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NAOMI FIRSHT: Feminism used to be about expanding freedom. What went wrong?

Insufficient opportunities for self-aggrandizement.

DATING CULTURE in the 21st Century.

I USE A FOAM ROLLER, and this is kind of interesting. I wonder if regular use might actually be protective against high blood pressure or clotting problems in the legs?

UPDATE: Since people are asking in the comments, we have this one and this one at home.

HEY, WHERE’S THE EBOLA CZAR?

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Temporary “Vacation Breast” Implants.

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A NEW VIDEO FROM REMY: Don’t Tell ‘Em. “Our ideas are so good that we can’t tell the truth.”

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: It’s Time To Push Back Against Feminist Bullies: The attacks on scientist Matt Taylor are crazy. Enough already. “Trigger warning: A review of Eveleth’s outrage-tweets over a shirt someone wore might make you embarrassed to be human. . . . There are many ways to respond to a bully but one important way is to defend those they pick on.” Yes, bystander intervention is all the thing in anti-bullying circles these days. Let’s put it into action here.

VODKA IS BOTTLED COURAGE: Video: The Luckiest Pedestrian In the World. “The best part is how annoyed he looks afterwards. Not shaken, not scared, not visibly thanking every possible diety for his incredible good fortune. He’s just pissed. And then he nonchalantly continues crossing the street, because you know, why deal with these terrible-driving clowns?”

GIVEN THE RECENT ACADEMIC SCANDALS, I’D EXPECT UNC TO BE PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE HERE: Two New Affirmative Action Suits Filed Against Harvard And UNC, Directly Challenging Bakke Ruling.

HEALTH NEWS: AIDS Group Wages Lonely Fight Against Pill to Prevent H.I.V. “Mr. Weinstein shows up in lots of news articles about Truvada in part because he runs a large H.I.V.-care organization, and in part because he gives colorful quotes. But he also shows up because he and the foundation stand more or less alone within the world of H.I.V.-prevention groups in their skepticism about PrEP.”

FIGHT THE POWER: Uber Miami accused of coaching drivers to circumvent airport laws. Naturally, this comes from a taxicab organization trying to hamstring competition.

DAN MITCHELL: Advice To GOP: Don’t Unilaterally Disarm On Government Shutdown.

BUT OF COURSE: UH OH: Obama: ’Like Your Plan, Keep Your Plan.’ Gruber, 2009: ‘Five Million People Will Lose Their Plan.’ They knew it was a lie all along.

Related: Marc Thiessen: Thanks To Jonathan Gruber, Americans Know What The Political Class Thinks Of them.

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Mt Martha woman snapped sunbathing in g-string by real estate drone.

UPDATE: Link was wrong before. Fixed now. Sorry!

ASHE SCHOW: Feminists Ban “Feminist” From List Of Words To Ban. “The bullying campaign worked. This could have been a moment for radical feminists to rethink their tactics, but no, they confirmed everyone’s worst conceptions about the movement and thus set women back yet again.”

TAXES: New CBO study shows that ‘the rich’ don’t just pay their ‘fair share,’ they pay almost everybody’s share.

The graphic is stunning.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 557.

IT’S POTEMKIN VILLAGES ALL THE WAY DOWN (CONT’D): Obamacare Facebook page comments mostly from small group of supporters: 60 percent of site’s 226,838 comments attributed to fewer than 100 unique profiles.

Organizing for Action declined to comment to The Times when asked whether it hired paid commentators to post on the site during high-traffic days or tried to spur online conversation through volunteers.

Organizing for Action also handles the president’s Twitter feed. This summer, it was found that nearly half of the president’s 43 million followers at the time appeared to be fake, according to researchers at Barracuda, a computer security company in Campbell, California. Organizing for Action also declined to comment at that time.

I expect we’ll eventually find that this is the tip of the iceberg in Obama campaign social-media fakery. An interesting question is whether Facebook and Twitter knew.

A NICE PIECE ABOUT ME AND INSTAPUNDIT IN THE U.T. RESEARCH MAGAZINE.

With a pic of me in typical office pose.

This picture, by the way, is by Shawn Poynter, who took a number of excellent shots.

BARACK OBAMA: I did not mislead America with that man, Jonathan Gruber.

GRUBERGATE HITS COLORADO.

The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative paid Obamacare advocate and administration analyst Jonathan Gruber to produce an “independent” report in support of Colorado’s Health Insurance Exchange in 2011. This work came after the analyst’s failure to disclose his paid work to editors at newspapers which published his columns advocating for the law. The Initiative describes itself as “active supporters” of Obamacare and its implementation here in Colorado.

Gruber is currently under scrutiny for a series of video clips in which he 1) acknowledges having lied about the content Obamacare in order to help get it passed, 2) refers to the “stupidity” and “economic illiteracy” of the American public as assets in passing the law, and 3) admits that the plaintiffs’ argument in pending litigation is correct – enrollees on the federal exchange were specifically and intentionally excluded from receiving subsidies.

Forgotten, however, is that in January 2010, Gruber was penning oped pieces in the Washington Post and New York Times advocating for Obamacare, without having disclosed to his editors that he received nearly $400,000 from the administration to produce an “objective analysis,” that would be used in promoting the legislation.

The discovery of this conflict of interest by the liberal blog FireDogLake eventually caused the Times’s Public Editor, Clark Hoyt, to admit that the source’s interest in the news ought to have been disclosed.

It’s Potemkin villages all the way down.

STEPHEN L. CARTER: Go Home, Congress. You’re Done.