UNVEILING THE Amazon Veteran’s Day Sale.

Also, coupons galore in Kitchen & Dining.

And, today only: 60% Off Levi’s Men’s Jackets & Shirts. With free returns.

WOMAN CALLS 911 BECAUSE SHE’S “just too damn drunk.”

SEE, THE REAL STORY HERE IS bacon as key to the elusive birth-control-for-men. Is there anything it can’t do?

BUT IF THE FLIGHT’S DELAYED, YOU’RE JUST AS LATE: Look at JetBlue’s Swanky New Cabins for Elite Fliers.

SORRY, BUT I’M NOT ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT A “Bulletproof-Style” vest.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Your haircut got me a threesome!

OUT: STEALING CANDY FROM A BABY. IN: STEALING CANDY WITH A BABY.

A REVIEW OF new composition, editing, and outlining tools.

A NEW BLOG ON microwave-assisted chemistry.

CHEAPER, TOO: Oreo Cookies Neurochemically Like Cocaine.

WHEN GOOGLE SAYS “DON’T BE EVIL,” WHAT’S Google’s idea of evil?

WELL, THAT WOULD SOLVE THE DEFICIT OVERHANG, ANYWAY: Massive asteroid passes by Earth – but could hit the planet in 19 years. But it’s not likely.

AMY ALKON: About The Bora Controversy: If There’s Anything That Makes Women Unequal To Men, It’s The Need To Be Treated Like Fragile Pieces Of China. “Treating women equally means expecting them to buck up and act like adults and speak their piece when they want something to stop. And again, what went on does not rise to the legal definition of sexual harassment, but now, some women have elevated any talk of sex, jokes about sex, or compliments about a woman’s new boots to sexual harassment. . . . It is a violation of Bora’s privacy that she blogged their private lunch conversation simply over being offended by a conversation that veered off into sex, and why? Because she was too fragile a lily to speak up and say ‘Let’s change the subject.'”

21st Century feminism is the argument that a women who drinks one beer is morally and intellectually inferior to a man who drinks twelve, and that a woman with professional accomplishments can be reduced to jelly by a single glance from a man.

EUGENE VOLOKH: She Raped Him, Using Guilt and Arguing.

I’LL BE BACK WHEN MY SIESTA IS OVER: Why Your Brain Needs More Downtime.

READER BOOK PLUG: From reader Karen Studd, Everybody Is A Body. A book on dealing with computer-related pain, etc.

SCIENCE: New, Incurable Botulinum Strain Has Top Secret DNA. “This is the first time scientists have kept a DNA sequence secret because of terrorism concerns.”

REMINDER: In 2009, President Obama “joked” about auditing his enemies.

TEN GREAT ANALOG SPORTS CARS.

DAVID HENDERSON: Three Cheers For Three Nobels.

WAIT, I’VE SEEN THIS MOVIE BEFORE: ATF Fights Cigarette Smuggling by Smuggling Cigarettes!

TAXPROF: The IRS Scandal, Day 162.

CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS: What ‘Lean In’ Misunderstands About Gender Differences: What if difference between men and women turns out to be a phenomenon not of oppression, but rather of social well-being?

According to the authors, “Higher levels of human development—including long and healthy life, equal access to knowledge and education, and economic wealth—were the main nation-level predictors of sex difference variation across cultures.” New York Times science columnist John Tierney summarized the study this way: “It looks as if personality differences between men and women are smaller in traditional cultures like India’s or Zimbabwe’s than in the Netherlands or the United States. A husband and a stay-at-home wife in a patriarchal Botswanan clan seem to be more alike than a working couple in Denmark or France.”

Why should that be? The authors of the study hypothesize that prosperity and equality bring greater opportunities for self-actualization. Wealth, freedom, and education empower men and women to be who they are. It is conspicuously the case that gay liberation is a feature of advanced, prosperous societies: but such societies also afford heterosexuals more opportunities to embrace their gender identities. This cross-cultural research is far from conclusive, but it is intriguing and has great explanatory power. Just think: What if gender difference turns out to be a phenomenon not of oppression, but rather of social well-being?

Consider, in this regard, the gender disparities in engineering. An article on the Wharton School website laments the paucity of women engineers and holds up China and Russia as superior examples of equity. According to the post, “In China, 40 percent of engineers are women, and in the former USSR, women accounted for 58 percent of the engineering workforce.” The author blames workplace biases and stereotypes for the fact that women in the United States earn only 20 percent of the doctoral degrees in engineering. But perhaps American women earn fewer degrees in engineering because they don’t have to. They have more opportunities to pursue careers that really interest them.

Maybe women are different because they can be.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Brooklyn Law School Faces Debt Downgrade. “Law schools in recent years have seen steep drops in enrollment and tuition revenue and the ratings agency said that trend could continue for the next two years. Brooklyn law has been especially hard hit. Headcount decreased 10% to 1,137 this fall from a year ago and 22% over the last three years, the ratings agency said. Competition for students has led to discounts on tuition.”