NOT VERY IMPRESSIVE: Just seven protesters for NOW’s big anti-Limbaugh rally?

UPDATE: More mockery.

MEDIA: NBC show to depict EMP-aftermath society.

I wonder if William Forstchen will get credit.

Regardless, we need to be hardening our infrastructure.

NEUROLOGY: Reopening The Phineas Gage Case.

VARIOUS READERS HAVE ASKED FOR PICTURES FROM CAYMAN, but I didn’t take many on this trip. I’m writing a followup piece on my eating-invasive-species column, but I didn’t do a lot of general photography. But here’s the view from my hotel window:

WARREN BUFFETT buys 63 endorsements for Obama.

JIM MANZI: Hayek Was Right: Why Cloud Computing Proves the Power of Markets.

TABITHA SOREN’S PHOTOS OF PEOPLE RUNNING.

A SCENTED CANDLE THAT smells like a Man Cave.

GLENN DERENE REPORTS ON SpaceX’s Launch Abort.

REPORT FROM ACADEME: Smartypants Philosopher Intellectual Wants To Make Your Porn More “Highbrow.”

AT AMAZON, markdowns in Patio, Lawn & Garden.

GOOD NEWS: Chen Guangchen heading to NJ right now.

ROGER SIMON TO MEDIA MATTERS: Attack me all you want, but please spell my name right.

QUICK FIXES for leaky A/C units.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Tuition War in Texas: UT Faculty Wants More. “You can always make a case for more revenue, and even with the higher tuition proposed under the plan, UT remains one of the great bargains in American education, but American universities need to lead by redesigning themselves to deliver a better product at a lower cost. Faculty senates know what faculties want—and it is almost always more resources to go on doing things the same way but in more comfort. But faculty senates are generally focused on protecting the rights and the privileges of the academic guild. Sometimes guild interests align with the public interest; often, they do not. . . . UT faculty by and large think that what Texas needs is a flagship public university which is a first class research university—as that concept was developed in the second half of the twentieth century. What the state actually needs is a first class twenty-first century university, and that is almost certainly something that delivers more education to more students at less cost per head than the universities of the last century.”

Then there’s the whole “I support Bill Powers” astroturfing.

Somebody should write a book on this phenomenon.

ROGER KIMBALL: Who is Barack Obama? The Question that Won’t Go Away.

BAD SEX? Blame Your Mattress!!

THE GLENN SHOW. With a different Glenn. No, not that one.

HOW TO BE a bald woman.

HOW TO BACK UP YOUR GMAIL.

MICKEY KAUS: Democrats To Joe Sixpack: Get Lost.

GREEN MURDER: Red Tape Hobbles a Harvest of Life-Saving Rice.

Vitamin A deficiency affects the immune system, leading to illness and frequently to blindness. It probably causes more deaths than malaria, HIV or tuberculosis, killing as many people every single day as the Fukushima tsunami. It can be solved by eating green vegetables and meat, but for many poor Asians, who can afford only rice, that remains an impossible dream. To deal with the problem, “biofortification” with genetically modified food plants is 1/10th as costly as dietary supplements.

“Golden rice”—with two extra genes to make beta-carotene, the raw material for vitamin A—was a technical triumph, identical to ordinary rice except in color. Painstaking negotiations led to companies waiving their patent rights so the plant could be grown and regrown free by anybody.

Yet today, 14 years later, it still has not been licensed to growers anywhere in the world. The reason is regulatory red tape deliberately imposed to appease the opponents of genetic modification, which Adrian Dubock, head of the golden rice project, describes as “a witch-hunt for suspected theoretical environmental problems…[because] many activist NGOs thought that genetically engineered crops should be opposed as part of their anti-globalization agenda.”

It is surprising to find that an effective solution to the problem consistently rated by experts as the poor world’s highest priority has been stubbornly opposed by so many pressure groups supposedly acting on behalf of the poor.

The Greenshirts don’t care about the poor. They don’t like humanity.

BARACK OBAMA, NOT ACTUALLY A “HARVARD LAW PROFESSOR.”

WHY GOVERNMENTS RUN OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY: “Nobody told Hurricane librarian Rebecca Elliot that the $22,600 Internet router in the branch library’s storage closet was powerful enough to serve an entire college campus. Nobody told Elliot how much the router cost or who paid for it. Workers just showed up and installed the device. They left behind no instructions, no user manual.”

It was funded by “stimulus” money, of course.