LOOKING AT THE INFLUENCE OF class in American legal education. “The vast majority of American law students come from relatively elite backgrounds; this is especially true at the most prestigious law schools . . . Although racial diversity has increased sharply during the intervening decades, the great majority of non-white law students are, like whites, from relatively elite backgrounds. . . . Law school admission policies use very large and relatively mechanical racial preferences, but appear to generally ignore SES considerations. Some law school policies militate against the admission of low- and moderate-SES applicants. Even in awarding grants and scholarships, law schools apparently generally ignore need; low-SES whites receive half as much scholarship aid as do high-SES whites.”

BEST-SELLING men’s Halloween costumes.

STEALTH ANTI-AMERICANISM: France Bans Ketchup In Cafeterias. “We absolutely have to stop children from being able to serve those sorts of sauces to themselves with every meal. Children have a tendency to use them to mask the taste of whatever they are eating.” Maybe the cafeterias have a bigger problem, if taste-masking is the reason ketchup is popular. . . .

PROFESSOR BAINBRIDGE: The Absurdity Of The Anti-Corporation Movement.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How Will The New iPhone Change Your Love Life?

PROF. JACOBSON: #OccupyWhiteHouse2012 – The hashtag for the rest of us. “The ones who pay the bills, and the taxes, and the tuitions, and the pensions, and the benefits, for the people who falsely claim to be the 99%.”

Dilbert had some thoughts on this today:

MARKETING: Just in time for political season, your “Don’t Tread On Me” t-shirts and sweatshirts. Note that “Amazing Apparel” isn’t the same as “American Apparel.” Some will consider that a bug, others a feature. . . .

THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, WE’D SEE DECADES OF WAR: And they were right!

BACK TO AFRICA: The land of opportunity.

WASHINGTON JOURNALIST tries to get a legal handgun in DC.

SIX WAYS to build a better starship.

THOUGHTS ON Mars habitats.

HEH: ‘You can’t take the sky (or my poster) from me,’ says UW-Stout prof. Yeah, I’m gloating. “Free speech. On a college campus. In Wisconsin. Maybe there’s hope after all.”

HPV: It’s not just for ladies any more. Well, it never really was.

MICHAEL S. MALONE: Steve Jobs: An Unexpected Appreciation. “Having spent much of my life dealing with the Steve Jobs phenomenon, I can say that it was only in the last few years that he became the great figure he was always destined to be.”

VIDEO: How to import video into iMovies for iPad with a regular camera.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Scientists Are Developing Alternative Breast Implants Using Nanotechnology.

RAND SIMBERG ON STEVE JOBS: In Praise of Entrepreneurs.

Plus, from Richard Fernandez: It’s A Wonderful Life.

TAXPAYER-FINANCED ROMANCE at the Department Of Justice.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: The Wilsonian World Order Has Once Again Been Postponed. “As I wrote at the time, if you play your cards cleverly and all the stars align, from time to time you can have a Wilsonian war. What you can’t get is Wilsonian peace: a Kantian world order based on liberal values and the rule of law.”

FORFEITURE ABUSE: Federal & Local Law Enforcement Agencies Try to Take Family Motel from Innocent Owners.

READER JOHN STEAKLEY SENDS this CNN piece on “Why Men Are In Trouble” and comments:

Bennett identifies the problem but misses the solution by a mile.

Men aren’t ambitious. Why should we be? Ambition is greed. Greed is evil. We don’t want to be evil, do we?

Men aren’t working. Why should we? Unemployment isn’t our fault. It’s the fault of greedy people on Wall Street who won’t “give” us a job. Even if unemployed, the government will still give us free health care. Why work?

Men aren’t fathering. How can we? Courts aren’t known for giving custody to fathers. If our wives decide one morning to leave and take the kids, we can’t stop her.

Men aren’t earning. Why should we? People who earn “too much” exploit others, and don’t pay their “fair share” even after the government punishes them with progressively higher tax rates. We don’t want to look like an exploiter.

Healthy young males are . . . shrugging.

Indeed. You get more of what you reward, and less of what you punish.

MAKING THE NEXT FINANCIAL CRISIS WORSE, one regulation at a time.

THE ANCHORESS: Is Steve Jobs the last capitalist we’ll be permitted to admire?

Who cares what’s “permitted?” I aim to misbehave.