A RUGER LCP WOULD BE SIMPLER: Engineering students in India create electrified anti-rape underwear. More effective, too.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Shield Yourself From Smartphone Snoops.

I LIKE THE LOOKS OF THE PANAMERA, BUT MY WIFE AND DAUGHTER THINK IT’S UGLY: Porsche’s First Plug-In Hybrid: Introducing the 2014 Panamera S E-Hybrid.

OOPS: ‘Girls’ actor leaves show after realizing it is terrible.

THERE’S NO IQ TEST FOR POLITICIANS: Obama: Fully Automatic Weapon Used In Newtown. Here’s the White House transcript.

IT’S NOT BIGOTRY WHEN HE DOES IT: GLAAD to Honor Bill Clinton Despite His Overseeing DOMA, DADT. Just like it’s not sexual harassment when he does it.

OR MAYBE MCDONALD’S IS JUST TOO EXPENSIVE FOR 19-30-YEAR-OLDS: Why a BA is Now a Ticket to A Job in a Coffee Shop.

BARE BREASTS AGAINST ISLAMISM: Femen Stage “Topless Jihad.” (NSFW).

SO PEOPLE HAVE ASKED ABOUT MY DIVE GEAR: I use an Atomic Aquatics M1 Regulator, which replaced my now-discontinued Dacor Viper a few years ago, and I now use a Cressi Travelight BC which is really nice. It has trim pockets in the back, which I like because they offset the leg-buoyancy of my toasty 5-4-3 mil wetsuit. I also carry the Spare Air, though I’ve never used it. My dive computer is a Suunto Vyper.

ISN’T THAT BECAUSE THEY AREN’T KIDS ANY MORE, AND DON’T HAVE KIDS YET? 19-30-year-olds not loving McDonald’s.

HMM: Did the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas Just Scare a U.S. Attorney Into Quitting a Major Case?

Well, they haven’t managed to scare everyone: Rick Perry to Texas gangs: ‘We’re going to hunt you down and we are going to punish you.’

I HAD A LAW SCHOOL FRIEND WHO USED TO DO WEEKENDS IN NEW YORK THIS WAY: The Sex Gypsies.

Forget bed bugs. There’s a new parasite moving into apartments. This one has two feet, a sex drive, and travels with a duffel bag. The now defunct williamsboard .com called them “sex gypsies” — people who hook up largely so they have a place to stay.

Kids today. Doing things we used to do, that they think are new. . . .

ANTITRUST: The news business is about to go to paywalls. Will consultants help them collude on the price?

ANN ALTHOUSE DISSECTS OBAMA’S CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY: “It’s an idea of constitutional government as a political system, within which rights are only another manifestation of what the people want. And, in the ultimate scary twist on the idea of rights: Government is not to be regarded as in need of limits, because the government is us. Anything we — the government — want to do is never tyranny, but freedom.”

It’s a kind of coverture writ large, with Obama as national husband. . . .

HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: Waiter loses patience over stolen tips at Columbia University, files class action.

LARRY CORREIA ON Obama’s Massive 5% Salary Cut.

ROSS DOUTHAT: Culture, Class, and the Decline of Marriage.

OBAMA’S NEW PROBLEM: A “Competency Deficit?”

HARVARD EMAIL SNOOPING SCANDAL: A call for Dean Hammonds to resign.

BARRY RUBIN: Flash! Threat from Rebel Syria Becomes Clear and What Really Happened in the Benghazi Murders.

UH OH: ObamaCare’s Target Audience Doesn’t Much Want It. “If basic insurance coverage was the goal, wouldn’t giving people some sort of voucher or payment ticket to buy insurance be a cleaner, easier solution (and one that could have been implemented overnight)?” Insufficient opportunities for control.

JAMIE KIRCHICK: The Jew In The Box: To have real conversations with Germans about Jews, I had to become an exhibition at Berlin’s Jewish Museum.

DOESN’T FIT THE NARRATIVE. Mediaite: Why Hasn’t The Media Been Reporting On Or Booking Pro-Gun Newtown Parent Mark Mattioli? If grieving parents have different policy views, it makes the emotional bullying harder.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Senate Poised To Ruin Obama’s Treaty Party:

The United Nations yesterday approved the first ever global arms trade treaty in an effort to regulate the multibillion-dollar international weapons trade. The treaty is supposed curb the ability of countries like Iran and Russia to sell weapons to countries like Syria, though implementation of the agreement is still years away and no actual enforcement system has been drawn up. As of now, the treaty’s only real effect is enabling some countries to flag other countries’ weapons sales as illegal under international law.

President Obama has backed this treaty, but for the US to actually become a party at least 67 Senators will have to get on board. And as we’ve noted before, this is a long shot. Over half the Senate has already signed an amendment pledging to defeat the treaty, citing concerns about ceding authority over US interests to foreign governments. And while the treaty does not grant the UN jurisdiction over any domestic sales, the NRA has also been active in stirring up opposition, capitalizing on the parallels with gun control measures at home.

President Obama may come to regret pushing for a global treaty that has little hope of passing the Senate.

It certainly won’t make life easier for swing-state Senate Democrats.