AT AMAZON, markdowns on bestselling cookware sets.

Also, pressure cookers.

MICHAEL WALSH: Mike Bloomberg: Liberal Fascist.

A JOB TO ASPIRE TO: The world’s first full-time Barbecue Editor.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: At What Age Should Women Consider Freezing Their Eggs?

AT AMAZON, bestsellers in Kindle books.

Also, TV Deal Of The Week: Mystery Science Theater 3000.

ILYA SOMIN: Communism, The Americans, and the Nature of Evil. “My main criticism of the portrayal of communism in much of Western popular culture and intellectual discourse is that it tends to ignore or downplay communist crimes and atrocities, as most recently evident in the fawning obituaries of the late British communist historian Eric Hobsbawm; a lifelong Nazi sympathizer would never have been so lionized by mainstream media and academia.”

WELL, WHAT YOU CALL IT IS WHAT MATTERS: EU and Cyprus agree to take big depositors’ money without calling it a “tax.”

DOES NINA PLANCK KNOW ABOUT THIS? (Yes). Whole Milk Or Skim? Study Links Fattier Milk To Slimmer Kids.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why The President’s Limo Broke Down.

MARK STEYN ON the Iraq War’s fair-weather hawks. “Ten years ago, along with three-quarters of the American people, including the men just appointed as President Obama’s secretaries of state and defense, I supported the invasion of Iraq. A decade on, unlike most of the American people, including John Kerry and Chuck Hagel, I’ll stand by that original judgment.”

SAYUNCLE: @JimCarrey: Which has killed more children? Anti-vaccine hysteria or my guns?

CLOSING THE POLICE LOOPHOLE. “There are some states, counties, cities, and municipalities in our great nation that fail to allow their citizens to fully exercise their right to keep and bear arms with restrictions such as magazine capacity or types of firearms. However, these government entities do not place these restrictions upon their own employees, such as police officers. This is a list of companies that have taken the step to publicly announce that they will not sell items to states, counties, cities, and municipalities that restrict their citizens rights to own them; therefore closing the ‘police loophole’ themselves. It is important to note that we are against gun control; we are not against any particular government agency or individuals.”

HASTE MAKES WASTE — AND ANDREW CUOMO LOOKS STUPID: Cuomo’s 7-Bullet Limit to Be Suspended Indefinitely, Skelos Says. “The ban on magazines holding more than seven bullets was set to start April 15. Cuomo has said the law needs to be rolled back because manufacturers don’t make seven-round holders. The measure was a center piece to a gun law the 55-year-old Democratic governor pushed through the legislature in January, making New York the first state to respond with tougher gun regulations to the Newtown, Connecticut school massacre.” Should’ve honored the waiting period for legislation. “Perhaps the governor feared that, if lawmakers took the time for intelligent discussion, the bill might not pass? Maybe so, but — as they say in the software business — that’s not a bug, that’s a feature.”

IN JUST A FEW MINUTES, ON AMY ALKON’S RADIO SHOW: Dr. Eric Klinenberg, how/why living alone can make you happy.

CHRISTOPHER COATES AND J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: “Senators of both parties should be reluctant to confirm nominee Thomas E. Perez as Labor secretary because he has provided inaccurate testimony under oath.” More:

The explosive report by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz details the existence of an open and toxic hostility inside the DOJ toward bringing voting rights cases to protect white victims of discrimination. When Perez testified before the Civil Rights Commission in May 2010, he denied he had ever heard of any such hostility. His testimony was false.

We should know. We detailed this problem to Perez in his office the day before his testimony.

Ouch.

IT’S NOT COMING OUT FOR OVER TWO MONTHS, but the Insta-Wife’s book is already being discussed everywhere from the Harvard Business Review to the Ugandan newspapers.

MAKING PROGRESS TOWARD water-free fracking. But also, a pitch for carbon taxes?

WELL, GOOD: Japan breaks China’s stranglehold on rare metals with sea-mud bonanza. “Japanese scientists have found vast reserves of rare earth metals on the Pacific seabed that can be mined cheaply, a discovery that may break the Chinese monopoly on a crucial raw material needed in hi-tech industries and advanced weapons systems.”

BIGOTRY RUNS RAMPANT: “Many Unitarians would prefer that their polyamory activists keep quiet.”

THE CASE FOR GETTING MARRIED YOUNG. “It can be beneficial to make marriage the cornerstone, rather than the capstone, of your adult life. . . . Interestingly, in a 2009 report, sociologist Mark Regnerus found that much of the pressure to delay marriage comes from parents who encourage their children to finish their education before marrying. One student told him that her parents ‘want my full attention on grades and school.’ But such advice reflects an outdated reality, one in which a college degree was almost a guarantee of a good job that would be held for a lifetime. This is no longer the case. Furthermore, with so many students graduating from college with knee-buckling debt, they have worse than nothing to bring into a marriage. Indeed, prolonged singledom has become a rolling stone, gathering up debt and offspring that, we can be imagine, will manifest themselves in years to come in more broken, or never-realized, marriages.”

UPDATE: Reader Herb Sorenson writes: “I was married at 17, sophomore in college. After 52 years I don’t know if it was THE right thing to do, but it certainly was A right thing to do. 5 Kids, 6 grandkids, and sold my business 6 years ago.” Mazel tov!

ROGER KIMBALL: What Philistinism Looks Like.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, BRIT PUNDITS WOULD MOCK OUR PRESIDENT’S INTERNATIONAL-RELATIONS INEPTITUDE — AND THEY WERE RIGHT! “A geopolitical illiterate in the Oval Office who makes Jimmy Carter resemble Bismarck.”

EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN: The Death of Boris Berezovsky.

REQUEST: PLEASE STOP FIGHTING ABOUT YOUR SMARTPHONE:

Do you like Android? You should, it’s amazing. iOS? Wow, what a great platform, no wonder it started a revolution. Windows Phone? Seriously, it’s got a remarkable and beautiful interface. BlackBerry? There are plenty of great reasons people love it. And no matter which platform you adore, it’s shockingly possible to both have a preference and respect that other people may prefer an entirely different device. I know. Totally weird. But true.

Or, you can just call anyone who expresses a contrary opinion a jerk, or a fanboi, or butthurt, some other un-clever and deeply unoriginal pejorative that ends with the suffix “tard” and ultimately makes you look dumber than the person you’re trying, vainly, to insult.

The phone wars, the platform wars, should be left to people who work for Apple and Samsung and Google and Microsoft and Nokia and BlackBerry. Do you work for Apple? Do you work for Samsung? No? Then shut up.

Nobody cares what kind of smartphone you believe in. It’s not a religion.

It’s more like a sports team, for some.

CONN CARROLL: What The Tea Party Congress Accomplished. “If you look at the hard numbers — if you look at the tax-and-spending trajectory that the United States was on before the 112th Congress was sworn into office, and then look at the path the U.S. is on now — you’d see that Republicans in Congress have made tremendous progress in shrinking the size and scope of the federal government.” Well, it’s a start.