NIFTY: Qualcomm can charge your phone faster than you can read this story.

Quick Charge 4 will provide up to 5 hours of battery life on just a 5-minute charge, said Everett Roach, Qualcomm’s senior director of product management, at the Snapdragon Tech Summit on Wednesday.

“We put a lot of hard work and engineering into new products, and we’re gonna deliver what we hope is a much better charging experience from 2016,” Roach said.

The charging capabilities will also be integrated into Qualcomm’s next generation of mobile processors, including the Snapdragon 835.

I hope Qualcomm has any bugs ironed out of this. Leaning too hard on rapid-charging is believed by some to be the culprit behind Samsung’s “exploding” Galaxy Note 7.

BEGIN THE HEALING, DAILY SHOW-STYLE: ‘Daily Show’ Correspondent Sees Racist White House As ‘A Great Thing’

POLITICKING BY UNIVERSITY RESULTS IN IRS COMPLAINT:

The Claremont Independent has learned that a concerned individual has lodged a complaint with the IRS in response to Pomona College’s promotion and funding of an anti-Trump rally.

As the Independent reported this week, Pomona College’s Draper Center for Community Partnerships may have run afoul of federal non-profit regulations by reimbursing transportation costs to and from a rally against Donald Trump in Los Angeles on November 9th. Draper Center staff also promoted the event on Facebook and organized bus transportation for students who wished to attend.

As a 501(c)(3) educational institution, Pomona College is prohibited from engaging in partisan political activity with tax-exempt dollars. If an investigation is launched, it could lead to the revocation of Pomona College’s tax-exempt status, among other possible sanctions.

In a statement to the Independent, the office of Pomona College President David Oxtoby acknowledged the College’s financial commitment to the rallies but stressed that it did not constitute political activity.

Uh huh. See, this is another reason why colleges shouldn’t take sides. And I suspect that there will be a lot more of those marginalized conservative students taking them to task on this.

THEY DO KNOW 1984 IS NOT A MANUAL, RIGHT? RIGHT? Swedish Union Opens Hotline to Let Women Report Instances of.. Mansplaining.

BELIEVING THE MSM? WHY? No, Trump won’t roll back gay rights.

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DID ELIZABETH BATHORY KNOW SOMETHING?  The hottest new beauty trend is your blood.

THE OPPOSITION TO BANNON: Does it have any point at all? The media spin is working toward delegitimizing Trump further by casting his advisor Steve Bannon as an alt-right, antisemitic, neo-Nazi éminence grise.

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SPEAKING OF KIDS, SOME ARE ALL RIGHT: California Potheads and the Half-witted Twits. (Fixed, link inserted, sorry.  Sometimes my program does that when I press “post.”)

WELL, SOMEONE HAS TO ADULT: Kids, how to talk to your over-emotional parents about the election.

FASTER, PLEASE: In Wake of Brexit, Trump, European Union May Break Apart.

PROTON PUMP INHIBITORS may increase stroke risk.

HEH: If the “arc of history bends towards justice”, Trump will do for media what Obama did for coal.

I WAS ALWAYS SUSPICIOUS OF SKIM: Whole-fat milk consumption associated with leaner children, research finds.

DOESN’T FIT THE NARRATIVE: Trump is believed to be the first private club owner in Palm Beach — in this case Mar-a-Lago — to admit a gay couple. This is not the resume of an LGBT foe.

A QUIET AFTERNOON WITH THE BBC: Bob Tyrrell of the American Spectator baffles the Beeb by referencing that extremist hate group – the Knights of Columbus!

The interview got off to a bad start and became worse. The moderator commenced with: “The first ever black president will be followed by a president who was endorsed by the KKK.” Then I was asked, “Where does that leave you?” My response was what any normal American would say, “I can’t imagine anybody [sic] more marginal to American elections than the KKK.” I went on to say, “every four years the KKK comes up because people like Hillary want to bring the KKK up.” I began to add that the Klan was composed of a few hundred stoneheads living marginal lives in the American outback, until they could be dredged up to serve the Democrats’ malign purpose, but the moderator interrupted me. “So it doesn’t shock you?” I responded why not talk about the influence of the Knights of Columbus?

My interlocutors apparently had no idea what the largest Catholic men’s organization in America might be. The host inquired, was it “another extremist group?”

Almost as dangerous as the Rotary Club.

I BLAME DONALD TRUMP, AND INTERNALIZED MISOGYNY. Study shows India has suffered nearly 60% of the world’s 127 selfie deaths.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Get Us Off This Earth: If humans are going to survive for the long term, we have to leave the nest.

NOT COOL, EH! Canadian Brewery Cuts a Retiree Perk: Free Beer for Life.

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: U.S. Navy, Marine Corps Rated ‘Marginal’ in New Military Strength Report.

IN OTHER NEWS, TIDE DOESN’T RECEDE DESPITE COMMANDS FROM CONGRESS: Drug prices don’t budge even after pressure from Congress.

SHOCKINGLY, THIS CAR REVIEW NOT DONE BY STEPHEN GREEN: Is That Autonomous Car Going To Spill Your Drink?

‘REPORTER’ EMPLOYED BY THE PAPER THAT BROKE WATERGATE: If You Ask Questions About Anti-Trump Riots, You’re A Crazy Conspiracy Theorist.