ANDREW MALCOLM: The celebration of racial progress that Obama will hide today. Obama ran as post-racial, but his reelection depended on boosting race polarization to boost black turnout.

Related: Thomas Sowell: I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.

FORGET THE TWO-DRINK MINIMUM: How about a Two-Gun Minimum? Is it okay if we carry three? I like a derringer in a wrist holster for a backup backup.

WORLD ENDS: WOMEN AND MINORITIES HARDEST HIT. Climate Change Will Affect Non-White Americans Disproportionately.

SO, APPARENTLY, I’m an idiot who should keep his mouth shut. Er, well, whatever. But I really don’t think my proposals are unrealistic, compared to just wishing that judges — or, God help us, Congress — would just do a better job. I wish that too, but if it were going to happen, I think it would have.

KYLE SMITH: Forget Rachel McAdams, Paul Krugman Is The ‘Mean Girl’ Of Economics.

FASTER, PLEASE: Researchers create the inner ear from stem cells, opening potential for new treatments.

AT AMAZON, Digital Deals.

WAIT, I THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: CDC admits long-standing error, there is no benefit in reducing salt. “It may be that we’re better off with more salt than less, up to 2 or even 3 tsp per day. How did it happen that such standard medical advice drifted astray, then went un-corrected for so long?”

Here’s the full report.

FOUND: Fat applicants suffer discrimination in university interviews. That’s not surprising. It’s the oikophobia.

FINALLY: Hovercraft Golf Cart Set To Debut At Ohio Golf Course.

STAYING IN TOUCH WITH EXES and liking their spouses. I get it. I met the Insta-Wife through an ex-girlfriend, and whenever Helen has met one of my ex-girlfriends they’ve gotten along famously. I can pick ’em.

#WARONMEN: Carrie Lukas reviews the Insta-Wife’s new book, Men On Strike, for National Review. Excerpts:

Instead of blaming men and ridiculing the lifestyle of those who have “failed to launch,” Smith explores the idea that men may be making a purposeful, even rational, choice in rejecting a society that already has rejected them.

Smith draws heavily from the actual experiences of men, using their stories and comments to illustrate the disaffection, anger, and sorrow that many feel. The anecdotes she provides — the voices of the men themselves — are powerful. As Smith notes, experts often call men poor communicators, but she’s found that “men often know their minds very well, but they are reluctant to communicate in interpersonal and political settings for fear of coming across weak or, worse, being accused of being sexist or misogynistic. Or sometimes, they are communicating, it’s just that no one is listening.”

Smith lets us listen, and walks the reader through some of the ways men’s rights have been constricted. . . .

Smith highlights eyepopping statistics on paternity fraud, such as studies suggesting that around 3.5 percent of men actually have no biological relation to the child they believe is theirs. And even when paternity is disproven, a man may still be on the hook for 18 years of financial support for someone else’s offspring. The double standard is unmistakable. Smith tells the story of a 15-year-old boy who had sex with a 34-year-old woman: “The woman got pregnant and, although in the state of California a minor under the age of 16 cannot consent to sex, the court saw fit to force Nathaniel to pay child support to the woman who committed statutory rape against him.” . . .

Men on Strike is a compelling work that may succeed in launching a much-needed conversation about the treatment of men in America. As Smith observes, often conversations about the state of men are considered necessary solely because men’s problems spill over to affect women, children, and society more broadly. The men themselves are just an afterthought.

Read the whole thing — the review, or, better yet, the book.

SCIENCE: Rare Mutation Ignites Race for Cholesterol Drug. “The discovery of the mutation and of the two women with their dazzlingly low LDL levels has set off one of the greatest medical chases ever. It is a fevered race among three pharmaceutical companies, Amgen, Pfizer and Sanofi, to test and win approval for a drug that mimics the effects of the mutation, drives LDL levels to new lows and prevents heart attacks. All three companies have drugs in clinical trials and report that their results, so far, are exciting.”

Okay. But how sure are we that super-low LDL levels are altogether good? The answer is “not all that sure.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 5 Simple Ways To Avoid Financial Fights With Your Spouse.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: How should we replace marriage as our organizing philosophy of the family? “Simply put, the purpose of child support is to replace marriage. Discussing how it should be implemented is discussing how to replace marriage.”

CLINT BOLICK: The Government Scandal (You Haven’t Heard Of): The union officials who negotiate lavish contracts for government workers are paid with your taxpayer dollars.

CAMILLE PAGLIA, HE’S NOT: Cass Sunstein: Constitutional Personae.

FROM PROFS. STEPHEN BAINBRIDGE & TODD HENDERSON: Boards-R-Us: Reconceptualizing Corporate Boards.

DAN MITCHELL ON OVERCRIMINALIZATION: Yes, You Have Something to Fear, Even if You’re a Law-Abiding Person.

JAMES TARANTO: “These conversation stoppers don’t work on me because I’m an ornery guy.”

EGYPT: On the brink of starving. See, if I were running Egypt, my absolute top priority would be to make the place welcoming for tourists again. Because that’s where the foreign exchange that pays for all that imported food comes from.

“SMART DIPLOMACY” UPDATE: David Francis: Why Obama’s Foreign Policy Process Is Broken.

OBAMACARE’S PANICKED DEMOCRATS.

UPDATE: Megan McArdle: The Employer Mandate: A Necessary Impossibility. “For obvious reasons, the Obama administration did not want to tell folks that if they needed subsidies, they would be given access to a handful of HMOs. Nor that they would go onto the exchanges and be told to print out a paper application they could send to their state’s Medicaid office. That law would never have passed Congress, or the public.”

THE PARTY OF OLD PEOPLE WITH OUTDATED IDEAS: NPR: Despite Youth Support, Democrats Having A Senior Moment.

Voters under the age of 30 were key to President Obama’s electoral success. But Obama’s going gray and his most prominent potential successors aren’t paragons of youth.

Hillary Clinton, who would be the presumptive Democratic favorite for president the minute she decided to run, will be 69 in 2016. Vice President Biden is already 70.

The party’s congressional leaders aren’t spring chickens, either. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California are both 73. Pelosi’s top two lieutenants in House leadership are also septuagenarians.

Overall, the of Democrats in Congress tops 60, with the party’s caucuses in both the House and Senate skewing older than the Republicans.

“Their leadership is out of step with their base,” says GOP consultant David Carney. “It’s also very white and main-line religious.”

Despite all this, Democrats harbor little doubt that they can continue to run up big margins among young voters.

As long as they retain their support in Hollywood and the news media, they’re probably right.

Related: Video: Obama Supporters Sign Petition To Repeal Bill Of Rights.