From the Chicago Tribune: We tested popular cellphones for their radiofrequency radiation. Now the FCC is investigating.

The Camille Paglia write-up, A Feminist Capitalist Professor Under Fire, is a wonderful read. A slice:

So why do young women feel victimized? Ms. Paglia cites the near-extinction of “body language” among the young and its impact on sexual relations on campus. The “loss of body language” starts in middle and high school, “where there’s total absorption in social media and projected images on Instagram, and so on. So they don’t know how to read each other, physically.” When they get to college, this social deficiency is exacerbated by the effects of “that stupid law, the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, that was passed in 1984.” It effected a nationwide ban on alcohol sales to adults under 21.

“When I got to college,” Ms. Paglia says, “you could go out for a beer, you could talk with a drink in a public place, in an adult environment.” That’s how 18-year-olds away from home for the first time learned the “art of conversation, of looking at each other, reading facial expressions and body language.” After the ban on drinking, “instead of a nice group of people conversing and flirting, you got the keg parties at fraternities on campus, this horrible environment where women milled about with men in this huge amount of noise, with people chugging beers down.”

From Defense One.

325 active-duty soldiers committed suicide in 2018, the highest number since the Defense Suicide Prevention Watch began collecting the numbers in 2001. Over 6,000 veterans died from suicide between 2008 and 2016, and now the Pentagon is scrambling for a solution.

Philip Giraldi, in his excellent new column, Israel’s Many Wars, argues that this is a very real possibility, given Israel’s recent attacks on its neighbors in the region.

Israel is a liability, not an ally. The United States gains nothing from the relationship, while Israel gains everything. Yet to criticize Israel is to risk accusations of Antisemitism, the convenient race card that is brandished almost immediately in order to shut down open discussion of Israel’s hold on U.S. foreign policy.

This story has apparently been ongoing for awhile, but it’s the first I’ve heard of it.

Merck, also the manufacturer of many childhood vaccines, is facing an avalanche of lawsuits over it’s shingles vaccine, Zostavax, due to the fact that many of those who received the vaccine have contracted shingles or chickenpox.

Despite this, the CDC still lists Zostavax as “safe and effective”, a hollow incantation that fewer and fewer people are taking seriously.