THREAT AND MENACE: U.N. Report On Magical Realism Warns Of Increased Incidences Of Women’s Tears Flooding The Entire World.  Mind you, the greatest menace is that most things thus classified are third-world, blame American misery-porn fests.

CATS AND DOGS LIVING TOGETHER: Gay New Yorkers Say ‘OK’ to Chick-fil-A.

WELL, THERE ARE CERTAIN SECTIONS OF NEW YORK THAT I WOULDN’T ADVISE YOU TO INVADE: Kathy Shaidle on the anniversary of 1970’s Hard Hat Riot, the coolest 1970s protest you’ve never heard of.

¿QUIÉN ES EL MENTIROSO MÁS GRANDE?

BIG BANG BANNED: Chuck Lorre Shoots Back at Chinese Authorities Over ‘Big Bang Theory’ Ban.

BIG FISH: Rare megamouth shark caught off Japan.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ON BOKO HARAM: “The death toll is usually claimed to be in the thousands, but no one has an accurate tally, in part because the Nigerian government misreports incidents and in part because in its hapless pursuit of Boko Haram, the government has killed so many people itself, many if not most of them civilians. The Nigerian armed forces claim that they kill only terrorists, yet the terrorists’ ravages become more frequent and more vicious with every such claim. So vast and mysterious is the carnage, many otherwise sane Nigerians have come to believe Boko Haram possesses supernatural powers. Its name has taken on an incantatory power. It has become a kind of national synonym for fear.”

DON’T BLAME THEM: Arlington Heights District 214 votes to leave federal lunch program. WHY are the Feds involved in lunch programs, to begin with?

THE MINIMUM WAGE MAKES DEPRESSIONS WORSE: Joe Biden thinks it helped end the Great Depression. It actually extended it, Amity Shlaes writes. Read the whole thing.

DISPATCHES FROM OBAMACARE’S BIRTHPLACE: Massachusetts state Obamacare board pouring $121M more into `lousy situation.’

SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING FROM A SUPERHERO MOVIE: Massive tunneling machine stuck under downtown Seattle, fix could cost taxpayers millions.

ONE IS THE LONELIEST NUMBER THAT YOU’LL EVER DO: It’s also the total number of federal jobs lost to sequestration.

LEE SMITH on George Clooney’s future in-laws in the Druze mountains of Lebanon.

Abdul-Latif’s husband, the non-Druze journalist Hussain Abdul-Hussain, also has some advice for Clooney. “The upside” of marrying a Druze, jokes Abdul-Hussain, “is that if he is worried about having to learn a new religion, he won’t. Most of the Druze themselves know nothing about their faith, so he doesn’t have to fear awkward moments at holiday celebrations like Passover or Christmas, because there aren’t any holidays.”

HOUSE GOP GOVERNING BY MINORITY?:   Once again, Speaker John Boehner violates the “Hastert Rule,” a mode of governing adopted by former GOP Speaker Dennis Hastert that says floor votes should not be taken unless the Speaker is confident he has the support of the “majority of the majority.”  Without such support, the Speaker inherently relies on the minority party to pass legislation, not his own majority.  Yesterday, Boehner allowed the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) reauthorization to pass without the support of a majority of Republicans.  Conservatives opposed OPIC as a “corporate welfare” agency because it subsidizes U.S. companies’ investments in foreign countries.

Why on earth would we subsidize that???

GOOD: Surveillance Reform bill moves forward in Congress. Even if the source of these good news makes me a little uneasy.

GOOD DOG: Dog Protects Missing 3-Year-Old Boy.

SCIENCE: Anti-Aging Hormone Could Make You Smarter.

THIS IS NEWS HOW: Many people with gluten sensitivity have not had proper tests, study says.

UNDERMINING INSPECTORS GENERAL:   Inspectors General (IGs) exist in every federal agency and their job is to uncover corruption, waste, and fraud.  As this Washington Times editorial establishes, IGs are under attack in the Obama Administration, which doesn’t have much tolerance for “inspection” by anyone.

4 PINOCCHIOS FOR OBAMA.

MARK STEYN ON BENGHAZI: The Cavalry That Never Came.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Paul Krugman, Brand Ambassador.

THINGS YOU GET FOR FREE ARE WORTH LESS: New Study Reveals 89% Of Nation’s Food Stamps Squandered On Junk Food.Of course the fact that all the recommendations on what is and isn’t “empty calories” for the last few decades seem to have been wrong, doesn’t help.