SCIENCE: New results show neutrinos still faster than light.

OUCH: “With all that in-house comfort, are you surprised he’s so flabby?”

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Democrats’ tax-hike obsession killed the SuperCommittee.

#OCCUPYFAIL: Panicked AP Attempts to Memory-Hole Democrats’ #Occupy Endorsements.

The plan was a simple one. The path to Obama’s second term requires that enough voters forget that our current economic woes are the fault of a failed President who enjoyed two years of having every single item on his wish-list passed by Congress. And so the idea was to create Occupy in order to give the MSM the cover they desired to spend every single day up until the election talking about greed and income inequality in order to blame both for the stagnant economy.

The hope was that by repeating this message incessantly, enough voters could be convinced that Wall Street, and by extension, evil Republicans, were to blame for our chronic unemployment, record deficits, and stillborn economic growth. President Obama who?

Fortunately for America, this plan has not only failed miserably it has backfired completely.

Indeed.

PULLING AN LBJ? National Journal: Democratic Pollsters: Obama Should Abandon Run for Second Term.

JUST THE HAT for the coming cold winter.

AT AMAZON, gift cards.

JOHN HINDERAKER: “It recently came out that James Hansen, one of the two or three most prominent global warming alarmists on whose work the IPCC reports rest, “forgot” to report $1.6 million in outside income, as required by his government contracts. Is that significant? Well, yes.”

SO I RAN ACROSS THIS OLD POST ON BLOGS AND BIG MEDIA FROM 2004, and it’s surprising to me just how little has changed. . . .

Related item here.

TERRORISM FAIL: Muslim Convert Arrested by NYPD in Terror Plot (Includes Video Of Press Conference).

#OCCUPYFAIL: OWS “Kent State moment”? More like “Dorothea Lange moment.”

“I call it ‘Zuccotti Love.'”

JONATHAN SANDERS: So You Think You Hate Punk Rock? Five Bands That Will Change Your Mind. What, no MC5?

AT AMAZON, markdowns in Patio & Garden.

SCIENCE: “Macho” Guys More Accepting Of Safe Sex.

CLEAR-EYED ANALYSIS: Scott Ott, author of Laughing At Obama, reviews Frank J. Fleming’s new book, Obama: The Greatest President In The History Of Everything.

Fleming and Ott are still sandwiching Bill Maher. Does Chris Dodd know about this? (Bumped).

#OCCUPYFAIL: Hazmat Crew Called in to Remove 200lbs of Human Feces Near Occupy Santa Cruz. “Is this proof that the Occupiers dumped 200lbs of poop near some banks? Definitely not. It’s not proof. Did I mention that the camp has a history of sanitation complaints from the city? So, just speculating here, who would have 200lbs of human feces on hand to dump anywhere? Maybe somebody camping with inadequate bathroom facilities. But that’s a lot of poop so it would have to be pretty close. Let’s say within 1/4 mile. Hmmm…could be anybody I guess.”

ED DRISCOLL: #Occupyfail: The Putrid Stench of a Century of Folk Marxism. “It’s those who order us to ‘QUESTION AUTHORITY!’ who invariably do so the least themselves.”

They certainly don’t want you questioning their authority to issue such orders . . . .

#OCCUPYFAIL: “I understand some stay at the Holiday Inn across the street.”

SCIENCE: Female orgasm movie shows how the brain fires up. Entirely safe for work.

SPAIN’S SOCIALISTS lose in a landslide. Spanish voters, tired of war, got rid of Aznar and brought in people promising hope and change. Now they’re broke, and the Socialists are out.

NASCAR CROWD boos Michelle Obama.

Some people will blame racism, no doubt, but the folks at Dateline have already disproved that hypothesis.

UPDATE: #ThingsWorseThanBooingMichelle, on Twitter. Among them: “Allowing the country to lose its credit rating.”

CHANGE: America Edges to Brink of Armed Police Drones. Screw that. I want my own armed drones.

WELL, HE’S SAID IT BEFORE BUT HE’S STILL RIGHT: Human survival depends on space exploration, says Stephen Hawking.

Stephen Hawking says the colonization of outer space is key to the survival of humankind, predicting it will be difficult for the world’s inhabitants “to avoid disaster in the next hundred years.”

The renowned astrophysicist explores some of the most remarkable advancements in technology and health with the new U.K.-Canadian series “Brave New World With Stephen Hawking,” debuting Saturday on Discovery World HD.

Before its premiere, he discussed the earth’s most pressing concerns in an email interview with The Canadian Press from Cambridge, England, declaring space exploration to be humankind’s most urgent mission.

“We are entering an increasingly dangerous period of our history,” said Hawking, who has Lou Gehrig’s disease, leaving him almost completely paralyzed and unable to speak.

I agree.

#OCCUPYFAIL: Berkeley woman assaulted for NOT joining OWS protest. “Join us or else!”

SUSANNAH BRESLIN: Why The Porn Business Isn’t Misogynist. “The porn industry isn’t misogynist. It’s human. Misogyny is Marcotte’s problem, not porn’s.” Marcotte’s list of problems is rather long. Meanwhile, a question: Since about 1970 we’ve been told that it’s sexist and oppressive for men to criticize women’s fantasies and desires. But apparently it’s okay — perhaps even a duty of sorts — for women to opine censoriously on men’s. Why?