WHY DIDN’T THEY JUST USE A DRONE, LIKE GOD AND OBAMA INTENDED? Police: Peeping Toms fall through bathroom ceiling.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. “While the US is focused on its own domestic dramas, Europe as the Economist puts it, ‘is bleeding out.’ Silently, exsanguinating below the fold, but bleeding all the same.”

YEAH, PRETTY MUCH: A psychotherapist contends that the DSM, psychiatry’s “bible” that defines all mental illness, is not scientific but a product of unscrupulous bureaucracy. It’s the product of a committee, which at best reflects unconscious biases and groupthink. At worst. . . .

WHAT’S MORE DANGEROUS: Puppies, Or Fracking?

RAND SIMBERG ON Fraud In The Sciences.

And here are some related thoughts of mine from a while back.

MEN 30-50 LESS INTERESTED IN MARRIAGE. “27% to 8% is a big gap. It’s no wonder that women in the same age group have a hard time finding men.”

UPDATE: I should note that the reasons for this gap are found in the Insta-Wife’s forthcoming book. Pre-order it now!

21ST CENTURY PARENTING: Police say mom reported finding her own baby on Hawaii beach. “A day after a woman reported finding an abandoned newborn crying in the sand on a Hawaii beach, police arrested her and revealed she’s the baby’s mother. Keala Simeona, 21, of Honolulu, was arrested Tuesday for filing a false police report. Police don’t expect to pursue additional offenses at this time. She posted $250 bail and was released.” Well, at least it wasn’t one of those fake rape reports.

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: IRS Grabs Man’s Tax Refund to Recoup Social Security’s Alleged $895 Overpayment to Mother 42 Years Ago.

WHEREVER SOCIALISM GOES, STARVATION FOLLOWS: Starving Settlers in Jamestown Colony Resorted to Cannibalism.

Yes, Jamestown started out without free enterprise and people starved. Then private property was recognized, and saved the day. Also as usual. That’s when the American exceptionalism got started.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: World’s smallest stop-motion film made with individual atoms.

OVERCOMING FEAR OF FITTING ROOMS.

PROGRESS: This Shirt Can Be Worn For 100 Days Without Washing, Which Sounds Incredibly Sketchy But Also Awesome.

THE UNION-LEADER GOES AFTER GUN-CONTROL PROPONENTS’ “BULLYING” OF SEN. KELLY AYOTTE: “What is disgusting is deliberately mischaracterizing someone’s position for the purpose of portraying that person as a willing accomplice to murder. That has been the left’s strategy since Newtown. It is a testament to the Senate that a majority of its members, including Ayotte, did not cave to such bullying.” Hiding behind victims and the grieving is a sort of rhetorical “human shield” strategy, designed to block counterarguments with claims that disagreeing with the victims is mean.

Indeed. Related thoughts here.

AN I-TOLD-YOU-SO FROM BOB OWENS: “The MSM is finally catching up to where Matt Bracken and I were six months ago on the abandonment of 30 Americans and allied forces in Benghazi.”

KENNETH ANDERSON AND BENJAMIN WITTES: Terror And The Obama Doctrine.

Related item here.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Pay Attention: Colorado Democrats Use Election Process to Enshrine Power. “The Left cares about process so much they are pouring $100,000,000 into the ‘Democracy Initiative,’ a plot to permanently reshape American politics by altering election process laws. The conservative and GOP response? Next to nothing. It will include more money for door knocking the weekend before an election and more tweets. . . . When you control election process rules, your ideas need not appeal to a majority of people to obtain power.”

WASHINGTON POST: Obama group misleadingly cites a vote on a climate change bill. “This sort of gamesmanship with congressional votes is simply not acceptable.”

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: The Failure of Leftist Law Professors to Defend Progressive Causes (When It Would Affect Their Pocketbooks).

Plus, from Professor Bainbridge: Think Law School Tuition is too High? Blame Liberals. “I don’t lose much sleep about living the law prof life. But then I teach my students something useful, instead of teaching them about speaking truth to power (whatever the hell that means), so I actually earn my money.”

RON BAILEY ON PLAN B: “What’s especially ridiculous is that the folks in the Obama administration overruled the scientific determinations of the FDA and arbitrarily imposed age restrictions on the availability of Plan B out obvious electoral considerations. Since the president can’t run for office again, the only plausible reason that the Justice Department would oppose making Plan B available without a prescription to all women of reproductive age now is out of sheer embarassment at the fact the administration would be admitting its original decision was completely political.”

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: US Shale Gas Boom Undermining Putin’s Gazprom.

The Russian energy firm Gazprom is increasingly off its stride in Europe, its largest export market. Bulgaria has managed to negotiate a 20 percent price cut in its new ten-year contract with the gas giant, an unprecedented reversal of fortune from only a short time ago. Gazprom had cut off gas to the Ukraine in 2006 and 2009 during contract negotiations, which left Bulgaria freezing for several days as they were on the same pipeline. Bulgarians are probably relishing their success now with no small amount of schadenfreude.

The cause of the turnaround, the Wall Street Journal reports, should come as no surprise: the shale gas boom in the United States. The US has begun exporting gas to Europe, and has also ramped up coal exports by more than 250 percent since 2005. The net result has been to knock Gazprom back on its heels. The WSJ reports that the negotiations with Bulgaria were heated, with Gazprom’s negotiators shouting in frustration on several occasions. . . . Putin’s hardball tactics in his near-abroad when Russia was energy top dog were instrumental in confirming him as an authoritarian bully in the minds of many Westerners. These tactics also inadvertently made Russia more vulnerable to shifts in the global energy market, with many of its main customers desperately seeking out alternative suppliers so that they would never find themselves backed into a corner again.

I’m enjoying this.

TIMOTHY CARNEY: The Case Against Cronies: Libertarians Must Stand Up to Corporate Greed. There’s a big difference between being pro-business and pro-capitalism.

TERRY MCAULIFFE, MAKING EVERY OTHER HUSBAND IN THE WORLD LOOK GOOD: The Time Terry McAuliffe Left His Wife In The Delivery Room For A Washington Post Party. Plus: “Another time: ‘We got to the dinner and by then Dorothy was in tears, and I left her with Justin and went inside.’ But he raised a million bucks.” I guess he got his marital chops from Bill Clinton.

OBAMA NOMINATES PENNY “SUB-PRIME” PRITZKER FOR COMMERCE SECRETARY.

(Via NewsAlert.)

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