THIS ISN’T SURPRISING, GIVEN THAT TESTOSTERONE IS A POTENT ANTI-DEPRESSANT: Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer Tied to Depression. “Compared with those treated with other therapies, men who received androgen deprivation therapy were 23 percent more likely to receive a diagnosis of depression, and they had a 29 percent increased risk of having inpatient psychiatric treatment. Longer hormone treatment increased the risk.”

AT AMAZON, deals galore in Training & Fitness.

And shop the Amazon Emergency Prep Store. Plus, Emergency & Long-Term Storage Food Deals. When bad things happen, it’s good to have food.

Plus, Generators and Portable Power for Storm Season. Or if a generator isn’t practical, consider an inverter.

Winter’s over. What with all the Zika news, I’m guessing that the mosquito control stuff will be a big item this year.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Are Financially Desperate Law Schools Using A ‘Reverse Robin Hood Scheme’ To Stay Afloat By Exploiting Poor And Minority Students?

LSD’S IMPACT ON THE BRAIN REVEALED IN GROUNDBREAKING IMAGES: First modern scans of people high on psychedelic drug has given researchers unprecedented insight into neural basis for its effects.

Glad to see direct testing on humans confirming the earlier results of  experimentation on insects:

SUBJECTS DON’T GET PRIVACY. RULERS GET PRIVACY. Obama: The Word ‘Classified’ Means Whatever We Need It To Mean.

UH OH: ‘Scarier than we initially thought’: CDC sounds warning on Zika virus.

YOU ONLY NEED PRIVACY IF YOU’RE A CRIMINAL, CITIZEN: First came the Breathalyzer, now meet the roadside police “textalyzer:” Drivers in accidents could risk losing license for refusing to submit phone to testing.

BREAKING: Paul Ryan to Dispel Presidential Rumors.

FUTURE ENERGY: Desk-Size Turbine Could Power a Town: GE sees its new turbine as a strong rival to batteries for storing power from the grid.

ACADEMIC ABSURDITY OF THE WEEK: VEGANSEXUALITY STUDIES!

It’s only Monday, but we have the clear winner for the academic absurdity of the week, from Feminism & Psychology, another must-read journal:

Vegan Sexuality: Challenging Heteronormative Masculinity through Meat-free Sex

Annie Potts, New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies

Jovian Parry, New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies

Hey, it’s co-authored by Annie Potts! She’s long been on the cutting edge of scientific research:

(I know, I know, but it’s still a nice bit of synchronicity, nonetheless.)

PRESIDENT ASH CARTER DEMANDS A KINDER, GENTLER MILITARY: “Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told sailors aboard the USS Blue Ridge that ‘the American approach to things’ is ‘not to carve things up, it’s not to intimidate people or to coerce people to exclude people.’”

So much for the notion of “peace through strength” and “We win, they lose.” But hey, better dead than rude, right?

(Classical reference in headline.)

CHANGE: Concern about crime soars; non-whites most concerned. “46 percent of whites worry a good deal about crime, compared to 68 percent of nonwhites.”

RULES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Prosecutorial Abuse Goes Unpunished in Massachusetts: Even when cases are overturned over prosecutor misconduct, judges often refuse to name names.

FASTER, PLEASE: Inside a Billionaire’s New Interstellar Mission: Yuri Milner is spending $100 million on a probe that could travel to Alpha Centauri within a generation—and he’s recruited Mark Zuckerberg and Stephen Hawking to help. “Milner’s Starshot initiative dwarfs all previous investments in interstellar travel. In 2012, DARPA announced its own “100 Year Starship” project, to much fanfare—but its budget was only $1 million, and perhaps for good reason. At the time, most interstellar mission designs were theoretical to the point of fantasy, or they were too expensive to pursue. Some had price tags in the trillions.”

Related item here.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Teacher Charged With Sexual Assault: Teacher professed love to student she called ‘Baby Boo,’ messages show. “A former New Berlin high school teacher professed her love to a student she called ‘Baby Boo’ while she planned her wedding to her now-husband, text messages contained in a police report show. Sara Domres, 28, was charged last week with two Class H felony counts of sexual assault of a student.”

RICH STATES, POOR STATES.

CRIMINAL LAW OVERREACH: 2 UGA players face felony gun charges for shooting BB gun in dorm. “The way the statute reads, anything that shoots a projectile — ‘including a straw and spitball’ — fits the definition of a weapon on campus, Stephens said.”

GERMANY’S RESPONSE TO THE COLOGNE SEXUAL ASSAULTS: Regulate “sexist” advertising. Yeah, that’ll work.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1069.

A RACIST JOKE SO BAD THAT NOT EVEN DEMOCRATS GET A PASS. My question: Does Hillary shop at the same store as Dr. Evil?

Plus: “Half a century of political experience between them and neither of them thought, ‘Hmm maybe this won’t go over well.'”

ANDREW KLAVAN: Why Corporations Oppose Religious Liberty — “Inclusion” is just coercion in disguise.

IT’LL TAKE ANOTHER PRESIDENT TO MAKE THAT WORK: Pentagon Reform: Hope Springs Eternal:

Partly as a result of the cumulative, multi-year effects of sequestration, and partly because personnel and O&M (operations and maintenance) costs continue to outstrip annual overall defense budget growth, both military end strength and force posture have declined since the final year of the George W. Bush Administration. In particular, overhead and support now comprise over 40 percent of total Pentagon spending—some $240 billion out of a base budget of approximately $550 billion. As such, DoD’s overhead figure is more than twice the combined total defense budgets of France and the United Kingdom. The cost of DoD headquarters alone amounts to over $40 billion, more than the entire German defense budget.

These developments, coupled with the growing recognition that cutting-edge technology increasingly resides in a private sector that is chary of doing business with the government, have led to a renewed effort, both on Capitol Hill and (not surprisingly) to a considerably lesser extent in the Pentagon, to modernize and render more efficient programs and procedures that in some cases hark back more than half a century.

Not surprisingly, skeptics doubt that reform is possible. History certainly is on their side.

This is nice, but the Obama Administration’s unbending efforts to de-warriorize the military and turn it into a social-justice program are a bigger issue for the next president.

AND NOW, HERE IS  TODAY’S OUTRAGE FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS: Officials at VA’s Phoenix hospital manipulated wait-time data to make it appear they were connecting doctors and veterans seeking appointments much faster than they actually were. This was done so VA managers at the Arizona facility could keep getting generous performance bonuses. They got their bonuses but dozens of waiting veterans died.

How does VA respond? They transferred Deborah Amdur from her post managing VA’s White River Junction hospital in Vermont to Phoenix amid much hoopla about her being a turnaround artist.Well, guess what VA officials soon learned from their department’s Inspector General?

“The same week Amdur took over the Phoenix hospital, her superiors saw papers confirming the Vermont hospital had the same issues with wait-time falsification — with equally deadly results — as Phoenix,” reports Luke Rosiak of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group.

You might think that would be enough for VA officials to cancel Amdur’s transfer. You would be wrong: “VA officials are typically aware of the general thrust of IG investigations and are given draft reports prior to their release to the media and the public. A VA spokesman refused to tell The Daily Caller News Foundation when agency leaders received a draft copy or why Amdur’s transfer wasn’t cancelled because of the findings,” Rosiak reported.

‘DIABETES HERE I COME’ NOTE OFFENDS STARBUCKS CUSTOMER:

A Starbucks customer in Florida wasn’t too pleased to see something printed in place of his name on a freshly made grande white mocha: “DIABETES HERE I COME.” (See a tweeted image of the offending cup here.) But the still-unidentified man had a personal reason to be upset about it, reports Mashable. “That first word just automatically brought the picture of both sisters in my head, and I was taken aback,” says the man, who has two sisters with Type 1 diabetes. “Just the struggles they went through and all the doctor appointments they had.” After having the coffee drink delivered to his office (an employee did the coffee run), the man went down to the St. Augustine-area Starbucks himself.

Reminder: last year, Starbucks’ CEO Howard Schultz expected the same young people who mock their customers to enlighten them on race relations.