HELL, THAT’S PRACTICALLY THE DREADED “ONE PERCENT:” Mark Pryor Thinks Arkansas’ “Middle Class” Earns “Up To $200,000.”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Lawyer: Convicted Sex Teacher Has ‘Significant Psychological Issues.’ “In other words, his client — the English teacher who performed oral sex on teenage boys — is not really responsible for her crimes, because of her ‘issues of inadequacy.’ She’s ‘troubled.’ She suffers from a self-esteem deficit, and what she was seeking from these teenage boys was ‘comfort and solace.'”

Women are weak and troubled creatures, apparently. They need to be kept indoors except under the close supervision of a responsible male.

JOURNALISM: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Wheelchair Truther?

SPENGLER: Why Europe Is Irrational About Israel. “The flowering of Jewish national life in Israel makes the Europeans crazy. It is not simply envy: it is a terrible reminder of the vanity of European national aspirations over the centuries, of the continent’s ultimate failure as a civilization. . . . Europeans cannot live with their past. They cannot live with their present, and do not plan to have a future, for they do not bear enough children to forestall demographic ruin at the hundred-year horizon. With its high fertility, national spirit, religiosity and unabashed national self-assertion, Israel reminds the Europeans of everything that they are not. Much worse: it reminds them of what they once desired to become. The idea of Israel as well as the fact of Israel are equally intolerable to them.”

LIST: Zombie Preparedness Supplies.

Are zombies less scary in an age of Ebola?

UGH: 5 Key Implications If Baghdad Falls to ISIS.

So much for Obama’s “I ended the war in Iraq” schtick. Historians will regard that as the most feckless presidential foreign policy action in U.S. history.

WELL, SURE, WHO EVER HEARD OF A VEGETARIAN ZOMBIE? Zombie: I am ashamed to be a vegetarian.

Related: Be Ashamed of Kooky Radicals, Not Vegetarians.

THEY WOULDN’T DO THIS IF THEY FEARED BEHEADINGS: Houston Subpoenas Pastors’ Sermons To Look For Anti-Gay Talk.

AS LONG AS IT DOESN’T INVOLVE MINIATURE BLACK HOLES: Researcher devises a new way to mimic Hawking radiation in a lab.

AT AMAZON, deals on Generators & Portable Power for storm season.

Plus, bestsellers in Men’s Grooming.

TO BE FAIR, THEY DIDN’T HAVE MUCH TO LOSE AFTER DAN RATHER: CBS News Sacrifices All Journalistic Integrity To Be Pure PR For CBS PrimeTime TV?

HEALTH COSTS: Ebola Preparation ‘Will bankrupt my hospital!’ Director Reacts to CDC Prep Call. “Treating one Ebola patient requires, full time, 20 medical staff. Mostly ICU (intensive care unit) people. So that would wipe out an ICU in an average-sized hospital.”

MORE PEOPLE IN DALLAS being monitored for Ebola. “The CDC announced Tuesday that 76 staff members at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital were involved in the care of Thomas Eric Duncan after he was hospitalized, including a nurse now being treated for the same Ebola virus that killed the Liberian man who was visiting Dallas. The size of the medical team reflects the hospital’s intense effort to save Duncan’s life, but it also suggests that many other people could have been exposed to the virus during Duncan’s time in an isolation unit.”

UPDATE: Dallas nurse’s boyfriend in isolation.

MORE: CDC now watching 125 people for Ebola signs.

SCIENCE: What Would Keep Ebola from Spreading in the US? Investing in Simple Research Years Ago. Sorry, too busy studying lesbian obesity rates. But this is true:

Detail is the question of whether health care workers treating pandemic-flu patients should expect viral spread for 3 feet or 6 feet; and why immunity conferred by the current pertussis vaccine fades a few years earlier than expected; and how hospitals can encourage their janitors to clean rooms more thoroughly, when they’ve always treated them as a disposable part of the staff.

All of those details are crucial to controlling those diseases. All of them are also research questions. None of them, guaranteed, have gotten the attention or funding that would answer the questions in a way that equips us to counter the dramatic problems.

Not sexy, not political. Thus, not done.

JIM TREACHER: “Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn’t know because they might reflect badly on Democrats.”

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Plus, the Men’s Denim Store.

Also, 60% or more off on Hunting & Tactical Knives.

MARRIAGE RATES hit all-time low.

It’s because men are on strike.

THIS BUILDS CONFIDENCE: “There have been a couple dozen other cases that have not been reported on in the media where there have been concerns about Ebola.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Cheaper Than Coal? Fusion Concept Aims to Bridge Energy Gap.

TRANSPARENCY: NSA Finally Releases Keith Alexander’s Financial Disclosure Documents; National Security Remains Uncompromised.

CHANGE: In a first, TSA announces 7 Americans removed from no-fly list; Feds had said disclosing if somebody is on watch list hurts national security.

TOP MEN WOMEN: President Obama Already Has An Ebola Czar. Where Is She? “What’s particularly interesting about this discussion, then, is that nobody has even discussed the fact that the federal government not ten years ago created and funded a brand new office in the Health and Human Services Department specifically to coordinate preparation for and response to public health threats like Ebola. The woman who heads that office, and reports directly to the HHS secretary, has been mysteriously invisible from the public handling of this threat. And she’s still on the job even though three years ago she was embroiled in a huge scandal of funneling a major stream of funding to a company with ties to a Democratic donor—and away from a company that was developing a treatment now being used on Ebola patients.”

Culture of corruption.

WHERE DOES ISIS GET ITS WEAPONS? And what are the chances they’re American-made?

RICHARD EPSTEIN: We Need A Real Flat Tax.