TELL US EVERYTHING: What Your Doctor Isn’t Telling You About Your DNA.

WORSE THAN THE LIFE OF JULIA: Ad Renders Powerline Speechless.

Nine out of ten vapid liberal-arts majors who are going to spend the next ten years working at Starbucks to pay back their degree in Womyn’s Studies agree.

UPDATE: Apparently Glenn and I were struck by this commercial almost at the same time.  Yeah, it’s the Lena Dunham commercial he linked below.  Knowing the Putin link just makes it even more …  Okay.  Now I’m speechless.

IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Are bodies of 10,000 lost warriors from Battle of Hastings buried in this field?

21st CENTURY *NON* RELATIONSHIPS: Meet Real Life Sex Surrogates.

TECH CHANGE: An Unnatural History of the Electronic Mouse.  My kids think very well of the RAT mouse.

IT’S ALSO SEMANTICALLY INSANE: Condi Rice: “War on women” attack is worse than hyperbole.  If you believe there’s a war on women, you’ve never seen war or even a schoolyard fight.

YES, BUT WILL THEY HAVE BAYONETS? US Navy’s robotic firefighter

IRONY ALERT! Bam $ite unplugged. Chinese authorities appear to have blocked access to site used as conduit of donations to Obama’s campaign.

A MAN WITHOUT HONOR: The Dishonorable Colin Powell.

HE DISRESPECTED THE STATE RELIGION: North Korean army minister ‘executed with mortar round’.

NEW YORK TIMES HARDEST HIT: Paul Ryan addresses income inequality, social mobility in Ohio speech.

WELFARE PIGEON: Big Bird’s producer boasts well-padded retirement nest.

DOING THE JOBS AMERICANS WON’T DO: Brazen gangsters show how cybercrime pays.

SHALL  THINK THEMSELVES ACCURSED THEY WERE NOT HERE: For today is St. Crispin’s day! [Video, Henry V, clip.]

CHANGE: Are Media Imagining the World After Obama?

FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE POND: Benghazi and Obama: the media is trying to shore up this desperate administration.

AND FOR A CERTAIN TYPE OF WRITER YOU NEED TO TAKE YOURSELF WAY TOO SERIOUSLY: Colm Tóibín: you have to be a terrible monster to write. Ladies and gentlemen, after being a published author for … twelve years I’ve discovered this:  When a supposedly working writer tells you something like he writes only long hand on notebooks, he’s selling you something and it ain’t his writing.  Also note his courage in going after early Christianity…  I mean, we all know they behead people who insult their prophet right?  What?  They don’t?  Uh…

IT’S LIKE THEY HAVE NO CONCEPT OF A BUDGET: Democrats go into debt in fight to regain House.

BECAUSE THAT’S WHO HE IS: Why Did Obama Run Left?

MAKE HIM EAT HIS WAFFLE:  Is This Why Obama Wanted that Des Moines Register Interview Off the Record?

IT COULD BE BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE EXPLOITING MARGIN OF ERROR: Polls with Large Voter Samples all favor Romney; Smaller, Less Reliable Polls all favor Obama. Why?

IN VAIN I’VE STRUGGLED: I still have to link this story, because it’s too funny: Mourners flee after man turns up alive at his own wake. All I could think about was Tom Sawyer.  The photographs in the linked article in Portuguese do indeed show remarkable resemblance when you take in account one of them is dead.  On the other hand, the language in the article is (I think unintentionally) hilarious.  It reads like “Not having seen him four four months, his family decided he was dead.”  My son said it sounded like the er… mother of all mind games.  “You didn’t call in so long, we thought you were dead!”

I TOO AM SKEPTICAL:  Will China Follow the Singapore Model?

BY THEIR ADVISERS YOU SHALL KNOW THEM: Obama Getting More Bad Advice.  Fortunately he’s a “better campaign manager” than his campaign managers, so no sweat, right?

SO… IS THIS A WELL-KNOWN SF WRITER? Gay leftist wants Romney-supporting friends to “defriend” him.