THOSE CASTING STONES SHOULD PROVE THEY’RE PURE:  The Internet is for Porn.

AND IT IS WONDERFUL IN OUR SIGHT:  Senate Tax Bill Repeals Obamacare Mandate.

MY MOM HAD A LONG JOKE, THE PUNCHLINE FOR WHICH WAS “D*MN, IF THEY’RE GOING TO ARREST PEOPLE FOR SWEARING, THE JAILS WILL SOON BE FULL.”  THIS IS KIND OF LIKE THAT, TOO:   Brian Ross Reports Fake News For The Fifth Time, Finally Gets Suspended.  At this point it might be easier to just say “so and so didn’t report fake news.  The rest should consider themselves suspended.”

A LONG WAY STILL TO GO:  New hope for HIV cure.

NEWS YOU HOPEFULLY WON’T NEED:  How to help if you witness sexual harassment at work.

WAYYYYY TMI:  The weirdest places people are injecting fillers.

IT’S GOVERNMENT HOUSING, BUILT LONG AGO, THAT HAS ENDURED A SUCCESSION OF DODGY TENANTS:  Turns out the White House is a real dump.

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A USEFUL CORRECTIVE FROM RANDY BARNETT:

I think that Tom should read what an actual expert on what the Tea Party believed wrote. Because expertise.

And maybe this.

BLOWING AN ENGINE IN THE MOST LITERAL WAY POSSIBLE: Watch a Diesel Engine Literally Explode on the Dyno. “The engine was pushing 146 psi of boost and more than 2000 horsepower when it popped. And hoo boy, did it pop. We’ve seen plenty of blown engines that blew a head gasket, threw a connecting rod, or lunched a valvetrain, but we’ve never seen an engine block just … disappear like that.”

RIGHT NOW WE CAN’T SEEM TO MAKE ONE THAT PROTECTS YOU RIGHT NOW: Can we make a flu vaccine that lasts for life? The flu shots of the future could protect you for decades.

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“THE LEFT ONLY LOVES AMERICA CONDITIONALLY. I NEVER SAID THIS IN 8 YEARS OF OBAMA:” Stephen Colbert: “England, we need your help. Take us back.”

SHOULD “MADE IN CHINA” BE STAMPED ON THOSE NORTH KOREAN MISSILES? Well, ask yourself how a country so isolated and poor that it can’t properly feed its soldiers obtains the costly and sophisticated materials and technology that go into an ICBM. Or, as Steve Mosher put it on LifeZette today:

“Even more to the point, how did a dirt-poor country that can barely manage to feed its people acquire the sophisticated technical and manufacturing know-how necessary to build nuclear weapons and deploy ballistic missiles? The answer is that it didn’t. Instead, it relied upon its only ally, China — the one country to which it is bound by a mutual defense treaty — to provide these things.”

So, here’s another question: Is China on the one hand telling the U.S. it will will help convince North Korea to stop developing nuclear missiles capable of hitting the continental U.S. while on the other shipping the very parts and know-how that make those lethal weapons a reality? Mosher’s answer is deeply disturbing.

OPEN THREAD: Talk about stuff.

BANG-UP JOB THIS WEEK, SAN FRANCISCO: Wealthy San Francisco residents to get private street back, despite skipping taxes for decades.

OH, THAT FAKE NEWS: ABC News Suspends Brian Ross for Four Weeks Without Pay: ‘Effective Immediately.’

Flashback: ABC News, Brian Ross apologize for report suggesting shooting suspect tied to Tea Party.

ARE THERE ANY IDENTICAL QUADRUPLETS? Identical Triplets Test 3 Home DNA Kits for Accuracy.

AND THE HITS KEEP COMING: Legendary opera conductor molested teen for years: police report.

Plus: Ex-NPR Host John Hockenberry Accused of Sexual Harassment By Multiple Former Employees. Irony: “When she reached out to Hockenberry for the article, he said he was ‘currently searching for employment’ and the last job she could find for him was as a guest host on PBS’s Charlie Rose Show, which has since been scrapped in wake of damning allegations against its host, Charlie Rose.”