RICK UNGAR: When Good Networks Go Bad: The Demise Of MSNBC. The tipping point, of course, was when I left my MSNBC gig. Sorry guys, but it was just time to move on . . . .

LOOKING AT SECULAR SEX ABUSE. What, you mean that stuff happens outside of churches? Who knew?

MICKEY KAUS: “It’s getting highly annoying to hear Obama and Senate Democrats pretend that to have effective border control we have to take a package deal that includes amnesty. They’re worse than the cable company when it comes to package deals.”

CHRIS DODD TALKS TRANSPARENCY, DWELLS IN SECRECY.

GAYS UNDER THE BUS on Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. “Tiretracks all across your back — I can see you’ve had your fun!”

FUEL ON THE FIRE: Arizona deputy shot with AK-47 by suspected illegal immigrant.

IRAN TRYING TO STIR UP TERRORISM IN MOROCCO.

“WE ARE HAPPY TO SERVE YOU:” Designer of New York’s “Greek coffee cup” has died.

UPDATE: A reader emails that there’s a ceramic version.

RETRO-COMMERCIAL FUN: Steve Wozniak pitches the 280ZX.

HMM: OBAMA INTERVIEWS MONTANAN FOR SUPREME COURT. “President Barack Obama on Thursday interviewed federal appeals court Judge Sidney Thomas of Montana for an opening on the Supreme Court, a person familiar with the conversation told The Associated Press.”

And it looks like Obama may be taking my diversity advice: “The court is dominated by justices with ties to the Northeast and the Ivy League; Thomas’ career is rooted in the West — he lives in Billings, Mont., and got his bachelor’s degree from Montana State University and his law degree from the University of Montana.”

UPDATE: Reader E.L. Core writes: “Mainstream media treated Sarah Palin’s degree from the University of Idaho as an indication of her inferiority to Ivy League graduates: she couldn’t hack it in the big leagues. Think they’ll do the same with a graduate of the University of Montana if Obama nominates him to the Supreme Court? (Yes, that’s a rhetorical question.)” Yes, it is.

10 WAYS TO BECOME A FAMOUS BLOGGER. The “famous” part is kind of overrated. . . .

HE KNOWS IF JEW’VE BEEN BAD OR GOOD: Mearsheimer makes a list.

UPDATE: Noah Pollak emails a followup:

Imagine, as a thought experiment, if a white American professor gave a speech to an organization in Washington and listed, by name, “good blacks” and “bad blacks” — and added that the bad blacks aren’t just wrong, but are blindly loyal to a foreign country. That professor would be out of a job in about five minutes. Mearsheimer will get away with this.

The limit of acceptable anti-semitism has been climbing for a while, and it’s been kicked up a few notches under the current regime.

UPDATE: More on Mearsheimer. “Mearsheimer, ironically, has become the mirror image of the stereotypical pro-lsrael ‘lobbyist’ he decries. One-sided, obsessed with Israel-bashing, willing to sacrifice scholarly standards and honesty to promote his political agenda, and willfully blind to the faults of the side he supports.”

PALIN HACKER FOUND GUILTY. “A federal jury this afternoon convicted Sarah Palin e-mail intruder David C. Kernell of felony destruction of records to hamper a federal investigation and misdemeanor unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer.”

AT AMAZON, it’s the Friday Sale.

AT REASON TV, April’s Nanny Of The Month: Anti-Flag N.C. Cop Scott Hunter.

MARK LEVIN: “Why did it take President Obama 8 days to do anything regarding the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?”

A NEW CLASS OF non-addictive painkillers.

MAKING PLASTIC from Algae?

NICOLE GELINAS: Beware Of The Muni Bond Bubble: States And Cities Can Fail As Well.

MORE PROOF OF THE UNITED NATIONS’ CHARACTER: United Nations Names Iran to Commission on the Status of Women. Note the photos demonstrating the depth of Iran’s concern.

GDP GROWTH DROPS — UNEXPECTEDLY: “In January, Barack Obama and Democrats insisted that the 5.7% annual growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2009 showed that their stimulus plan had set the American economy back on track for rapid growth and job creation. The administration needed a big number for 2010 to allay fears that unemployment would stagnate at the current high levels for the long term. Unfortunately, they didn’t get it, with the 3.2% annualized GDP rate for the first quarter of 2010 falling below analyst expectations.”

Plus this: “Capital will not flow back into the market under the conditions set by the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress over the last fifteen months. Instead, it will most likely flow overseas, in markets more friendly to capital investment, where the nation’s executive doesn’t offer off-the-cuff remarks about people making too much money.”

EXPLAINING PORN to Thomas Frank.

MEGAN MCARDLE: End Game In Greece. “There is no longer any realistic possibility that Greece will be able to soothe debt markets with the mere possibility of assistance, bringing its interest payments down to a level where the country can reasonably (or even maniacally) hope to austerity-package its way out of this crisis.”

NEXT-GEN CAR-SHARING IDEA: You rent your car to a complete stranger. One problem: “Known as personal car sharing or distributed car sharing, the concept is very intriguing… and runs somewhat contrary to how many people view their cars.”

UBIQUITOUS VIDEO CAMERA UPDATE: Reader Tyson Stanek emails that they knocked 20 bucks off the price of the waterproof Kodak Playsport videocam that I mentioned earlier, making it a pretty good deal at $129 with included HDMI cable and memory card. These small videocams certainly have played an important role in the Tea Party movement, etc., so far.