ED DRISCOLL NOTES my brief appearance in a detective novel.

ON OFFENSE: GOP’s bid to take Senate moves to Oregon, which is ripe for ObamaCare attack. The Oregon rollout has certainly been a debacle.

SUBURB 27: An Iconic ‘Super Suburb’ Seeks an Urban Makeover.

JOHN HINDERAKER: The Epic Hypocrisy of Tom Steyer. “Today, he is a bitter opponent of fossil fuels, especially coal. That fits with his current economic interests: banning coal-fired power plants will boost the value of his solar projects. But it was not always thus. In fact, Steyer owes his fortune in large part to the fact that he has been one of the world’s largest financers of coal projects. Tom Steyer was for coal before he was against it.”

DO TELL: MSNBC Panel Members Find ‘Disturbing Level’ of Gay Rights Interest in ‘Targeting People.’ This tactic will continue until it becomes too expensive or painful.

SO WHEN CEOs WRITE HUGELY PROMOTED BOOKS, I should sell the stock. Noted.

SEXISM IN THE NEWS: So on ABC’s This Week, as people talk about single motherhood, abandoned kids, and so on, we get this interchange:

ROBERTS: — the reason the numbers have changed so dramatically on this, first of all, that ideal isn’t true in all kinds of families that (INAUDIBLE) being what it is and the abandoned mothers.

But it is also true — I mean, if we got — if we got better men, we’d be in better shape.

But the —

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No disagreement there.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No disagreement here either.

If a male reporter said that we need better women — which is just as true — would female journalists fall all over themselves to express agreement? Nope, they’d pile all over the man who said it. But supplication-of-females is the media way, now.

UPDATE: A reader in the comments says that it’s time to plug my wife’s book again. Good point.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Cliven Bundy and the Rural Way. “To paraphrase the ancients, sometimes we’d rather be wrong with Cliven Bundy than right with Harry Reid.”

Plus: “So we are not threatened by the likes of Cliven Bundy. Instead, the scary lawlessness extends to the bureaucracy itself. . . . The point is Mr. Bundy is no Rahm Emanuel, Al Gore, or Jay Carney. He is no Jay-Z or Sean Penn. He is a world away from the Kardashians and the BMW meets Mercedes crowd of the California coastal corridor or the psychodramas of brats at Dartmouth. Bundy does not have the white privilege that those who have it — mostly liberal, wealthy, and seeking an apartheid existence — damn in others.”

SCIENCE: Male-Dominated Societies Surprisingly More Relaxed – Study Says. But it’s actually a dumb article.

NOT TERROR-RELATED: Kansas City Highway Shooter Identified As Mohammed Whitaker. “No motive has been publicized, and police declined to speculate.”

LOOKING BACKWARD 50 YEARS: Cliven Bundy and the Origins of the American Abundance Revolution.

FOR EASTER, Andrew Klavan and Bill Whittle talk about the Resurrection.

A TEMPORARY LIFE: Just Visiting: The Neverending Job-Hunt Grind. “Little did I realize that graduate school would turn out to be yet another lesson in the school of hard knocks. Here’s the hardest lesson of all: from the moment you begin graduate school until you’ve actually earned tenure, your position is contingent, your future success is precarious, and your battle for economic security feels unending.”

AT AMAZON, Mother’s Day Gifts Galore.

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TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 346.

AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Big asteroids hit Earth far more than we’re told, say astronauts. “This network has detected 26 multi-kiloton explosions since 2001, all of which are due to asteroid impacts. It shows that asteroid impacts are NOT rare — but actually 3-10 times more common than we previously thought.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Survive The Inevitable Armageddon.

It’s a Kyle Smith review of Lewis Dartnell’s The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch, which sounds pretty cool.

APPLE IPHONES now subject to discounting.

“GOOD FATS:” Applause for Avocados.

AT AMAZON, new releases in Blu-Ray and DVD.

Also, fresh deals in new Men’s Shoes.

MACHINE SAYS YES: We’re Ready For Our Robot Poet Overlords.

A 335 WORD GRADUATION SPEECH that’s awesome.

POPULAR MECHANICS: Yes, You Can Learn to Weld. Here’s How.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Woman With Engineered Vagina Says She Has ‘Normal Life.’

EASTER THOUGHTS from Roger Kimball.