BLOWBACK: The IRS Is at a Tipping Point: Under Attack, Distrusted, and Underfunded. All of these things are because they betrayed their trust.

TAKE THE TEST: Feminist Shenanigans Or Satire? Bet you can’t tell the difference.

GLOBAL WARMING IS THE PARAMOUNT CRISIS OF OUR TIME, except when it’s not. “While we have no complaints about the final results, we’re also not the ones attempting to guilt you out of flying for the sake of Gaia.”

BETHANY MANDEL: How Bill Clinton Stole A Generation’s Innocence.

SARAH HOYT ON the SFWA’s PC meltdown. Which she can gaze at from the sidelines, thanks to the Internet.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Digital Love Story: Boy Meets Girl, On Flickr.

GOV. SCOTT WALKER ON HILLARY: Throughout her adult life she has been a product of Washington.

THINGS YOU MISS BY NOT WATCHING THE VIEW: Barbara Walters Talking About Her Vibrators. So, are there any TV shows where the male hosts all chortle about their masturbation methods?

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VIDEO: How To Save Yourself If You’re Choking And Alone.

J.D. TUCCILLE ON Connecticut’s Outbreak of Civil Disobedience. “This successful example of mass defiance horrifies the editorial board of the Hartford Courant, which shudders at the sight of the masses not obeying an order that, history, tells us, never had a shot at wide compliance. But compliance with gun registration would have been a historical aberration. Gun restrictions of all sorts breed defiance everywhere they’re introduced.” I love the people who say you could never deport all the illegals, but who think you could lock up all the gun owners.

SO ON THE DOWNSIDE, SKYNET. ON THE UPSIDE, FREE STREAMING MOVIES AND OVERNIGHT DELIVERY! Netflix Is Building an Artificial Brain Using Amazon’s Cloud.

SHOPPING MALLS OF THE PAST: A sample bomb-shelter display.

DISCOVERING A NEW CLASS OF SHAPES.

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SO WHERE’S MY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION? Are Men The Weaker Sex?

THE EVOLUTIONARY PUZZLE OF HOMOSEXUALITY:

Since the early 1990s, researchers have shown that homosexuality is more common in brothers and relatives on the same maternal line, and a genetic factor is taken to be the cause. Also relevant – although in no way proof – is research identifying physical differences in the brains of adult straight and gay people, and a dizzying array of homosexual behaviour in animals.

But since gay and lesbian people have fewer children than straight people, a problem arises.

“This is a paradox from an evolutionary perspective,” says Paul Vasey from the University of Lethbridge in Canada. “How can a trait like male homosexuality, which has a genetic component, persist over evolutionary time if the individuals that carry the genes associated with that trait are not reproducing?”

Scientists don’t know the answer to this Darwinian puzzle, but there are several theories. It’s possible that different mechanisms may be at work in different people. Most of the theories relate to research on male homosexuality. The evolution of lesbianism is relatively understudied – it may work in a similar way or be completely different.

So, basically, we don’t have a clue.

ZAP: Israel Wants to Use Lasers to Shoot Down Missiles.

READER BOOK PLUG: From Walter D. Ray, Tasting Heaven on Earth: Worship in Sixth-Century Constantinople.

SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY, when the low-hanging fruit has been plucked.

DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE, OF MARIJUANA: Tests For THC-Impaired Driving Not Up To The Task. The alcohol tests are actually overrated, too.

WENDY DAVIS IN MORE TROUBLE: New O’Keefe Video: Battleground Texas Violates Election Law to Help Wendy Davis. “James O’Keefe strikes again. He captures the community organizing group Battleground Texas breaking Texas election law. The group registers voters as deputy registrars, illegally copies information from voter registration forms, and then cranks the illegal information into the Wendy Davis campaign for Texas governor.”

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 286.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Heroin found in faculty restroom at Fallsburg elementary school; 7 elementary school staff hire lawyers.

Fallsburg police investigating the reported discovery of heroin and drug paraphernalia in a faculty bathroom at Benjamin Cosor Elementary School say the refusal by a group of teachers to cooperate is hampering their probe.

No one has been charged, but six teachers and an aide were identified as having used the men’s room before a school staff member reportedly found a heroin baggie on Feb. 11.

Just before the winter break in December, heroin and needles were reportedly found in the same bathroom.

Each of the seven faculty members initially agreed to give urine samples, but then rescinded their cooperation and hired lawyers on the advice of the school district’s union, Fallsburg police Chief Simmie Williams said.

For the children!