HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Greg Lukianoff, the president of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education stops by my PJ Media blog today for an an audio interview to discusses his recent book, Unlearning Liberty:  Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate. There’s a transcript of the interview, and comments are open, if you’d like to weigh in on the topic, and/or report your own campus horror stories.

Click here to listen.

THE ICONOCLASTIC WISDOM OF DAN QUAYLE: Jonah Goldberg in the L.A. Times:

But where Quayle was wrong — though only partially — was putting the blame on Hollywood.

The black family was falling apart decades before “Murphy Brown.” And since then, the white family has been breaking down even as the majority of Hollywood fare continues to romanticize traditional marriage or does an adequate job of showing how hard single motherhood is.

I don’t know why marriage for all but the well-off and well educated continues to disintegrate; maybe it would help if elites “preached what they practiced, ” to borrow a phrase from Charles Murray. Forbes writer Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry notes that being married correlates about as positively with a person’s wages as going to college does. But experts hammer the importance of college while ignoring marriage.

Maybe after the debate over gay marriage settles down, elites could focus on the far more pressing marriage crisis unfolding before their eyes.

Somewhat related thoughts on Murray’s observation, and David Brooks’ proverbial bourgeois-bohemians, here.

HE’S A BETTER MAN THAN I: Stephen Green takes on Paul Krugman.

BUT IS IT LEGITIMATE THEFT: The Morals of Cyprus and the EU.

WHEN THE LEFT LOVES THE CIA: We’re left to hope this time they’re giving arms to people who don’t hate us.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN FOR TOMORROW: Waiting period for laws, not guns.

WAIT, WHAT?  OH, I SEE: That’s what the government is supposed to do, help us get where we want to go. – In parallel world inhabited by NY Times, the Constitution is massively different from the one in the world the rest of us live in.

FASTER, PLEASE: The Coming Age of Space Colonization.

One reason to promote asteroid mining, of course, is that the capabilities developed for those purposes transfer readily to protecting Earth from a killer rock.

DON’T BE RIDICULOUS, THAT WOULD END GRAFT AND CORRUPTION: SOX for Uncle Sam.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Computationally designed peptide sneaks nanoparticles past immune system.

WE SHOULD PUT THEM ON A DIET: Taxpayers shell out thousands for lawmakers’ coffee, doughnuts.

DEHUMANIZING ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC:  “[Anyone] who would run out to buy an assault rifle after the Newtown massacre has very little left in their body or soul worth protecting,” tweets Jim Carrey, in-between sparring with moviegoers on Twitter who disagree with his anti-Second Amendment viewpoint.

Presumably Carrey is wishing for his box office appeal to become increasingly “selective,” as Spinal Tap manager Ian Faith euphemistically explained his charges’ own declining popularity.

Update: An Insta-reader emails that Carrey’s hateful rhetoric is “a pretty harsh thing to say about Gabby Gifford’s husband….”

Meanwhile, Greg Gutfeld and Dana Loesch punch back twice as hard; including Loesch asking Carrey if he’ll be denouncing his own upcoming Kick Ass 2 movie, to remain consistent with his anti-gun rhetoric; Carrey bravely runs away in response. Unexpectedly.

(Bumped to top.)

A BRIDGE TO NOWHERE?:   Because it’s gone.  Vanished overnight.  Wow.

8 COOL USES FOR DRONES:  But they still creep me out.  Especially this one.

MOST OPEN ADMINISTRATION EVER: Obama Designates Five New National Monuments; Signing Ceremony Closed To Press. “He did so by using the Antiquities Act, thereby circumventing Congress in the process.”

BEND OVER: Lululemon is making customers ‘bend over to verify sheerness’ of recalled yoga pants before issuing a refund.

IT’S MEDICINAL, I SWEAR: Fudging it: Chocolate really can be good for you.

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DECADE MAKES:

“Shock £200 rise in fuel bills in store as cold and snow leave gas reserves low”

— Headline, London Independent, today.

“Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past”

— Headline, London Independent, March 20, 2000.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS:  Michael Patrick Leahy at Breitbart aptly observes that numerous recent actions by President Obama smack of royal prerogative, and lamestream media coverage as the obsequiousness of royal courtiers.  Indeed.

LIVE FROM FREDDIE’S FASHION MART: Al Sharpton Hypocrisy: Criticism of Mayor Bloomberg’s Gun Campaign Due to Antisemitism.

Plus an “objective” Politico “journalist” drops the mask during her own appearance on MSNBC: “Wayne LaPierre Looks Like A ‘Tired Old White Guy.’”

WHY DOESN’T THIS SURPRISE ME? US Border Patrol Uniforms – Made in Mexico.

SUPREME COURT GRANTS REVIEW ON ANOTHER AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CASE:  In addition to the Fisher v. University of Texas case, on which the Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments, the Court today agreed to hear Schuette v Michigan Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action.  At stake is the constitutionality of Proposition 2, an amendment to the Michigan Constitution approved by Michigan voters in 2006, that bans public universities and colleges from using race as a factor in admissions.  The question, in a nutshell, is simple:  Does it violate the Equal Protection Clause to prohibit race-conscious admissions?  Ironic, isn’t it?

WHICH MEGAFAMOUS PERSON HAD A MEGACOLON? Take the “Gulp!” quiz. (And read this cool article about chewing by Mary Roach, whose new book is “Gulp!”).

REMINDER: Amazon carries all sorts of gun cleaning supplies. Also gun socks.

And I recommend some moisture absorbers for your gun safe or closet, too.

TIMELY REMINDER: A Deposit In A Bank Is Not A Riskless Form Of Saving. Plus this: “When states become insolvent, the piper must ultimately be paid. Fatal, embarrassing insolvency is not a problem that can be perpetually or painlessly deferred.”

Something that can’t go on forever, won’t, to coin a phrase.

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