BEWARE OF SEX INJURIES.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Pickup Artistry In The Age Of Google Glass.

I THINK I’LL ORDER THE STEAK: ‘Superbug’ bacteria widespread in U.S. chicken: consumer group. “Some 49.7 percent carried a bacterium resistant to three or more antibiotics, according to the group, and 11 percent had two types of bacteria resistant to multiple drugs.”

ON THE NEED FOR more male teachers.

SPYING: You Should Never, Ever Leave Your Webcam Uncovered When You Aren’t Using It. “With the right tools, in other words, almost anyone—from foreign governments to the creepy teenager down the street—could be recording you while you sit at your computer. All of this raises the question: Why don’t we just cover our webcams whenever they aren’t in use?”

As I’ve said before, hardware on/off switches for webcams and microphones might just be the next big thing.

HMM: Calif. Mulls Mandatory Kill Switches for Smart Phones. “Kill-switch technology that can render a lost or stolen smartphone useless would become mandatory in California under a new bill that will be proposed to the state legislature in January.”

FASTER, PLEASE: What Comes After Antibiotics? 5 Alternatives to Stop Superbugs.

FOLK WISDOM BORNE OUT AGAIN: Science Says: Cocktails Could Protect You From Getting Sick. I say, why take chances? But be warned — while moderate drinking may boost your immunity, heavier drinking only makes you feel invulnerable.

THIS SEEMS WORTHWHILE: Bill Would Prohibit Asset Forfeiture In Michigan Without Criminal Conviction: State has been ground zero for money and property seizures.

FROM MAURICE STUCKE: In Search of Effective Ethics & Compliance Programs.

REASON TV: A new Christmas video from Remy.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 225.

Paul Caron has done a real service by posting these roundups every day for over seven months. If you want to thank him, you can vote for him in this ABA contest.

JOHN FUND: Obama Has United America — In Opposition To ObamaCare Rollout. “The fact that no one really knows just how Obamacare is doing (the administration is hiding the numbers) or where it’s going (it’s like an impressionistic painting in progress) may explain the public consensus that’s developed behind delaying its implementation. . . . By 67 percent to 28 percent people now want the law delayed. And every demographic group agrees: 57 percent of liberals, 65 percent of women, 67 percent of those under age 35, and 60 percent of lower-income voters. Even African Americans, the bedrock of Obama’s support base now favor a delay by 48 percent to 47 percent.”

POLITICO: Six Questions For Barack Obama.

RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: Minority Democrat Campaign Staffers Paid Significantly Less Than Whites.

OBAMA GETS MORE MOCKERY FOR SUDDENLY DECIDING A MANDATE DELAY IS FINE. He’s an anarchist! A terrorist! It’s the law of the land!!!!! “After forcing a shutdown by refusing to delay the individual mandate, beating back Senate Democrats’ attempt to rescue themselves and their constituents and insisting all was fine, the administration has now agreed only a few days before Christmas to allow those to whom the president lied (‘You can keep your insurance’) to avoid the mandate and instead buy low-cost catastrophic plans, the ones he has designated as subpar. Trying spinning that, Obama fans.”

OUR DIPLOMACY IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Angry India Pulls Back US Embassy Security.

In response to the alleged mistreatment of an Indian diplomat by American law enforcement officials, Indian authorities have taken a series of unprecedented steps to show their displeasure, including the removal of security barriers around the American embassy in New Delhi. . . .

Indian outrage over alleged mistreatment abroad is not new. It makes headlines every time celebrities like Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan and author Rohinton Mistry, a Canadian of Indian origin, are detained at airports. But the Indian response this time seems a tad over the top. The incident has been described as “a slap in the face of the country”, “barbaric” and “humiliating.” A politician even said gay American diplomats’ partners may be subject to arrest under India’s homosexuality laws. India has also downgraded American diplomats’ privileges and told them to turn in their identity cards. Both Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi, normally on opposite sides of the political spectrum, refused to meet an American congressional delegation that was visiting.

Rhetoric is one thing, but American diplomats should be concerned to see that India has removed security barriers around the American embassy in New Delhi. Apart from compromising their security, the move may also contravene the Vienna Convention that reinforces host countries’ responsibility to protect diplomats.

India is in the wrong here. But they’ve been paying attention and realize that there’s no cost to screwing with the United States now, and it plays well with the electorate, which apparently is less concerned that their ambassador was essentially keeping a slave. Well, anti-slavery is just another white, western imperialist value, I guess.

CHANGE: Canadian court strikes down anti-prostitution laws. “Canada’s highest court has struck down the country’s prostitution laws in their entirety in a unanimous 9-0 ruling. The high court on Friday struck down all three prostitution-related laws: against keeping a brothel, living on the avails of prostitution, and street soliciting. The ruling is a victory for sex workers seeking safer working conditions because it found that the laws violated the charter guarantee to life, liberty and security of the person.”

PAUL RYAN: On Pope Francis’s Team?

“JOURNALIST” IN THIS CASE IS CHARITABLE, BUT THIS DOES REVEAL A LOT: Yet Another Journalist Says Lying is A-OK.

SUSPICIOUS: Republicans usually LOSE recounts in big elections. We need more prosecutions for fraud.

SPYING: WaPo: Officials’ defenses of NSA phone program may be unraveling.

UPDATE: This seems suspicious: Edward Snowden doesn’t show up once in Google’s list of top 2013 searches.

I DON’T THINK DOJ ENFORCEMENT IS JUST PERCEIVED AS PARTISAN: Justice Department Inspector General Pushes Holder on Misconduct Reported by PJ Media.

WELL, SURE — THEY GO AFTER ANYTHING THAT WORKS: Labor Takes the Fight to Amazon. Also, they’ve been getting their asses kicked by WalMart.