RELATIONSHIP ADVICE: He’s Not The Problem — It’s Your Unreasonable Expectations.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED REPUBLICAN . . . OH, HELL, YOU KNOW THE REST: Debtor’s Prison for Failure to Pay for Your Own Trial.

FROM BOB GALE, CO-WRITER OF BACK TO THE FUTURE: Toward Fairness — Some Modest Proposals.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Jobless Claims Exceed Forecasts, U.S. Home Sales Fall: Economy.

UPDATE: Romney: Oh, that president … He’s always looking for a scapegoat.

I’VE SEEN THIS COMMERCIAL, and yes, it’s pretty pornographic for, you know, a drain-cleaner commercial.

JIM TREACHER: When did President Barack Obama stop eating dogs? I’m trying to find out. Plus, many amusing photos.

Related: “Why did it take the mainstream media so long to discover that Barack Obama ate a dog?” They bought his memoirs so they’d look good on the shelf, but nobody wanted to actually read them. Besides, they were too busy going through Sarah Palin’s middle-school yearbooks.

UPDATE: Reader A. Sorenson writes: “The media now needs to think twice about being Obama’s lapdog.” Heh. Indeed.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Some background on the press’s reading priorities.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Man Watches Porn & Discovers His Wife is an Adult Star.

MIKE RAPPAPORT ON CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS: The Constitutionality of a Limited Convention: An Originalist Analysis.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: In Revolutions, Do Nice Guys Finish Last?

As I’ve said before, we need well-organized and ruthless fans of liberal democracy.

HEH: Obama: “I can’t believe Romney strapped his dog to the roof of his car. That ruins the flavor.”

Plus: “I should have suspected something when Obama stopped by Glenn Reynolds’s house for drinks.” I have no idea what Frank J. is talking about. No idea at all . . . .

THERE’S THAT WORD AGAIN: U.S. Previously Owned Home Sales Unexpectedly Fell in March.

GUNS, SEAMEN, AND THE COMMERCE CLAUSE: Columbia Lawprof Phil Hamburger responds to Einer Elhauge. “It thus is evident that these early federal statutes do not support the constitutionality of congressionally mandated healthcare, whether an employer mandate or an individual mandate.”

UPDATE: And here’s the latest from Elhauge.

MORE MONEY, MORE PROBLEMS: MSNBC host Al Sharpton’s 2004 campaign owes nearly $1 million to creditors and federal government, records show. It’s only a problem for the people dumb enough to lend money to Al Sharpton.

DIVERSITY PROBLEM: President Barack Obama’s team is looking to hire more African-Americans, a search that has stirred a debate among black Democrats about Obama’s record on diversity and its implications for his reelection. “The race to stock up on black talent is a welcome development among Washington’s African-American power elite — and one that critics say is three years late in coming. The cynical take, offered up by black Democratic sources outside Obama’s camp: The president and his aides have focused their attention on hiring more African-Americans because they are worried about black turnout on Election Day. . . . The excitement of the 2008 campaign is gone, this aide said, and African-American voters haven’t seen much improvement on issues such as an unemployment rate about double that for whites.”

HAVE YOU CHECKED THE COLOMBIAN BROTHELS? Obama’s Mortgage Unit Is AWOL.

BO THE WATER DOG: The Playboy Interview.

UPDATE: A reader suggests that this should have been in Bon Appetit.

AT AMAZON, top deals in Camera, Photo & Video.

INSTAVISION: I talk with Grover Norquist, coauthor of Debacle: Obama’s War On Jobs And Growth And What We Can Do Now To Regain Our Future.

WEINERGATE UPDATE: Anthony Weiner A Jerk Before Crotchgate, Craved Media Attention Says New Book. Well, he certainly got plenty of that, but he didn’t seem to enjoy it.

A new book offering an inside look at the US House of Representatives depicts Weiner as a desperately ambitious loudmouth who berated his staff and would do or say anything for TV airtime.

Weiner “would enter his office in the Rayburn Building screaming at the top of his lungs, ‘Why the f–k am I not on MSNBC?!’” journalist Robert Draper wrote in Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the US House of Representatives. He finally got his wish, Draper wrote, when Weiner pushed to become the liberal spokesman for ObamaCare.

“He was now on MSNBC every week, sometimes every day — to the point where he was carrying his own makeup kit. (Or rather, his press guy was.)” Draper wrote.

Yeah, I know — Congressman craves TV time is kind of a dog-bites-man story. But desperate to be on MSNBC? That’s just sad. Obama comes across as rather unwilling to hear advice here, too. That explains a lot.

THE INEVITABLE: Dogs Against Obama.

TIM CARNEY: K Street and Tea Party again fight for soul of GOP.

Big business and the Tea Party are at swords’ points once again, with GOP Senate primaries for the second straight election becoming proxy battles in the war over the soul of the Republican Party.

Conservative insurgents pose serious threats this year to establishment Republicans in at least three open-seat Senate races. In every case, political action committees and lobbyists have hugely favored the establishment pick with contributions. One reason: The GOP establishment rallies industry donors behind the Republican seen as stronger in November. A deeper reason: The revolving-door clique of K Street and Capitol Hill operatives needs Republicans elected to upper chamber who are likely to play ball.

“We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples,” former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said last election cycle. “As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.” Lott is now a millionaire corporate lobbyist whose clients include bailout beneficiaries like Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, subsidy sucklers like General Electric and for-profit colleges and government contractors like Raytheon. He likes Republicans who don’t take their limited-government talk so darn seriously — team players who won’t rock the boat, in part because they are eying K Street jobs after retirement.

I don’t suppose that Trent Lott is the embodiment of everything that’s wrong with the GOP over the past decade, but it’s close. . . .

RAND SIMBERG: Discovery, We Hardly Knew Ye. “Americans should lose the nostalgia for NASA and look to the future of private space flight for inspiration.”

JAMES TARANTO: “One time Barack Obama went to an Indian restaurant and ordered the lassi. Was he ever disappointed when the waiter brought him a yogurt drink!”

Plus: “It doesn’t seem to have occurred to Marshall that as dogs are haram, this should put to rest the Muslim rumors.”

UPDATE: Reader Aaron Moore objects: “Dogs haram? According to what? I’ve got a degree in Middle Eastern Studies, I speak Arabic, and am pretty familiar with the rites and beliefs of Islam. I’ve never heard of a prohibition against dog.” He sends this list, which doesn’t include dogs. So maybe those rumors aren’t dead yet! But the subject seems to be one of some discussion.

EXTRATERRESTRIAL MINING? Google billionaires, James Cameron backing mystery space venture.