WITCH HUNTS more dangerous for men? Well, men seldom accrue chivalrous defenders.

NOT EXACTLY RUNNING A TAUT SHIP, THERE: Inspector General: IRS Does Not Adhere to Recruitment/Retention Bonus Guidelines.

STEVE JOBS, ONE-PERCENTER? Gordon Gekko In A Turtleneck.

AT AMAZON, Fall Cookbooks.

HOW THE POTATO changed the world.

HEH: “What if everyone suddenly got sick of freeloaders?”

Plus, from the comments: “Tragic. The horses are tired of working for the cats, who don’t contribute anything, and have taken their case to the pigs. Let me know if they get this resolved before the farmer comes back.”

Also: “A moment of satori for the #OWS apparatchiks. They now know what the homeless are up to. Turns out, it’s exactly what the #OWS are up to, viz.; take from those who have more than you– you are justified because they have more than you.”

ANOTHER BEAUTY BLOG: Reader Terry Putnam writes: “As a long time reader I have come to appreciate the power and insight provided by your blog. Keep up the good work as your blog is my first read every day. I saw the beauty blog link this morning and it made me think of my daughter-in-law’s very successful blog that she has developed over several years. I’m sure she would appreciate a mention/link in your widely read blog.”

SOUTH KOREA: Another country that oversold higher education. The higher education bubble is international.

BOXING BROTHERS ON COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA:

In the documentary, there’s a fascinating moment, Vitali, where you’re 17 years old and you travel to the United States for the first time with a delegation of Ukrainian boxers. You talk about all the propaganda you experienced growing up in the Soviet Union. What were you expecting when you arrived on U.S. soil?

Vitali Klitschko: My whole life I was told that the U.S. was a horrible country. That everyone was aggressive and that crime was out of control and that everywhere you went people were shooting each other in the street. I also was told that Americans wanted to go to war with the Russians and make us their slaves. At some point, I always believed, I would have to defend my home country against crazy Americans who wanted to control the whole world.

Wladimir Klitschko: Just to give you the full contrast, these days we have an American training camp director from Pacific Palisades, California. I explained to him that when I was 12, I was shooting AK-47s, handling hand grenades, running through underground tunnels, practicing drills, and studying how to get along with tank attacks. He said, “What? When I was 12, I was driving to Disney World to visit Mickey Mouse. What the hell were you guys thinking?” Well, we were preparing. We’d basically been brainwashed.

So when you arrived in America, how did you reconcile what you’d heard with what you saw?

Vitali: I was in total shock. I couldn’t understand why people were so friendly — more friendly than Russia! Good food, beautiful beaches … I felt like a little kid, in awe of things. I always thought there was only one type of cheese, you know, the thing we’d always called “cheese.” And in a grocery store, I saw a hundred kinds of cheese! It was amazing. My mouth was hanging open. When I came home, everybody wanted to know what the U.S. was like. At the time, it was easier for a Russian to travel to the moon than to the United States. When I explained what I’d seen, it made quite an impression on people.

Wladimir: He brought me back a special gift — a bottle of Coca-Cola. In the Soviet Union, everyone had heard of Coca-Cola, but nobody had tasted it! I was so happy.

Read the whole thing.

MORE DISAPPOINTMENT: Chronicle of Higher Education: Obama’s Student-Loan Plan Scores Political Points but Offers Limited Relief. It’s like it’s all for show.

Here’s my plan: Make the loans dischargeable in bankruptcy, but not until 5 years after graduation. Then put the educational institutions that got the money originally on the hook for 10% of the loans. Watch the dramatic change in institutional behavior.

THE EURO-DIESEL WAGON you probably don’t want to buy. “ComputerWorld brings us the news that about 18,000 Jaguars were shipped with defective cruise-control programming. All of the affected cars were diesel X-Type wagons. That right there brings up the question: How the hell did Jaguar sell 18,000 diesel X-Type wagons?”

BREAKING: PJ Media Finds Gunwalker’s ‘Unreachable’ Man in the White House. “The Obama admin. told Rep. Darrell Issa that Kevin O’Reilly — Gunwalker’s possible connection to Obama — was ‘in Iraq and unavailable.’ He’s there, but available. After we called him, his phone number was deactivated.”

HEALTH: Study finds new pathway critical to heart arrhythmia.

PODCAST: University of Alabama Law School’s “Matters of Faith” Symposium.

JOURNALISM: WaPo – We’ll just act like our hit piece on Marco Rubio was true.

SAFETY: Volvo Crash Tests Its Plug-In V60 Hybrid.

VIDEO: Peter Schiff at Occupy Wall Street.

Plus, “Wal-Mart doesn’t hold a gun to your head.”

Background here.

THE GREAT KITTIWAKE CAMERA MYSTERY: “Do you know this diver? Apparently the camera, containing undated photos of Grand Cayman diving [that’s the famous Sunset House mermaid in the photo] was found by a diver off the Florida coast.”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON on the American Way Of War.

VIDEO: Me on Chris Stirewalt’s Power Play, talking about the elections.

LEGAL EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The Bloom Is Coming Off the Law School Rose for Prospective Students.

HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Rabies Gives Woman Uncontrollable Sex Drive.

JOURNALISM:

Remember when the Tea Party was in Arizona and that one guy lawfully carried an AR-15 in a sling on his shoulder? Remember how it made the news and how the beltway crowd was really freaking the Hell out? Remember how MSNBC used selective editing to make it look like it was a disheveled white guy when it was really done by a clean cut black guy? And the media went into OMG!!!111 mode?

Funny story. Turns out, there’s a bunch of guys at Occupy Phoenix wearing camo, tactical gear and carrying around AR-15s and I haven’t heard a peep about it in the press.

Armed lefties are just demonstrating a commitment to social justice. Nothing to worry about.

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