YEAH, IT WAS A HIT JOB BY GAWKER, but the buried lede is that the NYT hires people without reading what they’ve written in the past.

JOHN MCCAIN ON LORETTA LYNCH: ‘No Republican should vote for her confirmation.’

SCIENCE: Study: Hunting Increases Levels of Love Hormones in Men.

Researchers tracked the Tsimane people, an indigenous population of foragers and farmers in the lowlands of Bolivia’s Amazon basin, and found that male testosterone levels spiked during a day of hunting. Men who had large testosterone spikes during the day experienced corresponding increases in oxytocin, a hormone thought to promote intimacy and romantic feelings in relationships and to increase empathy and trust. Scientists also think the hormone is an important factor in monogamous pair bonding.

For decades, feminists (and their self-loathing male accomplices) have been trying to browbeat men into acting more like women under the premise — false as it turns out — that emasculated men would be better partners and we could finally achieve societal Utopia (or something). Men have been told that if they could only free themselves from the wicked effects of testosterone, all would be well in the world (and the women would finally stop being mad at them all the time).

As it turns out, the science wasn’t settled on this and it looks like we’ve been going about it all wrong. It seems that pistols — not Pinterest — are the path to a happy relationship.

The only shocking thing is that this is a surprise.

GOP LEGISLATIVE IDEA: Federal “Climate Change Tax” of 50% on all new construction within one mile of coasts, because of projected climate-change induced sea level rises.

THE 21ST CENTURY, WHEN SOFTWARE UPDATES FOR CARS ARE NEWS: Tesla’s Plan to Kill Range Anxiety With a Software Update.

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SHOCKER: Hillary Clinton Promised To Disclose Foundation Donors, But Didn’t.

THE COPYRIGHT TROLL STORY ALWAYS SEEMS TO GO THE SAME WAY: Rightscorp Discovering That Harassing Broadband Users Isn’t The Cash Cow It Thought It Would Be.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY: Get ready for Optimus Prime shipping: FAA approves Amazon drone experiments.

READER BOOK PLUG: From Sabrina Chase, Jinxers.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: How 2 Transgender Porn Stars (And 1 Queer Producer) Are Changing Porn Forever.

BARRIERS TO ENTRY: John McGinnis: The California Bar’s Self-Serving Proposals For Mandatory Pro Bono.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Amidst 70% Enrollment Decline, Appalachian Law School Sheds 60% Of Its Faculty And Seeks Affiliation With Another College To Survive. “At the height of enrollment, there were approximately 150 students in a graduating class at ASL. … [There were 145 1Ls in Fall 2011.] Compare that to the incoming class for 2014 which was approximately 45. … Some estimate that number will drop even more for this coming Fall.”

YEAH, I DON’T THINK THAT’S THE BIGGEST PROBLEM: More Bad News: Mars One is Almost Completely Uninsurable.

IN WISCONSIN, “OUTSIDE” PROTESTERS ARE JUST AN ARM OF THE DEEP STATE: A county official is caught on surveillance cameras letting protesters into the City-County Building (which houses the Madison Police Department).

HE DOESN’T CARE WHAT PEOPLE THINK. AT LEAST, NOT WHAT VOTERS THINK. Josh Kraushaar: On Iran, Obama Is Ignoring Public Opinion at His Own Peril: The president’s pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran underscores the lengths to which he is willing to bypass public resistance.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Ex-Chicago State Administrator: I Was Pressured to File False Harassment Claim Against Faculty Critic. “A former high-level administrator at Chicago State University alleged in a statement filed yesterday in federal court that Chicago State President Wayne Watson pressured her to file a false sexual harassment complaint against Professor Philip Beverly, an outspoken faculty critic of Watson’s administration.”

One advantage of the punitive-but-vague harassment rules is that they’re excellent tools for the suppression of dissent. The only response is to punch back twice as hard, as an eminent Chicagoan has suggested.

“SMART DIPLOMACY:” September 2009: Obama Diplomacy in Wretched Miniature.

David Petraeus: Iran more of a threat than ISIL.

Richard Fernandez: “Obama’s foreign policy has nowhere to go, but he’s prepared to go there with considerable velocity.”

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 680.

A STREETCAR NAMED CROOKED AND INEPT:

In my eight years in Washington, I have come to love its fabled streetcar project. I say “fabled” because as of this writing, we do not actually have any streetcars. No, wait, that’s wrong. We totally have streetcars. What we do not have are streetcars that actually ferry passengers hither and yon, rather than sitting in storage or going on endless test runs that all too frequently end in flames. The project has been hilariously mismanaged from start to (never-never) finish, though it would be a lot more hilarious if we hadn’t spent millions upon millions of taxpayer dollars on it.

Nonetheless, I am sad to hear that my fair city may terminate its streetcar service. We’ve got the tracks, we’ve got the cars, we’ve got a whole lot of new buildings along H Street that were counting on its existence, so we might as well just run the silly thing. Particularly since failing to do so has implications for future development.

I think canceling it is good, since it tells developers that it’s a waste of time bribing politicians who don’t stay bought. The long-term benefits of that seem significant.

POLL: 54% want a ‘fresh face’ in 2016, not Clinton.

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EXCLUSIVE! MUST CREDIT INSTAPUNDIT! Exclusive inside video of the prototype for Hillary Clinton’s proposed mandatory fun camps!

MICHAEL GERSON: Hillary Clinton’s Nixonian Path To The Oval Office. Nixon wouldn’t have dared to do what Hillary feels entitled to.