I BLAME A PERVASIVE CULTURE OF INEQUALITY AND MISOGYNY: World Champion Women’s Soccer Team Loses to High School Boys’ Team 5-2.

TAXPROF: The IRS Scandal, Day 1430: At Least 1 Top Republican in Congress Really Likes Commissioner Koskinen.

I WONDER WHAT THEIR SECRET IS: Accepted, 8 times over: Ohio quadruplets earn spots at Yale, Harvard. “Honestly, to have one child from a family be accepted to a school like this is amazing. . . . But for all four to be accepted — I just don’t, I don’t know how it happened.” They’re not the first quadruplets to all be admitted to Yale.

UPDATE: First link was wrong before. Fixed now. Sorry!

AND NO ONE IN THE GOVERNMENT WILL LOSE THEIR JOB: 100,000 Taxpayers Compromised In Hack Of FAFSA Tool At IRS.

DON SURBER: NYT Does A 180 on Russia. “Meh, I only quote these losers to point out what bad liars they are. Horrible. They cannot keep their story straight, and they are the only ones believing their lies. Pathetic. They cannot accept they lost last November.”

YOU F***ED UP — YOU TRUSTED US: ESPN Tells Hosts To Get More Political, Then Replaces Black Conservative Who Got Political.

Rush Limbaugh, whose firing marked the start of ESPN’s slow transformation into MSNBC with a more interesting B-roll, could not be reached for comment.

WHAT’S SAD IS THAT SUCH AN OBVIOUS DISPLAY OF COMMON SENSE IS NEWSWORTHY: Federal Judge Says Molestation Law Criminalizing Diaper Changes Violates Due Process.

THE SCOURGE OF BI-PHOBIA.

I WONDER WHERE THAT’S COMING FROM? As Measles Surges In Europe, Officials Brace For A Rough Year.

AT AMAZON, spring savings in Patio Lawn and Garden.

Plus, deals on Wheels and Tires.

HOW TO BE ANTIFRAGILE.

I APPROVE: F.D.A. Will Allow 23andMe to Sell Genetic Tests for Disease Risk to Consumers. “For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration said it would allow a company to sell genetic tests for disease risk directly to consumers, providing people with information about the likelihood that they could develop various conditions, including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.”

TO BE FAIR, IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN THEY DO IT:

HISTORY: How Ancient Literature Could Help Predict the Next Massive Solar Storm.

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Sorry, Democrats, The Obama Spying Scandal Isn’t Going Away.

But the fact is members of intelligence committees are not perfect about how they handle disclosure of classified information. Schiff has a reputation for lacking discretion, but many other Democratic members would be sure to face problems if mild mention of already public surveillance was cause for censure or oblique denials of FISA warrants. If Republicans wanted to make life difficult for Democrats on the committee, they could. Or as one anonymous official on the committee said, “There is evidence that some Democrats have leaked classified material — both inadvertently and intentionally.”

The House is busy with health care discussions and on a spring break. But Rep. Nunes will continue to dig into the potentially improper handling of information collected on Trump associates. And now he’ll have more time to do so. Those who watched him investigating previous intelligence problems know he is like a dog with a bone when it comes to getting to the bottom of wrongdoing. Whether Democrats agree with Nunes’ decision to go public with the news of the unmasking and dissemination of information about Trump associates, the fact that the public knows about it means that an investigation must continue.

Sorry-not-sorry.

SKYNET SMILES: Robo-One Hosts First-Ever Autonomous Biped Fighting Tournament.

MEGABOTS: The Giant Freaking Robot Fight—U.S. vs. Japan—Is Now Set!

My eleven-year-old is thrilled about this — and Dad might be, too.

SHORT ANSWERS TO HARD QUESTIONS ABOUT HPV. “This week, the federal government reported that nearly half of Americans between the ages of 18 and 59 are infected with genital human papillomavirus — some strains of which can cause deadly cancer. The report, by the National Center for Health Statistics, notes that HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States. It also said that some high-risk strains infected 25 percent of men and 20 percent of women, and cause about 31,000 cases of cancer each year.”

KNOWN WOLF: Stockholm Truck Attack Suspect Was Previously Investigated Over Extremism.

Swedish police said Saturday they were racing to draw a more complete profile of the man, who was apprehended Friday night in a Stockholm suburb after a five-hour manhunt, to determine whether he acted alone or as part of a broader network in what authorities called a terrorist attack.

The suspect had been flagged as recently as last year, authorities said. An undisclosed source had alerted authorities that he posed a potential security risk, said Dan Eliasson, the head of Sweden’s national police. Sweden’s security services determined, however, that their information on the man was of a “marginal character,” he added.

“We are of course analyzing his social media, his contacts, his whereabouts to examine his links” to foreign terrorist groups, he said.

Clearly, the West sucks at vetting. Either procedures improve or more people die.

BUT IF IT SAVES JUST ONE MICROWAVE, ISN’T IT WORTH IT? Idaho’s $4.3 Million Solar Project Generates Enough Energy to Run ONE Microwave Oven.

(Classical allusion in headline.)

NEVER FORGET: Vogue’s Fawning Profile of Asma Al-Assad. The link to the Vogue story in that piece is now dead, but here’s an archived copy.

YESTERDAY IT WAS THE RUSSIANS: Hillary Clinton says misogyny ‘certainly’ played a role in 2016 election loss.

Women-hating Russians with frog avatars told her not to campaign in Wisconsin.

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST: Left’s Talking Point On Gerrymandering Put To Rest.

During the second half of the Obama era, it became an article of faith among many Democrats that Republicans had essentially stolen the House of Representatives and polarized the government by nefariously redrawing district lines in their party’s favor. But it was always clear to impartial observers that the impact of gerrymandering had been greatly exaggerated, and that demographic changes in the distribution of the population played a far greater role. A new analysis from the nonpartisan Cook Political Report confirms this: “As it turns out, gerrymandering wasn’t as much of a factor in the House’s polarization as some redistricting reform advocates might argue. Of the 92 “Swing Seats” that have vanished since 1997, 83 percent of the decline has resulted from natural geographic sorting of the electorate from election to election, while only 17 percent of the decline has resulted from changes to district boundaries.” . . .

But however comforting it might be to imagine that Congressional polarization is the result of reversible partisan machinations, the fact is that it has much more to do with broad-based geographical sorting. Democrats trying to break out of their “built-in” disadvantage in the House and state legislatures should spend less time railing against gerrymandering and more time trying to reach voters outside of their dense, hyper-sorted urban strongholds.

Hey, toward the end of the campaign, Hillary had a “rural outreach” person at her Brooklyn headquarters.

FAITH MOORE: New York Times Op-Ed Says Families Where Wife Stays Home Aren’t ‘Egalitarian’

Arbeit macht frei?