SHOWING SMART: “In a new study, both male and female subjects were able to accurately evaluate the intelligence of men simply by viewing photographs of their faces.”

Plus, this caveat, which should be added to most studies reported in the news: “While the study’s principal finding merits a booze-bolstered conversation at a dinner party, it will need to be replicated among men of broader age and cultural backgrounds before we take it too seriously.”

RON RADOSH: Who Inspired the Nazi-Klan Leader’s Actions in Kansas? The Answer Here. “What will our good friends at The Nation say now, when his very first sentence notes how inspired he is by the words of none other than Max Blumenthal, whose antisemitic and anti-Zionist book was released by the magazine’s own publishing house, Nation Books?”

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Human Ken Meets Human Barbie.

BENEFICIAL RELATIONSHIPS: The Hillary-Boeing-Russia triangle.

DRIVING THE AUDI ALLROAD: “Allroad? So it can go on all the roads? So what? So can any other car with tires!”

WHENEVER I SEE THE TINDER LOGO, I THINK OF THE 1982 WORLD’S FAIR, BUT MAYBE THAT’S JUST ME: Tinder May Not Be Worth $5B, But It’s Way More Valuable Than You Think. Then again, there was a lot of hooking up there, notwithstanding that it was an app-less era.

DON’T BURN: Take an extra 20% off Kidde Fire Safety Products.

Also, Spring Deals on Pool-Cleaning Tools & Supplies. Summer is coming.

TAX SEASON: What To Do When You Owe More Than You Can Pay.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Legal scholarship in the lean years. “I expect that scholarship will receive less attention inside the legal academy. In the last two decades, scholarship became an ever-increasing priority for law schools because they had the resources to make it so. . . . I would guess that the new environment also will have at least some impact on the substance of legal scholarship. My thoughts are tentative, but here’s a prediction: The lean years will create pressures for scholarship to have more relevance to the bench and bar.”

TRUE THREATS: Supreme Court May Take A Shot At Defining The Point At Which Protected Speech Becomes An Unprotectable ‘Threat.’

21ST CENTURY BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS: When The Restaurant You Googled Googles You Back. “It’s not the thought that counts; unexpected in-person customization feels icky.”

A NEW BLOG: SUFFOCATED SCIENCE is about how the science bureaucracy is crushing creativity.

THE NEXT RED MEAT: Lab-Grown Meat.

WHY ALL CARS LOOK THE SAME NOW: How The Feds Outlawed Beautiful Cars.

TODAY IN PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT: Former Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes admitted he believed man cleared of murder after nearly 16 years in prison was innocent. “In a stunning about-face, former Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes admitted in a recent deposition that he did not believe a man exonerated for murder was guilty — even though one of his prosecutors insisted, as the man’s conviction was vacated, ‘We believe in this defendant’s guilt.'”

People should be facing jail time over this, but it will be an amazing example of accountability if they’re even disbarred.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: How Obama’s Justice Department Selectively Blocks Mergers By Republican CEOs.

JOAN HEMINWAY: Business Lawyering In The Crowdfunding Era.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 340.

THE TODD AKIN OF VIRGINIA: Arlington County Board chairman apologizes for ‘Latino time’ comment.

Noting that board colleague Walter Tejada had not yet arrived at the swearing-in and would be a bit late, Fisette said that Tejada was running on “Latino time.”

Fisette was questioned about the phrasing by a reporter from WJLA-TV, and said that after talking with friends, he found that “some were offended.”

Do tell. And I’m sure the WaPo and Jon Stewart will be all over this. Background: The “GOP Lawmaker” Principle: Why You See So Many Articles About Random Right-Wing Politicians. “As the national electoral plight of Democrats increases, so does the incidence of stories about obscure state Republican lawmakers.” While stories about Dems get buried.

Because, you know, the press is largely made up of Democratic operatives with bylines. (Hat tip: Hinkle.)

BAY AREA HATEWATCH UPDATE: San Francisco: Where You Get Beaten Up For Wearing Google Glass.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Our Psychodramatic Campuses. “Our pampered elite college students are creations of the very exploitation they project onto others.”

POWER PROBLEMS: The Costs Of Nixing Nuclear.

Japan is officially restarting its nuclear energy program, after shutting down its reactors in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima crisis. It’s an understandably emotionally fraught decision, but as the FT reports, it’s crucial for the country’s shaky economy. . . .

Nuclear’s benefits aren’t just economic; it’s an effectively zero-emissions energy source, and when countries phase it out, as Japan and Germany did in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, their emissions go up. Of course, if that was the whole story, it would be easy to chart Japan’s energy future. But when nuclear goes wrong, it can go very wrong. Japan sits on a tectonic boundary—not the ideal location for nuclear plants (it’s worth noting that the case for nuclear energy in Germany, which is not vulnerable to the same seismicity, is much more straightforward).

Fortunately, there’s a new generation of nuclear reactors coming down the pipe, reactors that are fail-safe by design, which would lessen the likelihood of another Fukushima catastrophe happening again.

Faster, please.

HOPEY-CHANGEY: Sharyl Attkisson: “Chilling effect” from Obama administration on journalists. “Attkisson told Kurtz that political considerations were at play, but the bigger issue is the ‘chilling effect’ of the Obama administration on journalists, but also ‘corporate interest’ pressure as well, which don’t tend to balance themselves out but add together. Kurtz wondered aloud whether her growing reputation as a ‘conservative’ journalist wasn’t an attempt to discredit Attkisson, and she agrees. When she went after the Bush administration, Attkisson noted, no one was calling her a ‘progressive’ journalist — and her CBS bosses were delighted to run those stories.”

The political/corporate synergy of the Obama Administration is its greatest danger, and doesn’t get enough attention for precisely that reason.

CLAYTON CRAMER: ‘This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed:’ Guns and the Civil Rights Movement. Clayton Cramer reviews Professor Charles E. Cobb, Jr.’s This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible.

This might profitably be read along with Prof. Nicholas Johnson’s Negroes And The Gun: The Black Tradition Of Arms. Here’s my interview with Johnson.