STAY THIRSTY, MY FRIENDS: Locked in convenience store beer cooler, Wisconsin man starts drinking.

HOLLYWOOD COLLAPSES LIKE A HOUSE OF CARDS: Actor Anthony Rapp: Kevin Spacey Made A Sexual Advance Toward Me When I Was 14.

UPDATE (From Ed): At Twitchy, “OMG. Did Seth MacFarlane and ‘Family Guy’ warn us about Kevin Spacey?!”

Sure looks that way:

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN): “Note to media: when an A-list actor quasi-admits to attempted molestation of a 14-year-old, the headline isn’t that he’s coming out as gay.”

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BUT OF COURSE: Rickrolling is sexist, racist and often transphobic in context.

CARBON LIMITS FOR THEE, SPARE PRIVATE JETS FOR ME: Why People Hate Big Business. “Perhaps it might have made sense if Immelt delivered stellar returns for GE shareholders, but GE has been one of the worst performing blue chip stocks of the last 15 years. In fact the value of GE stock fell by half during Immelt’s 15 years as CEO, and is down 25 percent just this year alone.”

UPDATE (From Ed): Immelt was likely flying around with his spare private jet during the period that ended in 2013, when GE still owned MSNBC and NBC, which frequently hectored (and still does so) its viewers on global warming — including this infamous moment in 2007:

TAMARA KEEL: 10mm Auto: What’s the Big Deal?

STANLEY HAUERWAS WAS A FRIEND OF MY DAD’S AND HE’S A SMART GUY, BUT THIS IS THE MOST FRONT-ROW STATEMENT EVER: “That I am a theologian more defined by where I went to graduate school than by any ecclesial tradition mirrors changes in the Protestant world.”

GOOD QUESTION:

EVENTUALLY, LEFTY POLITICS CORRUPT EVERYTHING THEY TOUCH: Corrupting the National Book Award? “Democracy in Chains has been testing the proposition that there is no such thing as bad publicity. There has been an explosion of documentation that MacLean gets facts wrong, misunderstands her sources, and invents quotations or pulls them out of context to mean the opposite of what they said. You can find all this easily if you just google the book’s title. It is hard to avoid the inference that the book’s defects are outweighed, in the committee’s judgment, by the book’s eloquent denunciation of the Kochs. . . . MacLean’s central historical claim is false. That claim is that the economist James Buchanan devised the “master plan” (xviii) by which the Koch brothers are now subverting democracy. Buchanan devised no master plan, and there’s no evidence that the Kochs’ political actions were influenced by anything he wrote.”

It’s the comparison with disgraced fraud Michael Bellesiles, though, that hits hardest. Bellesiles also presented desired fiction masquerading as history, and won a prestigious award (the Bancroft Prize) before his falsehoods were exposed. (Via Jonathan Adler.)

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WELL:

SCOTT JOHNSON: Investigate this (4).

LONGER, PLEASE: Judge Sentences American ISIS Terrorist Captured in Iraq to 20 Years in Prison.

CHANGE: Domestic abuse shelters for men help spotlight male victims.

SIDE EFFECTS: Why Millennial Women Are Rejecting The Birth Control Pill. “Last year, the results of a study conducted by the University of Copenhagen of more than one million women over the course of 13 years confirmed a significant link between hormonal contraceptives and depression. Women taking combined oral contraceptives were 23 per cent more likely to be treated for it; those on the progestogen-only pill (known as the mini-pill) were 34 per cent more likely. Teens taking the combined pill were discovered to be at greatest risk, with an 80 per cent increased likelihood of being prescribed antidepressants. And yet governing bodies and health professionals are quick to lay blame at social media’s door for the atmospheric rise in mental-health issues, suggesting a ‘digital detox’ as a possible cure.”

TO STAY YOUNG, Kill Zombie Cells: An anti-aging strategy that works in mice is about to be tested in humans.

NARRATOR: IT DIDN’T ACTUALLY HELP. Husband wears pink tutu to help those battling breast cancer.

Related: Breast Cancer Is Serious. Pink Is Not.

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RISE OF THE MACHINES: Dr. Alexa? What Amazon might do in health care. I’d trust “Dr. Alexa” more if the Internet Of Things wasn’t such a dumpster fire of insecurity.

THE THING IS, THE AI WILL IMPROVE EVERY YEAR; THE DOCTORS NOT SO MUCH: Artificial intelligence is challenging doctors on their home turf. We’re keeping score.

IN CASE YOU MISSED OUR POST LATE LAST NIGHT, ROFLMAO! Chelsea Handler ‘misgendering’ Dana Rohrabacher funniest damn thing on Twitter.

WHAT WE KNOW NOW: Assessing the threat the Reaper botnet poses to the Internet. Plus, more bad news.

TO BE FAIR, THERE’S A LOT ABOUT LAWRENCE O’DONNELL THAT’S PURE CRINGE: Lawrence O’Donnell’s Fake Boston Accent Is Pure Cringe [Video].

STEVEN HAYWARD: How Churches Die.