WRITING QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I suspect I have spent just about exactly as much time actually writing as the average person my age has spent watching television, and that, as much as anything, may be the real secret here.” From William Gibson.

ATLAS SHRUGGED, PART I IS OUT NEXT WEEK ON DVD AND BLU-RAY, and I talk with producer Harman Kaslow about the coming of Part II, reaction to the film, and what John Galt would say to the Occupy protesters. (Bumped).

THIS SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING I WOULD DO: Darpa’s Plan to Trap the Next WikiLeaker: Decoy Documents.

Darpa-funded researchers are building a program for “generating and distributing believable misinformation.” The ultimate goal is to plant auto-generated, bogus documents in classified networks and program them to track down intruders’ movements, a military research abstract reveals.

“We want to flood adversaries with information that’s bogus, but looks real,” says Salvatore Stolfo, the Columbia University computer science professor leading the project. “This will confound and misdirect them.” (You can make your own fake doc on the research lab’s website, too.)

The program aims to scare off uninvited riff-raff as well as minimize insider threats, one of the greatest vulnerabilities in military networks. Fake “classified” documents, when touched, will take a snapshot of the IP address of the intruder and the time it was opened, alerting a systems administrator of the breach. . . . If a bogus document is actually released online, it would shatter the credibility of the whistleblowing website that published it, said Stolfo. So even after an attacker has hacked through firewalls, tricked intrusion detection technology and gained unfettered access into a system, he’ll hesitate before making away with the goods.

Read the whole thing. With security harder and harder to pull off, the next frontier is misdirection.

ALIMONY INJUSTICE: It’s awful when it happens to women.

UPDATE: Just to be clear — I’m not saying that there’s no injustice here. There is, and it’s a big one. I was just snarking, perhaps too easily, at The Frisky because the only alimony injustices that seem to get attention are those involving women.

MARK STEYN: The Case For Pessimism.

John Podhoretz: The Case For Optimism.

IN CONGRESS, still more calls for Eric Holder’s resignation. “It’s become clear that in his efforts to advance the President’s anti-gun agenda, Eric Holder was willing to cross lines that should never have been crossed.”

VIDEO: China’s Shenzou Spacecraft Successfully Docks With Orbiting Module.

GET A JOB: Traders From Chicago Board Of Trade Dump McDonald’s Applications On Occupy Chicago Protesters. “In the middle of an Occupy Chicago teach-in this week, traders at the Chicago Board of Trade dumped several sheets of paper on top of the heads of protesters below. Demonstrators were angered to find out they were showered with employment applications for McDonald’s.”

A kinder, gentler “Sod off, Swampy!”

AT AMAZON, the Home Audio & Video Outlet.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Learning from Australia? “In Australia, students each know in advance how much money is in their student-loan “account” so to speak. They know that when the money runs out, government support is over (unless the student is moving on to professional school, for example, in which case supplemental funds are made available). This means that the student has the incentive to make good decisions, stick with the program, and complete their studies in a timely manner. In other words, there is no such thing as a stipend runner who simply stays in the system for as long as possible to keep collecting student-aid rebates and avoid entering the repayment period.” This also encourages schools not to jack up the price.

TEST-DRIVING THE 2012 Buick Verano.

MEXICAN BLOGGERS IN CARTEL CROSSHAIRS, and vice versa.

AND LOOKS DAMNED GOOD DOING IT: Fisker Karma goes 51.6 miles in electric mode.

Plus, Chevy Volt costs more to own over time than does gas-only Chevy Cruze.

UPDATE: On the other hand, Matt Hennessy writes that he’s put 3000 miles on his Volt, “. . . and it is still as fun as day 1. A bit better even, as the control stack is no longer such a mystery. 2702mi, 2308 of them on electricity, comes to about 189mpg.. I had it past 250mpg until I took a couple long road trips that had the gas motor kick in. And the maintenance schedule consists of tire rotation and visual checks until you hit 50k, for the air cleaner, then 100k for the plugs.”

CHANGE: Democrat Blanche Lincoln Turns on Obama Over Small Business Regs.

FOR SOLDIERS, a “Dentist In A Box.”

WANTED: MORE JUDICIAL ACTIVISM! Our disengaged judiciary is failing to protect the liberties of Americans.

THE CORZINE SCANDAL: Another Black Eye For Blue Wall Street. “Remember two years ago when President Obama was vigorously campaigning in New Jersey, hoping that the Democratic Party wouldn’t face a humiliating gubernatorial defeat? Maybe he should have campaigned harder. If nothing else, it might have kept Democratic candidate for Governor Jon Corzine away from MF Global. The company’s recklessness—with clients’ money, no less—is precisely the kind of story that the Democratic Party doesn’t want as Wall Street stands occupied. (Via Meadia hopes by the way that this was all a terrible misunderstanding and that Governor Corzine’s reputation will somehow emerge intact from the debacle, but at this point we aren’t holding our breath.)”

Plus this: “The Democrats can bark at Blue Wall Street, but they cannot really bite. A few little puppy nips, perhaps, but any efforts by the Democrats to throw Wall Street under the bus will fail. Blue Wall Street is the bus, and it refuses to roll over itself.”

Hey, they don’t call him President Goldman Sachs for nothing.

UPDATE: Crony Capitalism: Corzine used leverage to keep regulators from investigating MF Global. Plus: “Mona Charen notes that this makes Barack Obama’s attack on Republicans look more like a case of projection.”

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Why OWS and Obama are Obsessed with Inequality.

This is the one-sentence story now being sold to America: “The middle-class is no better off than it was 30 years ago because the rich greedily grabbed all the money.” If this narrative—that America’s experiment with freer markets, lower taxers, and lighter regulation was a failure—can be successfully planted, it will be easier for Washington to tax, spend, and regulate in the future. And to elect politicians pushing that agenda.

On its face, the whole storyline’s a laugher—at least to anyone who lived through both the terrible, volatile, inflation-wracked 1970s and then the 25-year boom that followed.

But, of course, the OWS crowd didn’t.

BUT THEN, FOR SEN. FEINSTEIN, ISN’T EVERYTHING? For Sen. Feinstein, Gunwalker Still an Excuse to Push Gun Control.

“The problem” that the California Democrat wants to gloss over is that agents of the federal government, acting under orders from officials and appointees from the Obama administration, walked more than 2,020 firearms to the Sinaloa cartel, and now they refuse to say who concocted the plot, who signed off on it, or what the real purpose of the operation was. Operation Fast and Furious is just one of ten gunwalking operations in five states, including at least one operation in the Midwest that supplied weapons to domestic criminal gangs.

Details, details.

GREAT NEWS: Obama Justice Dept Says it Won’t Lie About FOIA’d Docs. “This is good news. Unless…they’re lying about the not lying.”

WELL, THERE’S A TRACK RECORD: The Atlantic: 8 Out Of 100 Foreclosures Prevented By The Obama Administration. “Back when the Obama administration unveiled its Making Home Affordable Program, designed to modify mortgages and prevent foreclosures, optimism was high. The Treasury initially asserted that the program would help 3 to 4 million struggling homeowners to avoid foreclosure. At this point, it will have trouble hitting one million successful permanent modifications.”

PROF. JACOBSON: NRA should release everything, or nothing. “As I have said before, all the facts should come out, not just the second- and third- hand characterizations we hear from Politico and others. Identify her; this is not a criminal rape case where there is a rape shield law or where newspapers follow a policy of not identifying the victims of sexual assault. If she wants to go public with her accusations she has no privacy interest behind which to hide. This is particularly so since various news organizations have been touting her professional accomplishments and good standing after leaving the NRA as a way of bolstering her credibility.”

Related: Tom Blumer: The Cain Scrutiny. “Those intent on stopping Cain believe that doing so has become a now-or-never proposition. That’s because in national polling, Cain is showing genuine signs of separating himself from the rest of the GOP field.”

UPDATE: Video: New Cain Ad: High-Tech Lynching. Brilliantly casting the likes of Cornel West and Harry Belafonte in the roles of Uncle-Tom facilitators. Or maybe House Negroes on the Democratic Plantation?

ANOTHER UPDATE: Ben Bradlee hypocrisy. Of course, my first thought was, Ben Bradlee’s still alive?

MORE: “Five days and what have we got? Nothing!”

Plus this: ‘Politico, the political daily of liberal pedigree that set the hounds on Mr. Cain, has not said what he is guilty of, or when, or where, or who says so.”

And: What Did Politico Know, And When Did They Know It? “Last evening I sent a series of questions via Twitter to the 4 authors bylined on the Herman Cain “sexual harassment story.” And I did so because it occurred to me that one component of this story that no one seems to be asking about is what, exactly, did the Politico reporters know of any confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements by which either/both Herman Cain and the two women cited anonymously in the Politico story were bound. So far, I haven’t received a single response.”

STILL MORE: Bryan Preston on the Cain ad: “I don’t buy the notion that the way Politico handled the story has anything to do with race (politics and party affiliation, obviously yes), but pitting Cain up against Al Sharpton, Cornel West and Harry Belafonte as this ad does can only help Cain. He looks reasonable, they look like racist nuts.”

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? Poll: Anti-Semitism on the Rise in US.