TWEET OF THE DAY: “The fastest Americans alive today include Meb Keflezighi and Democrats running away from ObamaCare!!!”

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Moody’s Downgrades Vermont Law School’s Bonds to Junk Status.

HE’S NOT ASHAMED OF WHAT HE DID: Unlike Clinton (and, I suspect, Obama) George W. Bush Liberal About Disclosing White House Records.

ED DRISCOLL INTERVIEWS JAMES DELINGPOLE, on Delingpole’s The Little Green Book of Eco-Fascism: The Left’s Plan to Frighten Your Kids, Drive Up Energy Costs, and Hike Your Taxes.

FEMINISM IS A HERDING MECHANISM FOR INSECURE WOMEN. THUS, THOSE WHO DO NOT CONFORM MUST BE SHUNNED. Kirsten Dunst receives fury for feminine comments in Bazaar.

EFFECTS OF THE MICROBIOME:

In 2005, researchers led by Jeffrey Gordon at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, reported that the gut microbiota of leptin-deficient mice contains about 50% fewer Bacteroidetes and 50% more Firmicutes, each a major group of bacteria, compared with normal mice3. “This was the first direct evidence that there were differences in the microbial communities between lean and obese mammals,” says Robin Knight, a computational biologist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who collaborated on the study.

The following year, researchers in Gordon’s lab identified the same pattern in humans: obese individuals have fewer Bacteroidetes and more Firmicutes than lean people. Moreover, the proportion of Bacteroidetes increases when individuals lose weight4. In fact, shifts in the balance of these two types of bacteria crop up again and again in research into the gut microbiota, diet and obesity.

Read the whole thing.

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I CONTINUE TO BELIEVE THAT THE DECLINE IN TRUST RELATED TO SILICON VALLEY IS DOING HARM: Americans Aren’t Ready for the Future Google and Amazon Want to Build.

RALPH BENKO: In The “War On Youth” The Youth Strike Back.

THE JOYS OF WORKING at a standup desk.

There’s always a FitDesk. Or a treadmill desk.

THE FAILURE OF DESEGREGATION, as covered by The New Yorker, and by Stacy McCain.

IT’S RARE ENOUGH TO BE NEWSWORTHY, APPARENTLY: Finally, Someone Acts Like An Adult: District Attorney Drops Charges Against Bullied Teen Who Recorded His Tormentors.

THESE EMOTIONAL MACHINES: Americans optimistic about flying cars, not so much about robot caregivers.

YA THINK? Draining reservoir after urination incident shows tenuous grasp of science; Portland throws out 38 million gallons of water after someone peed in it. The world has been taken over by chuckleheads.

I WONDER IF WE HAVEN’T BEEN TAKING MARITIME SAFETY FOR GRANTED: In the South Korean Ferry Disaster, Eerie Echoes of Costa Concordia. “Ship safety experts argued that many more lives could have been saved if the crew had responded more quickly, and expressed shock at the apparent incompetence displayed by those manning the ferry.”

DAVID GREGORY’S PROBLEM IN ONE SENTENCE: “He has no idea how smarmy and patronizing that sounds.”

WHEN FEMALE STATUS COMPETITION RUNS WILD: The tyranny of the organic mommy mafia. It doesn’t matter that the science isn’t there, because it’s not about science or health.

MICHAEL TOTTEN: Vladimir Putin’s Next Move.

ROGER KIMBALL: More on “President Asterisk.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Repairing Organs With NanoParticle Glue.

SHAKEDOWN: GAO report: White House directly involved in Enroll America fundraising. “Until now, outgoing Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was the only official known to have solicited financial support for Enroll America, a nonprofit that promoted enrollment for the Affordable Care Act. But a Government Accountability Office report released Monday detailed not only the secretary’s involvement but that of a White House adviser.”

Sounds like someone was trying to cover it up, too.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 347.

SECOND AMENDMENT UPDATE: Judge: Out-of-state pot rap can’t stop gun ownership. “A federal judge yesterday ruled that two Bay State men — previously convicted of marijuana possession in other states — could not be denied the right to have guns in their homes for self-defense purposes based on their prior drug crimes. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Stearns ruled that Michael Wesson of Salisbury and Thomas Woods of Natick have a Second Amendment right to own firearms despite being convicted of possessing weed in the past. Sterns said the portion of the Massachusetts Gun Control Act that disqualifies gun applicants who had previously been convicted of possessing a controlled substance was unconstitutional, as applied to the two men.” Judge Stearns is a Clinton appointee.

I wonder if he read my Second Amendment Penumbras piece.