DEATH-CAMP YOGA: ‘Ve hav vays of making you relax’: How SS recommended yoga to death camp guards as a good way to de-stress.

HMM: Pregnant gelada monkeys abort when new male enters group. “Pregnant female geladas show an unusually high rate of miscarriage the day after the dominant male in their group is replaced by a new male, a new University of Michigan study indicates.”

LAPTOP DECRYPTION UPDATE: Eleventh Circuit Finds Fifth Amendment Right Against Self Incrimination Protects Against Being Forced to Decrypt Hard Drive Contents.

DEREK THOMPSON: The Spectacular Rise And Fall of U.S. Whaling: An Innovation Story. “An extinct business offers surprisingly current lessons about the triumph of technology, the future of work, and the inevitable decline of industries that might not be worth saving.”

THREE CONGRESSMEN who might be the next Ron Paul. One of ’em’s mine.

A FOOD BLOG: Cooking On The Weekends.

OUR YOUNGER GENERATION: Tennessee seven-year-old gives his birthday to patriotic charity.

GETTING NERVOUS: Pelosi 2008: Bush to Blame for High Gas Prices; Pelosi 2012: Wall Street to Blame for High Gas Prices

UPDATE: Related: Dem Pollster Warns Obama That Voters Will Scoff at Claims of Recovery. Because, you know, there hasn’t been much of one. “Even Democrats scoff at Obama’s claims on job creation, Greenberg warns.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Megan McArdle: Obama Seems To Think He’s Running Against The Kochs.

THE DARK SIDE OF the payroll tax cut.

VIRGINIA POSTREL: Save The Oscars With Live Voting And Hindsight.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Rising Gas Prices: All Part of Obama’s Plan? “While this position may be slightly unfair to the President (Mr. Chu was not yet in the Administration at the time he made the remarks, so any link between it and administration policy is tenuous), the quote devastatingly reveals just how tone-deaf and myopic white-collar, progressive intellectualism can be. The delusion that jacking up energy prices is part of a ‘good government’ agenda is one of the pieces of insanity that keeps the blue intelligentsia from consolidating its position as a natural governing class.”

YOU DON’T NEED A WEATHERMAN TO SEE WHICH WAY THE WIND IS BLOWING: Google hires former Rep. Susan Molinari to lead Washington office.

IF YOU THINK YOU’RE HAPPY . . . aren’t you, you know, happy?

JACOB SULLUM: Distorting The Economy Is The Whole Point. “Distorting the economy is not, as NPR suggests, an unwanted side effect of Obama’s proposals; it is his avowed aim, because he thinks he knows how resources should be distributed better than the market does. As long as we have leaders with this kind of overblown faith in their own knowledge, wisdom, and competence, we will have ‘a tax system that’s a complex, inefficient, and loophole-riddled mess.'”

USING OPERATIONS RESEARCH to facilitate breast-milk donations and disaster relief.

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Also, today only: A 12-volt air compressor for $49.95.

P.J. MEDIA POLL: Obama Losing Some Minorities, Independents.

INSTAVISION: My Wednesday interview with Prof. Elizabeth Price Foley about her new book, The Tea Party: Three Principles, is now available on YouTube.

MICKEY KAUS: Too Close For Obama’s Comfort.

CHANGE: Democrats Likely To Lose Edge In New Jersey Delegation.

A REVIEW of Professor Bainbridge’s Corporate Governance After the Financial Crisis.

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: The 5 Biggest Whoppers In Obama’s Energy Speech. “The White House billed President Obama’s energy policy speech as a response to mounting criticism of record high gas prices. What he delivered was a grab bag of excuses and outright falsehoods.”

EVEN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ISN’T BUYING THIS: To close tax loopholes, Obama would open new ones. “Some also fear that companies could game the system to grab the new tax breaks.” Ya think?

WHY THEY’RE DOOMED: What It Takes To Start An Online Store In Greece. “At the health department, they were told that all the shareholders of the company would have to provide chest X-rays, and, in the most surreal demand of all, stool samples.”

UPDATE: More thoughts from Dan Mitchell.