RAND PAUL STOMPER FACES CHARGES. Well, good, though it doesn’t seem to live up to the “curb-stomping” claims of early blog reports: “Profitt says he had to use his foot to hold down her head, because he has a bad back. The Lexington police are now investigating Profitt for fourth-degree assault, which is a misdemeanor, not a felony. ” He says he was afraid for Rand Paul’s safety.

BICYCLE HELMETS: Regulation or innovation?

DAUGHTERS SUFFER from sexism against men.

COURTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE: A game of broken telephone.

MEN ARE FROM BACON, women are from cupcakes? “I’m sure I could attract 50 percent of all web traffic by launching a site that’s just pictures of kittens tentatively licking cupcakes.”

I ran this by the Insta-Daughter, who said, “Really? That would be great!”

WHAT’S WRONG with higher education.

NETFLIX: Now the #1 Source Of U.S. Internet Traffic.

SO IS THIS THE HOPE, OR THE CHANGE? Public Optimism in U.S. System of Government Hits a 36-year Low. “Optimism about the system has taken an even bigger hit in this poll, produced for ABC and Yahoo News by Langer Research Associates. Back in 1974 – shortly after Richard Nixon’s resignation in the Watergate scandal – 55 percent of Americans were optimistic about “our system of government and how well it works.” Today, 33 percent say that, the lowest number in nearly a dozen measurements taken across the decades.”

THINGS TO BE THANKFUL FOR: That most terrorists are dumb and inept.

SOME FRUGAL RECIPES from Hillbilly Housewife.

SPACE MEDICINE: Zero-gravity alcohol. “A retired cosmonaut says Russian doctors have sent alcoholic beverages along with spacefliers for years to keep them ‘in tone’ and neutralize tension.”

TALKING ABOUT CARS with the Car Lust guys.

IN JAPAN, a generation of men goes John Galt. Er, or something.

PLUS, THE ROBOT STAYS AWAKE: Balloon filled with ground coffee makes ideal robotic gripper. “Opting for simple elegance, researchers from Cornell University, University of Chicago and iRobot have bypassed traditional designs based around the human hand and fingers, and created a versatile gripper using everyday ground coffee and a latex party balloon.”

Coffee. Is there anything it can’t do?

WOW: If full Senate were up for grabs, GOP would likely win filibuster-proof majority, polls show.

SPACE COLONIES: A gallery of futures past.

10 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW about the Nissan Leaf. I’m feeling kinda testy, as I put down 99 bucks and all I’ve gotten so far is fluffy PR spam.

REASON TV’S PORKER OF THE MONTH: Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

RESEARCH FRAUD? Difficulties in Defining Errors in Case Against Harvard Researcher.

ANN ALTHOUSE ISN’T BUYING THE MOVEON STOMPING STORY:

Are the men in the T-shirts also from Moveon.org? Who were they? There were no arrests and though there was a crowd, no one bothered to have detained these men. Did they just melt back into the night? It’s very convenient that these bad actors were wearing labels identifying them. . . .So her head was on the curb and her neck was stomped, but she will go off and take care of herself? I’m skeptical!

As you should be given recent history.

WITHOUT PROPER TRAINING, RUNNING A MARATHON CAN DAMAGE YOUR HEART. Well, remember what happened to the first guy who ran one.

PERFECTING the common tape measure.

COMING: The End Of The College Textbook As We Know It?

SUSPICIONS OF FRAUD IN NEVADA: “Voter Joyce Ferrara said when they went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, her Democratic opponent, Sen. Harry Reid’s name was already checked. Ferrara said she wasn’t alone in her voting experience. She said her husband and several others voting at the same time all had the same thing happen.”

North Carolina: “Sam Laughinghouse of New Bern said he pushed the button to vote Republican in all races, but the voting machine screen displayed a ballot with all Democrats checked. He cleared the screen and tried again with the same result, he said.”

Related: A pattern of fraud?

And more thoughts from Stephen Green: “It’s going to be a long week when the first two stories you see reflect just how big the ‘margin of cheating’ is going to be this year.”

People need to pay attention. Desperation is going to lead to a lot of corners being cut. Make an example of ’em so they won’t do it again next time.

Also: New ACORN effort is mobilizing voters, run by woman indicted for violating election laws.

UPDATE: Dallas.

Hey, I’ve been pushing paper ballots since 2002 for a reason.

“FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY” in the silver market?