NOBODY’S BUSINESS BUT THE TURKS’: Stewart Baker: EU discovers that privacy laws can be abused. By someone other than the EU.

LARRY NIVEN, CALL YOUR OFFICE: What would the Earth be like if it was the shape of a donut? “Torus-worlds are unlikely to exist naturally. But if they did, they would make awesome places for adventure.”

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Better nanoswitches by integrating double and triple strand DNA.

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“SMART DIPLOMACY:” The Emperor Has No Clothes. “The problems over the Ukraine come almost as a caboose to a long train of disasters, with a disconsolate State Department pulling along a whole string of derelicts: Libya, Syria, Iran, the Arab Spring and growing tension in the Western Pacific, so that the troubles with Russia pass almost unnoticed as the last car in the series. . . . Under his watch the 70 year old Pax Americana has fallen apart. Al-Qaeda has flourished. President Benigno Aquino of the Philippines caught the tone of rising concern when he warned, in an interview with the New York Times that China was doing to Southeast Asia what Nazi Germany did to Central Europe in the late 1930s. . . . Barack Obama is in trouble and so are we all. It’s time to stop the Happy Talk and for Republicans and Democrats to face the facts. The emperor has no clothes.”

BATTLESPACE PREPARATION: Rand Paul demands Dems return money raised by ‘sexual predator’ Bill Clinton. “Mr. Paul said Mr. Clinton’s settlement with Paula Jones in 1999, in which he paid $850,000 to settle Ms. Jones’ claims of sexual harassment, is an admission of guilt by the former president.”

Notice that the Dems try to change the subject from Bill Clinton’s actual sexual harassment to Rand Paul’s voting record. Hey, Roman Polanski no doubt has progressive political positions.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Nanoparticle pinpoints blood-vessel plaques: A step toward identifying plaques vulnerable to rupture that causes heart attack and stroke. “By loading the surface with gadolinium ions instead of injecting them and letting them flow freely in the blood stream, the nanoparticle increases the relaxivity — or contrast from healthy tissue — by more than 10,000 times. That’s because the nanorod carries up to 2,000 molecules of the contrast agent, concentrating them at the plaque sites. Secondly, attaching the contrast agent to a nanoparticle scaffold reduces its molecular tumbling rates and leads to additional relaxivity benefit, the researchers explained. While the view is better, they are able to use 400 times less of the contrast agent because it’s delivered directly to plaques.”

EUGENE VOLOKH: Bill to block federal funding to universities that boycott Israel. “I think the bill is likely constitutional.” And because of a Supreme Court decision generally regarded as liberal.

QUINNIPIAC: Paul Ryan 48%, Hillary 43%; Rand Paul 47%, Hillary Clinton 43%; Ted Cruz 43%, Hillary 44%; Christie 42%, Hillary 43%.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Charlemagne’s Bones Displayed at German Cathedral Are Likely Authentic.

THE GLYPH HEADSET: The Future of Personal Entertainment, In Your Face.

SO SINCE MARK RIPPETOE STARTED WRITING FOR PJ, Helen’s been reading his columns. Now she’s started reading his book. Soon, soon. . . .

BETTER KNOW A PLAGUE: Measles, Mumps & Rubella.

SHELDON COOPER IS EXCITED: Amtrak’s New 8600-Horsepower Locomotive Reports to Work Tomorrow.

JAMES HUFFMAN: The Real Public Servants. “Tocqueville recognized what nineteenth-century Americans understood and practiced—the public good is served by the individual pursuit of ‘self-interest well understood.’ Among our most public-spirited citizens are those who work with others, without the intervention or aid of government, in creating and sustaining the businesses upon which our economic and social prosperity rest. We should celebrate their public service.”

HERE’S THE VIDEO OF my appearance on John Stossel’s show last night.

TAXPROF: The IRS Scandal, Day 274.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How When Harry Met Sally Explains Inequality: A new study says that educated people marrying each other has increased inequality by 25 percent.

Okay, it probably isn’t fair to blame Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan for our widening income gap. But it is fair to say that When Harry Met Sally tells us something about why the rich have been getting so much richer than everyone else. That’s high-earning college grads marrying each other—which a new paper estimates has increased inequality by 25 percent.

We used to live in a Mad Men world. Few men went to college, even fewer women did, and not many women, period, worked outside the home—not that they had many opportunities if they did. In 1960, 42.5 percent of married women hadn’t graduated from high school. 39.6 percent had only done that. And just 37.7 percent of all women had or were looking for a job. The stereotype is that men married their secretaries, if their wives did work, and there’s something to that—though highly-educated people did still pair up at high rates back then. . . .

That world is gone now. It’s gone, because more people, especially women, go to college. Because women have the chance to work—and earn—more. Because couples need two incomes to afford the same lifestyle that one used to buy. Because people who graduate from college cluster in neighborhoods away from those who don’t. And because people want more from marriage nowadays.

Among affluent marriages, it’s a When Harry Met Sally world, where working men and working women of similar education and income levels bond and marry over similarities—movies, art, paprikash—rather than the differences that defined traditional marriage (he works/she cleans). This new arrangement promises a better world, but it has increased inequality.

Read the whole thing.

TAMMY BRUCE: ObamaCare Isn’t A Train Wreck, It’s A Cancer.

CHANGE: “Do you think George Bush would have been able to do this, or any white president would have been able to do this? No.”

TRAIN WRECK UPDATE: “Doc Shock” Reaches The Masses.

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NOW ON YOUTUBE: My interview with Hugh Hewitt about his new book, The Happiest Life.

VIDEO: PJ Media’s J. Christian Adams on Megyn Kelly last night: Memo Reveals IRS Focusing On Targeting Conservatives.