BIG EARTHQUAKE shakes Mexico.

ANN ALTHOUSE: In the Wisconsin rotunda, high school students chant “We’re with Walker” and drown out the anti-Walker “Solidarity Singers.” “From what I’ve seen, the University of Wisconsin is a huge place, full of people who care more about sports than politics. So don’t hesitate to come here, sports fans, Walker fans, and everybody else. We need you! We need more air in this musty old cocoon.”

A musty old coccoon filled with . . . progressives.

DO STATINS MAKE IT TOUGH TO EXERCISE? “For years, physicians and scientists have been aware that statins, the most widely prescribed drugs in the world, can cause muscle aches and fatigue in some patients. What many people don’t know is that these side effects are especially pronounced in people who exercise.” Try taking CoQ10. In my experience, that’ll help with the “fatigue” part.

DAMAGED BRAND: Layoffs at the Oprah Winfrey Network.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: For A Second Year, Sharp Drop in LSAT Popularity. “The organization behind the Law School Admission Test reported that the number of tests it administered this year dropped by more than 16 percent, the largest decline in more than a decade. The Law School Admission Council reported that the LSAT was given 129,925 times in the 2011-12 academic year. That was well off the 155,050 of the year before and far from the peak of 171,514 in the year before that. In all, the number of test takers has fallen by nearly 25 percent in the last two years.”

For a lot of people, the return on investment doesn’t justify the debt. And many are realizing that.

Related: Decline in LSAT Test-Takers Portends ‘Death Spiral’ for Low-Ranked Law Schools. I did a panel at the SEALS conference last summer and they asked us to predict how many law schools will close in the next five years. I said 25.

USING VIRUSES to kill tumors. “Cancer cells are able to replicate wildly, but there’s a trade-off: They cannot ward off infection as effectively as healthy cells. So scientists have been looking for ways to create viruses that are too weak to damage healthy cells yet strong enough to invade and destroy tumor cells. It has been a long, difficult challenge. . . . Today, several potential cancer-fighting viruses are in trials, including two in Phase 3 trials.”

Faster, please.

RUNNING OUT OF HELIUM? “The gas, used to cool atoms to around -270C to reduce their vibrations and make them easier to study, is now becoming worryingly scarce, said Kirichek. Research facilities probing the structure of matter, medical scanners and other advanced devices that use the gas may soon have to reduce operations or close because we are frittering away the world’s limited supplies of helium on party balloons.” Unsurprisingly, government market-distortion is involved.

IN SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, a call for World Government. Look at the UN for a few seconds and then ask if this passes the laugh test.

Of course, given Gary Stix’s other work, such as his infamous 1996 hatchet job on Eric Drexler, I started laughing as soon as I saw the byline.

MORE ON THOSE AIRBRUSHED MALIA SPRING BREAK STORIES: The story of Malia Obama’s Mexican vacation reveals double standards and a noodle-spined media. “Rather than collapsing spinelessly, the press, collectively, should have said, ‘Sorry, but this story is already out there, so you’ll have to deal with the security consequences of sending your daughter off to a dangerous country.'”

Pulling a story at the White House’s request is pretty craven.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: “It’s Been Three Years and He Has Never Introduced Me to His Family.”

MITSUBISHI’S MiEV becomes household backup power. This is a nice hybrid feature that should be standard on all hybrid vehicles.

UPDATE: Reader Christopher Fox writes that all cars can be a power source for your house. That’s true, though the hybrids are cool because they have a battery for smoothing and the engine can start or stop as needed. A regular car won’t do that.

THAT DIDN’T TAKE LONG: ABA Backs Off Making Law Schools Report Graduates’ Salaries.

RICHARD EPSTEIN: City Planners Run Amok.

TABLES TURNING? Limbaugh Fans Go After Media Matters for Anti-Semitism. And call donors.

BUT REMEMBER, HE’S NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT: A new Paul Ryan video.

JAMES TARANTO: Green Yet Barren: You Can’t Make A Baby By Hugging A Tree.

The baby boomers’ parents were unusually fertile, especially when compared with subsequent generations, including the boomers themselves. But the decline in fertility was not evenly distributed throughout American society.

This columnist has posited that the polarization of the electorate around the issue of abortion, combined with the direct effect of abortion itself on fertility, over the long term has a conservatizing effect on the electorate. We call it the Roe Effect. Although environmentalism is not sharply polarizing in the way that abortion is, it seems to us quite probable that a similar and overlapping effect is at work here.

After all, you can’t make a baby by hugging a tree. Attitudes about “the environment” are very much tied up with attitudes about human fertility. The prevailing view on the environmentalist left is, and has been since at least the early 1970s, that to bring a child into the world is an act of violence against Mother Earth. Along with feminism, which devalued motherhood and women’s domestic work, environmentalism motivated left-liberal baby boomers to have smaller families, or none at all.

If ideology drives one segment of the population to reproduce less, the effect compounds over time. Whereas big families get bigger with each generation, a childless couple (or single woman) is unlikely to have grandchildren either. The future belongs to the fruitful.

Childlessness is inherited. If your parents don’t have kids, you won’t either.

UPDATE: Reader Danielle Emery writes:

Your link to the article about low fertility among environmentalists reminds me of Larry L. Eastland’s 2004 WSJ article that demonstrated Gore lost FLorida (and the Presidency) in 2004 due to disproportionate numbers of missing Democratic voters from abortion.

So the decline in fertility among those who lean left has already had profound and demonstrable effects on the United States.

When I bring up Mr. Eastland’s findings with my more liberal friends, I find them to be quite frustrated by it, and with no coherent response except to say the world will be a terrible place and my “descendants will be flipping burgers at McDonald’s”. Which is really not a bad thing, since it implies that: There will still be meat and we’ll be allowed to eat it; there will be money to buy it; there will still be big businesses and people to work at them. In other words, not really what the left has planned for us.

As you say, the future belongs to those who show up.

Indeed.

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LIFE AMONG THE BARBARIANS: Pakistan: Life in Prison for Blasphemy.

HAS WARREN BUFFETT LOST HIS TOUCH? “I believe two basic problems have brought Berkshire to this pass. First, Buffett’s investing record has been underwhelming for the past few years, except for special opportunities linked to his own reputation and relationships. Second, Buffett has lost stature because of the way he uses his role as a public figure. And both of these situations will be difficult to reverse.”

RACISM IS EVERYWHERE: Tom Hanks, Glenn Frey in 2004: ‘Blackface,’ race jokes at fundraising auction [VIDEO].

ANOTHER RUBE SELF-IDENTIFIES: Jeffrey Immelt Sours on Obamanomics. So is this a tipping point?

JEFF CARTER: Startups and the Midwestern Mentality.

STEVE CROWDER: Legalize New York MMA!

VIDEO: Occupy Unmasked Trailer.

I say: Stop raping people!