THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE: In New Jersey, 50,000 sign up for online gambling; 741 sign up for ObamaCare.

IS COLLEGE NECESSARY? Ask Recent Graduates.

RICHARD EPSTEIN: Rep. Goodlatte’s Patent Reform Will Smother Technological Innovation.

WELL, IT’S ALWAYS WRONG TO MAKE STUDENTS FEEL “UNCOMFORTABLE” ON GROUNDS OF RACE: White students fed up with black professor’s racial screeds, lawsuits fly. I expect this sort of thing will become more common.

READER BOOK PLUG: From Jane Coleman, Secondary Trademark Infringement.

ROGER SIMON: What If It’s All True? “Around Obama there is an unprecedented silence, almost a media omertà. So much remains unknown about this man, although we do know, through the debate surrounding David Maraniss’s failed and tentative biography, that the president lied about his personal history on multiple occasions in his autobiography Dreams from My Father.”

TODAY’S VITAL QUESTIONS: Can $74 Million Worth of Pig Semen Heal the Rift Between Britain and China? Well, it certainly might glue things together for a while.

I THINK ANN ALTHOUSE HAS WRITTEN ABOUT THIS: How Our Ancestors Used To Sleep Twice A Night. “We used to sleep in two shorter periods, over a longer range of night. This range was about 12 hours long, and began with a sleep of three to four hours, wakefulness of two to three hours, then sleep again until morning.”

UPDATE: Ah, Althouse’s posts are here and here.

EXERCISE: Why A Brisk Walk Is Better Than A Stroll. But a stroll is better than sitting on your ass.

MARKED DOWN: Swarovski 2013 Annual Edition Crystal Star Ornament, $39.24 (58% off).

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: One Million Chips Mimic One Percent Of The Brain: A Robot’s Neural Network.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: ABA Censures, Fines Rutgers-Camden for Using Graduate Admissions Tests Rather Than LSAT.

MICHELLE FIELDS: Howard University Students Talk About ObamaCare. Can she find even one student who has tried?

JAMES HUFFMAN: The Problem With ‘Job Creation:’ In the next election, politicians should reconsider their rhetoric when it comes to the economy.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 210. Seven months, still stonewalling.

HOPEY-CHANGEY: U.S. Healthcare, Now With Smaller Networks Than Ever.

The article goes on to list every insurance company that offers plans in the Washington exchange as well as the hospitals that are in-network for those companies. Pivoting off of that list, Steve Roth points out that two of Washington’s biggest insurers—Primera and Lifewise—don’t have any of the state’s four top specialty hospitals in their networks. If you want the best cancer, trauma, ER, or pediatric care, and your plan is with one of the two biggest carriers in your state, you’re out of luck. Figuring out which insurers cover which providers, and determining from there which provider makes the most sense for you, is a hugely complex and time intensive process, as Roth details in his piece. And even when you’ve done all the research, at the end of the road is the fact that networks keep getting smaller.

This is a trend that the ACA is encouraging, and the acceleration of it is likely to be the next big PR challenge for the Obama administration. More and more we’re seeing that the ACA is doing nothing to reverse the worst trends driving our health care crisis— and that in some cases it’s even intensifying them. Hospitals are getting bigger, prices are going up, the system is getting even more complicated, and networks are getting smaller. Meanwhile, politicians continue to debate reforms that largely fail to address any of these problems.

Layer after layer of debacle. It’s like peeling an onion of fail.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Average Student Debt Climbs Again.

MEGAN MCARDLE: How Not To Measure Sexual Harassment. “The first thing to note is that the survey questions do not seem very well designed. They’re somewhat vague, and multiple offenses are lumped together.” That’s by design, to produce a sensational-sounding result.

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SHARDS: A New Essay from Bill Whittle. And consider clicking “Become A Member” at the top of the page. Bill deserves the support.

IF OBAMA HATES INCOME INEQUALITY SO MUCH, he should start with the difference between Washington, DC and the rest of the country.

PUTZES: American Studies Association Votes To Boycott Israeli Academics. Boycott them right back, at funding time.

ED MORRISSEY: Millennials Jump Ship over Obamacare Bait and Switch.

ROLL CALL: Democrats Maneuvering For Another Government Shutdown.