WHEN LAW SCHOOLS WIN LAWSUITS BROUGHT BY FORMER STUDENTS, THEY LOSE: “These three law schools, and others facing similar suits, undoubtedly count these decisions as victories. But I cannot shake the sense that they mark a deep wound to the standing of law schools. The students we welcome in our doors are being warned by state and federal judges that they cannot take at face value the employment information we supply. For law schools, which have always held themselves out as honorable institutions of learning and professionalism, this is crushing.”

Students, remember this when lawprofs — and other academics — get on their moral high horses about “greedy businessmen.” These are the people now offering the “you fucked up, you trusted us” defense.

OBAMA’S WORRIED ABOUT MOB VIOLENCE — by Americans. Well, given how extensively he’s rewarded mob violence by everyone else, that would make sense, I suppose. . . .

WOMEN GET 90% OF COSMETIC SURGERIES: Here are the favorites.

JUST DID A VIDEO INTERVIEW FOR VOA on the Administration’s response to the Nakoula film, which I called “a foreign policy debacle of the first order.” We’ll see if it airs.

PLAYBOY ENTERS THE mail-order wine business.

AT AMAZON, bestsellers in Audible Audiobooks.

ABC NEWS: President Obama Falsely Claims Fast and Furious Program “Begun Under the Previous Administration.” “In actuality, the Fast and Furious program was started in October 2009, nine months into the Obama presidency.”

POOR MITT. APPARENTLY, NOTHING HE DOES MAKES THEM HAPPY. Romney Tax Returns Released, Left outraged Romney paid too MUCH in taxes, gave 30 percent to charity; Reid, Biden hardest hit. “Romney gave 30% of his income last year to charity. Yes, he’s clearly a greedy, selfish one-percenter who doesn’t care about the poor.”

If you really care, you don’t give money yourself. You get the government to force other people to give. That’s what true compassion is all about. Just ask Joe Biden.

UPDATE: Unlike Warren Buffett, Mitt Romney Overpaid His Taxes.

MORE: Tax Returns Show Mitt Romney’s Empathy:

This past year, he gave $4,020,772 of his $13,696,951 in (“mostly investment”) income to charity. That’s 29.65%. Interestingly, “The Romneys [only] claimed a deduction for $2.25 million of those charitable contributions.”

Romney also provided details on his past 20 years of tax returns, indicating that he paid taxes in each of those years. Do wonder if Harry Reid will now apologize for slurring the good man from Massachusetts. And “Over the entire 20-year period, the Romneys gave to charity an average of 13.45% of their adjusted gross income.”

By contrast in the ten years prior to his nomination to be the Democratic candidate for Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden gave 0.15% of his income to charity. (UPDATE: For comparison purposes, in the 20 years prior to his current bid for the White House, Mitt Romney gave ninety times as much of his income to charitable institutions as did Joe Biden in the 10 years prior to his nomination as the Democratic candidate for Vice President.)

Sounds like Mitt Romney is a most generous man, an empathetic individual.

Especially compared to Joe “All Talk” Biden.

THE D.C. TAXI COMMISSION’S protectionist regulatory strategy. “Like any other business, taxi drivers think it would be great if no one could compete with them.” Plus this: “If the taxi commission really hasn’t been capable of processing a new application in almost four years, perhaps we should outsource their work to the folks at the Apple Store, or for that matter, the DC DMV, both of which seem able to process thousands of applications a week.”

It’s almost as if the regulators don’t really care about consumer welfare or something. . . .

COMIC RELIEF: Jill Biden Makes A Penis Joke.

SHOCKING DISCOVERY: Parents actually want their kids. “Not that the data matter, because the way the game works, when one writes about families and children in popular literature, is to nestle bold assertions amongst seemingly substantiating numbers. The real shame is that editors who should know better run this kind of stuff seemingly without question, even as it becomes increasingly unoriginal by dint of sheer repetition.”

IN SINGAPORE, rating restrooms with LOO Connect.

SCIENCE: Snake venom could unlock cancer, diabetes cures: study.

READER BOOK PLUG: Major Shane Corcoran writes:

A classmate of mine from the Defense Language Institute Arabic course has written a sci-fi e-book called The Lords of Harambee which I think is worth a plug. Bottom line up front: it was described as “Black Hawk Down in Space”, and that was from an agent who was talking about why it wasn’t marketable. Hell, I think that should be on the front cover.

To add detail about the author to establish his bona fides, my buddy is an Air Force pilot who flew 200+ missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, but was later an Olmsted scholar who received a master’s degree in Conflict Resolution in Jordan. Also, while he was a cadet at the Air Force Academy, he had two sci-fi stories published in reputable magazines, so it isn’t like this is a lark.

If you think it is worth it, I’d ask you to put a plug for it on your site. Mark (the author) is a bit of a progressive (like Scalzi), so I’m not sure if he would ever write you himself, but this novel is pretty dang good and I’m sure your readership would appreciate its realistic depiction of war.

Done! And, yeah, I agree: “Black Hawk Down In Space” is a selling point.

IT WAS A DARK DAY, THAT’S ALL I CAN SAY: When Did Bare Breasts Become Taboo.

WHITEWASH AND MISDIRECTION: Inspector General Report on Fast and Furious Leaves Biggest Questions Unanswered.

THESE DAYS, A MINING SCHOOL DEGREE IS AS GOOD AS GOLD. I tried to talk the Insta-Daughter into considering the Colorado School of Mines, but she wasn’t having it. Oh, well.

PAUL RAHE: The NIH Superbug. “If nothing is done, our children may live in a world akin to that of our forebears – in which there are no antibiotics capable of being deployed against the most common diseases.”

WHO SHOT FIRST AND AIMED LATER? Obama’s Embassy Cover Story Dissolves. “There is ample evidence that the administration screwed up. The Wall Street Journal has a must-read in-depth report that explains what the administration has refused to tell us.”

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): You Can’t Talk About Millenials Without Talking About Falling Earnings. “The Atlantic has been on the Millennial beat for a long time, explaining why 20-somethings aren’t buying cars or houses or cable subscriptions, not getting married, not having children, and sometimes not even moving out of their parents’ basements. The answer, again and again, is the economy. Unemployment for adults between 20 and 24 is 14%, compared to the national average of 8.1%. But even those with jobs are facing something without modern precedent: Steadily falling annual earnings.”

It’s worse than this indicates, though, because even as earnings were falling, student indebtedness was climbing.

MICKEY KAUS: Fact-Checking The Fact-Checkers: Bring Back Beats! “Yes, ‘beat’ reporters are reluctant to piss of their sources. But at least they tend to know the history and context of any dispute. (For example, if you’ve covered the welfare beat you know that Greenberg and Parrott are not in the business of strengthening work requirements.)… And beat reporters don’t have to label policy arguments ‘false’ or ‘true.'”

Plus:

The House voted 250-164 to reject the waivers Thursday, though the Senate will not take up the bill until after the election. Nineteen Democrats joined the Republicans, though that didn’t stop The Hill from calling it a “party line” vote. Someone forgot to tell veteran California Democrat and Clintonite John Garamendi about the “party line” part. … Why do I feel that if one in ten GOPs defected to the Dems, it would be a “bipartisan vote”?

That’s disappointing. The Hill is usually better than that. Plus AP’s Jim Abrams and his “museum quality example of sneering spin.” With AP, alas, it’s not so much a case of disappointment as of meeting expectations. . . .

Some related thoughts from Michael Graham.

Plus: Gallup: Distrust In Media Hits New High. I wonder why?

Also: The Audacity Of These Dopes.

MORE: Rand Simberg emails: “If this does turn into a blowout for Romney, I think that a significant factor will be people voting against the media hacks who have been propping up The One.” Indeed.

THIS IS COOL: 4 Knox County schools receiving defibrillators. Funded by donations from Project Adam.