the fierce devotion the media has to painting a bleak picture of what’s occurring in the world today and to drawing up even grimmer scenarios for the future, you would think that the constant media exposure of a book tour would generate a lot of friction, or at least tension. But no. Both authors report that they’ve been pleasantly surprised by how well everyone, or at least most everyone, is taking the news that the world is not going to hell in a handbasket.

Why is that? I think it’s because most of them, deep down, don’t really believe their own narrative.

Well, they shouldn’t.

BATTLESPACE PREPARATION: Anti-Free-Speech Thuggery.

ZAP! Lightning Strikes Produce Free Neutrons, And We Don’t Know How.

I predict it’s going to be somehow related to how unrolling scotch tape produces x-rays.

JOE PAPPALARDO: The Weapons of a North Korea–Japan Missile Standoff.

AT AMAZON, IT’S the Automotive Outlet.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: History Repeats: In Europe, They Want Jewish Blood. “When a self-proclaimed jihadist slaughters Jewish schoolchildren in France on account of events in the Middle East, the proper response is collective horror and serious societal soul-searching. Via Meadia highlighted one laudable example of this in the form of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, and there have been many more in France. Unfortunately, there are those in France and elsewhere who do not see the Toulouse attack as an anti-Semitic hate crime to be forcefully condemned, but rather as an event to be ‘explained,’ whitewashed or even celebrated. Take Tariq Ramadan, professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at Oxford University.”

Plus this: “In rage, confusion and hatred, some of these young people may focus on Jews when they lash out, but it will not only be Jews who reap the harvest of dragons’ teeth that Europe in its blindness has so thoughtlessly sown. Europe and France should either have kept the immigrants out or welcomed them in as they prepared a place for them. They did neither, and the payback will hurt.”

HEALTH: Forget your five-a-day: Popcorn has ‘more antioxidants than fruit and vegetables.’

IN MASSACHUSETTS, JUSTICE OBAMA-STYLE? What does that mean? It means that a criminal immigrant with illegally-obtained documents who ignored a federal order to leave the country will get away with almost plowing into a police car while driving drunk.

Apparently, in Massachusetts, loyalty to the machine is rewarded.

ANTI-TEA-PARTY LAWLESSNESS: Art professor impersonated tea party activist, staged Facebook hacking, calls it ‘performance art.’ Plus this crushing response: “It’s so very, very Alinsky. … My reaction to Mona Del Hirst is one of bored pity. If that’s the most effective strategy she can come up with to argue against the Tea Party’s point of view, then the Tea Party has nothing to fear from her. It’s the intellectual equivalent of a fart joke.”

SHORTER TELOMERES MEAN MORE RISK OF HEART DISEASE DEATH? “It is typical for telomeres to shorten as cells divide and chromosomes replicate over time. Now a new study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) suggest a strong link between telomere shortening and poor cardiovascular outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndrome.”

SILENCE AND DEMONIZE: Jonathan Chait’s “Contrived Hysteria” Against Opponents of the ObamaCare Mandate. Ever since his Bush-hatred piece of yore, I’ve been reminded that “Chait” rhymes with “Hate.”

WHY GAY MEN are worth so much to Facebook.

I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S GOING ON HERE, EXACTLY, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE HE GOT THE SHAFT: WBIR Staffers Come to Defense of Former News Director Bill Shory. I’ve known him for years, though not especially well, but he’s always seemed like a first-class guy to me.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Case-Shiller home price index falls. “Home prices in the U.S. fell for the fifth month in a row in January to the lowest level since early 2003, a closely followed index showed on Tuesday. The S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city composite index fell 0.8%. The three-month rolling index includes transactions that took place from November to January. Over the past 12 months, prices have dropped 3.8%.”

YOU DON’T WANT THESE JOBS, WE’LL TAKE ‘EM SOMEPLACE THAT DOES: Remington Threatens Move Over Microstamping. “The Freedom Group holding has sent a letter to New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo threatening to redirect new business – and possibly move their existing facilities – if the state’s proposed microstamping legislation becomes law in the Empire state.”

Tennessee would be happy to have your factories, I’m sure. Bring ’em — and those thousands of jobs — where they’re appreciated.