THE FATAL IDIOCY OF CALIFORNIA: “California is falling to pieces but its administrators are far too busy banning luxury foods to care. The state is failing to educate its kids, cannot house its prisoners or pay its bills; what was once the most vibrant and forward-looking state in the country has become a dismal failure — a social catastrophe that is a drag on the whole country’s performance.”

SHOCKING NEWS FROM SLATE: Typos Happen To Obama, Too. Well, if you relied on mainstream reporting for all your news, it would come as a shock: “While the Romney camp’s latest blunders are fun to poke fun at because of the central importance of Reagan and America to Republicans everywhere, at most they show the campaign is run by fallible humans like everyone else. In fact, they might reveal more about the lack of coverage of similar mistakes by Obama and his staff.”

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: NALP: Law School Class of 2011 Faced ‘Brutal’ Job Market.

SO DOES PUBLISHING THIS ARTICLE open up the schools involved to job-discrimination lawsuits? I’m pretty sure if the genders were reversed some people would think so. And we’d be told that who people choose to marry is nobody’s business. That’s my attitude all the time, not just when it might impact “attitudes toward workplace diversity.” But despite the disclaimer, the key message here is that married men with stay-at-home wives are bad.

Related: “Research Study” — Don’t Hire The Guy With The Stay-At-Home Wife.

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REASON TV: Bath Salts, Naked Zombie Cannibals & Stupid Senators.

MESSAGE TO GRADUATES: You’re Not Special. “You see, if everyone is special, then no one is.”

THUG LIFE: Professor Jacobson: Zimmerman Prosecutor Has History of Going After Critics. The quote from Sandy D’Alemberte is particularly damning — but not as damning as Corey’s response. Good grief. Why is this woman in a government job at all?

Related: “It makes no difference to me who the personalities are here. Democrat, Republican, annoying (but principled!) Harvard Law Professor — everyone deserves the right to speak out publicly without being retaliated against in a thuggish fashion.”

SPEAK LOUDLY AND LEAVE THE STICK AT HOME? This time, boy, Jay Carney really means it on Syria.

THE KINDLE EDITION OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE is now online and available for pre-order.

AS I MENTIONED, I’M NOT PARTICIPATING IN THE BLOGGER DAY-OF-SILENCE. But here’s the story from Michelle Malkin.

More here. And here’s the NBC donation page.

UPDATE: “Online Armageddon.”

Plus, a backgrounder from John Hawkins.

I’M NEVER ON THE INTERNET, EXCEPT WHEN I’M ON IT ALL THE TIME.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Younger voter unemployment at 12.1%, threatens Obama.

President Obama’s 2008 political wizardry in inspiring younger voters to storm the voting polls for his change message has hit the brick wall of persistent unemployment and threatens to drain their enthusiasm for his reelection.

According to federal statistics, the unemployment rate of 18-29 year olds reached 12.1 percent in May and when those who have given up looking for work are added in, the rate skyrockets to 16.9 percent. The national unemployment rate for all Americans is 8.2 percent.

And among the very young, 16-19 year olds, unemployment is 20.6 percent. And among African Americans in that age group the rate is 40.6 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a major hurdle to the reelection campaign’s bid to to energize young blacks turning 18 by Election Day.

A recent Harvard University poll showed Obama beating Mitt Romney among younger voters, but they lacked the passion of 2008, in part because they can’t find jobs. And among the largest group of younger voters, white millennials, Obama and Romney are nearly tied at 37 to 34 percent. Obama won that group handily by 10 percent in 2008.

It is just the latest core Democratic base group that has been hit by unemployment, resulting in some voter apathy.

Do tell.

LIZ PEEK: Obama’s “Us vs. Them” Strategy Failed in Wisconsin.

POLITICO: Hill Lawmakers Blast White House On Leaks. “Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill don’t agree on much these days, but they agree that the Obama administration has a serious problem with leaking classified information. And with national security in the balance, a group of congressional leaders say there’s an urgent need to get things back in line.”

Well, the White House is leaking for PR purposes. If you loudly note that they’re endangering national security every time they do that — especially if Democrats join in the yelling — it won’t be good PR for them anymore and they’ll probably stop.

BOOKS, COOKED: Labor Dept. counts oil lobbyists, garbage men, bus drivers as ‘green jobs’ [VIDEO].

ROLL CALL: House Democrats Demand Ethics Report on Maxine Waters Case.

FRANK KEEGAN: Fiscal Reality Wins a Victory in Wisconsin. “It’s not about envy; it’s about the desperation of paying property taxes and making house payments. It’s not a struggle over collective-bargaining ‘rights,’ it’s a pure power struggle over an entrenched elite squeezing more out of citizens already getting by on less.”

JIM TREACHER: Rachel Maddow admits that Dems can’t compete without coercion.

STONE, MEET WALL. White House Refuses Special Prosecutor For National Security Leaks.

MICHAEL S. MALONE remembers Ray Bradbury.

Also, Erik Sofge.

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SOME PEOPLE HAVE EMAILED TO ASK IF I’M JOINING IN THE NATIONAL DAY OF BLOGGER SILENCE TOMORROW. Nope. Silence isn’t my M.O. Others are free to do what they wish, but I will be blogging as usual.

Also, not to be too critical, but can we please stop scheduling PR stunts on Fridays? That’s not a good day for those, for obvious reasons.

WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF TO KNOW: Aaron Sorkin has no political agenda, says Aaron Sorkin.

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