RAMESH PONNURU Obama’s Second Term Already Looks Like a Failure.

THE BOSTON HERALD’S COVER FOR TODAY:

STACY MCCAIN: Shorter @DylanByers: ‘Hurry Up, FBI, So We Can Start the Media Blame Game!’

BOSTON HERALD: Get The Bastards!

WHAT SHOULD A MEN’S MOVEMENT LOOK LIKE?

IT’S A LIE, BUT IT’S EASIER THAN FACING THE TRUTH OF HOW UNPOPULAR YOUR IDEAS ARE: Sen. Feinstein: ‘NRA Money Stops My Gun Bans’. Reality: ‘Bloomberg Alone Spent Same Amount’.

LET’S HOPE THE GOP SENATORS DON’T BAIL THEM OUT: On Gun Control, the Dems Don’t Have the Votes. “The Manchin/Toomey proposal would require background checks when someone buys a firearm over the internet or at a gun show. That isn’t particularly burdensome, although it would raise the cost of firearms so purchased. But would it do any good? No. . . . So we have here an entirely symbolic measure that won’t do any good, but won’t impose a huge burden, either. It is easy to predict that most Democrats will vote for futility, and most Republicans will vote against it. Meanwhile, the Obama administration will continue its ineffective law enforcement policies.”

EMILY ESFAHANI SMITH: Relationships Are More Important Than Ambition.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: The Wreck Of The Euro.

FROM DOUG WEINSTEIN, a review of Sacred Ground.

I HOPE RICK PERRY, OR HIS ATTORNEY GENERAL, WILL LOOK INTO THIS: “We’re exempt from the law” is not a phrase you want to hear from law enforcement in a constitutional republic. And it’s not only the officer who should be fired. Who hired him?

WHAT LIBERACE REVEALS about the march of gay rights.

TRIUMPH: Two headed piglet saved from abattoir.

AT AMAZON, spring deals in Kitchen & Dining.

STUDY: Men can’t read women’s emotions.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Is It Better To Text Or Call In A Crisis? Texting uses less bandwidth. Or if you can find an open wifi, send email.

WHITE HOUSE DESPERATION = TIME FOR MORE EMOTIONAL BULLYING! Newtown families ask for meeting with Mitch McConnell. Well, that’s what you do when you’re losing, and you don’t have a better argument.

McConnell should agree, but should make sure the pro-gun Newtown parents are there too, and get to speak to the press. . . . .

HE THINKS WE’RE A BUNCH OF BIG BOOBS: French scientist bemused by buzz over bra research.

AT AMAZON, markdowns on Spring Cleaning Products.

CHANGE: Legalize Polygamy! No. I am not kidding. “While the Supreme Court and the rest of us are all focused on the human right of marriage equality, let’s not forget that the fight doesn’t end with same-sex marriage. We need to legalize polygamy, too. Legalized polygamy in the United States is the constitutional, feminist, and sex-positive choice. More importantly, it would actually help protect, empower, and strengthen women, children, and families. . . . The definition of marriage is plastic. Just like heterosexual marriage is no better or worse than homosexual marriage, marriage between two consenting adults is not inherently more or less ‘correct’ than marriage among three (or four, or six) consenting adults.”

Who could have seen this coming?

BIG QUESTION FOR “PRO-GUN” SENATORS COMPROMISING ON GUN-CONTROL BILL: What if you “compromise” and it still doesn’t pass? If my name were Pryor or Landrieu — or Alexander, even — I’d worry about that.

MARKETS: Consumers Are Obsessed With Products That Give Them Information.

I HAVE THIS PROBLEM ALL THE TIME: “Three Emirati men were ejected from a festival in Saudi Arabia as they were deemed ‘too handsome,’ leading authorities to fear women could become attracted to them, it has been reported.”

SCIENCE: There Seems to Be a Universal Brain Response to Music. “People who listened to classical music inside an fMRI machine had remarkably synchronized brain patterns that aren’t seen in other contexts.”

READER BOOK PLUG: From Michael Rank, History’s Most Insane Rulers: Lunatics, Eccentrics, and Megalomaniacs From Emperor Caligula to Kim Jong Il.