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IMPOSSIBLE: ALL THE BEST PEOPLE HAVE ASSURED ME THAT THIS NEVER HAPPENS. Student headed to prison for registering dead voters for Democrats.

IT’S COME TO THIS:

WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT “STUDIES?” Study Finds Good Reason to Keep Having Sex Over 50.

WELL, I KNOW THAT EVERY ARTICLE ON THIS SUBJECT MUST BE ILLUSTRATED BY PICS OF WOMEN IN SWIMSUITS: 13 Surprising Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Sun Protection.

POST-TRUMP, AN AWFUL LOT OF ROT SEEMS TO BE COMING TO THE SURFACE: The FBI’s boss is under investigation for possible hatch act violations. “The Office of U.S. Special Counsel, the government’s main whistleblower agency, is investigating whether FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s activities supporting his wife Jill’s Democratic campaign for Virginia state senate in 2015 violated the Hatch Act’s prohibition against FBI agents campaigning in partisan races. . . . Meanwhile, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s office released to Circa under the Freedom of Information Act documents showing McCabe attended a meeting with his wife and the governor on a Saturday in March 2015 specifically to discuss having Jill McCabe run for state Senate in Virginia as a Democrat. . . . At the time of the meeting, published reports indicate agents in the Washington field office were involved in both a probe of McAuliffe and of the governor’s close friend, Hillary Clinton’s and her private email account. . . . The meeting led to McAuliffe supporting Jill McCabe’s candidacy and ultimately sending her $700,000 in support.”

If Hillary had won, would we even be hearing about this? Trump needs to clean house at the FBI, which appears to be a nest of corruption and incompetence at the top.

ANNALS OF FAKE NEWS: Sarah Palin Suing New York Times For Defamation. “Mrs. Palin brings this action to hold The Times accountable for defaming her by publishing a statement about her that it knew to be false: that Mrs. Palin was responsible for inciting a mass shooting at a political event in January 2011.”

Even as a public figure, I think she’s got a case here. Full documents at the link.

“LUDICROUS:” Ann Althouse on WaPo’s Erik Wemple on CNN: “They got caught! Publicly. They had to put on a show that they don’t tolerate fake news. That’s exactly what a purveyor of fake news would do.”

Related: Project Veritas captures a CNN exec agreeing that the Russia narrative is “bullshit” and volunteering that it’s all about ratings. From the comments: “I’ll bet they knew Veritas had something on them, and that’s why they suddenly rediscovered journalistic ethics the other day. Note that the fallout from that idiocy included a sort of moratorium on additional Russia-Trump stories. I don’t think it was just Scaramucci’s lawyer that scared them.”

I expect O’Keefe will drop another shoe soon.

WHAT MAKES GIRLS TAKE SEXUAL RISKS: DETACHED DADS.

How much do fathers matter to the personal development of their daughters? Scientists studying families have long suspected that domestic instability and insufficient fathering predispose girls to risky sexual behavior, but there was no hard evidence for this view.

A study published in the journal Developmental Psychology in May used an ingenious research design to get some answers. Danielle DelPriore and Bruce Ellis of the University of Utah, working with Gabriel Schlomer of the State University of New York at Albany, teased apart the effects of fathers within families.

They studied 101 pairs of adult sisters from families that had either remained intact or had broken up by the time the younger sister turned 14. In each family the sisters were distant enough from each other in age—at least four years—that they would have had different experiences of their father, especially if he had separated from the family before the younger one reached maturity. . . .

The researchers used retrospective questionnaires to probe parenting and sexual experiences that the women—who were between 18 and 36 at the time of the study—recalled from high school. Sexual risk-taking included promiscuity, unprotected sex and sex while intoxicated. Older and younger sisters reported similar levels of mothering quality, whether their families were intact or disrupted.

But the most striking finding was in older sisters with a large age gap in the disrupted families. The father’s behavior, for better or worse, usually affected the older sister much more than her younger sibling.

If these older sisters communicated well with their fathers and felt close to them, they experienced much more parental monitoring and hung out far less with sexually risk-prone peers. But this kind of fathering had much less effect on the younger sisters, many of whom didn’t have enough contact with their father for him to make much of a difference.

These factors explained the older sisters’ behavior. “The prolonged presence of a warm and engaged father can buffer girls against early, high-risk sex,” Dr. DelPriore said. This doesn’t mean that divorced fathers can’t provide quality care. “A silver lining,” she adds, “is that what dad does seems to matter more than parental separation.” In other words, a divorce may be less harmful for a girl than more years with a bad dad.

The growing field of evolutionary child psychology adds interesting context to these findings. Biologists find that organisms in unstable environments grow up faster and start reproducing earlier than those in stable ones. Theoretically, in a stable environment you can take more time growing into your reproductive activities, focusing on long-term quality rather than on getting an early start. Conversely, in an unstable situation, it might “pay” (in Darwinian terms) to begin reproducing earlier, since in those girls’ worlds, a good man is hard to find.

None of this is exactly news to anyone who has been paying attention. And every “pickup artist” knows that daddy issues are a glowing “welcome” sign.

HIGAMUS HERGAMUS, WOMEN HYPERGAMOUS: “He found that some men who might have been willing to consider lower-paid jobs in typically feminine fields encountered resistance from their wives, who urged them to keep looking.”

DOCTORS, LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE: Pediatricians, Experts Issue Hysterical Warnings Against Summertime Play.

GOVERNMENT TRANSPORTATION, AS GOOD AS GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE: D.C.’s Dysfunctional Metro System Is a National Embarrassment: The D.C. Metro has perfected the art of replicating the traffic woes above ground in the tunnels below.

BUT OF COURSE: Democratic Mayors Only Want Terrorists, Criminals to Conceal and Carry.

Dependency doesn’t just come in the form of money.

VIDEO: John McEnroe Doubles Down on His Anti-PC Comment About Serena Williams.

“Apologize for what?” the wise man once asked.

SERVICE LIFE: The U.S. Air Force’s Stealth F-22 Raptor Will Fly Until 2060.

I was in high school when the Air Force first challenged American aerospace firms to develop proposals for an “Advanced Tactical Fighter” to counter Soviet advances in aircraft and radar. I’ll be in my 90s when the last one is retired.

GOOD: Readily available drug cocktail can help prevent sepsis shock and death: Vitamin C, corticosteroids, and thiamine administered together may help prevent progressive organ failure caused by sepsis, according to a new study.

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WINNING: Trump Claims Victory Over ‘Fake News CNN’ in Wake of Project Veritas Video. “What about the failing New York Times and the Washington Post?”

All in good time.

FASTER, PLEASE: Could humans ever regenerate a heart? A new study suggests the answer is ‘yes.’

HMM: 2018 Defense Budget Defers Buildup for Austerity.

• President Trump’s defense budget would repair, not rebuild, the military. Worse, it lacks the investments necessary to allow a robust rebuilding effort to begin a year from now. The request represents a more muscular status quo at best.

• This budget continues a favored Washington tradition of investing in the immediate and long term while shortchanging the next three to 15 years. This “barbell” investment strategy emphasizes the conflicts of today and the wars of the distant future, while discounting the long bar of the medium term, wherein most strategic and military risk lies.

The entire report [PDF] is available here.

UNDERCOVER VERITAS VIDEO: CNN Producer Admits Russia Story Is “Bull S**t,” Trump “Witch Hunt.”

Back in 2014, when I coined the phrase “The John Birch Left” to describe the more extreme elements of the ideology that once referred to itself as “liberal,” I had no idea they would soon boldly go where the original Birchers had gone before, and start imagining Russians under every rock.

I’m old enough to remember when the worst, most reactionary thing that could be done to a media figure was to baselessly smear him as being a Russian stooge and blacklist him from polite society.

https://youtu.be/QuAWRf1CmiQ

I guess sometimes you have to cut your conscience to fit this year’s fashions.

BUT THAT WAS THEN:

Sarah Palin was presented as a laughing stock for her talk about death panels. What will become of Bernie Sanders?

I LIKE THE NAME: If Ferrari built an M3: The 2017 Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio: This might be the best four-door performance car on sale right now. “Zero to sixty? 3.9 seconds.”

REPEAL APPEAL: Some GOPs Vow ‘No’ on Moving to Healthcare Vote After CBO Score Released.

A big difference between now and 2009-2010 is that Democrats were more than willing to suspend their disbelief for a CBO score obviously rigged by the leadership, but Republicans were apparently never that enthused about repeal.

SO I HAD TO GO OVER TO PARKING SERVICES TO GET A NEW PARKING PASS, AND I EXPECTED THE WORST. But I was in and out in 90 seconds. Hand them the old card, get handed the new card, and go. A big score for the UT parking bureaucracy!