It’s an expanding business:

A study from the University of North Carolina published recently in Environmental Research Letters finds that “the power capacity of large-scale wind farms may have been significantly overestimated.” The green energy wind talkers have long claimed that wind farms can produce a net of 2 to 4 watts per square meter of land, but this study estimates that the true figure is closer to 1 watt per square meter. This is pathetic; it means to equal the power output of a small coal or gas-fired plant (say, 500 megawatts), you’d require a land area of nearly 300 square miles…

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Yeah…yeah, that’s the ticket: I’m a female trapped in a teenage boy’s body, and…I have a medical condition that results in chronic turgidity, and…I walk around naked in the girls’ locker room…and…

One of the largest public charter high schools in the nation allows a boy who identifies as female to use the girls locker room and bathrooms – despite protests from a female student who says she feels uncomfortable and vulnerable by his presence.

What’s more, the female student – who just finished her sophomore year at the Los Angeles-based Granada Hills Charter High School – claims the boy in question harassed her, touched her hair, stared strangely at her, and also peeked at girls over the stalls while they used the toilet.

Leave him alone. As a society we must defend those who suffer from congenital-smirking disorder, high-fiveitis, and compulsive-opportunism syndrome.

A story with warm fuzzies all around.

Oh, great:

“Men are to blame for menopause, according to a new study. Canadian researchers suggest men’s preference for younger women throughout history is what led to the gene mutation that triggered menopause.”

All that preparation for real-life scenarios down the tubes:

Months of painstaking planning had gone into the exercise, dubbed “Operation Urban Shield,” meant to train dozens of detectives in the Greater Boston area to work together to thwart a terrorist threat. The hypothetical terrorist group was even given a name: Free America Citizens, a home-grown cadre of militiamen whose logo would be a metal skull wearing an Uncle Sam hat and a furious expression, according to a copy of the plans obtained by the Boston Globe.

But two months before the training exercise was to take place, the city was hit with a real terrorist attack executed in a frighteningly similar fashion. The chaos of the Boston Marathon bombings disrupted plans for the exercise…

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