Noah Charney of The Secret History of Art is excerpting a short, accessible overview of Leonardo. Part one delivers some biographical background. Part two explains his artistic significance. If you'd like a quick and dirty overview better grounded in reality than the usual noisy treatments, here's your chance!

We would like to think that the Third Circuit's recent sage decisions are due in no small part to our diligent and forceful coverage of the issues.

Yep.  That's what we'd like to think.

…  do you, Senator McCain.

Really, Santorum?  Really?

SECURITY THEATER isn't the only option!  There's also Wile E. Coyote and Roadrunner….

(ACME schematics via Bruce Schneier)

HOPE AND SAME: "During his presidential campaign, Obama repeatedly said he would call off the Drug Enforcement Administration’s raids on both medical marijuana users and their suppliers…. Two weeks after Obama took office, a White House spokesman reiterated that position…. Yet the DEA’s medical marijuana raids not only have continued but are more frequent under Obama than they were under George W. Bush."  There's an expiration date on everything Obama says.

DON'T BOGART or we'll search the joint.

AT ETSY, it's the Distribution Plushy collection.  Who doesn't need a plush Poisson distribution?

DON'T TELL ALTHOUSE: A perfect storm of art, sex, polls, and dubious methodology at Muhlenberg College.

IN THE MAIL: Why Cats Paint.

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, the government would start hawking annual lease sales in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve… and they were right!

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…

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."

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"

HEH: Freewalling

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