AMY ALKON IN PSYCHOLOGY TODAY: Profiles in (Everyday) Courage: How to be socially courageous.

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: ‘Uniter-in-Chief’ Biden Takes Credit for Starting ‘This Whole Thing’ on Climate Change in ’87. “In fact, Politifact notes, ‘Biden’s bill was not the first time Congress focused on climate change.’”

(Classical reference in headline.)

REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS:

But given the enormous power differential between poor third-worlders and wealthy Western women, can the third-world women give meaningful consent? Also, should the Western women be allowed to discriminate against third-world trans women who lack uteruses?

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UNEXPECTEDLY: Philadelphia’s soda tax bombed as predicted. “Sales in local retail outlets have plunged by more than 50% and mysteriously people are still drinking soda.”

HMM: A Rare Genetic Mutation Leads to Cancer. The Fix May Already Be in the Drugstore.

When Kelley Oliver Douglass got breast cancer, a genetic counselor posed an odd question: Do you and your children have trouble finding hats that fit?

They did, and that gave the counselor a clue to the source of the cancer: a mutation in a gene called Pten.

In addition to increasing head circumference, this rare mutation markedly raises the risk for several cancers, including prostate and breast cancer (the lifetime risk in carriers is 85 percent), as well as autism and schizophrenia in some individuals.

Ms. Douglass, 51, of Mount Dora, Fla., and her children carry a Pten mutation. Now, researchers have stumbled on a way to counter it — and the treatment may be as close as the local drugstore.

In a study published on Thursday in the journal Science, researchers found evidence that a compound called indole-3-carbinol (i3c) blocks an enzyme that inhibits the activity of Pten. With the gene more active, patients with the mutation may be better protected against cancer.

They could get more i3c simply by eating brussels sprouts, broccoli or other cruciferous vegetables. But to get enough, they’d have to eat a lot: six pounds of brussels sprouts a day — raw.

Yet i3c also is widely available as a dietary supplement, and experts are debating whether to embark on a clinical trial with it.

This is good news that they’re trying very hard to make problematic.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Progressive Demagogue-in-Training AOC Likes Billionaires After All.

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST AND/OR THE THIRD WEEK OF MAY: Denver weather: Snow already falling at DIA, up to 18 inches of snow in mountains.

VIOLENT CLIMATE CHANGE is wet and cold. “It is the middle of May and things are looking more like winter than spring. Winter apparently is not finished with parts of the Northeast, nor the West or Europe. In many places around the northern hemisphere its the latest start of spring on record. Cold air coming in from Canada is likely to cause a mix of snow and rain in higher elevations of New Hampshire, Vermont and much of northern Maine by the 14th of May, CNN meteorologist Gene Norman said. That means we will have have had 9 months of winter weather in some parts of the United States as well as in Europe and Russia.”

Fallen Angels is just a science fiction novel, right guys? Right? Guys?

INCENTIVES WORK: Brewery offers free beer for info on stolen van, 42 minutes later, it was located.

THAT WAS FAST: Justin Amash Gets Primary Challenger After Impeachment Stand.

UM… Biden Claims He “Started this Whole Thing” on Climate Change.

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Ask Anna: How do I help my boyfriend have an orgasm?

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KRUISER: Measles on the Move — Outbreak Spreads Beyond New York.

HOMETOWN FAVORITE: Bill de Blasio’s initial poll numbers for the Democratic presidential primary are alarmingly bad.

A TRIUMPH FOR GENDER EQUALITY: Gap in suicide rates among teen boys, girls is closing: Study.

UNEXPECTEDLY! Australia’s conservative coalition secures outright parliamentary majority. The left, which ran on global warming and wokeness, is having a nervous breakdown.

UPDATE: Australian stock market surges to 11-year high off the back of the Coalition’s shock election win.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update for May 20, 2019. “I’m now tracking 24 declared Democratic Presidential candidates. That’s enough to field both side of a football team, plus Mike Gravel as the coach and Beto O’Rourke as the towel boy.”

CHANGE: Mark Levin’s Unfreedom of the Press has dethroned Howard Stern from #1 on Amazon.

CRACKING DOWN ON CHILD ABUSE: Making your kids go vegan can mean jail time in Belgium.

HEH: Salon.com Is Going Out Of Business And That Means Our National Politics Are Healthier Than We Thought.

UH-HUH: Kirsten Gillibrand Claims Georgia’s Heartbeat Abortion Law Is ‘Against Christian Faith.’

THERE’S A “MIRACLE OF THE MARNE” REFERENCE TO BE MADE HERE SOMEWHERE, I’M SURE: The Air Force Wants to Use Air Taxis to Rescue Troops.