I'M SORRY MR. PRESIDENT, the war room is scrambled during a Code Delta situation.

LATE TO THE PARTY: Gates, apparently having just received last week's talking points, praises Obama's "gutsy call".  Don't let the door hit you…

I'M AL FRANKEN, AND I'M EITHER DISHONEST OR A MORON.  Maybe both.

STUCK ON STUPID: "Facebook was caught red-handed last week being socially unfriendly to Google, its Silicon Valley competitor. It hired a public relations firm to plant negative stories about Google's privacy policies, and then it tried to hide its involvement in the whisper campaign."

LOCAL POLITICIANS ask why cops should have all the fun in the War on Dogs.

BLOGGING WILL BE LIGHT for the next thirty minutes.  I have to take a phone call.

INDEED: Stephen Littau to Hugh Hewitt: "The truth is, I think, you don’t want Cain, Paul, or Johnson in the debates because you are an establishment guy not because they are 1%ers. You don’t want to see any of these men in the debates because they are a threat to the status quo of the Republican Party"

HOW MANY COPS, MACE CANS, AND BATONS DOES it take to bust a sixty year old man for making music in the park? The world may never know.

SIR LATTIMORE BROWN, "THE MOST UNFORTUNATE ARTIST IN THE ANNALS OF SOUL MUSIC," has found peace at last.  After reading his obituary, I'm pretty sure Brown would have been the most unfortunate artist in the annals of blues music.

HEH: Freewalling

DEMOCRACY, WHISKEY, SEXY!  "I will drive myself starting June 17".

CLARKE'S THIRD LAW MEETS MOORE'S LAW?  HP advances next-gen 'memristor' memory technology.  "Memristors were first described in 1971 by a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to that, scientists knew of only three basic circuit elements — the resistor, the capacitor and the inductor. Professor Leon Chua posited that there was a fourth.

Decades later, scientists at HP proved that memristors existed…  although working memristors [have] been built in the labs, scientists didn't know exactly what was happening inside the tiny structures. So while HP was already confident it could commercialize the technology, this discovery will allow it to greatly improve its performance…."

Read the whole thing.

HOW CAN I BE BROKE IF I STILL HAVE CHECKS?  Say, were you going to eat that?

YOU NEVER GET A SECOND CHANCE to make a first impression: Sixth ranked high school shooting guard prospect turns down Duke University because "every time they sent me a letter, they wouldn’t spell my name right.”

UNEXPECTEDLY!  Economists dial back their expectations for US economic growth this year.