THESE EUROPEAN CITIES: Protesters in Ukraine’s Restive East Feel Far from Kiev, Close to Russia.

MORE PUSHBACK FROM THE PEOPLE: High school senior forms petition with over ONE THOUSAND signatures against Michele Obama speaking at their high school graduation ‘because it would overshadow the students’ big day.’ And feature ruinously miserable security.

I WONDER IF A DECLINE IN TRUST HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THIS? Why Google Isn’t Growing. Google’s image has gone from sunny to creepy in short order, and while the secular factors described in this article are no doubt real, I’m not sure that’s the whole story.

VIDEO: MSNBC host debates Michele Fiore on Bundy ranch. Does not fare well.

And faces questions about Harry Reid’s “suspicious” involvement.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UMass Dartmouth professor quits, rips administrators.

Clyde W. Barrow, a prominent political scholar at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, is leaving the school, accusing administrators of hiding behind security systems and driving away hordes of senior faculty, according to an open letter of resignation he sent to the Herald.

“I’ve had enough and you hear the same thing from others, ‘I’ve had enough,’ ” said Barrow, director of the school’s Center for Policy Analysis. “There’s absolutely no collaboration or two-way communication on that campus at all.”

Barrow, who accused Chancellor Divina Grossman of “abusive” treatment that is forcing out staff, said he plans to officially leave this summer to take a job at another university, which he wouldn’t name.

“It is important to mention that no one is leaving UMass Dartmouth because of last year’s tragedy,” wrote Barrow in the letter, referring to the Boston Marathon attacks and accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was a student at the school. “Instead, the real underlying problem at UMass Dartmouth continues to be an administrative crisis that is getting worse as senior administrators literally isolate themselves from the campus behind multiple walls of bullet proof glass, key code security systems, body guards, and newly constructed safe rooms.

That’s pretty much the whole political class these days, in and out of universities. What are they so afraid of?

VIDEO: Boeing Touts Its “Sky Interior.” But a commenter complains: “What about the economy class, you just showed a business class in this video.”

UNDER WIRES AND SEARCHLIGHTS: Russians evict Ukraine border guards from outposts.

A COMING JUDICIAL FIGHT IN TENNESSEE?

The makeup of the Tennessee Supreme Court could be in for a drastic change if three of the five current members are ousted by voters in August.

The trio are all Democratic appointees and have become the target of an ouster campaign, spearheaded by the most powerful man in the state legislature. His mission funded by out of state PAC money.

Our current judicial selection system was put together by Democrats in the 1970s in response to the growth of Republican electoral power statewide. It succeeded in preserving Democratic influence in the Supreme Court for several decades, but may now be coming to an end. Meanwhile, those defending the existing Justices might want to tone down the Koch Brothers demonization while simultaneously talking about the importance of fairness and the rule of law. . . .

NAMES OF THE PEORIA JUDGES WHO SIGNED OFF ON WARRANTS TO GO AFTER PARODY TWITTER ACCOUNT: Judge Kirk Schoebein and Judge Kim Kelley.

LIVING IN YOUR PARENTS’ BASEMENT AT 30? YOU’RE NOT A VICTIM OR A SLACKER, you’re an “Emerging Adult.” “So, yes, emerging adults today have high and often unrealistic expectations for work, but lazy? That’s laughably false. While they look for their elusive dream job, they don’t simply sit around and play video games and update their Facebook page all day. The great majority of them spend most of their twenties in a series of unglamorous, low-paying jobs as they search for something better. The average American holds ten different jobs between the ages of 18 and 29, and most of them are the kinds of jobs that promise little respect and less money. Have you noticed who is waiting on your table at the restaurant, working the counter at the retail store, stocking the shelves at the supermarket? Most of them are emerging adults. Many of them are working and attending school at the same time, trying to make ends meet while they strive to move up the ladder. It’s unfair to tar the many hard-working emerging adults with a stereotype that is true for only a small percentage of them.”

REPORT: University Of Colorado Trashing Academic Freedom Under Guise Of Eliminating Sexism. This business where university administrators generate bogus “threats” to go after faculty needs to stop. I think lawsuits are needed.

From the comments: “Choice of two evils: sexist philosophy professors or fascist corporate professional administrative class. An easy choice for me — there’s hope you can change the professors.”

OBAMACARE NUMBERS GAMES: How Many Enrolees, Really? Not surprisingly, there’s more to the raw numbers of Obamacare enrollees than meets the eye.

YES, BODY MASS INDEX IS STUPID WHEN USED FOR INDIVIDUALS: A Number That May Not Add Up.

The index was devised in the 1830s from measurements in men by a Belgian statistician interested in human growth. More than a century later, it was adopted by insurers and some researchers studying the distribution of obesity in the general population. Though never meant to be an individual assessment, only a way to talk about weight in large populations, B.M.I. gradually was adopted as an easy and inexpensive way for doctors to assess weight in their patients.

At best, though, B.M.I. is a crude measure that “actually misses more than half of people with excess body fat,” Geoffrey Kabat, an epidemiologist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, has noted. Someone with a “normal” B.M.I. can still be overly fat internally and prone to obesity-related ills.

Calling B.M.I. an imperfect predictor of a person’s health risks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cautions doctors against using it as a diagnostic tool.

For one thing, body weight is made up of muscle, bone and water, as well as body fat. B.M.I. alone is at best an imprecise measure of how fat a person may be. When Arnold Schwarzenegger was Mr. Universe, his B.M.I. was well in the obese range, yet he was hardly fat.

Another problem: the distribution of excess body fat makes a big difference to health. Those with lots of abdominal fat, which is metabolically active, are prone to developing insulin resistance, elevated blood lipids, high blood pressure, diabetes, premature cardiovascular disease, and an increased risk of erectile dysfunction and Alzheimer’s disease.

But fat carried in the hips, buttocks or thighs is relatively inert; while it may be cosmetically undesirable, it is not linked to chronic disease or early death.

An easy-to-get number that’s bogus will nonetheless be widely used, because it’s an easy-to-get number.

AT GOODSTUFF’S CYBER WORLD, retro-blogging fun with Barbara Eden. I follow her on Twitter.

COMMUNICATIONS: FCC chairman regrets that AT&T and Verizon control the best spectrum.

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Plus, top Kids & Family titles in Entertainment.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Why There Will Be A Robot Uprising.

YOUNGER SKIN THROUGH EXERCISE. “Exercise not only appears to keep skin younger, it may also even reverse skin aging in people who start exercising late in life, according to surprising new research.”

A phenomenon I’ve seen frequently in new law-professor hires who come for practicing law is that they seem to reverse-age for the first year or two here, even though being a new law professor is actually fairly stressful — my first year of teaching I was working more hours than I had as an associate at Dewey Ballantine. But you have much, much more control over your daily schedule, which I think is a big deal. It may be that because of this, people are better able to exercise. But, then, sleep, diet, and such all play a role, too, and all are likely to be better among law professors than practicing lawyers, especially those at big firms.

FASTER, PLEASE: Stem-Cell Treatment for Blindness Moving Through Patient Testing.

SO, KINDA LIKE SELLING TESLAS HERE, THEN: Selling Teslas in China Won’t Do Much for the Environment. Now when the power comes from nice, clean nuclear plants — or, at least, nice, clean gas plants (go fracking!) — it’s better.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: My Popular Mechanics column: Should We Be Afraid Of The 3D-Printed Gun?

BLOWBACK: Western lawmakers gather in Utah to talk federal land takeover. “More than 50 political leaders from nine states convened for the first time to talk about their joint goal: wresting control of oil-, timber -and mineral-rich lands away from the feds.” The feds have been poor stewards.

“RAPE CULTURE” IN THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE: A painting of President Barack Obama by a shock artist with a rape fetish hung in the White House for at least two years. But the Churchill bust was sent packing.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 345.