NEWS YOU CAN USE: Cook Your Meat in a Beer Cooler: The World’s Best (and Cheapest) Sous-Vide Hack.

EGYPT: Morsi flees Presidential palace ahead of mob.

UPDATE: Report: Some Egyptian Police Are Siding With Anti-Morsi Protesters.

MORE: Sign: “Obama: Your Bitch Is Our Dictator.”

YES. Some states do this already. All should. Should Law Students be Allowed to Take the Bar in February of Their Third Year?

WHEN I WAS A KID IN CAMBRIDGE IN THE 1960s, people used to mistake my mom for Bonnie Raitt. There aren’t videos from those coffee shop days, but here’s one from 1977.

LOTS OF COOL INTERVIEWS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AND THE FUTURE, AT FUTURE TALK TV.

PROF. JACOBSON ON OBAMAPHILES’ BUYER’S REMORSE: “It’s hard to know whether to cheer their disappointment or commiserate. My natural inclination is to tell them to S*** *** **** ** considering that they have subjected us to four more years.”

Yes, all those people coming out of the woodwork now to complain about drone strikes, interrogation, warrantless spying, indefinite detention, etc. could have been talking about this stuff in September. But they didn’t.

Jacobson: “My conscience and hands are clean.”

ANOTHER SHOW I WAS AT: David Lindley and El-Rayo-X at the Roxy in Dc. But the best show I saw there was Leon Russell and Edgar Winter.

OKAY, ONE OF MY FAVORITE 1970S CUTS: Nothin’ But Time by Jackson Browne. From back when recording a song on the tour bus was a real stretch. Nice backing vocals by Rosemary Butler, and multi-talented tour photographer Joel Bernstein. And Russ Kunkel does a great job on drums, considering that all he’s got is a snare drum and a cardboard box with a bass pedal. I highly recommend Fork It Over by The Section.

THERE’S A SHOCKER: New York Times “Ethicist” Column Gives Higher Education A Pass For High Tuition, Poor Outcomes.

More here.

WELL, THAT’S ONE WAY TO GET A READER BOOK PLUG: Reader Jeff Miller writes that I get a cameo in his new thriller, The Bubble Gum Thief.

I REMEMBER THIS SHOW: Eric Clapton in Hartford. And even I could sound good singing if I had Shaun Murphy and Marcy Levy in the background.

EDITORIAL: USA Today likes Rick Perry’s $10K college degree plan.

OKAY, POSTING OLD YOUTUBE CLIPS LEADS TO THIS: Freddy Mercury at Live Aid. I’ve done the “spike mike” trick myself, but not quite to the same effect. I remember how high-tech Live Aid seemed at the time. . . .

And who then could have foreseen Brian May, astrophysicist and university chancellor?

RICHARD EPSTEIN: Google: A Threat To Civil Liberties?

DANA MILBANK:

“My administration,” President Obama wrote on his first day in office, “is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government.”

Those were strong and hopeful words. Four years later, it is becoming more and more clear that they were just words.

Well, yes.

JAMES TARANTO takes a bold stand against racism.

CHANGE: Conservative Groups Rebel Against Boehner.

BOB ZUBRIN: Mars The Hard Way.

THE UNSOLVED MYSTERY of why you just yawned.

POLLS: Nation that re-elected Obama wants more spending cuts than tax hikes, still hates Obamacare. Perhaps voters should have chosen differently, then . . . .

STUMPING THE WHITE HOUSE? “Well, it is not at all clear the White House is going to bother making any counteroffer, making it sticky for all those indignant lefty pundits who hollered that the president deserved a response to his offer. Now that he got one, what is the excuse for him declining to respond?”

UPDATE: GOP Regains High Ground With Cliff Counteroffer.

IT WAS THE DURANTY PRIZE THAT SEALED THE DEAL: Vogue Editor Wintour Said to Be Possible Appointee as U.K. Envoy.

AT AMAZON, 50% off on Men’s Shoes & Boots.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT YESTERDAY: My USA Today Column: How The GOP Can Force Obama’s Hand.