FEMINISM: Good for the top 15% of women, but what about the rest? Well, maybe, but it’s not quite that straightforward.

TOO BUSY SPYING ON TEA PARTIERS? Intelligence Failure: Why Didn’t The United States Catch On To The Ukraine Invasion Sooner?

TO BE FAIR, A LOT OF PEOPLE FEEL THAT WAY THESE DAYS: NY Times WH Correspondent Peter Baker: Putin Just Doesn’t Respect Obama.

OBVIOUSLY, WOMEN SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO DRINK AT ALL, SINCE THEY’RE NOT MATURE ENOUGH TO HANDLE IT: The New Sexual Double Standard: When Alcohol Is Involved, Men Are Rapists And Women Are Rape Victims. I guess they should be kept at home until marriage, so that they’re always under the supervision of a responsible male, since they’re not up to autonomous decisionmaking out in the wider world.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: “Is it backward to expect a wife to be submissive to her husband?” It used to be. Now it’s approaching deliciously transgressive.

AN UNFOLDING Crimean Cyber-War. They tested this out in Georgia.

If I were a small country bordering Russia, I’d work hard to develop the ability to blow up some Russian oil and gas pipelines.

UPDATE: Hmm.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Europe’s Largest Oil Refinery Catches On Fire, Happens To Be In Russia.

The refinery is OJSC TANECO, formerly known as the Nizhnekamsk refinery, in Tartarstan. If you get into your Lada and drive due East from Moscow, you’ll get there in about 14 hours.

Reuters reports that the fire was put out the same evening it started and there were no injuries. It will take a few months to get production back up.

It churns out 140,000 barrels of gas and diesel a day, and that production all goes to Russia.

Hmm. Nobody hurt, but production out for months. Production that all goes to Russia. Hmm.

CAN YOU SUE YOUR MOM AND DAD FOR TUITION? Sure. At 18 you’re only an adult for purposes of screwing and voting. You’re a dependent for all other purposes until 26, when you’re not on their health insurance any more. Because autonomy!

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Also, bestsellers in Health, Fitness & Dieting.

WELL, TAXPAYERS ARE PAYING: Federal Agencies Spend Millions On First-Class Flights. “Premium travel reports from 14 federal agencies documenting the flights show these agencies alone spent an estimated $8.7 million on 1,903 upgraded flights in those two years. That was about $6.4 million more than the same coach and government-rate flights would have cost.”

AN ARMY A DIPLOMATIC CORPS OF DAVIDS: Louise Mensch vs Russia – the Twitter row. Frankly, she’s doing better than the U.S. State Department.

CHANGE: Apple Tightens Grip on Worldwide Supply Chain With Asia Hiring Spree.

Now, see, if they cared about their carbon footprint they’d be moving all their manufacturing to the United States.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Keep Your Kegerator Foam-Free. I’ve thought of putting one in, but I figure if I had one, it would come with 20 pounds of beer gut.

AND YET WITH ALL THE SPYING, THEY COULDN’T STOP THE TSARNAEVS AND THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE WAS A SURPRISE: ACLU Report On Metadata Details Law Enforcement Abuse, Shows There’s No Clear Cutoff Between Content And Data.

APPARENTLY, I’M NOT OLD ENOUGH, THEN: Ronan Farrow: The Young Man Only Old People Like; Young Blue Eyes fails to bring young viewers to MSNBC. I look at him and I’m all backpfeifengesicht.

TURN OFF “LOCATION SERVICES” NOW: Report: Facebook Buying Drone Manufacturer.

WELL, THIS SUCKS, AND WILL CAUSE ME TO LEAVE KEURIG, I EXPECT: Keurig’s next generation of coffee machines will have DRM lockdown: Green Mountain fixates on controlling the coffee pod market.

Keurig is setting itself up to attempt a type of coffee “DRM” on the pods used in its coffee-making machines, according to a report from Techdirt. Keurig’s next-gen machines would be unable to interact with third-party coffee pods, thus locking customers into buying only the Keurig-branded K-cups or those of approved partners.

That’s just lame and tacky.

SOUNDS LIKE A PRIME TARGET TO ME: Intel Designs a Safe Meeting Place for Private Data: A super-secure place for sensitive data to mingle could free companies to get the benefits of sharing it without risking leaks.

WHY WE SHOULD BE ENCOURAGING U.S. COMMERCIAL SPACE COMPANIES: Michael Belfiore: What Happens If Russia Refuses to Fly U.S. Astronauts?

WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE at the bottom of the ocean.

ASIA PIVOT? NOT SO MUCH: “Right now, the pivot is being looked at again, because candidly it can’t happen.”

RACISM, STRAIGHT UP: Rutgers faculty urge school to drop Condoleezza Rice as speaker.

OBAMA WHITE HOUSE CAREFULLY MANAGING IMAGERY TO SEND MESSAGE OF PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH.

MICHAEL TOTTEN: Pity The Vassals Of Moscow.

RICHARD EPSTEIN: When Our Government Commits Fraud: The executive branch has behaved duplicitously in its dealings with Fannie and Freddie’s private shareholders.