LIFE’S TOUGH. IT’S TOUGHER WHEN YOU’RE STUPID. Gawker mulling lawsuit against billionaire it outed.

STILL WAITING FOR RECOVERY SUMMER: US unemployed have quit looking for jobs at a ‘frightening’ level: Survey.

Linking to the article, Kristina Ribali tweets, “Americans are discouraged, barely existing, trapped in poverty by ‘benefits’ that are actually harming them.”

The password is: Curley Effect.

DIVERSITY PROBLEMS: Unquestioned Results and Academic Groupthink.

As someone venturing into academia, particularly into academic research about public policy (policy, not politics), I’ve had to come face to face with some brief facts about the environment I’m about to enter.

Self-selection into academia (and especially social science) tends to attract politically liberal people (more on that later).
Underlying worldview and values play a major role in what research questions are asked and how they are asked.
When results arise, the prevailing intuition of reviewers and discussants may create a false sense of consensus.

Case in point: a paper that was widely circulated and reported originally found that political conservatives exhibited personality traits linked to authoritarianism, less social desirability, and psychoticism. This analysis wasn’t even a central finding of the paper, but it got a lot of attention.

It turns out the opposite was true, and the authors simply didn’t realize their political scale was backward.

I love that.

PRESIDENT OBAMA’S WEALTH DESTROYING GOAL: Taking The ‘Curley Effect’ Nationwide.

Yes, it’s a 2012 article, but I hadn’t seen it before Glenn linked yesterday. If you missed it as well, read the whole thing.

THE HILL: Clinton’s third-term dilemma.

Hillary Clinton faces a unique dilemma on the 2016 campaign trail: How much to embrace President Obama, and how much to run away from him.

Obama remains a relatively popular figure, with a 51 percent approval rating from Gallup and a 90 percent approval rating among Democrats.

Yet public opinion on the Obama economic record is decidedly mixed. Sixty-five percent of Americans think the country is on the wrong track, according to the Real Clear Politics average, while 27 percent say the country is on the right track.

The polling and data can sometimes seem contradictory. Only 42 percent in an Associated Press poll last month described the U.S. economy as good, but two-thirds said their own households were doing well.

Obama can hardly wait to get on the campaign trail with Clinton, and the presumptive Democratic nominee is happy to have him. The two will campaign together for the first time this Thursday in Wisconsin, a state where Clinton will be favored this fall.

Yet Clinton has handled questions about the Obama economy with the care of a politician who can see downsides to fully embracing Obama.

Both Clinton and Hillary always rise in the polls when they’re out of the news. It’ll be interesting to see what effect a big joint campaign swing has.

LUDDITES IN THE STRANGEST PLACES: A California club bans DJs who use laptops … but why?

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TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Lafayette woman accused of recording herself performing oral sex on 1-year-old.

BUT IT’S RACIST TO SUGGEST THAT JUDGES MIGHT BE INFLUENCED BY THEIR ETHNICITY: The Obama Admin Blocked An Iranian-American Judge From Hearing Iranian Immigration Cases.

In 2015, immigration Judge A. Ashley Tabaddor sued the United States Department of Justice after it forced her to recuse herself from “all immigration cases involving Iranians.”

According to reporting from NPR, Obama’s DOJ first became “concerned with the appearance of impropriety” after Tabaddor — who is of Iranian descent — attended a 2012 White House meeting with other high-profile Iranian-Americans.

Why is the Obama Administration so racist?

BATTERED WIFE SYNDROME: “No matter how much the Dems shit on the Media, the Media still love the Dems. Embarrassing!”

A DECADE AGO, A LOT MORE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE BELIEVED THEM: Google denies manipulating search results to favor Hillary Clinton.

WELL, BIRTH RATES ALWAYS PLUMMET UNDER SOCIALISM: Baby Bust: 2015 had lowest U.S. fertility rate ever, down 600,000 births.

BUT THAT DOESN’T ADVANCE THE PREFERRED NARRATIVE: Petula Dvorak: Amid Stanford’s awful sex assault case, let’s hail the men who protect instead of prey.

We are surrounded by men who get it when it comes to sexual assault. Men who protect instead of prey. Men with moral compasses who would never touch a woman without her consent — no matter how drunk she or he might be.

It doesn’t take shining armor or a white stallion to be a hero. Just ask the two Swedish graduate students who were riding bikes, not horses, across the Stanford campus last year and spotted Brock Turner rutting around behind a dumpster with a young woman who was unconscious.

“The guy stood up, and then we saw that she wasn’t moving,” Carl-Fredrik Arndt told CBS News. “So we called him out on it, and the guy ran away. My friend Peter [Jonsson] chased after him.”

They caught Turner and held him until the police arrived, which is how Turner, now 20, wound up being convicted of sexual assault.

The Swedes could have kept biking past and assumed that it was just a sex thing. Move along, not my business. Instead, they saw something, and they did something. And the woman they rescued was profoundly grateful.

“I sleep with two bicycles that I drew taped above my bed,” she wrote in a searing letter to the judge, “to remind myself there are heroes in this story.

But if “real change can only come from the advice being given to our sons” then maybe an education environment that tells them they’re losers and rapists from kindergarten through college isn’t helping.

PEELING BACK THE ONION OF LIES: Breaking: Hillary Clinton Sent Information Marked Classified. “This revelation is another drip in the steady drip drip drip drip of revelations regarding Hillary Clinton’s criminal mishandling of classified national security information. It demonstrates why the FBI is conducting a criminal investigation.” (Bumped).

FLASHBACK: Spengler: Appomattox Through a Glass, Darkly.

PARALYZED BY POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: German girls won’t report sexual assaults out of fear that their Muslim attackers would be “discriminated against.”

ARDUINO: IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? FarmBot is an open-source CNC farming machine. “Designed with the Maker community in mind, FarmBot is driven by an Arduino Mega 2560, a RAMPS 1.4 shield, NEMA 17 stepper motors, and a Raspberry Pi 3. What’s more, all of its plastic components can easily be 3D printed, while its flat connecting plates can be made with either a waterjet, plasma or laser cutter, a CNC mill, or even a hacksaw and drill press.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Rejoice! Today is World Gin Day.

IF IT WEREN’T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS, SHE’D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL: Senator Warren’s Glaring Hypocrisy.

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FINALLY, SOMEONE ANSWERS MY CHIEF OBJECTION TO PUBLIC NUDITY: Japan’s New Nude Restaurant Will Weigh You Before Letting You In.

“RESEARCH” SAYS THIS. That means it’s science. You don’t want to be anti-science, do you? Chocolate cake for breakfast? Research says it’s good for both your brain and your waistline.

BUT SOON, THAT’S GOING TO BE MOST PLACES. Delay Pregnancy in Areas With Zika, W.H.O. Suggests.

YET ANOTHER REASON NOT TO TRUST THE INTERNET OF THINGS: Preventing a Blackout by Taking the Power Grid Offline. What can stop hackers from turning off America’s lights? Old-school equipment that’s not connected to the web.