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THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: New Drugs Needed For Nerve Gas Exposure.

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WE’LL CALL IT BILL CLINTON THERAPY: Trauma patients may benefit from ice bag on face after blood loss. “Cooling the face of an accident victim who has lost a lot of blood may help prevent a life-threatening drop in blood pressure, according to preliminary research. The researchers said first responders could apply an ice bag to the face of trauma victims to help ensure that their heart, brain and other vital organs continue to receive adequate oxygen. Sudden drop in blood pressure — known as cardiovascular decompensation — is a major risk after blood loss. And it’s even a danger after the patient is no longer bleeding, the researchers added.”

DON’T HAVE SPACESUIT, WON’T TRAVEL: NASA is running out of space suits — and it’s years away from having new ones ready.

GEORGE SOROS, INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY: “In Hungary, It’s a Duel to the Death between the P.M. and ‘Dr. Evil,’” Michael Walsh writes, advising, “Keep an eye on Budapest — what happens there will ripple westward. The whole world will soon be watching.”

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SHOCKER: Most Americans Don’t Want People To Buy Soda And Candy With Food Stamps.

ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION: Spying on Students in the Classroom.

THE PARTY OF NO: Dems threaten to oppose bill to prevent shutdown if health care vote happens before Saturday.

DEADSPIN: ESPN’s Diminished Future Has Become Its Present.

The causes of the layoffs are clear. As ESPN’s subscriber base, and the rate those subscribers paid monthly, grew in the late aughts and early 2010s, Bristol spent flagrantly. They created the Longhorn and SEC Networks, built a massive new SportsCenter studio, hired hundreds of writers to cover specific teams, and, most importantly, spent billions of dollars on live sports rights. They made big bets. They made wrong bets.

Right around the time the ink dried on a $15.2 billion deal to broadcast the NFL, subscribers began fleeing cable television in droves—not because of anything the Worldwide Leader did wrong, but because of secular changes in the way broadcast and video works. Phones, Twitter, and YouTube began instantaneously delivering highlights and entire games to fans, obviating the need for anyone to watch SportsCenter, or any other news shows, to catch up on what happened in sports, or even, in some cases, to watch live games. Terrestrial ad revenue never migrated online, and the revenue to be found there was largely eaten up by Facebook and Google, leaving little to pay those new ESPN.com reporters.

And after spending the last few years annoying much of its subscriber base, ESPN doesn’t have any goodwill to lean on while it tries to restructure itself.

THE INSTAWIFE: Rand Paul: Real Men Cut Taxes.

WAIT, WHAT? The Accord V6 Coupe Is the Last Real American Muscle Car. “This is not a joke.”

GENTLEMEN, YOU CAN’T CRITIQUE HERE — THIS IS A UNIVERSITY! Students Claim Professor Broke Law in Writing Book Critical of Title IX.

TAMARA KEEL: Tips For Buying A Used Gun.

VIDEO: Maxine Waters Forgot How to Say ‘North Korea’

It can be difficult to tell if Waters has forgotten many things, or if she just didn’t know much to begin with.

IT NEVER IS: We Will Hit Peak Oil By 2030 But It’s Not What You Think.

In fact, they’re saying will hit “peak oil” by 2030, but it won’t be because our supply of oil won’t be increasing. It’s because they anticipate demand will plummet as electric cars become more and more enticing. Joel Couse, the chief energy economist for Total S.A.—one of the biggest oil companies in the entire world—told a Bloomberg conference that yes, the end is nigh:

The surge in battery powered vehicles will cause demand for oil-based fuels to peak in the 2030s, Total Chief Energy Economist Joel Couse said at Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s conference in New York on Tuesday. EVs will make up 15 percent to 30 percent of new vehicles by 2030, after which fuel “demand will flatten out,” Couse said. “Maybe even decline.”

And it’s not just Total S.A., either. The Bloomberg story notes that the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, Ben van Beurden, has given an even more aggressive estimate, with peak oil coming in the late 2020s.

I look forward to this new version of peak oil, when electric-car owners will make it possible for me to continue putting cheap diesel into my SUV.

WITH ENEMIES LIKE THIS, WHO NEEDS FRIENDS? Alt-Right Leader Richard Spencer Turns Against Trump: ‘It’s a Betrayal of His Campaign’

TIME TO RETHINK SPONTANEOUS GENERATION? Microbes Have Been Found Growing “Out of Nowhere” After a Volcanic Eruption.

WELL, WE CAN’T HAVE THAT: In Ann Coulter’s Speech Battle, Signs That Conservatives Are Emboldened.

READER BOOK RECOMMENDATION: Reader Walt Pimbley writes:

If you like mil-sci-fi books, you’ll enjoy C. J. Carella’s Warp Marine Corps series. I’m kind of shy of the genre now – I’ve followed too many privates up the ranks to general in their Heinlein knock-off battle armor. But Carella’s future fighters are not from that mold.

Carella’s got a unique vision of what Faster Than Light travel might be, and it drives the strategies and tactics here. There are also lots of alien races, and none of them are sexy or comic, and that’s a plus.

The books have unappetizing titles, which maybe makes them not as popular as they should be. Decisively Engaged has a gripping plot, totally worth the $3.99. The