OUT TODAY: Sarah Hoyt’s A Few Good Men. With an awesome dedication to yours truly. I got my autographed copy yesterday and was very moved.

Here’s a review from Daniel Blatt at Gay Patriot. (Bumped).

IT’S OKAY WHEN THE FRENCH DO IT: French Minister Condemns Islamo Fascism, Using the Same Expression that Brought George W Bush So Much Opprobrium a Decade Ago.

SO THERE: “I’m just going to come out and say it: I love horsemeat.”

AT AMAZON, markdowns on bestselling boots for men.

DO TELL: Hollywood Accounting Strikes Again: Universal Sued For Screwing Over Its Own Sister Company.

Related: Repeal The Hollywood Tax Cuts.

More here.

FASTER, PLEASE: The Age of Enhancement: Technology is starting to give us superpowers once reserved for comic-book heroes.

CHANGE: UK kids turn to Google instead of grandparents for advice.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Want Better-Behaved Kids? Turn Off Violent TV. Or just TV in general . . . .

SUING BLOGGERS NEARLY ALWAYS BACKFIRES: “Edwin Mellen Press is dropping a wildly unpopular libel lawsuit against a university librarian.”

If you’re thinking of suing a blogger, read this first.

THE SIX MOST TERRIFYING sex illustrations on Wikipedia.

THE HILL: “Don’t tell the Tea Party, but the tag team of John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are currently mopping the floor with Barack Obama. The president convincingly won a second term in November, but since that time, the congressional Republican leadership has outfoxed, outmaneuvered and plain out-strategized him on just about every issue. . . . And for their efforts, Team Obama was roundly mocked. ‘Saturday Night Live’ did a hilarious skit over the weekend that had the president trot out the Village People to show how deep the cuts would hurt. When they are laughing at you, Mr. President, you aren’t winning.”

SOPA BACKER REP. LAMAR SMITH (R-HOLLYWOOD) has a primary challenger: “Lamar Smith went to Washington in 1987 and it is time for him to go home. The debt was $2.2 trillion when he started ‘representing’ us and it’s now more than $16 trillion.”

ROGER KIMBALL: Sam Tanenhaus’s “Original Sin.”

A BOB MENENDEZ infographic.

HMM: A Japan/EU Trade Deal? “Amid talk of a super, transatlantic free trade zone, the eurozone now has a new potential partner: Japan. But, in light of Tokyo’s slow progress on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), can the Abe government match competitor South Korea in inking a trade pact with Brussels?” I don’t know, but if I were the Chinese I’d be unhappy.

FOR THOSE OF YOU PLANNING ON ATTENDING MY ASHBROOK CENTER LECTURE TOMORROW, it’s been cancelled because of weather. At least I hadn’t (quite) gotten on the plane. We’ll reschedule it later.

ARTHUR BROOKS ON WHAT REPUBLICANS ARE MISSING.

MORE ON THOSE UNDERFUNDED / OVERGENEROUS PUBLIC PENSIONS: Washington State’s Pensions In Crisis Too. “The investigation found that the system as a whole was underfunded to the tune of almost $31 billion. Much like we’ve already seen in California, cash-strapped local governments will be asked to make up the difference by upping their contributions to the plans. . . . Then take a look at what’s coming, as all over America battles will erupt over whether to cut services to poor people and kids today to honor unrealistic promises made to retired workers. Will non-state workers who don’t have pension programs vote to slash the funding for their kids’ education? Will a generation that’s been systematically lied to and bilked by irresponsible Boomers tax itself to the eyeballs to give the Boomers a stress-free retirement that younger folks won’t be able to share? A world of ugly is coming in American retail politics, and the Democratic Party in particular is going to be split by conflicts among different wings of its large coalition.”

Well, they can always try to blame the Republicans. I’m sure it’s somehow George W. Bush’s fault.

MORE VIOLENCE — TO REASON — AT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS: Misheard ‘Fresh Prince’ song sparks schools lockdown. “In the you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff category: Schools in a Pennsylvania county were put on lockdown after a receptionist misunderstood the words of the theme song to ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,’ which a student had as his cellphone greeting, and thought the teen was going to commit violence.”

Good thing it wasn’t the theme from “The Nanny.” God knows what that could have led to.

AT AMAZON, deals and markdowns on bestselling cookware.

Also, today only: Black & Decker 20-Volt Lithium-Ion Drill Kit, $62.99 (36% off).

MY USA TODAY COLUMN ON SURGING BIPARTISAN MOMENTUM and further refinements of my revolving-door surtax proposal.

TIME TO PULL THE PLUG ON THE NLRB?

Only a few hours after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a decision that the National Labor Relations Board does not have a legal quorum to act, the board’s chairman, Mark Pearce, issued a press release announcing the board’s intent to ignore it.

The timing and content of Pearce’s statement show a board so fixated on serving the interests of organized labor it no longer knows its place nor weighs the consequences of its actions on the public interest. Although Pearce may believe that the president has the authority to make recess appointments over a three-day break in ongoing Senate sessions — or over lunch, for that matter — it is not the place of the NLRB chairman to disagree with a circuit court on a constitutional question that goes to the heart of the political appointment process and one in which he has a partisan interest.

If he were a Republican, this would be a national scandal implicating the rule of law, and the governing party’s contempt for the constitution.

IT’S COME TO THIS: The Rich Get Some Center-Left Tax Sympathy.

OUT TODAY: Sarah Hoyt’s A Few Good Men. With an awesome dedication to yours truly. I got my autographed copy yesterday and was very moved.

Here’s a review from Daniel Blatt at Gay Patriot.