CHICKS DIG JERKS, WRIT LARGE: Lovesick over Charles Manson. Really? “Often characterized as ‘killer groupies,’ this pattern of attraction is sufficiently common to have been assigned a clinical label: hybristophilia, a paraphilia in which someone is sexually aroused or attracted to a person who has committed a particularly vicious or gruesome crime. In its more common form, hybristophiles merely seek to be close to some ‘bad boy.’ Occasionally, however, it can lead to behaviors far more dangerous than mere adoration and devotion.”

PETER WEHNER: Obama Is About to Commit an Act of Constitutional Infamy. So what’s the country going to do about it?

HYPOCRISY, SMOKE, AND MIRRORS: Feminists And Shirtstorm.

I had missed the one where Rose Eveleth wrote, “I assume the lander is just saving its harpoons so it can hunt down that bearded idiot in the gross shirt.” She really is a horrible person, and a horribly childish one as well. I mean, really, you’re covering a huge scientific event for the freaking Atlantic and you’re tweeting that a scientist is an “asshole” and suggesting he should be hunted down? Because his shirt has “ruined” the event for you? What is this, middle school?

Related: “The overreaction to Taylor’s shirt doesn’t just implicitly send the message that women are helplessly vulnerable to the smallest of unintended slights; it makes feminists look witlessly censorious and absurdly humorless.” Look?

Also: Julie Bindel in The Guardian: Feminism is in danger of becoming toxic.

UPDATE: Oh, and I’d somehow missed this by Cathy Young in Time: How to Turn a Cool Moment Into a #ShirtStorm. “Sadly, the brouhaha over Taylor’s shirt overshadowed not only his accomplishments but also those of his female teammates, including one of the project’s lead researchers, Kathrin Allweg of the University of Bern in Switzerland. More spotlight on Allweg, Grady, Alexander and the other remarkable women of the Rosetta project would have been a true inspiration to girls thinking of a career in science. The message of ShirtStorm, meanwhile, is that aspiring female scientists can be undone by some sexy pictures on a shirt—and that women’s presence in science requires men to walk on eggshells, curb any goofy humor that may offend the sensitive and be cowed into repentance for any misstep. Thanks for ruining a cool feminist moment for us, bullies.”

They are bullies. And, like Mean Girls everywhere, they are lacking in any real talent besides that of making other people unhappy and stirring up drama. I do not respect them, and there is no reason why anyone else should. Most cuttingly, I see people on Twitter calling them #WestboroFeminists. That seems about right. They’re willing to invade any event and make it all about themselves.

Also: My mistake. The “harpoon” item was a retweet by Rose Eleveth, not an original tweet, which explains why it was new to me. Retweets aren’t necessarily endorsements, though I suppose all the hearts in front of it from Rose indicate that in this case it was. Also, pretty darn middle school.

MORE: Uberfeminist: “The problem, of course, is not so much the shirt itself – it is that a man, Matt Taylor, chose to wear it.” “We have irrational fears and behaviors, such as crossing the street to avoid the misogynist terrorist in the Halo shirt. We have extreme leaps to condescending conclusions such as the idea that pinups rendered in cotton on the chest of a previously unknown scientist is forcing women into majoring in art history – staying there until the dark day when a professor will choose to get a Matisse tattoo.”

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RACISM IN OBAMA’S AMERICA: Ferguson Protester Wants To Target People Who ‘Don’t Look Like Me.’

PRIORITIES: Some Feminists Think Stopping Jokes Would Help Stop Rape, But ‘Alcohol is Not the Problem.’

IT’S COME TO THIS: Sharpton denies fathering ex-City Hall aide’s troubled teen.

IT’S A FRIGHTENING THING, when poetry comes to Popehat.

THE GO-IT-ALONE PRESIDENCY: Obama to host 18 Democrats, no Republicans, for immigration dinner.

OFF TO A GREAT START, NANCY: In Blow to Pelosi, Pallone Beats Eshoo for Top Energy Committee Slot; Race was seen as a test of the minority leader’s clout within the Democratic Caucus.

PROFILE: Will Happer: Princeton’s Galileo.

I STILL HAVEN’T UPGRADED: It’s Official—iOS 8 Is Apple’s Buggiest Release to Date.

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FASTER, PLEASE: Rice yield increase of 30 percent enabled by use of a photosynthesis ‘switch,’ researchers learn. “Scientists at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture have found that they can harness photosynthesis – the process that plants use to convert light energy to chemical energy – to increase rice yields by up to 30 percent.”

NOAH ROTHMAN: This Gruber-gate supercut video is positively enraging.

Related: Jon Stewart: Democrats Need To “Come Clean” On ObamaCare Lies.

HEALTH: Study Finds Alternative To Statins In Preventing Heart Attacks And Strokes.

CHURCH OF GAIA: Maryland County To Churches: Preach Environmentalism And Get A Tax Break.

I’M SORRY, BUT I CAN’T ACCEPT THIS STUDY WITHOUT MORE THOROUGH RESEARCH: Moderate drinking is healthy only for some people, study finds. “A new study confirms that moderate alcohol consumption can protect against coronary heart disease. But only for the 15% of the population that have a particular genotype.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to carve an axe handle from a log (and a little gratuitous Hipster-bashing). Should I put a “Lumbersexual” trigger warning on this?

ROGER KIMBALL: Watching The Democrats Commit Suicide.

IRS EMPLOYEES APPARENTLY SPEND THEIR TIME sitting around and reading blog comments.

JAKE TAPPER: Obama promised Obamacare wouldn’t do exactly what Gruber says it will do. And what it’s now clear it was intended to do all along.

At a town hall meeting where he campaigned for health care legislation in 2009, President Barack Obama pledged to voters that he did not want any tax on health insurance plans he perceived as wastefully generous to ever impact average Americans. But in recent comments by one of the men who helped draft the legislation, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, that is not only precisely what will happen — but that was the intention of the tax. White House officials had no comment, despite repeated requests by CNN.

It’s Potemkin Villages all the way down.

UPDATE: Academia Runs Interference for Obama: Universities Are Now Taking Down Their Jonathan Gruber Videos.

ROGER SIMON: Oh, Jerusalem.