SO BE FIT: Fitness, not physical activity, mitigates negative effects of prolonged sitting. ” Findings – published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings – showed that when compared with women and men who were the least sedentary, women and men from the most sedentary group were 83 percent and 63 percent more likely to have cardiovascular risk factors from extended time sitting, respectively. However, when the team took participants’ level of fitness into consideration – measured by having high age-specific cardiorespiratory fitness – they found that the fittest 40 percent had a decreased likelihood of cardiovascular risk factors from prolonged sitting. This finding held true even though the fittest participants spent between 12-13 hours per day sedentary and did not meet current moderate to vigorous physical activity guidelines.”

MAN WRITES TONGUE-IN-CHEEK LETTER TO THE EDITOR ABOUT YOGA PANTS. The result? Death threats, vulgar voice mail and a wave of outrage on local social media accounts which resulted in hundreds of women showing up in front of his house to protest. “His life was disrupted and he’s been turned into a villain, all over a note which he admits he wrote as, ‘a humorous break from the current political campaign rhetoric.’ Now he’s become a symbol of female oppression. And to top it off, Alan is gay and owns yoga pants himself.”

I blame female privilege. Plus: “Here’s one question we might want to be asking: is life simply too easy these days? Seriously. How did that many people manage to find time in their schedules to gin up a social media campaign and organize a protest over this guy’s letter to the editor? Is the country really in such great shape that we have nothing else to occupy our waking hours? Don’t you people have jobs? And if not, don’t you need jobs?”

BUT OF COURSE: Clinton State Department IT Official John Bentel Takes Fifth Amendment During Judicial Watch Deposition.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: The NAACP, Standing in the Schoolhouse Door, 2016.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Hospitals printing 3-D hearts to help in surgeries.

HOSTINGMATTERS USED TO HOST INSTAPUNDIT, and I still use them for my GlennReynolds.com backup site. I recommend them totally and without reservation — they’re great. They’re also offering a special hosting deal now. You can’t trust platforms like Facebook and Twitter. You can trust HostingMatters.

UPDATE: Note all the endorsements in the comments, including one from James Lileks.

I HOPE WE’RE NOT TOO MESSIANIC, OR A TRIFLE TOO SATANIC. They Weren’t Kidding: After-School Satan Clubs Are Now Organizing Across the Country.

The 21st century really isn’t working out how I had hoped.

MAYBE I COULD BORROW SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE: The New Yorker Endorses Hillary Clinton.

VOTE MCMULLIN, GET ROMNEY? Jim Bennett emails:

With McMullin level-pegging with Hillary and Trump in Utah, and the outlier polls showing Trump within striking distance of a Hillary tie, the prospect of an Electoral College deadlock with Romney as the third choice (by McMullin directing his electors to vote for Romney, which they could) is looking better than ever.

What would make that particularly ironic are all the statements from Hillary and Obama about how Romney was , after all, perfectly well qualified to be President. It wold be most amusing if those statements were to come back to haunt them.

Yes, yes it would. Still something of a longshot, but hey, it’s 2016. Anything can happen, even a Cubs/Indians World Series. And I should note that Jim noted this possibility quite some time ago.

NEWS YOUR DM CAN USE: How and When To Go Gonzo in Your Roleplaying Game Campaign.

Moe Lane on Gonzo the Great as the ultimate dungeon master.

HMM:

1.2 mil Floridians have voted by mail: 504k Reps, 483k Dems, 220k others. GOP had 5 point mail advantage at this point in 12. Today, 1.7

— Adam Smith (@adamsmithtimes) October 24, 2016

The five-point early voting advantage in 2012 still wasn’t enough to deliver the state to Mitt Romney.

JUST NBC THE WHITEWASH —  NBC ON DEATH OF PRO-COMMUNIST ACTIVIST TOM HAYDEN: ‘Enduring Voice for Progressives:’

In 1997, [David] Horowitz wrote:

[Hayden] came back from Hanoi proclaiming he had seen “rice roots democracy at work.” According to people who were present at the time, including Sol Stern, later an aide to Manhattan Borough President Andrew Stein, Hayden offered tips on conducting psychological warfare against the U.S. He arranged trips to Hanoi for Americans perceived as friendly to the Communists and blocked entry to those seen as unfriendly, like the sociologist Christopher Jencks. He attacked as “propaganda” stories of torture and labeled American POWs returning home with such stories as “liars.”

Meanwhile, Kathy Shaidle links to an amusing early-’80s SCTV parody of Hayden and Fonda discovering just a few of the many errors of their misbegotten philosophy via Bill Buckley on Firing Line.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: The next frontier in medical sensing: Threads coated in nanomaterials.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: We’re At War Around The World, But Our Campaign Is About Groping. “A different Democratic presidential nominee — former senator James Webb, say, or even Sen. Bernie Sanders — could separate himself from Obama’s policies and their results. But Clinton can’t. Obama’s policies, and their ugly results, are Clinton’s policies as well. Better to talk about sex, even Bill’s affairs, than that.”

JAMES O’KEEFE: BREAKING: Rigging the Election – Video III: Creamer Confirms @HillaryClinton Involvement.

HEY, BIG SPENDER: Facebook co-founder drops unprecedented cash to stop Trump.

Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz vaulted suddenly and without any advance warning to the top rung of Democratic party mega donors with two unheralded tears through his checkbook in the last six weeks. His money significantly altered the short-term financial position of the pro-Hillary Clinton forces and revealed a previously unknown source of cash for Democrats.

In the days after Moskovitz’s money landed, the party’s leading finance operatives struggled to control their excitement at the prospect of finally having an answer to Republicans’ Sheldon Adelson in the shape of a Silicon Valley titan like the ones Democrats have been chasing after for well over a decade.

“This is a unicorn-type campaign gift — you just don’t see someone basically walk into a campaign without a significant track record of activity and contribute at this level,” said veteran Democratic strategist Chris Lehane, a Clinton White House alum who works closely with top party donors in Silicon Valley.

Closely indeed, I’m sure.

RELATED? Could Facebook’s Algorithm Tip an Election?

EVERYTHING OLD IS (OR COULD BE) NEW AGAIN: Disputed Presidential Elections Are Nearly As Old As The US Presidency.

THEY ANSWERED THE CALL: Why the Pentagon Is Hounding CA Veterans for Money.

Nearly 10,000 soldiers — many of whom served in multiple combat tours — have been ordered to repay large enlistment bonuses (of $15,000 or more), the Los Angeles Times reported. Worse, if the veterans refuse, the Pentagon uses interest charges, wage garnishments, and tax liens to recoup the money.

“I feel totally betrayed,” Susan Haley, a 26-year veteran and former Army master sergeant who deployed to Afghanistan in 2008, told the Los Angeles Times.

Haley comes from a family of heroes: her husband also served, and her eldest son lost a leg in Afghanistan while serving as a medic. Haley said she sends the Pentagon $650 every month, a quarter of her family’s income, just to pay the $20,500 in bonuses which was given to her improperly, in exchange for her six-year reenlistment. Haley said she fears her family may have to sell their house to repay the bonuses.

“They’ll get their money, but I want those years back,” she declared.

Read the whole thing.

PAUL RAHE: Do Elections Matter Any More? Only when Democrats win them.

MY WIFE SAYS “MUCH FASTER, PLEASE.” Dutch Designer Creates ‘Smog Free Tower’ That Converts Chinese Pollution Into Diamonds.

MAYBE WE COULD HAVE CONSEQUENCES FOR THE PEOPLE WHO MISLED THEM INSTEAD? Lawmakers condemn Pentagon push to make California veterans pay back enlistment bonuses.

Has anybody asked President Obama — or Hillary — about this?

THE QUESTION IS HOW MANY MORE GOP VOTERS WILL COME HOME BETWEEN NOW AND ELECTION DAY: Ohio GOP chairman who warred with Trump is voting for him.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1264.

THIS ACTUALLY MAKES ME FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEM: Iran’s President Criticizes US Presidential Candidates.