MY PIECE IN TOMORROW’S WALL STREET JOURNAL: What’s Really ‘Immoral’ About Student Loans: It’s not so much the interest rates charged. It is, rather, the principal of the thing.

POLITICALLY INCORRECT FACT OF THE DAY: The Majority of Service Members Who Are Sexually Assaulted Each Year Are Men.

CONFESSIONS OF a former bellhop.

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WHY YOUNG D.C. PUNDITS LOATHE BASE-PANDERING:

“Style is character,” Joan Didion famously declared in her essay on Georgia O’Keeffe.

A lot of people share this opinion, whether they realize it, or not. And this, I think, partially explains the dichotomy between the ruling class and the hoi polloi. It’s often not about ideology, but instead, about style.

For example, I think elites were as much repelled by the way Sarah Palin spoke — and by her refusal to genuflect at the altar of political correctness – as they were about any of the policies she supported.

I notice this particularly among libertarians. In truth, as a governor Sarah Palin was remarkably gay-friendly and generally quite libertarian. But they tended to lump her in with Mike Huckabee.

GOOGLE GLASSES, FOR THE MASSES: Recon Serves Up Limited Edition HUD Action Glasses. “The Recon Jet Pilot edition will work with both iOS and Android. It syncs with smartphones via Bluetooth and supports ANT+ so all your fancy data-tracking sports equipment will push your workout information to the headset. The glasses are also modular, so if you break the frame or lenses you can order replacements from Recon. Something you can’t do with Google Glass.” Well, sort of.

IF YOU GOTTA ASK. . . . What’s The Point Of Oral Sex?

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 5 Ways Sex Makes You More Beautiful.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Man Pleads Guilty To Having Sex With Couch.

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HERE’S A COPY of that IRS letter confirming that conservative, not liberal, groups were targeted.

ANOTHER FALSE RAPE ACCUSATION: The woman who accused a stranger she found on Facebook of rape – and how it ruined her victim’s life. “In an act of inexplicable viciousness, 31-year-old fantasist Linsey Attridge chanced upon a photograph of Philip and his then 14-year-old brother James and used it to back up a story she’d concocted. She’d done it, apparently, in order to win some sympathy with her boyfriend, when she feared his affections were waning. It led to Philip, a wholly innocent chef, being harassed in the street and shunned at the school gates. He is still fighting, two years later, to salvage his battered reputation.”

The penalties for this sort of thing need to be severe enough to discourage it.

Her name is Linsey Attridge.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Which Came First: The University, Or The Economy? “Affordable higher education follows innovating economies, and doesn’t create them.”

REMINDER: Obama “joked” about auditing his enemies in 2009.

THE ANSWER IS YES. Can Your Car Be Hacked?

Currently, there’s nothing to stop anyone with malicious intent and some ­computer-programming skills from taking command of your vehicle. After gaining access, a hacker could control everything from which song plays on the radio to whether the brakes work.

While there are no reported cases of cars being maliciously hacked in the real world, in 2010, researchers affiliated with the Center for Automotive Embedded Systems Security (CAESS—a partnership between the University of California San Diego and the University of Washington) demonstrated how to take over all of a car’s vital systems by plugging a device into the OBD-II port under the dashboard.

It gets worse. In a paper that’s due to be published later this year, those same researchers remotely take control of an unnamed vehicle through its telematics system. They also demonstrate that it’s theoretically possible to hack a car with malware embedded in an MP3 and with code transmitted over a Wi-Fi connection.

Such breaches are possible because the dozens of  independently operating computers on modern vehicles are all connected through an in-car communications network known as a controller-area-network bus, or CAN bus.

Read the whole thing.

COMPARISON: The Comparison: 2014 Jaguar F-Type S vs. 2013 Porsche Boxster S.

ELIANA JOHNSON: James O’Keefe’s Rules For Radicals. An interview with James O’Keefe about his new book, Breakthrough: Our Guerrilla War to Expose Fraud and Save Democracy. And it’s interesting how, like a lot of people who caused Obama grief earlier, O’Keefe was neutralized for the 2012 election cycle by the actions of the federal government.

MEH. IT’S JUST BECAUSE THEY THINK YOU’RE FROM TENNESSEE: Men: Wearing A T-Shirt With The Letter T On It Makes You More Attractive.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Five Smart Tips For Towing A Trailer.

CLAIRE MCCASKILL REPLIES TO JAMES TARANTO: There Is No War On Men. Well, you know what they say — once a politician issues a denial . . . .

LEGAL EDUCATION UPDATE: George Kuney: Addressing Shortfalls in Traditional Legal Education. “Law school’s traditional educational model needs to be revamped. The traditional law firm’s summer associate model needs restructuring. Some might say they are both broken.”

A FREE SPEECH VICTORY FOR THE INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE. “Cooksey ran a Dear Abby-style advice column on his blog in which he gave one-on-one advice about how to follow the low carbohydrate ‘paleo’ diet. The Board deemed Cooksey’s advice the unlicensed practice of nutritional counseling, sent him a 19-page print-up of his website indicating in red pen what he was and was not allowed to say, and threatened him with legal action if he did not comply.”

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Ohio Judge Orders Traffic Cameras Confiscated. “Ruehlman ruled March 7 that the 2012 Elmwood Place ordinance that allowed cameras and other equipment to be used to measure the speed of cars and ticket speeders without pulling them over was unconstitutional. At that time, he ordered a stop to the speeding camera program the village was using. The program brought them more than $1 million in revenue while it operated. Despite that, evidence at Thursday’s hearing showed, Maryland-based Optotraffic LLC that runs the speed camera program for Elmwood Place, continued to issue speeding citations, run the equipment and collect speeding fines. Elmwood Place received 60 percent of the revenue from those speeding fines.”

JAMES HUFFMAN: The Tax Collector vs. The Constitution.

Perhaps we need to look at the 16th amendment again. It doesn’t explicitly authorize a progressive income tax, and there’s some tension between a progressive tax and the Uniformity Clause of Article I section 8. Sure, that sort of thing might seem unthinkable at first, but so was gay marriage just a few decades ago. The Constitution should be a living, vital document, able to adapt to the needs of the times.