Source: (CNN)Feeling so happy you just can’t stand it? You might want to pop some acetaminophen. A new study has found that acetaminophen, the main ingredient in Tylenol, most forms of Midol and more than 600 other medicines, reduces not only pain but pleasure, as well. The authors of the study, which was published this week, say that it was already known that acetaminophen blunted psychological pain. But their new research led them to the conclusion that it also blunted... Read more

Philip Bump: With Tax Day only two weeks away (haha, happy Monday morning!), it seems like an appropriate time to entertain a common non-Tax-Day-specific gripe: government is expensive and big and pays for things I don’t want. Very good; complaining about taxes and the size of government is timeless, if recently very much in vogue. But how big is government, you might wonder? In a post at the liberal blog Daily Kos over the weekend, David Nir cited a 2012 book by Jennifer Lawless, “Becoming... Read more

By David Mills: None of the world’s famous and powerful marched for al-Shabab’s 148 victims at Garissa University, just as none had marched in January for Boko Haram’s 2,000 victims, as they had done when the editors of the leftwing newspaper Charlie Hebdo were killed in Paris. Far more people were murdered in Africa than in Paris, but their deaths weren’t followed by days and days of statements, analysis, paeans to the victims and gestures of solidarity. No one expected it. The Hebdo murders, suggest the editors... Read more

Basset Hounds, Lament, and Easter, by Glenn Pemberton — OT prof at Abilene Christian and of the man I am a fan! [Image] Bailey Hobart Pemberton came into my life at the age two; that’s fourteen in canine years. He was a soft-eyed, low-set, tri-color basset hound with a personality to match: gentle, playful, and eager to love. When Bailey arrived, however, he came with baggage. To be blunt, he needed therapy. When Bailey had been just a young pup... Read more

By Isha Sesay, from CNN: (CNN)How can more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls simply disappear? And how can the Nigerian government and the rest of the world have allowed this to happen? Exactly 365 days have passed since the girls were snatched from their boarding school dormitories in the dead of night in Chibok, northeastern Nigeria. They are still missing. For this we should all feel shame: shame that we live in a world where the lives of young girls can be shattered... Read more

Gary Scott Smith, a fine historian, excerpted: Numerous individuals labeled [President Bill] Clinton’s faith authentic. In 1994, evangelical author Philip Yancey reported,  “I have not met a single Christian leader who, after meeting with Clinton, comes away questioning his sincerity.” A Christian college president professed to be “absolutely convinced of his deep and sincere faith” and impressed by Clinton’s knowledge of the Bible.  The executive director of the Arkansas State Baptist Convention called Clinton a “genuine born-again believer.” Philip Wogaman,... Read more

I assume someone is now reading this tome in Italian, and perhaps in the Vatican! Read more