21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: The zipless f… has become the norm according to a new book, The End of Sex.

COLONEL COLT CAN MAKE WOMEN EQUAL: What will it take to end India’s rape epidemic? Though for the 5-year-olds, I suppose the gun needs to be in someone else’s hand.

IS YOUR HEALTH BETTER IF YOU WALK, OR IF YOU RUN? Yes.

READER BOOK PLUG: Reader Mark West sends a plug for his father’s book, Never Quit Until You Win. He writes:

My 76 year old father just had his first book published and I was hoping you would give it a plug. The book is called, “Never Quit Until You Win”, and my father is Louis West. My dad has over 40 years experience in the healthcare industry beginning as an orderly in the 1950’s and culminating his career as a hospital administrator. He thought he knew everything there was to know about the healthcare industry until my mom suffered a massive bi-lateral stroke in 2002. Following that life altering event, he learned all about healthcare from the patient and caregiver point of view. In the book, Dad describes his and Mom’s journey through the healthcare and insurance industries. The book is also part inspiring love story between my parents and their strong faith that carried them through some very tough times. My Mom passed away in 2005 and Dad has been working on the book since before she died. This is an excellent resource for families of stroke victims as well as anyone acting as caregiver for a family member.

Done!

WANT FAT KIDS? Make them clean their plates.

This made sense when food was scarce and expensive. It’s not that way now. I was talking to a friend who’d like to lose some weight, and suggested that he could start by not finishing everything — especially the french fries — on his plate. He said he couldn’t help it, he was raised to feel guilty about not finishing. Time to get over that.

DIDN’T MAKE IT: NYPD chief: Marathon suspect says brothers were headed for New York to party.

THE LIFE OF A FOOD-STAMP RECRUITER: “In fact, it is Nerios’s job to enroll at least 150 seniors for food stamps each month, a quota she usually exceeds. Alleviate hunger, lessen poverty: These are the primary goals of her work. But the job also has a second and more controversial purpose for cash-strapped Florida, where increasing food-stamp enrollment has become a means of economic growth, bringing almost $6 billion each year into the state. The money helps to sustain communities, grocery stores and food producers.”

How’s that hopey-changey stuff workin’ out for ya?

MEGAN MCARDLE: Congress is Considering a Bill to Make Internet Firms Collect Sales Tax. Here’s Why They Shouldn’t Pass It. “It’s too burdensome on businesses we want to expand.”

Do we want businesses to expand any more? Because we’re not acting as if we do . . . .

FINDING SPIRITUALITY in the aisles of Wal-Mart.

VIDEO: THREE YEARS OF THE SUN IN THREE MINUTES.

SHOCKER: USA Today: Boston Suspects’ Mosque Has Ties To Terrorists, Fugitives, and Radical Speakers.

THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME. Yes, I realize I’m mixing my musical references . . . .

THE ONLY SURPRISE IS THAT THE NUMBER ISN’T HIGHER: Poll: During Manhunt, 69% Of Voters Wanted Gun.

Related: WaPo/Pew Poll: Less than half of Americans upset about Senate gun vote.

FASTER, PLEASE: SpaceX Rocket Launches, Hovers, Lands.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD ON DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MALE STUDENTS ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES.

At least 30 instutitions, including Yale, Cornell, and Stanford, now employ these new regulations. Data on false accusations are a mixed bag. Some studies claim that 2-8 percent of rape reports are false, whereas others insist that the numbers are much higher. What is clear, however, is that this reduction in safeguards has led to serious mistakes. A University of North Dakota student, convicted of sexual assault and kicked off campus, was recently allowed back when the charges against him were proven false and his accuser charged with making a false report. Charges of rape against a male student at Cornell were later thrown out when police discovered “irrefutable evidence” (in the form of video footage) of his innocence. And a widely publicized case at Brown University, involving the daughter of a wealthy alum, implicated a number of university administrators in misconduct to secure a conviction against the accused male student. . . .

Accusations of sexual violence and sexual assault should never be taken lightly. But neither should accusations be taken as truth. America is a country based on rights and fair procedure. Those accused of serious offenses must not be deprived of their rights, and college authorities cannot, in their commendable desire to protect female students, deny male students their basic rights. Both male and female students must feel that their rights will be protected and that they will be treated equally by their university should conflict arise.

No matter what happens, communities of young people in their teens and twenties are going to witness the consequences of poor judgment and crossed signals. The old norm, in which victims were expected to shut up and move on, was deeply unjust for young women. Feminists are absolutely right to want that to change. But the reality is that creating a safe and welcoming atmosphere on campus involves more than coming down like a ton of bricks on any young man accused of crossing the line. It involves much more adult leadership and guidance about responsible sexual behavior, and it involves a deeper commitment to the moral leadership and development of youth than most academics are comfortable thinking about.

But too many stories about men being abused by kangaroo courts, and higher education’s gender gap, already a problem, will become much worse. Do universities want to become finishing schools for girls? And if enough men opt out, they’ll have more trouble attracting the women, too.

CAN’T TELL TRUTH FROM FICTION: Megan McArdle reminds disappointed Democrats that The West Wing is only a TV show. And one rather more attuned to Gentry Liberal sensibilities than is real life. “Jed Bartlett doesn’t win policy debates because of his amazing tactical skills, his overpowering arguments, or the sheer persuasiveness of his granite-faced brand of urbane folksomeness. He wins them because Aaron Sorkin is a liberal and he wants Republicans to lose on the major issues. Unfortunately for liberals, Tom Coburn and John Boehner don’t have their lines faxed over from Hollywood every morning.”

AT AMAZON, it’s the Cinco de Mayo Sale.

Also, today only: Up to 62% Off “Fast and Furious” 1-5 Bundle on Blu-ray or DVD. The movies, not the scandal.

JAMES TARANTO: To Serve Woman: Do female Ivy League graduates have a “duty” to work outside the home?

An additional factor, one Patton wisely accounted for, is female hypergamy. Women who are smart enough to get into Harvard or Yale or Princeton, and who place a high value on intellect and education, are unlikely to be attracted to men who are their intellectual inferiors. That makes the romantic pickings at the State U even slimmer than the raw sex ratio would suggest.

If elite universities succeeded in keeping out the aspiring housewives, then, it would contribute to the breakdown of marriage among the cognitive elite–the one segment among which, as Charles Murray noted in “Coming Apart,” the institution is still relatively strong. What’s more, the Goff proposal would doubly punish the marriage-minded young woman. Not only would it make it harder for her to find a husband, but it would leave her with a less valuable credential should she have no alternative but to pursue a professional career.

But probably in the end it wouldn’t have much effect anyway. Young women applying to Ivy League schools would learn to tell the admissions office what they want to hear. Come to think of it, they probably already do that. How many college applicants do you suppose admit their goal is to be a wife and mother?

Not too many. Meanwhile, in response to my post on this yesterday, reader Ken Chesebro notes that everything old is new again:

Great point that this argument was used to exclude women — if you want to make it even more concrete, Justice Ginsburg often tells this story about being:

accepted into Harvard Law School in 1956, one of a mere nine women in a class of more than 500. Early on, she crosses paths with Erwin Griswold, the dean of the law school and an eminent member of the legal establishment. Griswold is notorious for challenging Harvard’s female law students with a question: How could they take a spot that could have gone to a man?

Apparently Griswold wasn’t himself prejudiced, but was simply preparing them to answer a question they’d be asked a lot.

He’d probably be surprised the question’s still being asked more than half a century later, with a slight modification on whose spot the woman is taking.

Forward! Into the past . . . .

TOM MAGUIRE ON THE RICIN FOLLIES, and memories of Barbara Joan Marsh.

TERRY MCAULIFFE SURE IS RICH. I’d be interested in knowing exactly how he made this money. The article calls him a “self-made businessman” — admirable, apparently, if you’re a Democrat — but is hazy on the details. There’s reason to think, though, that it has more to do with cronyism than entrepreneurialism.

THE HILL: FBI, DHS heads brief House on Boston attack amid criticism.

The heads of the FBI and the Homeland Security Department (DHS) briefed House members on the Boston bombings Tuesday amid a wave of criticism that the agencies missed red flags that might have prevented the tragedy.

FBI Director Robert Mueller and DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano have come under fire for their handling of the case, particularly their screening of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder suspect, who had been fingered by Russian intelligence for his possible ties to extremist groups.

Read the whole thing.

GREEN CRONYISM: White House Knew Fisker Automotive Was in Trouble– Gave Them Your Money Anyway.

SEEMS LIKE POOR TIMING, WITH THE GOSNELL REVELATIONS AND EVERYTHING: Obama’s keynote speech to Planned Parenthood puts abortion back in spotlight.

PRIORITIES: Dartmouth Calls Off Classes to Discuss Diversity, Civility.