20TH CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: 1950s Instructional Video: Is Your Sweetheart Cheating On You?

THOMAS SOWELL: The Tea Party Is Right On Policy, But Shouldn’t Be Attacking The GOP.

JOURNALISM: “Crisis coverage has gotten so gruesome, viewers don’t have to wait for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to skewer it. It parodies itself.”

CHINA’S CHANGING OIL CALCULUS. “A major advantage of obtaining oil from Siberia and Central Asia is that it could travel to China overland—and thus beyond the reach of U.S. naval power.”

THEY CAN’T EVEN KEEP UP WITH THE FAST AND FURIOUS GUNS OF THE PAST. Peter Huber: Our Backwards Government Can’t Keep Up With the Fast and Furious Germs of the Future.

AT AMAZON, TV Deal Of The Week: The West Wing, Complete Series, 75% off. Fun to compare this fantasy Dem presidency from the Bush era with the train-wreck reality of the Obama era.

Also, pre-Black Friday deals in Musical Instruments.

ARE DIET AND EXERCISE APPS GOOD FOR YOU? I still use Livestrong to count calories and exercise, and I like it.

WAIT, I THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Pregnant moms who drink wine may be healthier in other ways: study.

FIXING OBAMACARE: The Federal Charter Solution.

Related: CNN’s Dana Bash: Friday ‘De Facto Deadline’ Before Dems ‘Defy’ Obama, Back GOP’s Obamacare Fixes.

UPDATE: First link should now be working.

VERILY: Sexual Violence In Egypt: Why And Where To Go From Here. “It may be hard to believe, but Egyptian streets were filled with miniskirts in the 1960s.” So were Afghan streets. That’s when the West confidently projected Western values.

THIS HAS TO BE A PARODY. Doesn’t it? Though after the dumb “BroSurance” kegstand ad, who knows? From BroSurance to HoSurance is a short step.

UPDATE: Nope, not a parody. Er, except in a larger sense, anyway.

21ST CENTURY WORKPLACES: Gallup: Both men and women prefer a male boss.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Nobel Prize Winner, Independent UK newspaper, and George Church are pretty much saying that we sit on the cusp of the true Transhuman age with radical life extension and regeneration.

DRIVERLESS CARS are further away than you think. Well, the semi-autonomous technologies have advanced faster than I expected. But the last step is a doozy.

READER BOOK PLUG: From reader Robert Waters: American Labor’s Global Ambassadors: The International History of the AFL-CIO during the Cold War.

GOING FISHING on other planets.

HOW HEALTH CARE WORKS: An Innovation In Bladder Control. “That doesn’t sound particularly romantic, but if scientists can make it work, this will be a major health-care advance.”

SHOCKER: Texas Voter ID Law Didn’t Suppress Vote. “If voter ID was intended to suppress votes, it is failing as spectacularly as HealthCare.gov.” Okay, maybe not that spectacularly.

MICHAEL WALSH: The Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party, Gangland, the Chief Justice and the Patient Deflection and Unaffordable Care Act.

IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, Ellen Podgor on the overcriminalization of business behavior.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Public University’s Plaque Labels President Lincoln A Democrat. The revision never stops.

RICHARD EPSTEIN: An Unconstitutional Bonanza: The government has seized billions of dollars from Fannie and Freddie’s private shareholders.

MEDICAID FOR AL QAEDA? Obamacare Flaw Allows Anyone on Earth To Fraudulently Enroll Through Healthcare.gov.

HOPEY-CHANGEY: USA Today: ObamaCare Options Grim For Young People.