Mock draft (without trades). I expect several teams to move up and down in the first round. However, for the purposes of this mock, I’ll just pretend that won’t happen. Feedback welcome.

Never talk about never talking about Fight Club, lest somebody figures out that all your talk about not talking about Fight Club proves that there is, in fact, a Fight Club. No cups / bras. You can slap, but only if the slap is accompanied by the interjection, “You are sooo not fabulous!” “The third rule of Fight Club is no salty foods. BECAUSE OF THE (POTENTIAL FOR) HEART DISEASE!”

Is it me, or does it seem like many “attacks” on “liberals” these days are coming not exclusively from bitter clinging Jesusfluffers, as the left would have you believe (and mark my words: this administration is looking for better ways to silence the opposition, now that the cries of “racism” and “hate” have become diluted by overuse and so have lost much of their power), but rather from libertarians and

— to which protein wisdom confidently responds, “Oh, I rather think such a name change highly unlikely at this point, what with all the money we’ve spent printing forms and such. “Although I will concede that, from so ridiculous a premise, Mr Rahn does manage to make some nice points…”

I leave very early in the morning Friday (more like late tonight, if you’re a bar or club dweller) to head off to Chicago. I’ll be there until Monday. Looks like we’re going to have a meet-up with a few folks who can make it tomorrow night — likely at a place called Emmett’s on Milwaukee Ave. We’ll also be going out to dinner somewhere on Sunday evening. If you’d

Heartening? Or self-defeating. Depends on whether or not your are an OUTLAW or a “pragmatist”, I guess. From the Hill: The Tea Party is hosting a Tax Day rally on Thursday in Washington, but the Republicans leaders in the House and Senate are not invited. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.), House Minority Leader John Boehner (Ohio) and House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.)

Just another example of our President treating our allies shabbily, while rushing to coddle our enemies in the misguided notion that they will respond to anything other than absolute strength, both militarily, of conviction, and of will. (h/t Bob Reed)

The Washington Examiner’s Chris Stirewalt: […] there’s no doubt that hating the government and the powerful interests that pull Washington’s strings has gone from the radical precincts of the Right and Left to the mainstream. It turns out that watching Goldman Sachs, the United Auto Workers, public employee unions and a raft of other vampires drain the treasury at America’s weakest moment in a generation will make a person pretty

Dana Milbank, Washington Post: World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow. They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-wearing military police in Humvees and enough Army vehicles to make it look like a May Day parade on New York Avenue, where a bicyclist was killed Monday by