HAS WALKING BEEN “engineered out of existence?”

WHY KOBE BEEF is a lie.

AT AMAZON, up to 40% off in tools & home improvement.

IS IT OPEN SEASON ON MORMONISM? Remember, religious bigotry — just like slut-shaming, homophobia, and racism — is only wrong when it’s aimed at Democratic constituency groups.

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: Data trove reveals scope of law schools’ hiring of their own graduates. “At the University of Virginia School of Law, 98 percent of the class of 2010 was employed nine months following graduation. That figure was 92 percent at Vanderbilt University Law School and 90 percent at Washington & Lee University School of Law. All three schools reported those postgraduate employment rates to American Bar Association during an especially tight job market. Additionally, each reported that a relatively high 11 percent of their 2010 graduates were in jobs financed by the schools themselves.”

Book-cookin’ boogie. Or maybe not: “Burk theorizes that the law schools are motivated not by the hope of gaming the U.S. News and World Report rankings, but by the need to help struggling graduates get a foot in the door. A few might be employed by the school directly as research assistants, but most are in public-interest posts where they gain real-world experience, even if the law school signs their paychecks, he said.” The effect on the rankings sure is convenient, though.

SCIENCE: A Sharp Rise in Retractions Prompts Calls for Reform.

Dr. Fang became curious how far the rot extended. To find out, he teamed up with a fellow editor at the journal, Dr. Arturo Casadevall of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. And before long they reached a troubling conclusion: not only that retractions were rising at an alarming rate, but that retractions were just a manifestation of a much more profound problem — “a symptom of a dysfunctional scientific climate,” as Dr. Fang put it.

Dr. Casadevall, now editor in chief of the journal mBio, said he feared that science had turned into a winner-take-all game with perverse incentives that lead scientists to cut corners and, in some cases, commit acts of misconduct.

There’s lots of government money. That leads to corruption.

GODSPEED: ‘Good chance’ for SpaceX April 30 launch to ISS: NASA. “The main goals of SpaceX’s flight include a fly-by of the ISS and a berthing operation in which the company’s reusable space craft, the Dragon, will approach the ISS and the crew aboard the orbiting outpost will use the ISS robotic arm to help it latch on. The gumdrop-shaped Dragon capsule will carry 521 kilograms (1,148 pounds) of cargo for the space lab and will also aim to return a 660 kg (1,455 lb) load to Earth, said Michael Suffredini, International Space Station program manager.”

GALLUP: Romney 48, Obama 43.

DON’T BE SILLY. EVERYTHING IS OKAY WHEN FEMINISTS DO IT: War On Women Wisconsin Edition: Slut Shaming Is Okay When Feminists Do It.

PROGRESS: Patent Hints at iPad-Powered Portable Ultrasound Machine.

CHARLIE STROSS ON Amazon’s eBook Strategy. Once you get past the reflexive hostility to libertarians, it’s pretty interesting. Hey, Charlie — we’re not so bad. We just want to take over the government — and then leave you alone.

Related: “You know who else hated libertarians? Hitler.”

UPDATE: More thoughts on eBooks.

JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Intel Chairman Mike Rogers Gets Right to the Point on Afghanistan.

ARE GENDER ROLES IN RELATIONSHIPS REVERSING?

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: From J.D. to Food Stamps: The Personal Cost of Going to Law School.

RICHARD EPSTEIN: Why We Need Term Limits For Judges.

CHRIS EDWARDS: The Tax-Code Mess.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: The United Nations Today: A Case Study In Failure.

ROGER PILON: The Lesson of the GSA Scandals: “The basic principle could not be simpler: as Milton Friedman so often put it, no one spends someone else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. That applies in spades to government. . . . That’s one reason we should turn to government not as a first but as a last resort. You don’t like being abused as a taxpayer? Then don’t vote for the party of government.”

Related: GSA whistle-blower testifies on scandal.

UPDATE: Ex-GSA Chief Martha Johnson’s Resignation and (Non)Apology.

“STAND YOUR GROUND LAWS” surprisingly popular with the Blue crowd.

As we’ve seen, there have been a number of Democrats in state offices who’ve not only signed stand your ground bills into law but have actually defended those bills when gun-grabbers protested.

To date, Democrat governors who have either signed a stand your ground bill into law or at least refused to veto it include, “Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana, Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, Brian Schweitzer of Montana, John Lynch of New Hampshire, Brad Henry of Oklahoma, Phil Bredesen of Tennessee, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Janet Napolitano of Arizona.”

And here’s the kicker folks—California, one of the most staunchly liberal states in the union, is a stand your ground state.

Florida, it turns out, was just catching up with California when it passed its own Stand Your Ground law.