INDIAN OFFICIALS: We Underestimated The Power Of The Internet. “After being battered by one of the biggest social movements against corruption in India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s beleaguered government now says it has learned its lesson about the power of social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and blogs.”

BIZARRE EUROZONE STORY OF THE DAY: German Finance Ministry Handing Out Fortune Cookies: “The German finance ministry has apparently been handing out fortune cookies around Berlin, which are filled with ‘positive’ mottoes such as ‘Progress due to a stable Europe.’ Some 16,000 of the cookies were produced at a cost of €4,000, and were distributed between August and Germany’s national day on October 3. They could become collectors’ items if the euro does collapse, assuming they haven’t all been eaten.” If the Euro does collapse, they’ll be eaten for sure. They’re food. . . .

DAPHNE PATAI on higher education’s diversity problem. “Faculty are far more monolithic in their views, as we all know. Even in settings that are supposedly not political this always come up. So almost the only sorts of political comments I ever hear made in passing by colleagues are anti-conservative dismissals. There’s no ‘other side.’ I’d have to go to specifically conservative events or groups, of which there are very few anyway, to be among people with different assumptions. . . . What I find irritating is not just the ideological uniformity but even more so the presumption that everyone thinks the same way. It seems never to dawn on most academics that someone in their midst might actually disagree with them about politics.”

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Is Texas America’s Green Energy Model? “Sharan’s article is not the last word on energy policy, but it bears out an important theme of this blog: conventional green policy — corporatist, statist, Malthusian, deeply compromised by cheesy alliances with special interests — has lost its way. The movement is not worthy of the cause.”

DAN MITCHELL: Is Ron Paul Going Soft On Big Government?

AT AMAZON, it’s the Home & Garden Outlet.

CREATING THE SOUNDS OF STAR WARS.

HOW DID I MISS THIS? The World Cheese Dip Festival.

I’LL BE ON OPINIONJOURNAL VIDEO at the WSJ in a few minutes, talking about the law school bubble.

EVEN BETTER, CARRY A GUN: “Safety officials at the University of Tennessee said police can’t always get to you in time, so they are asking students to learn how to protect themselves.” But the UT officials won’t go that far, yet. PC rules even in Knoxville.

LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS — OH, MY: Escaped wild animals hunted in Zanesville, Ohio.

ARE MOST WOMEN bisexual?

I’M PERFECT, YOU IMBECILES. PERFECT! Obama: “All the choices we’ve made have been the right ones.”

I DON’T REMEMBER THIS AT ANY TEA PARTIES: CBS: ‘Occupy Cleveland’ Protester Alleges She Was Raped. “According to police reports, the 19-year-old student was instructed by ‘Occupy Cleveland’ personnel to ‘share a tent with the suspect due to a shortage of tents.’”

EDUCATION: Private College’s Entrepreneurship Course Helps Generate Successful Start-Ups.

WHY IT SUCKS to be a zombie.

A CAR THAT WARNS WHEN YOUR BLOOD SUGAR IS LOW. A car that did that would have saved the life of one of my former students, who passed out at the wheel due to low blood sugar.

GO FIGURE: Auto Industry Leaders’ Mood Darkens.

CONAN O’BRIEN: Obama REALLY Needs His Stolen Teleprompter.

HOPE: Perry Commits to Flat Tax, Reforming Entitlements. Great line: “I want to make the tax code so simple that even Timothy Geithner can file his taxes on time.”

FROM THE LEAVE-GUNS-TO-THE-PROFESSIONALS DEPARTMENT: Bethlehem Cop Blames Negligent Discharge on Incontinence. “The Bethlehem, PA city council deliberated last week over whether to fire officer Jeffrey Rogers. Rogers exhibited all kinds of full-frontal fail last December when he let a .40 cal round fly in the police department bathroom. Yes, that’s bad. But Rogers then compounded the problem by lying about it and setting off a frantic armed search through the police station. Jittery cops, running around the building, guns drawn and looking for a perp who’d just fired a shot in their own cop shop. As we’re fond of asking, what could possibly go wrong?”

ELON MUSK: Tesla Model S makes other premium sedans feel like jalopies. So set me up for a test-drive.

BOB OWENS: Gunwalker: The Third Gun. Darrell Issa investigates the rumored third gun present at ATF Agent Bryan Terry’s murder. “It appears that the primary mission of Eric Holder’s Department of Justice is to insulate President Obama’s political appointees from the consequences of their actions, and to obstruct the pursuit of justice by Congress as much as possible.”

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE (CONT’D): Boulder cat has close encounter with mountain lion in Boulder. Love the pic. Since it’s a Maine Coon Cat, he was probably surprised to see a bigger feline.

WASHINGTON FAT CATS: Top Income in U.S. Is…Gasp!…Wash. D.C. Area. “Federal employees whose compensation averages more than $126,000 and the nation’s greatest concentration of lawyers helped Washington edge out San Jose as the wealthiest U.S. metropolitan area, government data show. The U.S. capital has swapped top spots with Silicon Valley, according to recent Census Bureau figures, with the typical household in the Washington metro area earning $84,523 last year. The national median income for 2010 was $50,046.”

Makes Iain Murray’s Stealing You Blind: How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off of You seem even more timely. . . .