HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ABC News catches up with InstaPundit: Is College Tuition The Next Bubble?

SCIENCE: STUDIES LINK ASPIRIN TO REDUCED CANCER RISK. “The findings add to a body of evidence suggesting that cheap and widely available aspirin may be a powerful if overlooked weapon in the battle against cancer. But the research also poses difficult questions for doctors and public health officials, as regular doses of aspirin can cause gastrointestinal bleeding and other side effects. Past studies have suggested that the drawbacks of daily use may outweigh the benefits, particularly in healthy patients.”

RANKING LAW SCHOOLS by debt-load per graduating student. “Overall, law students graduated with an average of $100,584 in debt. … Among the 10 law schools that lead to the most debt load per graduating student, the average debt burden was $147,717 in 2011.”

GEORGE WILL ON OBAMACARE AND CONTRACT LAW, with a nice shout-out to Elizabeth Price Foley.

ANN ALTHOUSE ON WALTER DELLINGER ON OBAMACARE “MYTHS.”

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Red Wine, Tartaric Acid, and the Secret of Superconductivity. “Last year, physicists discovered that red wine can turn certain materials into superconductors. Now they’ve found that Beaujolais works best and think they know why.”

NEW WITNESS IN THE TRAYVON MARTIN CASE: 17-year-old was ‘beating up’ gunman, according to anonymous witness.

Related item here. Well, as I said, stay tuned.

UPDATE: More comments from Tom Maguire. “Yesterday I noted Obama’s remarks and offered that our President was not speaking stupidly. Upon booth review, I beg to differ. . . . No apparent evidence? Zimmerman had a cut on the back of his head, a bloody nose, and grass stains on his back. Some (presumaby disputed) witness accounts say that Trayvon Martin was on top and beating him. There may not be conclusive evidence, since we don’t know what precipitated the scuffle, and there may not be evidence that Trayvon Martin was doing something wrong when Zimmerman first called 911 to report suspicious behavior but to say there is ‘no apparent evidence’ that Zimmerman fired in self-defense is the quality of reporting we have come to expect from the Duke Lacrosse cheerleaders. All The News That Advances The Narrative.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Not so new: Reader Jeff Brown notes this report from Feb. 27:

Investigators with the Sanford Police Department are still trying to figure out exactly what happened during an altercation which resulted in a fatal shooting in the Twin Lakes area. The shooting happened just after 7 p.m. Sunday evening on Twin Trees Lane. A man who witnessed part of the altercation contacted authorities.

“The guy on the bottom, who had a red sweater on, was yelling to me, ‘Help! Help!’ and I told him to stop, and I was calling 911,” said the witness, who asked to be identified only by his first name, John.

John said he locked his patio door, ran upstairs and heard at least one gun shot.

“And then, when I got upstairs and looked down, the guy who was on the top beating up the other guy, was the one laying in the grass, and I believe he was dead at that point.”

So Trayvon Martin was on top of a guy he was beating, and then he got shot. I suppose this doesn’t entirely prove self-defense, but it should certainly count as “apparent evidence” — evidence that was apparent long before the media and Al Sharpton (but I repeat myself) began packaging the narrative here.

THE FASTEST-ADOPTED GADGET OF THE PAST 50 YEARS? Not the iPad, not the iPhone, but the Boom Box.

HAPPY TENTH BLOGGIVERSARY to Baseball Musings.

GEORGE WILL: The Inexorable March of Creative Destruction.

By the middle of the 20th century, Sears, Roebuck had come to town as the nation’s largest retailer, with stores that defined many towns’ downtowns. But in Bentonville, Ark., Sam Walton had an idea for bigger stores on the outskirts of towns. Sears has become a casualty of Wal-Mart’s retailing revolution.

Today new mothers sign up at Amazon Mom for regular deliveries of diapers. This is a 21st-century permutation of an innovation in long-distance commerce that began in 19th-century Chicago.

Creative destruction continues in the digital age. After 244 years – it began publication five years before the 1773 Boston Tea Party – the Encyclopaedia Britannica will henceforth be available only in digital form as it tries to catch up to reference Web sites such as Google and Wikipedia. Another digital casualty forgot it was selling the preservation of memories, a.k.a. “Kodak moments,” not film.

America now is divided between those who find this social churning unnerving and those who find it exhilarating.

Plus a nice shoutout to Virginia Postrel.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why Is Iced Coffee So Expensive? “Cold-brewed java is a whole different production. Here are four ways the chilly stuff is more expensive to make.”

MICKEY KAUS: VW IS SUCCEEDING SO THE UAW MUST DESTROY IT. “It’s On: An unannounced, semi-stealthy UAW effort to collect signature cards from workers at Volkswagen’s Chattanooga factory comes to light. … The timing is inauspicious, TTAC notes, because sales of VW’s America-sized nonunion Passat are booming and the company just announced plans to hire 800 more workers. But the UAW has little choice but to try, because sales of VW’s America-sized nonunion Passat are booming and the company has plans to hire more workers. . . . Could Obama intervene somehow to save the UAW? I don’t quite see how, but perhaps I lack imagination.”

AT AMAZON, Top Deals In Video Cameras.

Also, today only: Lorex video baby monitor for $99.99.

HEH: Conservatives hijack #ILikeObamacare hashtag on Twitter. “Conservatives on Twitter today quickly hijacked the #ILikeObamacare hashtag, which had been launched by President Barack Obama’s campaign to highlight supporters of the Democrats’ signature health care reform law. The Twitter hashtag was the most popular in the world Friday afternoon, but not for reasons the Obama campaign wanted.”

Two of my favorites: “#ILikeObamacare because I hate the government listening to my phone calls, but I want them to decide if I get a pacemaker.”

And: “#ILikeObamacare Because I’m too poor to pay for insurance – Sent from my iPad 3.”

ENTHUSIASM: GOP Primary Turnout Up, Higher Than 2008.

JAMES TARANTO: Contempt of Court: How to lose friends and alienate justices. “Perhaps her goal in insulting the justices is not to win them over but to discredit them in her readers’ eyes should they dare to defy her.”

(Via Ann Althouse, where a commenter observes: “Lithwick’s essay, like Greenhouse’s, is clearly part of the left’s effort to pre-emptively undermine the legitimacy of a possible Supreme Court ruling against the constitutionality of the ACA. (See also the attacks on Thomas’s participation in the case.)”).

RATHER A LOT, REALLY: How Many Negative Images of Men Do You See on TV in 10 Minutes?

Plus, what gets an ad removed.

UPDATE: Reader Tom Kazazes reminds me of this post from four years ago.

CRYING FOUL ON Google’s name policy. “The G+ names policy remains evil. It punishes people for not having Western-style dual names. It punishes people for using a name which is what they are actually called, rather than what’s on their ID. It punishes people, in short, for being in any of a number of minorities, and does so in a particularly dissociated and hostile way, denying any chance for communication about what your identity is or why that is the right identity for people to use.”

RAND SIMBERG: The New Neo-Nazis: “Is Islamism of the right? The left? Or is it just wrong?”

UPDATE: Rex Murphy: It’s Not “Islamophobia” To Call A Jihadist A Jihadist. “Blindness as a form of social or ethnic courtesy is never good policy.”

Related: “The Muslim fanatic who killed seven people in France was so proud of his unspeakably evil work that he uploaded sickening video to the Internet showing him executing a helpless, terrified 8-year-old girl, officials said.” No wonder everybody wanted him to be a nice, prejudice-confirming right-wing Aryan.

ROBERT WRIGHT: DOES OBAMA THINK HE’S DIVINELY ORDAINED?

ILLINOIS: LAWMAKER HITS PENSION JACKPOT. “In his new job, Eddy will not only stay in the Teachers’ Retirement System, he can collect more in benefits from it. He has been working both as a state representative and superintendent for Hutsonville Community Unit School District 1. He has been part of TRS through his Hutsonville job, where he earned a salary of $107,400. His new salary is expected to be at least $200,000, and his pension will be based on that. . . . But that’s not the end of Eddy’s pension largesse. He’ll be eligible in two years to begin collecting a pension of about $24,000 a year from his nine years of part-time work in the Legislature. Illinois Statehouse News projected his lawmaker pension carries a lifetime value of $584,273. Eddy is 53 years old.”

K.C. JOHNSON: A Union’s War on University Quality. “The recent story of the City University of New York is a tale of CUNY leadership making a series of bold and positive moves, and having each one blocked or opposed by leadership of the faculty union.”

STATISTICS: CRIME AND THE NUMBERS GAME:

The present media wave about the tragic death of Trayvon Martin is for me, an outsider, a fascinating lesson in race, politics, and media perversity in America.

The impression is being generated that young black men are continuously hunted by white men, and killed.

So I wanted to know the exact figures. The most recent, those of 2009, I could find are on the site of the Department of Justice, called Crime in the United States. . . . The main problem for young black men is not violent white men chasing them. It is black on black violence.

But there’s less political hay to be made.

Related: Tom Maguire on Jesse Jackson, Obama’s Grandma, and looking down on welfare recipients. “FWIW, I deplore the attitude Jackson is promoting here.”

MICHAEL WALSH: The Consequences of No Consequences.