THE NEXT CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE: Bathroom Integration.

MARK STEYN: The Simulacrum Of Self-Government.

OUCH. TMZ TWISTS THE KNIFE: GLAAD: Alec Baldwin Gets a Pass ‘Cause We’re Shameless Starf**kers.

DUAL JET STREAMS SPARK WEIRD SUMMER WEATHER. 90 degree temps in Alaska are high, but I’ve been there and sweaty in the summer, with Fairbanks in the 80s.

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Also, Up to 55% Off “World War Z” on DVD, Blu-ray, and 3D Blu-ray Combo Pack.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: Defenders of Rachel Jeantel Channel John C. Calhoun. “Rachel Jeantel’s testimony probably won’t help convict George Zimmerman, but it sure has flushed out the new segregationists.”

WELCOME TO OBAMA’S POST-RACIAL AMERICA: ‘Ima kill me a cracka’: Death threats against George Zimmerman, random white people explode during trial.

The Zimmerman circus was ginned up precisely to inflame racial tensions and boost black turnout for the 2012 elections, so this is no accident.

RADLEY BALKO: How did America’s police become a military force on the streets?

SCORCHED-EARTH VINDICTIVENESS: Paula Deen’s upcoming cookbook, currently the No. 1 seller on Amazon.com, has been dropped by its publisher.

Meanwhile, John Nolte is asking Capital One if it has anything to say about Alec Baldwin’s homophobic Twitter rant. Crickets. Deen is being rendered a nonperson over something she said decades ago, but Baldwin gets a pass over something he said yesterday. Seems like there’s some sort of double standard here.

UPDATE: Prof. Stephen Clark writes:

The cancellation of Paula Deen’s book at this time is about avoiding being seen as enabling what appears to be an evolving protest as expressed through the advance orders, coupled with a desire to flip off the protesters. Just another page in the ongoing cultural aggression being waged by the bicoastal elite. It does, however, neatly illustrate the inherent viciousness of the class.

Maybe she should self-publish and look to other media ventures and outlets.

Glenn Beck went that route, and makes more money than Oprah. . . .

THE HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE comes to the comics world.

HITTING A NERVE IS EASY WHEN PEOPLE ARE ALREADY FEELING GUILTY: Strange Response from “A Group of Latino/a Law Professors.”

Just remember that “social justice” has no intrinsic meaning apart from “what we want.”

#WARONMEN: Amid fury, Clorox pulls post insulting new dads.

Just when you think derogatory stereotypes about dads are on the decline as fathers take a more hands-on role in child-rearing, along comes an online posting by a major brand that shows not everyone got the memo.

And this one — published, then pulled, by Clorox — charts new terrain in depicting first-time fathers as clueless buffoons.

“Saying ‘No-no’ is not just for baby. Like dogs or other house pets, new dads are filled with good intentions but lacking the judgment and fine motor skills to execute well,” it reads.

Somehow, it manages to get even more offensive from there.

Read the whole thing.

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BUT THE COLLEGES GOT THEIR MONEY UP FRONT: CBS News: One Third Of Student Loan Borrowers Never Earned Degree.

THERE’S CLEARLY ROOM TO SLASH THE BUDGET OF THE VIRGINIA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMMISSION: Bottled-water purchase leads to night in jail for UVa student.

When a half-dozen men and a woman in street clothes closed in on University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly, 20, she and two roommates panicked.

That led to Daly spending a night and an afternoon in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. Her initial offense? Walking to her car with bottled water, cookie dough and ice cream just purchased from the Harris Teeter in the Barracks Road Shopping Center for a sorority benefit fundraiser.

A group of state Alcoholic Beverage Control agents clad in plainclothes approached her, suspecting the blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water to be a 12-pack of beer. Police say one of the agents jumped on the hood of her car. She says one drew a gun. Unsure of who they were, Daly tried to flee the darkened parking lot.

A reasonable person would have feared for his/her safety — as she did — and would have been within his/her legal rights to shoot them, or run them down. At which point, if experience is any guide, they would have made up some BS cover story. This sort of behavior by law enforcement is a threat to public safety and should not be tolerated. The agents should be fired.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Breaking Habits Before They Start.

SPACE: Startup Plans Constellation of Tiny Monitoring Satellites.

A FREE SPEECH VICTORY: Charge dismissed against student who refused to remove NRA shirt. Someone needs to ask the principal and the prosecutor what they thought they were doing here. A remedial free-speech course should be required.

FASTER, PLEASE: Scientists Regrow Severed Spinal Cords In Rats.

PAYPAL GALACTIC: We Want To Be Your Space Payment System.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Ten States Now Buried By Pensions.

IN THE MAIL: From Gerard de Marigny, Project 111 (Cris De Niro, Book 4).

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 50.

EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN: Was Snowden Working Alone?

TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT: The Vanishing Legal Secretary. I did almost all my own word-processing when I practiced law — I am, as has been noted, a very fast typist — and the secretaries at my firm (who even back then made $50K and were worth it) respected that since most partners — and many associates — still used legal pads. I suppose they should have feared it instead.