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21ST CENTURY PARENTING: Why I’m Bringing My Son To Bowl For Abortion.

WELL, THAT WAS FAST: Feds Arrest Paul Kevin Curtis for Allegedly Sending Ricin-Laced Letters Signed ‘KC.’

Federal agents took a man from Corinth, Mississippi into custody on Wednesday evening under suspicion of sending letters covered in ricin to the president and Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker. Citing an FBI bulletin, NBC News reports that the suspect’s name is Paul Kevin Curtis, and anyone who’s been following the story will immediately realize that the suspect’s initials match those in the sign-off on both letters: “I am KC and I approve this message.” Both letters also contain the phrase “to see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance,” and both were sent from Memphis, Tennessee on April 8, 2013. Open and shut case right? We’ll see. It’s so far unclear if there’s a harmful amount of ricin on the letters. To give the suspect the benefit of the doubt, one federal official told NBC News that the sender of the letters “may have stumbled onto something.”

Hmm. Well, stay tuned. In light of this story, I’m tempted to either make a CNN joke, or a Sunshine Band joke, but will resist.

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WHY CENTRAL BANKERS will eventually be tempted to inflate. “No central bank will admit it is keeping rates low to help governments out of their debt crises. But in fact they are bending over backwards to help governments to finance their deficits.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Some drinking tied to longer life post-breast cancer. “Women with breast cancer who had a few alcoholic drinks per week before their diagnosis were slightly less likely to die from their cancer, according to a study that followed newly-diagnosed patients for 11 years, on average. Moderate drinking before and after a breast cancer diagnosis was also tied to better heart health and fewer deaths from non-cancer causes, the study team found.”

Sit in the sun and drink a glass of red wine. It’s good for you!

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Girl Talk: My Queerness Includes Men & That’s OK. “At the end, I cried, but not out of sadness or frustration. It was out of awareness that, again, I was enjoying sex with men, and there was nothing wrong with that.”

OUCH: “Well, at least now Obama can pivot to the economy.”

IT’S A BAD DAY FOR OBAMA (CONT’D): Alleged McConnell Bugger Visited White House. “The head of a group accused of illegally taping private meetings of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s campaign visited the White House days before the group’s twitter account began actively attacking the Kentucky Republican, according to White House visitors logs.”

Could this explain why McConnell turned more hostile over the White House’s gun control effort?

IT’S A BAD DAY FOR OBAMA: “CBS News has learned that previously unknown whistleblowers on #Benghazi are now speaking to Congressional investigators.”

NOT CONFIDENCE-INSPIRING: FBI Press Conference At Boston Courthouse Cancelled Due To Bomb Threat.

JEFF GOLDSTEIN ON the difference between leftish and rightish bloggers.

A BAD DAY FOR THE NEWS MEDIA: Ed Driscoll: Breaking And Unbreaking The News.

NOT EVEN CLOSE: The Hill: Gun Bill Fails In Bipartisan Vote: “The Senate delivered a devastating blow to President Obama’s agenda to regulate guns Wednesday by defeating a bipartisan proposal to expand background checks. It failed by a vote of 54 to 46, with 5 Democrats voting against it. Only 4 Republicans supported it. . . . What appeared to be a likely victory for Obama was resoundingly defeated by the Senate as jittery Democrats facing tough re-elections next year joined nearly the entire Republican conference.”

All the shameless emotional bullying — political necromancy, really — failed. The President should be ashamed to have engaged in it, but, well, it was shameless. This is, if possible, an even bigger fail for the traditional media, who thought they could push this through on the bodies of dead kids. Apparently, that stuff doesn’t work as well as it used to — at least when, as in this case, the media abandons any sense of subtlety.

Question: Is this the kind of potency-ending debacle that Bush’s Social Security Reform defeat was in 2005?

UPDATE: National Journal: At Pivotal Point in Presidency, Obama Routed on Gun Control. “This is an unmitigated disaster.”

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: How Do I Tell My Husband I’d Like To Be With A Woman?

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NEXT GENERATION TV: Three Parallels: Allen West on the Boston Marathon Bombing.

MOORE’S LAW and the origins of life.

TODAY’S ECONOMY: Silicon Valley’s other entrepreneurs: Sex workers. “It’s no surprise that a region where a sizable population is flush with cash has a thriving adult services industry. What’s more intriguing is how those in the industry are using both the tools and the language of the area’s tech startups to build their businesses — and to try to change the public perception of their work.”

COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: The Folly Of Cooking Pizza At Home: “Yes, you can get a kettle grill and then add the KettlePizza attachment and use it in combination with a pizza steel for what’s apparently the best at-home pizza solution yet. But why bother? Pizza is just a great instance of a complicated modern economy in action, and the best way to enjoy pizza is to purchase it from a specialized pizza fabrication facility.”

Hmm. This kind of reminds me of the Neal Stephenson point I made a while back. Also, the Pizzazz Pizza Oven.

HEY, WHEN I WAS A KID, WE HAD 9 PLANETS IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM: What Happened to My Brontosaurus? The scaly, dimwitted monsters of our childhood have been killed off by fluffy, feathered, sprightly dinosaurs.

REPORT: Boston Bombing Suspect Arrested.

UPDATE: NBC now saying no. Stay tuned.

ANOTHER UPDATE: CNN walks back. Confusion reigns.

MORE: A major media malfunction. And yet journalists put down bloggers?

SCIENCE: Having More Sex Makes People Happy. But it’s not just more sex, it’s more sex than others. “People are generally happy when they have more sex, but thinking that they are having more sex than other people makes them even happier. That’s the finding of Tim Wadsworth, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, who studied how sexual frequency corresponds with happiness. Using national survey data and statistical analyses, Wadsworth found that people reported steadily higher levels of happiness as they reported steadily higher sexual frequency. But he also found that even after controlling for their own, people who believed they were having less sex than their peers were unhappier than those who believed they were having as much or more than their peers.”

BEER IS PROOF THAT GOD LOVES US AND WANTS US TO BE HAPPY: Our bodies anticipate the effects of beer, releasing euphoric signals even before alcohol gets into our blood.