HMM: Aerobic activities like jogging and interval training can make our cells biologically younger; weight training did not have the same effect. I do interval training, but lifting hard can boost your heart rate just as much.

CYBERSECURITY: The 25 worst passwords of 2018 based on 5 million leaked passwords on the internet.

Have we learned nothing from the numerous hacks and leaks in recent memory?

Apparently not.

Password-management company SplashData released its annual list of the 100 worst passwords of the year based on 5 million leaked passwords on the internet. The worst passwords continued to be “123456” and “password.”

Some of you have switched things up, as there are several new entries to this year’s list, like “donald” ranked at number 23, presumably inspired by President Donald Trump.

Password managers exist to generate strong passwords that you don’t have to remember, and some operating systems even have them baked in. But I also understand that many corporate IT departments have their own password rules, which actually result in less security, not more.

ICEBERG HIT: Weekly Standard, RIP.

AT AMAZON, shop Last-Minute Deals.

DESTRUCTION OF EVIDENCE, OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE: Mueller’s Office Scrubbed Strzok-Page Text Messages Before IG Could Review Them.

CHANGE: Verizon cuts 10,000 jobs and admits its Yahoo/AOL division is a failure.

A POWERFUL STATEMENT FROM IMPRISONED CHINESE PASTOR WANG YI: My Declaration of Faithful Disobedience.

IF YOU LIKE YOUR PLAN, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR PLAN: Barack Obama Slams Those ‘Making Up Whatever Facts They Want’ in RFK Human Rights Award Speech.

COLLUSION: “Everybody knows that the Democrat narrative on the 2016 election got rolling early after Hillary Clinton lost in November of 2016, and Judicial Watch is reporting they’ve obtained documents showing that the Dems had help with those talking points from the highest levels of the federal government.”

I HOPE SHE GETS IT, THOUGH I HAVE MY DOUBTS: It’s Juanita Broaddrick’s Birthday. Here’s What Her Birthday Wish Is.

SPACE DEBRIS: The Pentagon Is Declassifying Lots of Info About What’s in Orbit.

YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW: This Is What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Instant Ramen.

FORMER DEMOCRATIC OHIO STATE SENATOR CAPRI CAFARO: Democrats won’t win in 2020 unless they remember that the road to the White House runs through Main Street.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is Lincoln bringing back a Continental with suicide doors?

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Russian Robot Turns Out to Be Fake, Just Like Everything Else.

JOHN HAWKINS: Christine Blasey Ford Is the Poster Girl for Fake Sexual Assault Allegations. “So why did Sports Illustrated choose Ford to hand out an award?”

Gotta maintain that narrative, John.

BABY, IT’S HOT IN HERE: The definitive, final word on “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” — until next December.

COMING TO MIKE FLYNN’S DEFENSE: Ruth Bader Ginsburg!

Related: Crime Follies: Overcriminalization, Independent Prosecutors, and the Rule of Law.

NICE: Navy Achieves New F-35 Fighter Jet Milestone on USS Carl Vinson.

The Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 147 “Argonauts” completed carrier qualifications Wednesday, a final requirement for the commander of Joint Strike Fighter Wing (CJSFW) to endorse that the squadron has met its safe-for-flight operations certification, the Navy said in a release.

“The safe-for-flight operations certification (SFFOC) is the final step for VFA-147’s transition from the F/A-18E Super Hornet to the F-35C Lightning II,” the release said.

“This process ensures a squadron is manned with qualified personnel to implement maintenance and safety programs in support of fleet operations. All transitioning squadrons are required to complete this certification prior to independently conducting flight operations,” it said.

The Vinson is about to get some interesting new capabilities.

TAKING SIDES: New ‘Network of Concerned Academics’ rallies against the ‘right-wing.’ They’re against “outside agitators” who come around to stir things up. Well that stance has a long history in Democratic Party politics.

WELL, GOOD: I’m a gay conservative and I refuse to ‘shut the f–k up,’ Deadspin.

Many progressives are truly beginning to believe that gay men who hold conservative or libertarian views are not just wrong, but traitorous. Living on a liberal college campus in Massachusetts, I’ve personally encountered this attitude many times. It is sick, sad, and fundamentally regressive.

This particular Deadspin article serves as a case study of how identity politics is an assault on individualism. Thiesen dismisses a gay Barstool writer as a “traitorous queer,” and laughs off the Trump-supporting Silicon Valley tycoon Peter Thiel as just some rich gay cashing in on the Republican Party’s supposed bigotry.

Basically, Thiesen is saying that gay men have to think with their genitalia, and that their sexual preferences strip them of the same right to reason we afford everyone else. This is ignorant, and frankly, blatantly homophobic.

It isn’t homophobia/sexism/racism/assault/rape/lawbreaking when lefties do it.

WHY ARE LEFTY-DOMINATED INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS? CBS Paid Eliza Dushku $9.5 Million To Settle Harassment Claim On Bull. 

Earlier: CBS’ Leslie Moonves sex scandal: Portrait emerges of a culture of fear, entitlement — and little accountability.

And still earlier: Don Hewitt, “who created [CBS’s 60 Minutes] in 1968 and produced the show for 36 years, [was] a journalistic legend. But investigators revealed that CBS continues to pay out a settlement to a woman who claimed that Mr. Hewitt sexually assaulted her on repeated occasions and destroyed her career. The settlement, reached in the 1990s, has been amended multiple times, including this year. In total, CBS has agreed to pay the former employee more than $5 million.”

STEPHANIE GUTMANN: Millennials, banning ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ won’t keep you warm at night. “In the modern, ‘affirmative consent’ version of this classic Christmas song, the man could not care less whether his girlfriend stays or goes. Hot!”

UPDATE: Link was wrong before. Fixed now. Sorry!