At the G7 summit meeting in Bavaria, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says to President Obama, “I knew I’d find you here. My God, man, what do you do all day?” (Photo: Michael Kappeler/AFP – Getty Images)

Bud’s Round-Up of Daily Drivel:

• Tweet no more: Twitter CEO Costolo is done July 1.  (NBC)
• No worries, take your time…Obama: “We don’t yet have a complete strategy” against ISIS.  (The Hill)
• It was easier playing Cassandra: Meredith Whitney closes her hedge fund.  (MarketWatch)
• New Fox Head: Rupert Murdoch will step down as CEO of 21st Century Fox.  (CNBC)
• The dismantling of a retail icon: Eddie Lampert destroys Sears one quarter at a time, as same store sales (aka “comps”) drop 14.5%.  (Fortune)
• Home-owning 3-headed dog: Hedge fund Cerberus is now among the top ten owners of US homes.  (Bloomberg)
• Better red than losing money: Private equity nabob David Bonderman plans to attend Putin’s Economic Forum against White House wishes.  (NY Post)
• It should have gone bankrupt: GM could face wire fraud charges over ignition switch recall (we covered the recall here).  (WSJ)
• Ma’s gone senile: Alibaba founder Jack Ma, worth over $20 billion, says he was happier making $12 an hour.  (South China Morning Post)
• Bad Egg: A Costco egg farm is rotten.  (NYT)
• Vapor is rising:  One in ten vape.  (Time)
• Bringing a bicycle to a stock car race: Obama to send 450 more troops to Iraq.  (CNN)
• Cut short: Blade runner/murderer Oscar Pistorius to be released after ten months.  (Santa Fe New Mexican)
• Who has the new jobs? Interesting reading.  (ZeroHedge)

“Martin, you’re starting to look better than my wife.” (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Bud’s Round-Up of Daily Drivel:

• Democrat Martin O’Malley: Bill Clinton once predicted he’d “go all the way.”  (Philly.com)
• Big mistake: Airbag defect now the largest auto recall of all time.  (CNN)
• Under Armour under pressure: Company pulls t-shirt designed in style of iconic Iwo Jima photo.  (Marine Corps Times)
• Carl Icahn likes Apple: Septuagenarian investor thinks the stock is worth $240.  (USA Today)
• “I ain’t sayin’ she a gold digger”: 91-year-old Sumner Redstone’s 43-year-old “girlfriend” visualizes her payday.  (NY Post)
• Not Econ 101: LA City Council votes to increase minimum wage to $15.  (Bloomberg)
• Liar, liar, pantsuit on fire: Hillary Clinton’s non-existent credibility takes hits over Benghazi and her second secret email address.  (PowerLine and Breitbart)
• Barack Obama and his Syrian red line: The revisionist history starts before his administration even ends.  (PowerLine)
• Desperately trying to stay relevant: Chris Christie flip-flops on immigration.  (NJ.com)
• The Sharpton apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: The Rev’s daughter sees her laughable lawsuit start to fall apart.  (Free Beacon)
• NFL PAT: The point-after just got more difficult.  (Sporting News)

Federal Reserve’s Janet Yellen:

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Bud’s round-up of Daily Drivel:

• Fed Head or Blockhead? Federal Reserve chair Yellen admits that she met with firm that leaked Fed info.  (Reuters)
• What the Huck? Mike Huckabee is running for president.  (Yahoo)
• Mother Fracker: Greenlight’s David Einhorn denounces US frackers as money losers at the Sohn Investment Conference.  (Fortune)
• Lies, damned lies, and statistics: A jaundiced view of this Friday’s jobs report.  (NY Post)
• Where’s the beef? Investors are not impressed with McDonald’s turnaround plans.  (USA Today)
• Bill-paying Bill: Hillary Clinton’s husband demonstrates that he probably won’t be much help on the campaign trail.  (Breitbart)
• Socialism 1, baseball 0: MLB talent scouts are pulling up stakes in Venezuela.  (PowerLine)
• ¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo! That’s Spanish for “Have another Margarita.” Here’s why the US celebrates.  (USA Today)

Wednesday’s Orioles-White Sox contest will be the first game closed to the public in MLB history. (Photo: Kate Drabinski)

Bud’s Round-up of Daily Drivel:

• Twitter tank: Twitter shares drop 18% after leak of disappointing quarterly numbers.  (NBC)
• 1Q GDP released tomorrow:  Atlanta Federal Reserve’s first quarter estimate now at 0.1%…that’s an annual rate.  (frbatlanta.org)
• Not a sellout: On Wednesday, the Orioles and White Sox will play in an empty stadium.  (USA Today)
• Persian Power Play: Iran boards Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship; US sends destroyer to Gulf.  (NYT)
• Battery boost: Tesla Motors’ stock advances ahead of Thursday’s unveiling of house-powering batteries.  (Bloomberg)
• F you: Exasperated Texas A&M professor flunks his entire class.  (CNN)
• The Mom-inator: Balitmore mother caught on video hitting son who rioted.  (CBS)

Rules are for the little people: Truth-handicapped Hillary Clinton, clad in garish pink jacket, stands next to her “Scooby Van,” conveniently parked in a spot for the disabled.

Bud’s Round-up of Daily Drivel:

• Riddle me this: A brain teaser from Singapore goes viral.  (NYT)
• Bullish on Netflix: FBR analyst sets $900 price target.  (Barron’s)
• Three go public: Etsy, Party City, Virtu are off and running.  (IBD)
• Goggle is Euro-trashed: European Union charges Google with favoring its own businesses in web searches.  (Reuters)
• Cheaters go public: Valuing itself at $1 billion, adultery site Ashley Madison plans London IPO.  (NBC)
• “Helicopter” Ben moves on: Former Fed head Bernanke joins hedge fund Citadel.  (Reuters)
• Citadel cont’d: Trader who lost $1 billion leaves firm.  (Bloomberg)
• Your government at work: TSA groping is SOP.  (Time)
• Hillary misremembers (again): All my grandparents were immigrants…one in four, actually.  (CNN)
• Cuba Libre: Obama removes Fidel from terror list while Cuban-backed FARC kills 10 Columbian soldiers.  (PowerLineBlog)
• Iran gets protection: Russia prepares to sell air defense-system to Iran.  (Reuters)
• “Gyrocopter” for sale:  About $20K for one that looks like the White House crash-lander.  (aviomania)

Hurry, journalist, run, run! Hillary’s server might be in the Scooby Van. (Note well: Reporters outnumber voters in the above video.)

Bud’s Round-up of Daily Drivel:

• Yes, it’s tax time: How much does each quintile pay?  (TaxProfBlog)
• Tough talk from the big man:  Chris Christie proposes higher retirement ages and means-testing for Social Security.  (MarketWatch)
• Old dog, old tricks: Hillary Clinton’s “Scooby Van” is recycled from her 2000 Senatorial campaign.  (USA Today)
• At JPMorgan Chase, big brother is watching you.  (NY Post)
• Powerless? Contemptible “Doonesbury” cartoonist needs a vocabulary lesson for starters.  (NY Post)
• The future is here: Drone crashes and burns while making asparagus delivery to restaurant.  (Int’l Business Times)
• Tiger’s tall tale: Woods claims he reset dislocated wrist bone during Masters play.  (sbnation.com)

There’s BC, there’s AD, and then there’s BP, that is, “before the pantsuit.”  (Photo: http://www.powerlineblog.com/)

Bud’s Round-up of Daily Drivel

• Secret Service strikes again: Secret Service and DEA agents busted in bitcoin scam.  (NY Times)
• Ben Bernanke blog posting: Why are interest rates so low?  (Brookings Institute)
• American Mystery Story: Consumers aren’t spending even in a booming job market.  (Bloomberg)
• One, two…what difference does it make? Hillary Clinton used two devices to send emails while Secretary of State.  (AP)
• Troubling Twitter trail: Daily Show’s new host is on the hot seat.  (Salon)
• Toothless Tiger: Tiger Woods drops out of the top 100.  (Yahoo Sports)
• Phony falconry: NFL fines Atlanta $350K for piping in artificial noise at home games.  (Fox Sports)

Ford’s Nanny State Car will help you obey the speed limit. (Photo: etc.usf.edu)

Bud’s Round-up of Daily Drivel

• Slow down: New Ford car obeys speed limit for you.  (CNN)
• AWOL: Bowe Bergdahl, once missing U.S. soldier, charged with desertion.  (WaPo)
• Ivy ISIS: Cornell U assistant dean says OK to ISIS training camp for students.  (NY Post)
• Channeling Joe Namath: West Virginia’s Daxter Miles predicts upset over Kentucky.  (ESPN)

Bud’s Round-up of Daily Drivel:

• New lease on life: Herbalife shares up over 40% this month.  (USA Today)
• Swing and a miss: Time Warner Cable to take $1 billion write-down on LA Dodgers television deal.  (TV Week)
• Keystone Cops: US spied on Israel, who was spying on US and giving info to…US Congress!  (WSJ)
• Tapped out: Greece to run out of cash by April 20.  (Reuters)
• Just the normal noises: Iran’s supreme leader chants, “Death to America,” as nuclear pact looms.  (NY Post)
• Cruzin to the primaries: Ted Cruz is first to declare his candidacy for president.  (NYT)
• Just coffee, please: Starbucks modifies its racial awareness campaign.  (Washington Post)
• Plea bargains for former NFL player: Darren Sharper avoids possible life sentence by taking deals in four states.  (NBC)
• Little Leaguer is the bigger person: Mo’ne Davis asks college to reinstate player who insulted her.  (NPR)
• Wildcat revenge: Crying “Villanova Piccolo Girl” plays with The Roots, Jimmy Fallon’s band.  (Bleacher Report)

Canada Bill picks UVa.

Bud’s Round-up of Daily Drivel:

• Your tuition dollars at work: Penn State associate professor of sociology is arrested for bizarre, disorderly conduct aboard Nicaragua-Miami flight.  (Washington Post)
• Schocking fall from grace: Republican Congressman Aaron Schock of Illinois will resign amid questions about his spending.  (Bloomberg)
• Blame it on the weather: Housing starts fall 17% in February to lowest level in a year.  (Forbes)
• Enemy within: US Air Force vet charged with trying to support ISIS.  (Reuters)
• Bibi’s back: Netanyahu reelected.  (AP)
• WMT breaking bad: Meth lab found in Muncie, Indiana WalMart bathroom.  (NY Daily News)
• Using his head: 49ers LB Chris Borland, 24, retires over head injury worries.  (FoxSports)