A team of Italian scientists tracked the health of 2800 men, divided into cohorts according to testicle size.

Dan Foster was used as a control group of One.

For some reason this comes as no big surprise.

Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew may be at risk.

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Funny.

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Link here, from Official Comedy.

Worth it.

Also, this mash-up of every Hero's Quest movie from the last ten years, which is practically half the movies of the last ten years, compiled into a single trailer for a fake movie called "Eterna," demonstrates just how samey-samey all these movies are, the same dramatic sweeps and zooms, the same dramatically whispered "I still believe in heroes" or "You must accept your destiny" and so on.

On the other hand, when one is done pretending to be all elevated and jaded, the trailer might prove how awesome Splodey Movies can sometimes be, because damn, wow, some of this looks great. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I should really rent 2012.

Nicholas Cage must be happy to have three films in this supercut: Ghost Rider 2, Knowing, and a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cut from Next. I am the only person in the world who saw, and liked, all three of these films.

Via @allahpundit, here's the backstory on the Russian editor who made "Eterna."

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Ten!!! Ten!!! Ah-ah-ahhhh

Awesome. Just awesome.

"He grabbed me a little too tight, then proceeded to slide his hand down my arm and then did a little grab on my derriere," Gilbert said. "I didnÂ’t want to make a scene there were kids around."

Classy. Grab ass in front of the kids.

Gilbert said the encounter "embarrassed" her. Her husband, Jason Gilbert, stated "What was I going to do, heÂ’s the mayor."

The woman works as a Marilyn Monroe impersonator, so, you know. Asking for it I guess.

With ten accusers having now come forward, and rumors having swirled about this guy for years, and a Democratic assemblywoman Lori Saldana on-record as saying she warned the party about this in 2010 but they covered it up, the National Media continues to show an intense interest in not asking any questions on this story.

They refuse to ask Jess Derfee (head of the San Diego Democratic Party) questions, they refuse to ask Lori Saldana questions, they refuse to ask Nancy Pelosi how she could have possibly not heard about the one-man WarOnWomen conducted by her close colleague and her co-conspirator in creating the California Progressive Caucus.

Why, it's almost as if they're acting as Ward Captains for the party they belong to.

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Transparent. Definition 2b.

Go to the link for the video; here's Allah's sum-up:

The implication, very clearly, is that this is being done not to protect intelligence assets from terrorist retribution but to “protect” them from Republicans asking inconvenient questions. Which isn’t the first time the GOP’s had trouble talking to relevant personnel: Marine Col. George Bristol was somehow indisposed for months, with the Pentagon unwilling to reveal his whereabouts to investigators, before the House Armed Services Committee finally landed him for a classified briefing this past week

Fox News has now confirmed that at least five Benghazi witnesses were cowed into silence by being forced to sign NDAs about what they know, just as Representative Frank Wolf previously alleged.

Fox News has learned that at least five CIA employees were forced to sign additional nondisclosure agreements this past spring in the wake of the Benghazi attack. These employees had already signed such agreements before the attack but were made to sign new agreements aimed at discouraging survivors from leaking their stories to the media or anyone else.

CNN has also reported that dozens of people working for the CIA were in Benghazi on the night of the attack, and that employees are being intimidated into staying silent.

You don't just jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family.

God Save Us from Obama's "Phony Scandals."

I don't know what frightens me more at this point -- Obama's "Partisan Distractions" or Obama's "Phony Scandals."

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Via Instapundit, this Matthew Continetti piece is a must read.

A sort of pep talk to the liberal bourgeoisie, Democrat and Republican, is what the New York Times under Jill Abramson has become. One reads it to confirm rather than challenge one’s perceptions of the world. No mystery what those perceptions are: The Republicans are no good, the president is doing the best he can, equality marches on, America is powerless to influence other countries, illegal immigration has no downside, the government should not be trusted except when it regulates the economy, “institutional” (i.e., invisible) racism plagues contemporary society, traditional religion is a curiosity, etc. Reading the transcript of the president’s interview is valuable because it allows you to see just how self-contained the bobo world is. The paper and its intended audience, in this case the president, form a closed circuit.

"Bobo" means bohemian bourgeois, a descriptor of the very annoying and troublesome class of wealthy, connected, influential dilettantes.

Continetti -- who read this abortion so that you don't have to, although, now that I see the gold he's mined from this rich vein, I want to read it myself -- now documents a dance of tribal signalling and social one-upmanship which you'd see at, well, at the standard clubbish cocktail party at which persons like Barack Obama and bobo reporters from the New York Times mix or, I should say, network.

Enjoy the dance. And do visualize, in your mind, this exchange being conducted in the appropriate attire. To help you do so I have included some helpful illustrations.

That's my contribution here, silly pictures.

My favorite moment is when the president mentions someone he’s been talking to. “I had a conversation a couple of weeks back with Robert Putnam,” Obama says, “who I’ve known for a long time.” Putnam is a renowned sociologist, and the ability to drop his name is a requirement for membership in elite circles. What makes this name-drop special is that Obama not only assumes the reporters know who Putnam is, he amplifies his snobbery by mentioning that the author of Bowling Alone and American Grace has been a personal acquaintance for years, as though that in itself is an achievement, as though that somehow makes the sentence he is about to utter more meaningful.

Just then, though, one of the Times reporters, Michael D. Shear, interrupts the president and says what has to be one of the most beautiful and revealing sentences ever to appear on Nytimes.com: “He was my professor actually at Harvard.” Almost every word of this sentence is an act of social positioning worthy of Castiglione. “My” conveys ownership, possession, and intimacy; the “actually” is a subtle exercise in one-upmanship, implying a correction of fact or status, and suggesting that Shear, who seems to have taken a course with Putnam while pursuing a graduate degree at the Kennedy School, is on closer terms with him than the president of the United States of America; and of course the big H, “Harvard,” before whose authority all must bow down.

The president’s response is just as priceless. “Right,” he says, pausing, and one can easily imagine the look of annoyance on his face as he reacts to Shear’s gratuitous lunge into the spotlight. He then makes it clear exactly who is in charge. “I actually knew Bob”—note that it’s “Bob” we’re talking about now—“when I was a state senator and he had put together this seminar to just talk about some of the themes that he had written about in ‘Bowling Alone,’ the weakening of the community fabric and the impact it’s having on people.” Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mike.

I cannot steal more; you gotta read it. Exit line:

“Thanks, guys. Appreciate you,” the president says as the reporters leave the room. Of that I have no doubt.

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I'm sure like most of you, I was shocked to find out that Lindsey Graham is technically a Republican. Who knew? Anyway, he's not going to walk to the GOP nomination without having to run against someone.

Let me tell you everything I know about this challenger...her name is Nancy Mace and she's running against Lindsey Graham.

Based on that information, I endorse Nancy Mace*

Mace is the first woman to graduate from The Citadel, a military college in the Palmetto State. She is also a wife, mother and small business owner from Goose Creek, S.C. According to her campaign website, she is the proud daughter of retired Army Brigadier Gen. Emory Mace.

“I believe we need a credible candidate who can challenge Graham. Someone who can bring together the liberty movement, the tea party, those who covet our Second Amendment rights and the right to life, those who want to see greater economic freedom and prosperity brought to our nation through individual liberty and the free market,” Mace previously told TheLibertyPaper.org.

Beating Graham is going to be tough. He's raised a TON of money and for whatever reason, voters in South Carolina seem to like him. When Bruce Carroll, aka "Gay Patriot" decided not to run he said Graham had a very strong constituent service program. That goes a long way in some places. Remember, we view these races through a national prism but they are really local races and factors most of us are unfamiliar with are often at play.

Forget about Enzi/Cheney...Mace/Graham is the primary to fight and win.

Here's her website. An official announcement of her run will be made tomorrow.

*You know, unless someone better comes along.

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Since Krauthammer is a psychiatrist, I guess "nuts" is an official diagnosis.

Led by Sens. Mike Lee and Ted Cruz, the GOP insurgents are threatening to shut down the government on Oct. 1 if the stopgap funding bill contains money for Obamacare.

This is nuts. The president will never sign a bill defunding the singular achievement of his presidency. Especially when he has control of the Senate. Especially when, though a narrow 51 percent majority of Americans disapproves of Obamacare, only 36 percent favors repeal. President Obama so knows heÂ’ll win any shutdown showdown that heÂ’s practically goading the Republicans into trying.

Never make a threat on which you are not prepared to deliver. Every fiscal showdown has redounded against the Republicans. The first, in 1995, effectively marked the end of the Gingrich revolution. The latest, last December, led to a last-minute Republican cave that humiliated the GOP and did nothing to stop the tax hike it so strongly opposed.

We discussed this on the podcast last night.

I really don't think there's a good answer. I don't see how the GOP will be able to force the Democrats to repeal ObamaCare. Remember, it's not just defunding the operations budget that will be in the CR, it's rewriting the Affordable Care Act to remove the entitlement spending that's already law.

The reality is the Democrats and the media (BIRM) will be united in the "GOP is killing old people! Parks are closing! Puppies are going hungry!" and the GOP will be fractured. There are plenty of Republicans who don't want to keep the sequester in place for domestic discretionary spending. Do you really think they will hold firm in the face of the onslaught that will come their way? How many people with pre-existing conditions will be paraded out as examples of who the GOP IS TRYING TO KILL!?

One possible outcome would be a year long delay to match the delay in the employer mandate His Majesty has already decreed. The problem with that is, we'll be right back here in a year. Even if it you push it to 2015 in the hopes of the GOP winning the Senate, what good does that do? There won't be a GOP veto proof majority and Obama will never sign a repeal. It's just not going to happen.

The other downside to a delay is we know the system isn't going to be ready to go in 6 months but they might be able to cobble something together in 18 months. If ObamaCare has to happen, don't we want it to be as bad as can be? Of course, that presumes the next step after "OMG it's terrible!" isn't, "well, that just means we need single payer!". My prediction is that's exactly what the next step would be.

We're in a bind with no useful answer. ObamaCare is going to go into full force come January 1st whether the GOP makes a stand or not. Our fate was settled in November of 2008 and any hope was lost in 2012.

The question isn't how to undo ObamaCare it's, how do we want to be seen as the last, useless shot is fired?

All I can think of is this scene from A Lion in Winter...

Prince Richard: [the sons - in the dungeon - think they hear Henry approach] He's here. He'll get no satisfaction out of me. He isn't going to see me beg.

Prince Geoffrey: My you chivalric fool... as if the way one fell down mattered.

Prince Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters.

I'm not sure I agree but make no mistake, in the end that's what this debate is about.

All that said, on balance a shutdown is the better way to go. While it's 99.99% doomed to fail, who knows maybe "and then a miracle happened" will be the result. We don't even have that .01% chance if the GOP just passes a CR and calls it a day.

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So what happened to us having Al Queda on the run? Here are some good thoughts about that, the embassy closures and most importantly Benghazi (and why it matters).

What happened in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 — and the chaotic, shameful cover-up that has followed — provided an enticing blueprint for Islamic jihadists. If you can’t hit America in a dramatic way on its own soil, hit symbolic government targets abroad, like embassies, that are lightly guarded, and watch the U.S. government go weak in the knees and scramble to respond. The Benghazi terrorist assault and its aftermath have made the United States look vulnerable and weak: There is just no other way to put it. So, too, has the State Department announcement that our embassies and consulates will be closed on August 4.

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• Looks Like Lawmakers And Staffers Will Be Exempted From Obamacare
  
• Obama Worried About His Kids Being Bombarded By The Media's Depiction of Celebrity And Wealth
  
• Another Government Agency Clears Itself After A Thorough Investigation Of..Itself
  
• US To Temporarily Shut Down Embassies This Sunday
  
• IRS Scandal Runs A Lot Deeper Than Reported
  
• It's Always Selma Again
  
• Huma Blames Herself For Weiner's Sexting
  
• Liberals Don't Understand Incentives Part 3
  
• Rise In Violence Linked To Climate Change
  
• White House Losing Its Grip On The Middle East
  
• Obama Declares Traditional Journalism Dead
  
• The Hillary Fascination
  
• Georgia Insurance Rates To Increase 198% In Some Cases
  
• Seattle Wants To Ban 'Brown Bag' As Potentially Offensive
  
• 162,000 Jobs Added In July
  
• Broad Support Within RNC For Earlier 2016 Convention
  
• America's Misbehaving Prosecutors And The System That Protects Them
  
• Maps Of Unrealized City Plans Reveal What Might Have Been
  

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