GRAND ROUNDS is up!

CHANGE: UC President Proposes Raising Faculty Retirement Age From 50 to 55.

REMINDER: “This is not an election. This is a restraining order.” Illustrative video at the link.

COMING SOON: Home DNA Tests for Colon Cancer?

DENTISTS AGAINST LOW-COST DENTAL CARE.

WHERE TO FIND THE FUTURE.

FROM DON BOUDREAUX, an open letter to James Fallows.

PHYSICS: Trillions Of Reasons To Be Excited.

WHILE YOU’RE WAITING FOR THE ELECTION REPORTS TO COME IN, why not order a copy of George Washington’s Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation. I wrote the foreword. And here’s the book’s website, where you can order it in hardcopy or in multiple varieties of DRM-free e-book.

UPDATE: C.J. Burch emails with additional suggestions for pre-election reading. Heh. Authors never miss a shot at self-promotion. I liked Reverse Utopias.

IN THE MAIL: Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream.

WANT TO HELP WOUNDED SOLDIERS? Please support Project Valour-IT.

DAVID BOAZ: “Libertarians are getting Strange New Respect.”

STACY MCCAIN: Polls don’t win elections. Nope. Votes do. Plus a troubling indicator: “Allahpundit is optimistic, which is so abnormal it should worry us all.”

UPDATE: Now it’s your turn to speak out. “They’ve spent the past 18 months calling you names and questioning your sanity and patriotism. But today you get to vote, and that’s all that matters.”

OBVIOUSLY, A RACIST: Bill Maher Stands By Mohammed Remarks: ‘I Don’t Need To Apologize For Being A Proud Westerner’.

ROGER KIMBALL: Reading The Tea Leaves.

UH OH: Greek Deputy PM Makes A Huge Gaffe, And Accidentally Reveals The Country’s Debt Plans.

FRANK J. FLEMING: Election Question: How Can We Tell the Stupid People From the Smart Ones? “How smart do you have to be to tell if someone else is smart? Hopefully not very smart, because a lot of life — and especially politics — involves asking people to separate the bright from the dimwitted. We can’t figure out or do everything ourselves, so we need to know who the smart people are so we know whom to listen to and entrust with important jobs. But if we incorrectly think morons are smart and listen to them and put them in charge, that would be a disaster. You could also call it election year 2008. . . . So, in the future, instead of thinking someone is smart because he has a very interesting-sounding argument that two plus two equals five, look into the person’s background to see if he’s ever actually done anything useful, like run a business or at least once have an actual job that doesn’t have the word ‘community’ in it.”

Meanwhile, this video may help you tell the difference in several cases.

VERONIQUE DE RUGY: The Rapid Expansion of Federal Spending Per Household.

WHO’S THE DADDY? Feminists are opposed to paternity tests. “At a stroke, the one thing that women had going for them has been taken away, the one respect in which they had the last laugh over their husbands and lovers. . . . the old situation, in which women presented men with a child, and the man either did the decent thing and offered support, or made a run for it, allowed women a certain leeway.” How very . . . retro of them. Apparently, feminists are only for sexual autonomy when it’s not coupled with sexual responsibility.

UPDATE: Reader Jeff Johnson writes: “The comments are excellent and a great smackdown on the author.”

STEVE CHAPMAN: The Case For Divided Government.

LIVEBLOGGING ELECTION DAY over at PJM.

READER BRIAN TUCKER SENDS A MORNING VOTE REPORT: “In heavily Republican Cobb County, Georgia (Metro ATL), I waited in line at 7 AM when the polls opened. This is not usual. And we really don’t have any bums to throw out, either – Tom Price is great, while my senators … need refocusing.”

JAMES TARANTO: Rally To Restore Authority: What Jon Stewart Really Stands For.

LEE CHILD ON the long life of Jack Reacher.

CHANGE: The Hill: Obama’s final narrative: A negative mélange of historic proportions.