#OCCUPYFAIL: How ‘Occupy’ went wrong: A trashed house in Brooklyn has become a symbol of a movement that failed to capitalize on popular anger. “Their efforts have actually made the neighborhood worse — because what used to be an empty house is now a hovel of squatters and probably should be condemned.” Gosh, who could have seen that coming? Oh, well. Add it to the syllabus.

UPDATE: Reader Clifford Grout writes: “If he’d let Tea Partiers move in instead, his house would have been vacuumed, the dishes washed, and there’d be clean towels in the bathroom. Hell, there would still be a bathroom.”