NOTHING CREEPY HERE: ‘You are good, Barack Obama’: Video shows little boy praying to the president.

No, it’s not this video.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Washington U. Dean Syverud Tells ABA Task Force: Law Profs, Deans Are Paid Too Much; 50% Pay Cut Would Solve Problem.

Deans go first. . . .

FAMILY LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: Parenting Pitfalls: When Your Kids Just Won’t Leave Home.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: My Fiancé’s Mother Still Pays His Bills.

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TAKE BACK YOUR PREGNANCY: Most of the rules they’re giving you are dumb and unnecessarily rigid. “This problem is partially surmountable with better data, and I found that the best studies often painted a picture different from the official recommendations. Actually getting the numbers led me to a more relaxed place—a glass of wine every now and then, plenty of coffee, exercise when I wanted it.”

ANOTHER REASON TO MINIMIZE CARBS? High Blood Sugar Linked to Dementia. “Now comes a novel observational study of patients at a large health care system in Washington State showing that higher blood glucose levels are associated with a greater risk of dementia — even among people who don’t have diabetes.”

NOBODY TELL JENNY MCCARTHY: TV Footage Shows Some Of The First Polio Shots Given In The U.S.

MICHAEL TOTTEN: Can Beirut Be Paris Again? Freed from Syrian domination, Lebanon’s capital could shine.

CIVIL RIGHTS: Jesse Jackson on white boy bus beating: ‘It’s hard to make a comparison.’

AFFORDABLE LUXURY IN ANONYMOUS PACKAGING: Test-driving the 2014 Hyundai Equus.

READER BOOK PLUG: From reader Jonathan Lesser, A Graves Undertaking.

FROM HONDA, an effort to save America’s Drive-Ins. “America’s drive-in movie theaters are on the brink of extinction. At their peak in the 1950s and ’60s, the country boasted over 4000 of the open-air cinemas. Today there are 368, and these holdovers from the analog era are in trouble. The problem, as illustrated in this excellent L.A. Times piece, is that most of them still use traditional film projectors. Hollywood, whose fortunes were built on celluloid, is getting ready to stop distributing film prints altogether after this year. Digital projection is now the norm.” Honda is trying to help.

GREEN SAFETY: Tesla Model S scores five stars in NHTSA crash tests [w/video].

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Faculty Layoffs: Is Florida Coastal the Canary in the Law School Coal Mine?

GEORGE SCHULTZ: A Better Energy Future.

I FAVOR THIS POLICY. NOT SURE ABOUT IMPLEMENTING IT VIA EXECUTIVE FIAT: Justice Dept. Seeks to Curtail Stiff Drug Sentences. “In a major shift in criminal justice policy, the Obama administration will move on Monday to ease overcrowding in federal prisons by ordering prosecutors to omit listing quantities of illegal substances in indictments for low-level drug cases, sidestepping federal laws that impose strict mandatory minimum sentences for drug-related offenses.” On the other hand, prosecutors have a lot of discretion. But can you validly indict somebody for possessing an illegal substance without saying how much? I guess so. . . .

The other question: What took them so long to address this problem, which I’ve been blogging about for years? Here’s a hint: “The policy changes appear to be part of Mr. Holder’s effort, before he eventually steps down, to bolster his image and legacy. Turmoil over the Congressional investigation into the botched Operation Fast and Furious gun trafficking case ensnared him in the Obama administration’s first term, and more recently, controversy has flared over the department’s aggressive tactics in leak investigations.”

By the way, Fast and Furious wasn’t “botched,” except to the extent that they got caught.

UPDATE: Related: Obama DOJ Also to Back Mandatory Minimum Reform Bill “Similar” to Rand Paul’s.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Well, there’s a change: Holder’s Mandatory Minimum Announcement Finally Uses Executive Power To Expand Liberty. If I were President, I could think of a lot more places to do that. . . .

MORE: Congress, Not DOJ, Should Address Minimum Sentences.

MAD MAGAZINE ON THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY:

IRS SCANDAL UPDATE: How Lois Lerner May Have Committed A Felony. She’s likely safe from Holder’s DOJ, but the statute of limitations probably won’t run out before this administration does. . . .

JUMPING AT SHADOWS? Did The White House Overstate The Al Qaeda Threat? “First, al Qaeda is celebrating the closures as a victory over the West.”

2012 FLASHBACK: Obama crowd suggests Romney is naive for not trusting Russia.

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TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 95.

AS PEOPLE PUSH THAT $15 MINIMUM WAGE THING THEY MAY WANT TO READ THIS: Robot Serves Up 360 Hamburgers Per Hour. “San Francisco-based Momentum Machines claim that using Alpha will save a restaurant enough money that it pays for itself in a year, and it enables the restaurant to spend about twice as much on ingredients as they normally would – so they can buy the gourmet stuff. Saving money with Alpha is pretty easy to imagine. You don’t even need cashiers or servers. Customers could just punch in their order, pay, and wait at a dispensing window.”