CRIME WAVE: Another “Occupier” Raped, In Baltimore [With Update: Occupier Assaults 14-Year-Old Girl in Dallas]. You know, when the Catholic church covered up and enabled this kind of thing, there was a lot of outrage.

EUROPE: Will The Greek Referendum Send The Eurozone Spiraling? The Eurozone is already spiraling. This just may speed it up.

MOOD CHECK: Colorado bellwether: Voters reject statewide tax increases.

AND I’M LOVING IT: US Marshals turned loose to collect $63,720.80 from Righthaven.

TTAG: ATF Death Watch 112: More F&F Guns Come Back Over the Border.

TOM BLUMER: ‘No’ on Ohio Ballot Issues Means ‘Yes’ to Obama Agenda: Even Obama’s people say so.

ANN COULTER: Would Politico have run the Cain story about a white Republican? I think so. But they probably would have covered for a white Democrat, the way they did for John Edwards. Read the whole post, though, which is a good roundup.

UPDATE: Keli Carender emails: “I’m at one airport, my sister’s at another, and of course they’re both playing CNN, and it’s wall-to-wall coverage of Cain and the harassment charge. Two things: first, they aren’t bringing people on who will defend Cain or at least criticize the poor reporting involved, and second, they are reporting and commenting on it as though it is hard fact and there are no questions about what went on. And all this with thousands of people as a captive audience, getting fed the narrative that Cain either lacks integrity and is a pervert, or is an amateur. I’m sure this is all coincidence. Your question about whether or not Politico would have run a similar piece about Obama stands for CNN as well. Somehow I don’t see Wolf Blitzer allowing this sort of one-sided attack to go unchallenged if the attack was against Obama. As Rush says, the elites will always show you who they’re afraid of.”

MORE: Ed Driscoll: We Know Exactly How CNN Would Have Responded.

HMM: MILITARY UPHEAVAL AS GREEK GOVERNMENT STAGGERS.

UPDATE: And now, Portugal.

50 COMPANIES TEAM to create open-source electric vehicle.

JIM TYNEN: “Here’s what interests me: why do the journalists and professors so fervently believe in things they cannot possibly verify on their own? . . . Journalists who are not scientists, or professors who are not climate scientists, identify with the Knowledge Class.”

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SHIKHA DALMIA: What matters is income mobility, not income inequality.

SURVEILLANCE: UK Cops Using Fake Mobile Phone Tower to Intercept Calls, Shut Off Phones. “The portable device, which is the size of a suitcase, pretends to be a legitimate cell phone tower that emits a signal to dupe thousands of mobile phones in a targeted area. Authorities can then intercept SMS messages, phone calls and phone data, such as unique IMSI and IMEI identity codes that allow authorities to track phone users’ movements in real-time, without having to request location data from a mobile phone carrier. In the case of intercepted communications, it is not clear whether the network works as a blackhole where intercepted messages go to die, or whether it works as a proper man-in-the-middle attack, by which the fake tower forwards the data to a real tower to provide uninterrupted service for the user. In addition to intercepting calls and messages, the system can be used to effectively cut off phone communication, such as in a war zone where phones might be used as a trigger for an explosive device, or for crowd control during demonstrations and riots where participants use phones to organize.”

THE VIRTUAL NURSE WILL SEE YOU NOW: “Researchers at Northeastern University have developed a virtual nurse and exercise coach that are surprisingly likable and effective—even if they’re not quite as affable as the medical hologram on Star Trek. In fact, patients who interacted with a virtual nurse named Elizabeth said they preferred the computer simulation to an actual doctor or nurse because they didn’t feel rushed or talked down to.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Toyota shows machines to help sick, elderly move. “Eiichi Saitoh, a professor in rehabilitation medicine, demonstrated the ‘walk assist’ device on Tuesday, strapping the computerized metallic brace onto his right leg, which was paralyzed by polio. He showed reporters at a Toyota facility in Tokyo how the brace could bend at the knee as needed, allowing him to walk more naturally and rise from a chair with greater ease than the walker he now uses. Wearing a backpack-like battery, Saitoh walked up and down a flight of stairs, smiling with delight.”

ARE YOU SURE THE GREEKS ARE READY FOR DEMOCRACY? Greek Referendum Is On.

PROFESSOR JACOBSON: Politico Failure To Respond Raises Questions.

NARRATIVE: New York Times Pretends Jon Corzine Isn’t a Democrat, Obama Donor.

I’m sure a massive bankruptcy with possible thefts in the hundreds of millions of dollars would be treated with the same circumspection if it involved a Republican.

SPEED LIMITS: European Physicists Will Race Neutrinos Again, Trying to Reproduce Faster-Than-Light Results.

#BOEHLERTFAIL: Media Matters Tweet Hack Eric Boehlert has reading comprehension problems revolving around this earlier comment of mine:

Would Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman, Anna Palmer and Kenneth Vogel have put their names on a similar piece, with no named sources, aimed at Barack Obama? Would Politico have run it?

Boehlert thinks this passage means I’m “fantasizing abt nonexistent sexual harassment charges vs. Obama” and wondering why the press doesn’t cover that. Actually, however, in this passage I’m fantasizing about Politico having journalistic standards, as should be obvious. (Hey, you’ve got your fantasies, I’ve got mine). This miscomprehension reveals a lot about how Boehlert thinks, though, to the extent that he does. Meanwhile Dan Collins offers Boehlert a non-nonexistent scandal to comment on. Those of you who tweet may want to bring this error to his attention. Dave Weigel also seems to have been a bit slow on the uptake here.

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SHOCKER: In California, the high-speed-rail cost overruns have already started. “The new business plan for California’s high-speed rail system shows the nation’s most ambitious state rail project could cost nearly $100 billion in inflation-adjusted funding over a 20-year construction period, far above the amount originally projected.” By “far above,” they mean “more than double.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The Hard Business Problems Facing U.S. Law Faculty. “Institutional change is extraordinarily difficult. But I think it is extra hard for law schools. Law faculty have little or no experience making high stakes business decisions, yet we control curriculum and appointments, which are the areas that need major rethinking. Talk is cheap–and we specialize in talk.”

I had some related thoughts in Small Is The New Biglaw, a couple of years ago. They seem to be holding up.

MORE ON THE EARLY-DETECTION FLIPFLOP, over at the Covert Rationing Blog. “It is always risky to speculate on what is actually going on in Ms. Pelosi’s head, but certainly the public health experts who helped devise Obamacare understood the truth all along. Namely, it is axiomatic that medical screening tests will always, without exception, cost the healthcare system far more money than they can ever save the healthcare system. And therefore, medical screening tests will have to be suppressed – which is precisely why our new healthcare law provides the mechanism for doing so. . . . Screening tests only make sense to the individuals who are at risk for the medical condition being screened, not to the collective.”

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Could A Single Marine Unit Destroy The Roman Empire?