EUROPE: Merkel wants ‘permanent’ supervision of Greece, warns of war. Wait, this sounds familiar somehow. . .

CHANGE: Looks like Villaraigosa will be the next Democratic mayor to send cops after occupiers.

CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Thursday is radical movie screening day at Eric Holder’s DOJ.

RICHARD EPSTEIN ON THE NEWSHOUR: “I’m sure whoever’s idea it was has been sacked. Along with all the llama trainers.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: John Leo: Yes, We’re Broke, But Leave the Diversity Machine Alone. “This is an old story on our campuses. Colleges and universities enact severe budget cuts, dropping programs and letting teachers go, while unapologetically expanding their already swollen diversity bureaucracy. This is because diversity now has the status of an established religion on our campuses, while actual teaching deals only in mere learning.”

POTEMKIN PROTEST: Daily Mail: The thermal images that prove 90% of tents in the Occupy camp in London are left EMPTY overnight.

THE PROBLEM OF PATENT TROLLS.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why Sex Is So Important To Us. “Men who have sex three times a week can decrease their heart attack and stroke risk by 50 percent. Women who enjoy sex tend to live longer than those who don’t.”

COLD-WEATHER ACCESSORIES: Hats, Gloves, Scarves, and More.

WHAT “ECONOMIC JUSTICE” SMELLS LIKE: “Without running water or working toilets, the crowded anti-Wall Street encampments across the country are not the most pleasant-smelling places to live. Nor are they quiet, with drumming and chanting echoing through the air at all hours of the night. That’s why police and neighbors in some cities are starting to lose patience with the protesters, who are preparing to settle in for the winter months.”

KEITH HENNESSEY: The Political Risks Of Targeted Mortgage Subsidies.

INFLATION: Inflation Concerns Go Beyond Rise in Consumer Price Index.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Coffee Linked To Reduced Risk Of Skin Cancer. “Women who drank more than three cups of coffee had a 20% reduction in risk for basal cell carcinoma. Men who drank that much coffee had a 9% reduction in risk of the slow-growing cancer. People who drank the most coffee had the lowest risk. The team did not identify reduced risk for squamous cell carcinoma.”

THE RETURN OF Hippie Style.

WHAT AMERICA HAS BEEN WAITING FOR: Chelsea Clinton Mulls Congressional Run. “Democrats involved in the discussions are excited, seeing Chelsea Clinton as an ‘automatic win’ for the Democrats in 2012.”

AT AMAZON, warehouse deals.

PLAYING POLITICS WITH NATIONAL SECURITY? BREAKING: Homeland Security Adviser Allegedly Leaked Intel to Attack Rick Perry.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): New Poll Finds a Deep Distrust of Government. “With Election Day just over a year away, a deep sense of economic anxiety and doubt about the future hangs over the nation, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, with Americans’ distrust of government at its highest level ever.” Gee, I wonder why people don’t trust the government, when they were so hopeful back in 2008?

VIDEO: Rise Of The Obamavilles. “The little tent cities they’ve created resemble nothing so much as they resemble … Hoovervilles. Sure, most of the protesters aren’t homeless, but many are jobless — and that’s the point. Whatever they say it is they’re protesting, they wouldn’t have “occupied” whatever street or city they’re occupying if the country were in a time of lower unemployment. Many of the policies President Barack Obama has championed — not least Obamacare — have contributed to the country’s joblessness. So, it seems neither unfair nor inappropriate to say, regardless of whether they realize it or call it by name and regardless of who else has contributed to the borderline corrupt culture of a federal government in bed with business, the protesters are, in fact, protesting the Obama economy. And that would make those Hoovervilles … Obamavilles.”

FASTER PLEASE: Alberta’s Oil Sands Heat Up.

NEW INNOVATIONS IN RETAIL SPACE: “I’ll tell you one thing, I don’t have to worry about getting robbed, that’s for sure.”

RECESSION FINALLY HITS downtown Knoxville.

A REVIEW OF BILL STUNTZ’S NEW BOOK, The Collapse Of American Criminal Justice.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: A passage from Neal Stephenson’s new book:

Neither of these men had much in the way of formal education, since each had decided, during his late teens, to simply go out into the world and begin doing something. And each of them had found his way from there, sometimes with good and sometimes with bad results. Consequently, neither had much in the way of money or prestige. But each had a kind of confidence about him that was not often found in young men who had followed the recommended path through high school to college and postgraduate training. If she had wanted to be cruel or catty about it, Zula might have likened those meticulously groomed boys to overgrown fetuses, waiting endlessly to be born. Which was absolutely fine given that the universities were well stocked with fetal women. But perhaps because of her background in refugee camps and the premature death of her mother, she could not bring herself to be interested in those men. This quality that she had seen in Peter and now saw in Csongor was — and she flinched from the word, but there seemed little point in trying to distance herself from it through layers of self-conscious irony — masculine.

Heh.

WISCONSIN PUBLISHES ITS CCW Reciprocity List. Tennessee made the cut. Yay!