JUDICIAL RACISM? Courts Order Black Lawyers For Black Clients. Oh, the irony. . . .

IT’S COME TO THIS: Obama stealing ideas from Newt Gingrich’s new book.

RUSSIA AND THE FAILURE OF “PUTINOMICS.”

SMART DIPLOMACY: Merkel Says NSA Scandal is Harming Talks on US-EU Trade Deal. Given that these deals seem full of intellectual property giveaways for Hollywood and Silicon Valley, I see that as a feature, not a bug.

CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS: You’re Only Filibustering Obama’s Judicial Nominees Because Of Racism! Yeah, we’ve heard that one before. Sorry, your race card’s maxed out. Pay cash or shut up.

IF, AS SEEMS INCREASINGLY LIKELY, THE GOP TAKES OVER IN 2014, THE PAYBACK ON THIS WILL BE BRUTAL: The Hill: Reid Threatens To Go Nuclear. “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Tuesday that he is considering changing Senate rules to prevent Republicans from filibustering President Obama’s judicial nominees.”

PROFESSOR JACOBSON: Hidden gem in ABC/WaPo Poll: Strong Tea Party support.

STEPHEN GREEN: Lying For Fun And Electoral Profit.

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FINALLY, A TRON REMAKE THAT’S ENTIRELY BELIEVABLE: Terrified Obama Trapped Inside Healthcare.gov Website.

THE RACIST ROOTS OF BICYCLE LANES? “It’s almost all young white males. All these bike lanes and other amenities, paid for with our tax money? It’s almost all for white males. Oh, how it would pain Madison liberals to admit it!”

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY THIS KIND OF THING WOULD HAPPEN: On International Men’s Day, HHS tells women to ‘calm down.’

13 SKILLS YOUR GRANDPARENTS HAD that you probably don’t.

JAMES TARANTO AND MEGAN MCARDLE ARE BOTH REALLY INTO THIS: For Home Chefs on a Budget, Sous Vide Cooking Heats Up.

Well, there are capable and reasonably priced cookers out there now.

CURING DEPRESSION with sleep therapy?

THE SECRET LIFE of a Manhattan doorman. “The will left all of the woman’s fortune and apartment to various public institutions, with no mention of the son. He was cut out. The next day we revealed this to him. We gave him the document, for which he tipped us an extra $200 each. Nothing was said. The apartment was repainted and sold for over a million dollars, which a court allowed the son to keep. The will ended up like all of those other words—in a landfill, forgotten, never to be read again.”

HMM: Politician’s Son Released From Psych Ward 1 Day Before Brutal Stabbing. “Police don’t have a motive yet, but it’s quite possible the young man wasn’t mentally stable. He was committed to a psychiatric ward the day before the stabbing but was released because there weren’t enough beds to keep him there.” A perennial problem these days.

THE INSTAWIFE REVIEWS Michael Matthews’ Bigger Leaner Stronger: The Simple Science of Building the Ultimate Male Body. Hey, she worked as a trainer at the NYU gym, and she’s married to me. So she knows. . . .

SETTLED SCIENCE: Flawed Gauge for Cholesterol Risk Poses a New Challenge for Cardiologists. “This week, cardiologists learned that a new online calculator meant to help them determine a patient’s suitability for cholesterol treatment was flawed, doubling the estimated risk of heart attack or stroke for the average patient. But fixing it would not be easy, because it is based on older data, and heart attack and stroke rates today are much lower than in decades past, meaning that people are at less risk than might be expected from historical extrapolations.”

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MY POPULAR MECHANICS COLUMN: How License-Plate Scanners Are Eroding Our Privacy.

INEQUALITY in two graphs. “What people often forget, especially economists, is that there were huge changes in family structure in the 1960′s and 1970′s. There was a big increase in the divorce rate and a big increase in the number of households headed by women. The increase in the divorce rate was much larger among poor families than it was in rich families.”

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DRIVING TO VEGAS in the Bentley Mulsanne. “After the 600-mile round trip, we realized the Mulsanne is the absolute best and worst car to drive to Vegas. Here’s why.”

MEN DON’T LIKE TO BE YELLED AT? Study: Women with bad tempers are more likely to get divorced.

Related: Ten Things To Say If You Want To End Your Marriage.