JONATHAN RAUCH: Worst. Sex. Ever.

WHY HAVE AMERICANS STOPPED MOVING? “America is a very big country, and traditionally it’s also been a very mobile country but over the past 20 years people have started moving much less frequently.” I would say it’s a combination of two-career couples and underwater mortgages.

IT’S LIKE PEOPLE EVOLVED IN SUNLIGHT OR SOMETHING: Sun’s blood pressure benefits ‘may outdo cancer risks.’ “The health benefits of exposing skin to sunlight may far outweigh the risk of developing skin cancer, according to scientists. Edinburgh University research suggests sunlight helps reduce blood pressure, cutting heart attack and stroke risks and even prolonging life. UV rays were found to release a compound that lowers blood pressure.” Sitting in the sun, sipping red wine, seems to be the key to health.

WORLD WAR II’S STRANGEST BATTLE: Days after Hitler’s suicide a group of American soldiers, French prisoners, and, yes, German soldiers defended an Austrian castle against an SS division—the only time Germans and Allies fought together in World War II.

The book is The Last Battle, by Stephen Harding.

TREATING COMPUTER-RELATED BACK PAIN, the Matt Drudge way.

REMEMBER WHEN THIS WAS JUST A MADE-UP STORY BY TEA-PARTY CONSPIRACY THEORISTS? Time: The IRS Mess. “The Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups is outrageous. Those who did this should be fired immediately. That’s obvious. It continues a slovenly week for Barack Obama.” The piece goes on to make excuses for Obama by blaming underlings, but it’s still an acknowledgment.

MANAGEMENT: How Benghazi punctures the “team of rivals” myth.

OUT ON A LIMB: How 3D-Printed Guns Violate International Arms Controls (or Maybe Not).

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TAR. FEATHERS. Arizona Man Winds Up Jailed, Unemployed and Homeless After Photographing Courthouse. “They wanted to know if I belonged to any extremist groups like the national socialist movement or sovereign citizens. They wanted to know what kind of books I checked out of the library.”

The good news is that this is now so clearly illegal that he ought to be able to recover in spite of qualified immunity.

MICHELLE OBAMA TO GRADS: Reach Out To People With Different Beliefs. What, and audit them?

WHY NOT? WE’VE GOT PLENTY OF MONEY, AFTER ALL: Pay People To Cook At Home. “Business owners who argue that such taxes will hurt their bottom lines would, in fact, benefit from new demand for healthy food options and from customers with money to spend on such foods. If we truly value domestic work, we should also enact workplace policies that incentivize health, like ‘health days’ that employees could use for health-promoting activities: shopping for food, cooking, or tending a community garden.”

Hey, it’s only a hop, skip, and a jump from that to my coveted “Blogger Tax Credit.”

DON SURBER: “Eisenhower was no more anti-science than he was anti-military. He launched the space race and pushed for greater emphasis on mathematics in schools. But he knew how powerful both government and science are. He saw firsthand the results of the politicization of science by the Nazi regime.”

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Shortly after Barack Obama took office in January 2009, Scahill writes, he gave “carte blanche to JSOC and the CIA to wage a global manhunt. Capture was option two.”

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Tone-Deaf State Department Inflames Gun Owners’ Fears. “Overall, it’s an excellent example of the way a failure to understand the internal dynamics of American politics can leave Foggy Bottom out in the cold.”

Here’s a question for the Council on Foreign Relations, and anyone else who’s interested: If the State Department is this hamhanded with regard to American politics, what makes you think it’s any more deft in dealing with other countries?

WHICH WAS THE PLAN, OF COURSE:

PETER BERKOWITZ: Are Universities Above The Law? “Nasar’s allegations, however, are disturbingly familiar. They reflect a tendency at our leading universities to avoid transparency and disdain accountability. This tendency cultivates in administrators and professors an imperiousness in the wielding of power and in professors and students a submissiveness in the face of power. This tendency and the vices it nurtures are no less a threat to the goal of liberal education​—​forming individuals fit for freedom​—​than are the corruption of the curriculum and the imposition of ideological conformity that characterize today’s campuses.”

Whenever you have a lot of money sloshing around without much transparency or accountability, you get corruption. No group is of such high moral standing that it can avoid that for long.

UPDATE: Reader Bob O’Hara writes:

Glenn, your item this morning on financial shenanigans at Columbia tells a story that’s sadly familiar.

Open-book accounting is one way to bring “sunlight” into the darker corners of higher education finance. You posted some comments about it a couple years ago, back before the higher education bubble caught everyone’s attention. Since the problem is evergreen, maybe people should look at open-book accounting again, especially for public universities.

Yes. Though since private universities often actually get more public money than do public ones (because higher tuition gets more federal financial aid, and because they have higher overhead on research grants) it would certainly be fair to condition such money on open accounting practices for them as well. More on that here.

WAIT, I THOUGHT THAT TED CRUZ WAS THE BULLY: Is Russia Kicking Dirt in John Kerry’s Face?

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WE’RE NUMBER ONE, BUT IT’S NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF: Tennessee Has Nation’s Highest Beer Taxes.

FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE TEA PARTIERS. THEN THEY CAME FOR THE JEWS: Pro-Israel Group Sees “Same Conduct” In IRS’s Tea Party Campaign.

THIS PIECE BY ROSS DOUTHAT ON THE IRS’S ATTACK ON TEA PARTY GROUPS IS PRETTY GOOD, but the comments indicate that a rather large portion of the NYT readership is just fine with having brownshirts go after people for their ideas. Hey, fascists tend to be big-government enthusiasts, not small-government advocates.

COULD THIS BE GOOD NEWS FOR SAVERS? Fed Chief Warns Homebuyers: Time To Lock In Those Low Rates.