MASSACHUSETTS: Dem mutiny could sink Elizabeth Warren’s run.

LONGEVITY UPDATE: Key gene found responsible for chronic inflammation, accelerated aging and cancer.

THINKING DIFFERENTLY: Memo To The NFL: To Reduce Concussions, Ban Football Helmets. “To put it plainly, the ‘safer’ the padding and helmets become in football, the more dangerous the game becomes.”

SCARY NUCLEAR STUFF.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What Are The Tax Implications Of The Zombie Apocalypse?

AT AMAZON, it’s the Baby Outlet Sale. Note that the Baby Outlet does not sell actual babies.

Gatlinburg, 2004. A gallery of Red, White & Blue pics can be found here.

FROM KENNETH ANDERSON, thoughts on the etiquette of Memorial Day observance.

READER BOOK PLUG: Well, actually it’s reader-wife book plug. Reader Sam McCreedy writes:

Hi Glenn,

My wife has written a wonderful middle-grade to YA novel that is available on Amazon.com. She spent several years writing, revising, editing, etc. and it truly shows. It’s a great book.

If folks enjoy books like A Wrinkle In Time, and Harry Potter, they will love Liberty Frye and the Witches of Hessen by J.L. McCreedy!

It’s currently on sale at Amazon for under a buck.

Please let your awesome blog followers know so they can check it out.

Done!

MAKING ROTTEN FOOD BEAUTIFUL.

IS ENVY HARDWIRED IN HUMAN BRAINS?

GEORGE S. PATTON: “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.”

ANDREW CUOMO TAKES ON UNIONS. “Scott Walker’s union battles may be getting all the headlines at the moment, but far away in the Empire State a very different governor is getting into a battle of his own with the unions. Although Andrew Cuomo’s union fights have not been the sort of cage match as Gov Walker’s in Wisconsin, they’ve been pretty serious, especially for a state known for its liberal, pro-union politics. Cuomo’s early struggles involved reducing benefits for public sector unions and pushing for a tougher teacher evaluation process. The latest round of the union fight concerns delegate seats at September’s DNC meeting in Charlotte.”

REMEMBER WHEN PROTEST WAS PATRIOTIC? AND WHEN IT WAS WRONG TO QUESTION PEOPLE’S PATRIOTISM? Van Jones:Tea Party out to destroy America.

For the record, let me say that I entertain no doubts whatsoever about the extent of Van Jones’ patriotism.

I AGREE WITH NEWT: Newt Gingrich: ‘Highly implausible’ I would be Romney’s running mate.

AT AMAZON, warehouse deals in Camera & Photo.

Also, Lord of the Rings on Blu-Ray for under 50 bucks.

And, today only: Seagate Expansion 500 GB Portable External Hard Drive, $54.99.

THE HILL: Romney tops Obama by 28 points among male veterans.

POLITICS: Mitt Hitler and Double Standards: Godwin’s Law Applies to Thee, But Not to Me.

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Report: National Weather Service misappropriated $43 million.

Jack Hayes, the director of the National Weather Service, stepped down Friday in response to an investigation that top officials at the weather service had misappropriated $43.8 million by giving bonuses and extensions to contractors without proper justification.

The Office of the Inspector General for the Department of Commerce, which oversees NOAA, released the report on May 18, detailing an audit of nine contracts that include incentive pay for good work. The contracts have a maximum potential value of $1.6 billion.

The investigators said there may be other contracts that provide additional awards from 2008, 2009 and 2010 but that NOAA was unable to “provide a complete and reliable list when requested by the Office of Inspector General.”

A business that ran its finances like the government would see its executives in jail.

HEROES AND VILLAINS: VFW slams MSNBC host who said he was ‘uncomfortable’ calling dead soldiers ‘heroes.’

AT FORMER SPOOK, SOME MEMORIAL DAY THOUGHTS.

FROM PROFESSOR JACOBSON, A Weinergate retrospective — the lying liars and their lies about Andrew Breitbart. “Andrew Breitbart was proven right. He brought down a flame-throwing Democrat the old fashioned way, with the truth.”

“THE MARINES MADE A BED FOR HER.” (Via Blackfive.)

WHEN WIKIPEDIA can’t be trusted.

Interestingly, I wonder if Wikipedia user “Chase Me Ladies” is this guy? I actually did get a call from the ATF’s Dallas office back then, wondering if I knew him. Apparently he had represented me as his attorney at some point in this “prank.” With a bit of googling I found the source and pointed it out to them and that was the end of the story.

UPDATE: A post-Kimberlin blogburst to-do list from Michelle Malkin. Read the whole thing.

And she reminds us that the National Bloggers Club is fundraising to help the victims.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Patterico: Caller to Lee Stranahan Show Claims to Be My Swatter. Keep giving ’em rope. . .

MORE: Reader Ron Baakkonen writes:

I feel like I need to respond regarding Chase Me Ladies. I’ve been an administrator on Wikipedia for many years and have known Chase Me Ladies since 2008. There are definitely admins who bring a leftist tilt to their work. However, I’ve never known Chase Me Ladies to be in that camp. I’d regard him as dedicated, by the book and less likely to involve himself in controversy. If I had to guess, he’s received some complaint from Kimberlin about how he’s the one being harassed and gave him the benefit of the doubt.

He adds: “BTW, I have also registered by disagreement with Chase Me’s decision to delete. I would not have deleted based on the available evidence.”