CHRIS ROCK: I stopped playing colleges because they’re too intolerant.

PUSHING BACK AGAINST THE NARRATIVE: Charles Barkley Calls Ferguson Rioters ‘Scumbags’; Supports Grand Jury Decision.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Do Mobile Phones Make Clingy Lovers?

AT THE NEW YORK TIMES, zero results in a search for Zemir Begic, the man beaten to death with hammers by “youths” in St. Louis.

UPDATE: Now they have a one-paragraph wire report that omits the race of the attackers.

THANKS TO ROSS PEROT, WHO AFTER ALL DOES OWE A LOT TO COMPUTERS: How the World’s First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap.

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INFERTILITY and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.

SPACE: Firefly Space Systems charges full-speed toward low Earth orbit. I do like the name.

ON SALE: Sarah Hoyt’s Witchfinder, $3.99 on Kindle.

BENJAMIN WEINGARTEN: 10 major takeaways from the House Benghazi report that the media is completely ignoring.

IS DR. VENKMAN INVOLVED? Are Telepathy Experiments Stunts or Science? Actually, I’m going with science, here.

I THINK WE NEED JETSONS-STYLE ANTIGRAVITY FOR THAT: Could Drones Solve London’s Congestion Problem?

ROGER SIMON: 2016. “Obama was the last gasp of a dying ideology. All they have left is some pathetic and teetering identity politics.”

BECAUSE THEY’RE PROTECTORS OF THE POWERFUL, THE CAPITOL POLICE AND SECRET SERVICE GOT LESS BLOWBACK FOR THIS SHOOTING OF AN UNARMED BLACK WOMAN: How Miriam Carey’s U-turn at a White House checkpoint led to her death.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN IS UP: Not working for the working class: The key to Obama’s struggle with white working class voters is not ‘white,’ but ‘working.’

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 571. It’s a big one today.

JOHN FUND ON THE NEW CBO HEAD: The Voters Spoke: Now Listen. “Right now, there is a fierce behind-the-scenes battle over who will head the Congressional Budget Office, an influential agency of 200 analysts that provides estimates on the cost and societal impact of legislation. . . . Since January 2009, the CBO has been headed by Doug Elmendorf, who served on President Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers and in Clinton’s Treasury Department. He was appointed by Democrats at a time when they controlled both houses of Congress and is generally well respected by his fellow academic economists.”

CBO did a terrible job with ObamaCare. Someone should pay a price for that.

REASON: Is The UVA Rape Story A Gigantic Hoax? If so, who will be held accountable?

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE: How Silicon Valley Created America’s Largest Homeless Camp.

Feid, an unemployed union carpenter, lives in a fortress of netting and plastic tarp with a cat named Baby. He’s one of the 278 people who’ve claimed a spot in the thicket of cottonwood trees along Coyote Creek. He first moved here four years ago when he ran out of work. . . .

The 53-year-old carpenter made good money at the height of the Silicon Valley construction boom in the 1980s and ’90s. He built movie theaters and installed ceilings in the new offices of high-tech companies that put San Jose and the rest of Santa Clara County on the map.

“All the buildings around here, you know, I probably worked on them,” said Feid, who was making up to $35 an hour in those days. Then came the dot-com crash in 2000, bankrupting dozens of Internet companies and drying up construction work. Feid lost his apartment and bounced around for years, living in people’s garages as he remodeled their homes. In 2009, a friend kicked him out and Feid found himself on the streets. All he had was his motorcycle and a few tarps.

“You build everything up … then you lose your job and then everything falls apart again,” Feid said. “At least here in the creek you know what your status is.”

The number of people living in the camp has tripled since Feid first moved in. The Jungle now has a Spanish-speaking section, and up the creek is the Vietnamese enclave known as Little Saigon. The explosive growth has led to more violence and filth. Dogs rummage through heaps of garbage and human waste. . . .

The current tech boom has made Silicon Valley one of the wealthiest and fastest-growing regions of the country. That has created one of the country’s most expensive rental markets, pushing low-wage workers out of Santa Clara County or onto the streets.

“You need to work five minimum-wage jobs to afford to live here,” said Jennifer Loving, executive director of Destination: Home, the public-private partnership to end homelessness in Santa Clara County. “No one can do that. That right there creates a huge income disparity.”

This year, San Jose and the surrounding county surpassed Los Angeles as having the country’s highest rate of homeless people living on the streets, according to the annual homelessness assessment report from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department. Three-quarters of the area’s 7,567 homeless residents are from Santa Clara County. Most of them live in one of San Jose’s 247 tent cities, just miles from the sprawling headquarters of Google and Apple.

Silicon Valley: America’s future?

REMINDER: In 2009, Barack Obama “Joked” About Auditing His Enemies.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN IS UP: Not working for the working class: The key to Obama’s struggle with white working class voters is not ‘white,’ but ‘working.’

PERHAPS CYBER MONDAY WILL DO BETTER: Black Friday Lays An Egg.

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