I’LL BELIEVE IT’S A CRISIS WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO TELL ME IT’S A CRISIS START ACTING LIKE IT’S A CRISIS: The Left Doesn’t Really Believe In Climate Change.

SHOULD YOU follow your passion?

DUDE, WHERE’S MY RECOVERY? Freddie Mac: Many of the nation’s housing markets are stalling.

YOUR HUNGRY BRAIN: “Compared with other animals, we humans have ravenous brains. Twenty percent of the calories we take in each day are consumed by our neurons as they send signals to one another.”

Feed your head.

GET VACCINATED WHILE PREGNANT, pass protection on to your newborn? “The researchers found no serious side effects in any of the women or infants, and there were no cases of pertussis in either group. But women in the vaccination group had high concentrations of pertussis antibodies, and so did their newborn babies. That did not substantially affect the babies’ response to the recommended four doses of the infant version of the vaccine given from age 2 months to 13 months.”

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AMY OTTO: What The White House Said About Sexual Assault And Why They’re Wrong.

SPYING: UPS Insists That It Is Not Helping The NSA ‘Interdict’ Packages To Install Backdoors.

WAS HILLARY THERE? OBAMA TALKS ABOUT CONCUSSIONS.

ADVANCES IN SEMIAUTONOMOUS DRIVING: Automated System Lets Trucks Convoy as One.

SO WILL THEY START HIRING REPUBLICANS? Google Admits It Has A Diversity Problem. Okay, I stole that line from Jim Treacher on Twitter. But it’s a good one.

JOURNALISM: Jorge Ramos: Reporters ‘Cozy with Power,’ Act Like They’re in a Club. “They have lunch together. They marry each other. They’re way too close to each other.”

REMAIN CALM. ALL IS WELL. The Economy: Don’t Look Now, But . . .

SPACE JUNK: Beyond Gravity: the complex quest to take out our orbital trash.

Here’s a piece that Rob Merges and I wrote on this for the Environmental Law Reporter. And here’s a shorter treatment in Popular Mechanics.

SPYING: Open Source Crypto TrueCrypt Disappears With Suspicious Cloud Of Mystery. This is why I don’t trust encryption. I assume that any encryption product is probably either flawed, or contains deliberate backdoors.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Which Drone Should You Buy?

REMINDER: Operation Choke Point deliberately targets businesses administration doesn’t like. “Operation Choke Point, a credit card fraud task force run by the Justice Department, was created to ‘choke out’ businesses the Obama administration finds objectionable, according to a congressional committee report obtained by The Washington Times. The administration is knowingly targeting these businesses, despite the fact they are legitimate, says a staff report released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.”

LESLIE EASTMAN: Remembering the young men killed in UCSB rampage: These men’s lives were just as valuable as the women’s lives.

Pointing that out won’t help build a narrative for Hillary’s 2016 campaign, which is what all this hashtag mobbing is all about.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 385.

GOOGLE TAPS THE BRAKES ON SELF-DRIVING CARS:

Essentially, Google is building a driverless golf cart, not a driverless car. With a top speed of 25 mph — therefore making collisions less likely to be fatal — there’s less risk that your vehicle will hurt someone if something goes wrong.

There’s a lot to like about this approach. Of course, it means you lose some speed. On the other hand, most commutes aren’t that speedy. And I think many people would rather have a 45-minute commute during which they can read than a 35-minute commute during which they have to listen to talk radio while white-knuckling the steering wheel and silently wishing elaborately horrible deaths on the drivers around them.

It also offers Google a way to prove the concept at relatively low risk. As the technology gets safer and more widely accepted, it can be scaled up and speeded up. If you want to get to a truly driverless future, this ultimately seems like a better bet than trying to build from a “mostly driverless” car. The transition from mostly driverless to fully driverless seems big and scary, compared with the transition from 25 mph to 30 mph … to 35 mph … to 40 mph … and so on.

This would more than double my commute time, so it’s a non-starter even if I could read on the way, I think. But the real market is probably for people who want to go out drinking, where celerity is less important.

BYRON YORK: When Bushies blew a CIA cover, it was ‘treason.’ Now, it’s a mistake. The advantage of having the press in your pocket, in one sentence.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Doubling down on that whole “White Privilege” thing.

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AND TO THINK THEY USED TO JUST FEEL HAPPY AND LUCKY TO BE THERE: Survey: Privileged Harvard Students Feel Marginalized.

They’re paying a lot to feel that way.