THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA Obama Psychodrama.

THOUGHTS ON MEN AND SUICIDE.

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Points and Figures: Education’s Next Stage.

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IT’S LIKE THE I.R.S. IS JUST SOME FREE-RANGING POLITICAL-THUG OPERATION OR SOMETHING: Report: IRS denied tax-exempt status to pro-lifers on behalf of Planned Parenthood.

CAN’T TELL TRUTH FROM FICTION: The Hill: Dems offer gun control bill inspired by latest James Bond movie ‘Skyfall.’

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Handle A Final Exam Screw-Up: Law Professors Take Note. Rick Pildes was always a class act.

REALLY? THAT’S YOUR ADVICE? GET HER DRUNK? I mean, yeah, it works, but . . .

THE POLITICS OF PHYSICAL STRENGTH: “Men’s upper-body strength predicts their political opinions on economic redistribution, according to the research.”

While this may resurrect the blogosphere’s “hyper-masculinity” debate, let me suggest that physical development generally requires a good deal of self-discipline as well. Those who possess less self-discipline are likely to favor redistribution, too, for obvious reasons. So this may be a matter of correlation, rather than causation. Though either way, I suppose, the stereotype of the leftist as weedy beta male is supported. It’s science! You don’t want to be a science-denier, do you?

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WAR ON SCIENCE: NTSB wants to lower permissible BAC to .05. All political, driven by the neo-Temperance folks at MADD.

UPDATE: My mistake. MADD not so enthused.

FIRST: WE HAVE TERRORISTS IN THE WITNESS PROTECTION PROGRAM? SECOND: WE LET THEM FLY COMMERCIAL IN THE U.S.? Yep. The country’s in the very best of hands.

ANN ALTHOUSE: Shouldn’t There Be A Special Prosecutor In The IRS Case? “I still want a special prosecutor because I just don’t trust them not to cover up. The minute I found out about it, then my main focus was making sure that we get the thing fixed. I don’t think people believe that. I don’t believe it.”

With bonus commentary from Jon Stewart.

CO-ADAPTATION: Malaria bug may give mosquitoes a super sense of smell. “Malaria parasites give mosquitoes a keener sense of smell, it seems. A small-scale study in the lab finds that mosquitoes infected by the parasite are three times as likely as uninfected mosquitoes to respond to human odours. If the same results are seen in malaria-carrying mosquitoes in the wild, it could lead to new ways to combat the disease.”

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THE I.R.S.’S WAR ON WOMEN.

“Send us your Facebook pages, your Twitter pages,” and I said, “Does that include personal pages?” and they said, “Everything.” They wanted to know your personal relationships with politicians and political parties. And I asked, “What would happen if I don’t send this to you?” and they said, they made an insinuation like, “Look, it can be considered perjury if you omit things from the IRS.” I’m a pregnant stay-at-home mother on one income, I thought, “Oh, my goodness, I’m not doing anything.” I stopped.

Well, the Tea Party was an organization disproportionately run by women. And the IRS did its best to intimidate them, it seems.

FASTER, PLEASE: Synthetic Biology Could Speed Flu Vaccine Production: Advanced genetic engineering is already changing vaccine development and could make inroads into other branches of medicine.

JUST A REMINDER: Obama joked about auditing his enemies in 2009.

Related: Reporter Claims IRS Harassment After Tough Obama Interview.