LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Vets Face Rising Worry Over Resistant Fleas. “Last summer, Mark Conrad a freelance photographer in Fairfield, Conn., noticed his golden retriever Tia scratching more than usual. Mr. Conrad said he suspected an allergy rather than fleas because the dog had been treated diligently every month for three years with a leading flea treatment that contains the chemical fipronil, which has been shown to be highly effective against fleas. Soon, however, he discovered that his dog and home were infested with fleas.”

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AN ANTI-LANDRIEU AD FROM ELBERT GUILLORY: “You are not Mary’s cause. . . you are just a vote. . . . You are a means to an end.”

WELL, THIS IS COMFORTING: Centers for Disease Control Confirms First U.S. Case of Ebola. It’s in Dallas.

Plus: Report: Just Four Hospitals in the US are Ready to Handle Ebola. Better lay in more N95 masks and bleach, I guess.

And the country’s in the very best of hands: Armed Former Convict Was On Elevator With Obama In Atlanta. “A security contractor with a gun and three prior convictions for assault and battery was allowed on an elevator with President Obama during a Sept. 16 trip to Atlanta, violating Secret Service protocols, according to three people familiar with the incident. President Obama was not told of the lapse in his security during his trip. Director Julia Pierson , according to two people familiar with the incident, took steps to have the matter reviewed internally and did not refer it to an investigative unit that reviews violations of protocol and standard.”

BUSTED: Paying the price for ignoring the government shutdown. “Rangers don’t take kindly to publicly mocking the government shutdown by riding a motorcycle through a closed national park. That’s especially true when you write a piece about it.” Yeah, well, since it was a political stunt designed to punish taxpayers for political gain, I’m happy with the mockery. But read the whole thing for much amusement. “The adorable court reporter looked up from her typing and flashed me a sly smile. Her blue eyes were bright with the look fathers pray they’ll never see their daughter give a boy dumb enough to ride a motorcycle and wind up in court over it.”

Plus, the joys of cleaning public restrooms. I had a job where I had to do that in high school. It was indeed education, especially the women’s room, which was always worse.

HABITAT LOSS: Pubic Lice Not Actually Going Extinct. Bah. Probably just feelgood propaganda from Big Wax.

IT’S AN ALIEN BASE BEING CONSTRUCTED BY NANOBOTS. WAKE UP, SHEEPLE! Cassini watches mysterious feature evolve in Titan sea. “The feature covers an area of about 100 square miles (260 square kilometers) in Ligeia Mare, one of the largest seas on Titan. It has now been observed twice by Cassini’s radar experiment, but its appearance changed between the two apparitions.”

I KNOW THAT ESPN HAS BECOME A HOTBED OF IGNORANT PANTYWAISTS, BUT NOW THEY’RE CHANNELING JOHN KERRY? ESPN’s Colin Cowherd: People Who Enlist in the U.S. Military ‘Have No Choices,’ Join ‘To Pay Bills.’

Watch out, ESPN. In 2006, John Kerry said “You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well, and if you don’t you get stuck in Iraq.” Now Kerry’s . . . stuck in Iraq. So, you know, you might want to be careful. . . .

JERRY BROWN VETOES PRIVACY BILL: California cops don’t need warrants to surveil with drones. “California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed legislation that would have required the police to obtain search warrants to surveil the public with unmanned drones. Brown, a Democrat facing re-election in November, sided with law enforcement and said the legislation simply granted Californians privacy rights that went too far beyond existing guarantees.”

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FASTER, PLEASE: Scientists discover an on/off switch for aging cells; The switch controls the growth of telomeres, the timekeepers of cells.

CATHY YOUNG: What Women Still Want In A Husband. “For all the talk of feminist revolution and male resistance, it seems that women are in some ways more traditional than men when it comes to marital norms.”

PROGRESS: New Nuclear Fuel Could Boost Reactors, But Also Safety Worries. If you don’t support clean, carbon-free nuclear power, you don’t really care about global warming.

TOM MAGUIRE: We’ve lost control of the Texas border? Compared to what – the White House border? “No wonder Obama has no confidence in fences or guards. And since you ask, I deplore the criminal characterization of White House intruder Omar Gonzalez; surely he should be described as an ‘undocumented resident’.”

K.C. JOHNSON: The Times Gets “Affirmative Consent” Wrong.

CLAIM: Adrian Peterson Indictment Inconsistent With Texas Law. “When I asked for clarification between the clear text of the state statute and his words regarding ‘exceeding some community standard’ he said the ‘case law’ had in essence changed the law to match his statement. When I asked for a case citation we could use for the story, he became flustered and hung up. As a journalist, having an interviewee hang up or walk out is a good sign you’re on the right track. The DA’s behavior is ironically similar to that of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, who secured an indictment of the Texas governor for performing a duty clearly described in the Texas Constitution, vetoing a spending bill.”

Any Texas lawyers want to weigh in on this?

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JOURNALISM: It’s Come To This: Politifact absolves Democrat who repeated…Politifact’s lie of the year.

THE HEAD-SCRATCHING CASE of the vanishing bees.

IT GETS WORSE: Secret Service Agent Who Stopped Intruder Was Off-Duty, Just Happened To Be Passing By.

IT’S COME TO THIS: New York Times Reporting Demolishes Obama’s Claims On ISIS and Iraq. “The Islamic State was born out of the ashes of Al Qaeda in Iraq, which was crippled by the time Mr. Obama withdrew American forces from Iraq at the end of 2011. The civil war that erupted in neighboring Syria pitting President Bashar al-Assad against a variety of rebel organizations provided a haven for the Qaeda affiliate to reconstitute itself with an influx of foreign fighters.”

BOB ZUBRIN: Obama Betrays The Kurds.

WISCONSIN’S DEEP STATE: More suspicious goings-on. “The state’s Government Accountability Board has been less-than accountable about its expenditures concerning a certain special-investigator-turned special prosecutor in the secret John Doe investigation into dozens of conservative groups.”

Some background here.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Enrollment falls again at Pennsylvania’s state-owned universities. “Enrollment at Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities declined for a fourth consecutive year, slipping 1.5 percent to an estimated 110,600 students, after peaking at nearly 119,500 in 2010, preliminary reports show.”

Peak Oil turned out to be a mirage. Peak College seems to be real. All is proceeding as I have foreseen.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Deep Rift Exposed as SUNY-Buffalo Dean Resigns; Faculty Foes Allege Perjury, Mismanagement of Law School. “At the center of the storm is Makau Mutua, a Harvard Law graduate, an internationally known human rights activist, and the dean of the University at Buffalo Law School. Mutua suddenly gave up that position Monday in the wake of criticism over his leadership, and he will step down in December to return as a faculty member.”