PAYBACK? Snooki complains about tanning tax, gets arrested the next day. Coincidence? Of course. Don’t even joke about the alternative.

PRINCE CHARLES believes he has been sent to save the world. Uh huh.

AT AMAZON, markdowns on electronics.

TEA PARTY TO PEGGY NOONAN: It’s not “rage,” but disgust.

EDDIE MUNSTER finds true love.

KINDLE WI-FI: Has Amazon Won The E-Reader War? Despite the price cut on the new Kindle, I think there’s a long way to go before that war’s over.

SCOTT JOHNSON: Whatever happened to the Constitution?

YUM: Lamb Burgers With Mint Sauce.

CHANGE: Dems, GOP Vie to be First to Repeal ObamaCare’s 1099 Small Business Reporting Rule.

PANICKING OVER phytoplankton.

THEY HEAR, BUT WILL THEY LISTEN? My Popular Mechanics piece on photographers’ rights got quoted in the Homeland Security weekly newsletter. I hope it’ll get some attention.

STEPHEN KRUISER: I Don’t Give A Damn About Chelsea Clinton’s Wedding.

REASON TV: Experimental Economist Bart Wilson on the Meaning of “Fair.”

WHAT EVERY LAWN NEEDS: A Garden Zombie. (Link via Rand Simberg, who will never be allowed near my flower beds . . . )

BECOMING A LAW PROFESSOR: A Candidate’s Guide. (Bumped).

CLAUDIA ROSETT: Where In The World Is Imam Feisal?

FASTER, PLEASE: In the Future, We’ll All Wear Clothes Made by 3D Printers.

IN THE MAIL: Darkling Fields of Arvon.

DAN MITCHELL: Peter Ferrara’s Too-Nice Attack on Phony Washington Budget Deals.

NEW YORK PRESS SHOCKER: Spencer Wilking Finds That New York’s Tea Partiers Aren’t The Bigoted White Guys You Fear.

MEA CULPA: Anderson Cooper Says He Was Wrong to Let Shirley Sherrod Smear of Andrew Breitbart Go Unchallenged. “Cooper now says he should have challenged Sherrod to support such an inflammatory charge with facts: ‘I believe in admitting my mistakes….I didn’t challenge her that night and I should have.'” Why didn’t he, then? Was he afraid to challenge a black woman talking about racism? Well, at least his learned his lesson, as have many. It was a teachable moment on race, I guess, just like the President wanted. . . .

UPDATE: A Reminder from Prof. Jacobson: The Original Sherrod Clip Was Not “False.” “The clip itself was what it was. No one is claiming that the words were changed or edited within the time span shown on the clip. The original Sherrod clip was no worse, and in many ways much more fair, than the clips and words taken out of context that we see every day at Democratic media machines.”

KING BANAIAN: Underneaths The GDP Report. “I was more surprised by the reported savings rate of 6.2% than any other number. An economy that is showing vigorous growth and high optimism would have a rate moving lower. But of course sentiment is down to pre-2010 levels, and consumers appear to have decided to continue the repair of their balance sheets instead.”

JOHN KERRY AND YACHTGATE: “He’s apologizing for getting caught.”

MORE ON JOURNOLIST as a media self-herding device. “Certainly Journolist wasn’t an institution where you got career points for being contrarian. Quite the opposite.” Nope, it was a place for good party discipline, those who were happy to enforce it, and those who were happy to submit to it.

Sounds like Ann Althouse was right. “Remember the liberal meme that George Bush was ‘incurious’? But aren’t these liberal journalists incurious? They had this email list that was designed — apparently — to figure out how to structure the various news stories to serve the interests of their party. The Journolist was a self-herding device. They wanted to be good cogs in a machine that would generate power for the Democratic Party, didn’t they? For career and social rewards? That’s my hypothesis.”

UPDATE: Reader Randy Miller writes: “It seems as though Journolist’s Blowhard Preventer….Failed!” Heh.

WORST BIKINI TOP ever? I’m at the beach, and so far I haven’t seen anything like this. But at least they don’t make a men’s Speedo on the same theme. . . .