HANNA ROSIN: Why Feminists Won’t Accept That The Patriarchy Is Dead. “My young interrogator might be annoyed to learn that many of those women who pick up the trash yearn to bring back at least some aspects of the patriarchy. They generally appreciate their new economic independence and feel pride at holding their families together, at working and studying and doing things on their own, but sometimes they long to have a man around who would pay the bills and take care of them and make a life for them in which they could work less. And they want the men in their lives to be happy. It’s elite feminists like my questioner and me who cling to the dreaded patriarchy just as he is walking out of our lives.”

Don’t you love him as he’s walking out the door?

THE HILL: Forty-three House Republicans back bill to defund ObamaCare. ObamaCare is an unpopular dog. It’s good strategy to force Democrats to vote on it again.

Related: White House: “We will not accept anything that delays or defunds ObamaCare.” That’s rich, given how many times Obama has delayed it already himself. And all the waivers and exemptions for favored constituencies.

R.I.P. RAY DOLBY, sound pioneer.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Concord-Carlisle official backs 9/11 Muslim poem reading. “A Concord-Carlisle School Committee member is defending a high school principal who read a Muslim poem on Wednesday’s 9/11 anniversary — but failed to line up anyone to pledge of allegiance that morning.” Well, read the poem: What stylishly oikophobic educator could possibly resist that?

HEH: Well, we know what part of the chicken Democratic US Senate recruits like.

WELL, OKAY THEN: Mayer’s ‘Treason’ Remark Not to be Taken Literally, Says Yahoo. “Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Marissa Mayer created a stir on Wednesday when she suggested that company executives would have faced charges of treason had they refused to cooperate with a court-ordered national security request for user data.”

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AT TWITTER, still a few bugs in the system. “It should not be incumbent upon law-abiding honest users to take action to defend themselves against this kind of harassment. Instead, it should be incumbent upon Twitter to ensure that dishonest and abusive people are not allowed to use Twitter, period.”

Plus: “Bad people do bad things and get away with it, so they keep doing it. But then they try to do it to me, and that’s where their trouble begins.” Heh. Yeah, that’s a pretty obvious mistake, you’d think.

And Twitter should take a lesson from Yelp.

OH, GOODY: Breaking: U.S. Consulate In Afghanistan Under Attack.

ED DRISCOLL: Hitting the Ejector Seat on the Clown Car Presidency.

Related: Peter Wehner: The Collapse Of The Obama Presidency.

In the first year of his second term, the president has failed on virtually every front. He put his prestige on the line to pass federal gun-control legislation–and lost. He made climate change a central part of his inaugural address–and nothing has happened. The president went head-to-head with Republicans on sequestration–and he failed. He’s been forced to delay implementation of the employer mandate, a key feature of the Affordable Care Act. ObamaCare is more unpopular than ever, and it’s turning out to be a “train wreck” (to quote Democratic Senator Max Baucus) in practice. The most recent jobs report was the worst in a year, with the Obama recovery already qualifying as a historically weak one. Immigration reform is going nowhere. And then there’s Syria, which has turned out to be an epic disaster. (To be sure, Mr. Obama’s Middle East failures go well beyond Syria–but Syria is the most conspicuous failure right now).

In watching the Obama presidency dissolve before our eyes, there is a cautionary tale to be told. Every presidency falls short of the expectations that the candidate sets. But no man has ever promised more and delivered less than the current occupant of the Oval Office.

Is “collapse” too strong? Well, when you’re held up by styrofoam columns. . . .

CIVIL RIGHTS VICTORY: Illinois Supreme Court: Second Amendment Protects Carrying Outside the Home.

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HOPEY-CHANGEY: There’s a bear in the woods again.

IT’S NOT NICE TO FOOL THE INTERNET: Yelp Sues Law Firm For Posting Fake Reviews. “Specifically, Yelp is arguing that when McMillan employees created fake accounts in order to post bogus positive reviews for their own firm, they violated the terms of service of the site. Thankfully, (unlike Craigslist), Yelp doesn’t try to argue that violating the TOS is a CFAA violation. Instead, the lawsuit focuses on some specific charges including breach of contract, intentional interference with contractual relations, unfair competition and false advertising.”

A 1959 LINCOLN CONTINENTAL . . . HYBRID?

METAPHOR ALERT: ‘Alarming’ number of eagles killed by wind farms, new study finds.

MEGAN MCARDLE: To Enjoy Driverless Cars, First Kill All the Lawyers. “Driverless cars will be safer and quieter. They will fetch you to your destination, and then trundle off to park themselves. They will all but eliminate the auto accidents that kill tens of thousands every year. I believe all this. But I’m still worried about the future of driverless cars, not because they’re technically impossible, but because the liability possibilities are enormous.”

WHY WOMEN don’t like drone strikes.

Well, women don’t generally think of themselves as serving in combat, even abstractly, so they don’t appreciate a way to kill the enemy without being killed. Also, from an evolutionary-psychology standpoint, drone strikes don’t demonstrate male fitness.

DANIEL DREZNER: Why Do Wonks Lie About Having PhDs?

HUH. AND I THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED. New measure of gravitational constant higher than expected.

BREAKING BARRIERS: Miss Kansas is a deer hunting, tattoo-wearing sergeant in the U.S. Army.

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