WANT A DOCTOR WHO MAKES HOUSE CALLS? Look on Helen’s Page.

HELP A BLOGGER OUT: Embattled Canadian Blogger Blazing Cat Fur Needs Help. I donated. (The donation button is on the right, under the cat.)

REMEMBERING Yale’s Profits From The Slave Trade.

WHAT EVERY BLOGGER NEEDS: The Wheelmate Laptop Steering-Wheel Desk.

BEN SMITH: Obama Prepares To Screw His Base: Young people re-elected the president. Now they get to pay disproportionately for ObamaCare. “The near-total silence on this issue is a mark of a class that is either utterly selfless (hard to believe, honestly) or, as usual, singularly bad at seeing and defending its interests.” Hey, rubes!

AT AMAZON, it’s the Sports & Outdoors Outlet Sale.

SKEETER PRESIDENT: Mock on, Americans!

LESSONS FROM THE EARLY INSTAPUNDIT: Maybe the GOP should try playing the Do you trust Congress? card again. . . .

ANDREW KLAVAN: The Truth About Dorner: Leftism Is Violence. “Haven’t you noticed this? The American left is always waxing hysterical about right-wing violence and the true violence always comes from the American left. The American news media cry out in horror at peaceful Tea Party demonstrations and look the other way when Occupy Wall Streeters commit vandalism, rape, and even murder. The media try to pin any political assassination attempt on conservatives; yet almost all American political assassinations are committed by the left. . . . Leftism requires this illegitimate use of force — this use of violence — because free individuals simply will not do what leftists, in their wisdom, have decided is right and good.”

COMING IN MARCH: A Possible Naked-Eye Comet. But: “Prepare to be surprised. A new comet from the Oort Cloud is always an unknown quantity equally capable of spectacular displays or dismal failures.”

MUST-SEE TV: Ralph Raico On The Industrial Revolution.

HMM: David Petraeus was brought down after betrayal by vengeful CIA agents and his own bodyguards who made sure his affair was exposed, claims new book. “The book also claims that Petraeus and Ambassador Chris Stevens were caught off guard by Benghazi consulate attack because they weren’t briefed about on-going U.S. military operations in Libya. Webb and Murphy say Benghazi attack was a retaliation for secret raids authorized by Obama security adviser John Brennan.”

WELL, ANYTIME BENGHAZI COMES UP, FOR SURE: When Is It Okay To Lie?

THESE ARE THE END TIMES: Maker’s Mark To Start Watering Down Its Bourbon.

A REAL-LIFE VAMPIRE? WELL, SORT OF. Turkish Man Addicted To Drinking Blood. “The man’s been arrested several times for biting and stabbing others solely to collect their blood. And get this: He also had his father get him bags of blood from blood banks. Um, hey dad, THIS ISN’T NORMAL.”

TRUST: Marines in inaugural parade had bolts removed from their rifles.

But according to the comments here, this isn’t new.

CURING A HANGOVER with a Rehydration I.V.

OBAMA’S OFA MISSING — OR LYING ABOUT — DISTINCTION BETWEEN SEMIAUTOMATIC RIFLES AND MACHINE GUNS.

VIDEO FROM BRYAN PRESTON AT THE DALLAS SCI-FI EXPO: Meet the Unholy Spawn of Disney + Lucasfilm. “I call it…MickeyDeadMau5Trooper.”

ART: Flying-Car Photos Imagine the Future We Were All Promised.

AT AMAZON, Warehouse Deals in Video Games.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Americans Are Tapping Into Home Equity Again. I hate the phrase “tapping into home equity.” You’re not tapping into anything. You’re borrowing against home equity.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Chinese Relatives Pressuring You to Marry? Try a Rent-a-Boyfriend.

“I’m pretty old – I’m almost 30 – but I’m still single,” Ding Na, a young woman from northeast China who lives in Beijing, explained to the BBC. “I’m under a lot of pressure. My sisters and relatives all ask me why I’m not married.” For many women under that kind of pressure, an answer can be found on China’s online marketplace, Taobao. . . . The fake boyfriend (or commonly, fake girlfriend) trend is a result of the clash between old and new traditions, Hu Xingdou, a social commentator at the Beijing Institute of Technology, told The Guardian. The pressures of modern urban life make it difficult for young people to meet partners, but their parents still expect them to marry in their early or mid twenties.

See, it’s not just in America.

DONATED BLOOD THURSDAY at the Law School blood drive. Some of my students gave, too, but quite a few complained that they’re ineligible because of having lived in Europe. Given that the blood folks are always calling me saying they’re desperately short of blood, I wonder if the standards are too strict.

But then, I’ve been wondering that since the very earliest days of InstaPundit. And as I said then: “In the meantime, I’ll be donating blood more often. If you can, you should too.” It may also lower your risk of heart attack and stroke.

AT AMAZON, $1.99 Harlequin romances on Kindle. Today only.