JEFFREY GOLDBERG: Remembering Michael Kelly: I miss Michael a lot, not least because he was one of the few funny people in Washington, but also because I miss what he would have written over the past ten years.

J.D. TUCCILLE: Connecticut’s Gun Control: A Rush To Pass Laws That Couldn’t Have Prevented Tragedy.

NEWS: Scientists Find Signal in Space That Could Be Dark Matter.

WE FOUND YOUR CAMERA.

A “HOUSE OF HORRORS” IN PHILADELPHIA.

ACE NOT TOO IMPRESSED with Amanda Marcotte’s prom thoughts.

SCIENCE: “There it is. Written like the Ten Commandments of science – THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD. Too bad it’s mostly a lie. Yes. I’m going there.”

DON’T TRUST WIKIPEDIA. “I find myself regularly assuring readers that I have never been a member of the Church of Satan.”

KIRSTEN POWERS: Middle East Christians Need Our Protection.

PAPAYAS — IS THERE ANYTHING THEY CAN’T DO? Butt-Baring Woman Drunkenly Battles Ex & Neighbor With Papayas.

TEEN SEX NOT LIVING UP TO MEDIA HYPE:

“Policymakers and the media often sensationalize teen sexual behavior, suggesting that adolescents as young as 10 or 11 are increasingly sexually active,” said lead author Lawrence Finer. “But the data just don’t support that concern. Rather, we are seeing teens waiting longer to have sex, using contraceptives more frequently when they start having sex, and being less likely to become pregnant than their peers of past decades.”

Well, good.

LIFE AS A SELF-PUBLISHING FAILURE. Getting rid of the gatekeepers just opens the gate. It doesn’t guarantee that you’ll get through.

AT AMAZON, markdowns on bestsellers in Video Games.

ACTUALLY, THIS WAS THE PLAN ALL ALONG — LET THEM TAKE OVER JUST AS THINGS WERE HEADING INTO THE CRAPPER, THUS DISCREDITING ISLAMISM. Egypt becoming a nightmare for Muslim Brothers. “For the Muslim Brotherhood, the long awaited dream come true is turning into a nightmare. Having survived 80 years of persecution to achieve power democratically, they suddenly find themselves the focus of widespread popular hatred.” Of course, rapefests and Islamist yammering are always unwise in a country that imports half its calories and gets most of its foreign exchange from tourism, something that maybe should have gotten more consideration from the MB early on . . . .

JOE PAPPALARDO: This Is What Air War Over North Korea Would Look Like: Why the U.S. sends stealth aircraft to Korean war games, and why it freaks out North Korea.

CHEER UP, OBAMA-ERA TWENTYSOMETHINGS: The Benefits Of Moving Back Home.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF The Food Police.

IS AMERICA RAISING A Generation Of Interns? “Desperate as she is, the Department of Labor doesn’t consider her to be unemployed, because she has two jobs. . . . The permatern phenomenon points toward wider trends in the economy — namely the cutthroat competition for knowledge-economy jobs, the lack of investment in this generation, and the skills gap between what a generation weaned on a liberal-arts education is trained for and what the in-demand skills and professions are right now (i.e., not another poli-sci or English major). The result? For many in Washington, the American dream starts with a highbrow internship that pays $4.35 an hour — then another, and maybe another.”

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Free Market vs. Big Government: Who Can Better Invest $10 Million Toward Space Colonization?

READER BOOK PLUG: Reader Jim Meigs recommends The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter–And How to Make the Most of Them Now. Thirty is not the new twenty, and pretending otherwise is a mistake.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: RNA-protein motor for unidirectional movement of DNA in nanomachinery.

BIG LABOR LOSES BIG, AGAIN, IN WISCONSIN JUDICIAL ELECTIONS.

TEST-DRIVING THE 2014 Lexus IS.

MARRIAGE ADVICE FOR AMANDA MARCOTTE: “You’re entitled to your freedom, but freedom can only be exercised in the real world with all its limitations — including nature and, in a free society, the freedom of other people.”

Plus, from the comments: “This just in from the Gods of the Copy-book Headings: ‘She who will not when she may/ When she will, she shall have nay.'” They keep coming up these days.

UPDATE: Age and power differentials. I think Marcotte comes across as kind of “creepy” here. “Marcotte, in her capacity as a regular columnist at a prestigious, internationally read Web magazine, presently possesses a lot more cultural power and privilege than the high school boy she just called ‘creepy, accused of implicitly threatening Upton with being called a bitch, and told that his prom invitation is rooted in the same premise that stalkers and rapists operate under.” Like I said, Marcotte comes across as creepy.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Six Ways Of Looking At College Hookup Culture.