LIVING IN THE PAST: Old school: I work in DOS for an entire day. “I was soon rocking my computer like it was 1994. That is, I had no Twitter, Google, or anything else that used SSL, but I did have some command line TCP/IP tools, an otherwise functional Web browser, and… Gopher. Plus, I had WordPerfect 5, Microsoft Word 5, WordStar, Lotus 123, and dBase III—everything I could ever want, right?” I like the term “abandonware.”

SEXISM IN THE WHITE HOUSE: Michelle Obama Employs Only 2 Men, But Pays Men 46% More Than Women On Staff.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS TURMOIL: Scandal Over Political Favoritism In Admissions, or an Evil Republican Coup?

JERRY BOWYER: Another 1776: Would An Armed Revolt Work Today? I’m sure there are people wargaming this.

OUR FOREIGN POLICY MAY BE IN COLLAPSE, THE ECONOMY MAY BE IN THE TOILET, but at least we’ve got “Endless Appetizers.”

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 424.

WHAT THE HOBBY LOBBY CASE did not do.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Tuition Discounts at Private Colleges Are at Record High.

Private colleges and universities take a lot of flak for their sky-high tuition rates, but they’re also knocking quite a lot off those steep sticker prices. According to Inside Higher Ed, the National Association of College and University Business Officers has found that these schools make only 54 cents for every dollar of tuition. . . .

If you are looking for a sign of the inevitable shake-up of the higher education system, look no further.

Also, if you’re paying full freight at one of these places, you’re a sucker. Negotiate, even if you don’t meet the “financial need” criteria. Or go elsewhere.

Oh, and all is proceeding as I have foreseen.

MEDICAID EXPANSION: The Rest Of The Story.

STANDARD OF LIVING: Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What is Poverty in the United States Today? “Poor families certainly struggle to make ends meet, but in most cases, they are struggling to pay for air conditioning and the cable TV bill as well as to put food on the table. Their living standards are far different from the images of dire deprivation promoted by activists and the mainstream media.”

AT AMAZON, shop the Back To School sale.

Also, cash in on Top Printer Deals.

VIDEO: Carly Fiorina ends the War on Women. “Most of this should be common sense for the majority of you, but I’ve rarely seen anyone deconstruct nonsense so quickly and efficiently.”

DAVID VICKERS EMAILS ABOUT A MISSOURI CONGRESSIONAL RACE:

I am writing to you because a good friend of mine, Republican Michael Burris, is running for Congress in Missouri’s 5th Congressional District – www.michaelburrisforcongress.com. That seat is currently held by the Honorable Emanuel “the Tea Party spit on me” Cleaver, II. You might recall that Andrew Breitbart offered, I believe, $100K for video evidence of the Tea Party spitting on Cleaver as he, Nancy Pelosi and others trolled through a D.C event a few years ago looking for trouble. The money went uncollected for lack of evidence.

I mentioned to you before that Cleaver’s Congressional wages are currently being garnished to make good on a sizable SBA loan he took out on a car wash on which he defaulted. Cleaver also chiseled out about $50 million from Obama’s ARRA stimulus back in ’09. The money was earmarked for an inner city “Green Zone,” in which thousands of decrepit houses would be weatherized, streets repaved, sidewalks rebuilt and other handouts given. The vaunted Green Zone has been an abject failure. I think some Cleaver cronies probably lined their pockets, but very few houses got weatherized because it was just too expensive and impractical. New sidewalks and repaved streets lead to dysfunctional or closed schools. There are no jobs to be had. Living conditions among inner city blacks, Cleaver’s core constituency, are worse than before Obama took office with Cleaver’s help. In short, Cleaver needs to go.

Michael is in a tough primary race against 3 other Republican candidates, 2 of whom we just learned don’t even live in the district. The third is an unknown with no campaign presence whatsoever.

Michael is a lifelong small businessman, family man, and is quietly very active in the community in and around Kansas City, Missouri. He is a fiscal conservative and adheres to the Constitution, believes in limited and responsible government, fiscal responsibility, tax reform, and other key conservative issues.

The primary is on August 5, and we are beginning a closing push. I think he’s got a very solid chance of winning the primary, but Michael needs to raise some money, and I’m wondering if you’d be willing to give him a mention. He has a great website where instapundit readers can donate, and the website includes some videos about Michael. Who says you have to be slick at reading the TelePrompter? Look what that’s gotten us. We’d love to raise $25,000.00, and I’m sure we could do with the help of instapundit readers.

Well, there you are. Here’s Michael Burris’s website. I don’t know Burris, but I do know David Vickers, who also tells me that Burris is a supporter of my revolving door surtax.

INSIDE PRESIDENT OBAMA’S Secret Schedule.

ED DRISCOLL: Dana Milbank’s Addition Through Subtraction.

REIHAN SALAM: “The Tea Party is not some temporary aberration that will seamlessly blend into the conservative establishment in a few years. It is a real movement and, as America grows more diverse and American politics grows more contentious, it will grow.”

I think that Salam would benefit from reading Elizabeth Price Foley’s book.

UNEXPECTEDLY: An Unfolding Fiscal Disaster: The calamitous finances of Obamacare.

INFORMED CONSENT: Journal Expresses “Concern” About Facebook Study.

The journal that published that controversial Facebook study on Monday issued an “Editorial Expression of Concern” about the study.

The editor-in-chief of the The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences—one of the biggest and most important peer-review journals in science—didn’t exactly apologize for the study, and said that “PNAS editors deemed it appropriate to publish the paper.” But she did write:

“It is nevertheless a matter of concern that the collection of the data by Facebook may have involved practices that were not fully consistent with the principles of obtaining informed consent and allowing participants to opt out.”

Yes, and you can’t even count terms-of-use boilerplate as consent, because the boilerplate wasn’t added to the terms of use until months after the study was done.

“CUOMO” AND “CORRUPTION” BOTH START WITH A “C.” Believe it or not, there’s more bad political behavior than ever in Albany.

HOW CAN A LIBERTARIAN GET FAVORABLE TREATMENT IN THE WASHINGTON POST? Be in a position to deliver a Senate seat to the Dems.

TEXAS DEMOCRAT HENRY CUELLAR blasts Obama on the border. “They should have seen this coming a long time ago . . . because we saw those numbers increasing.”

THE LEAST-READ BOOK OF THE SUMMER? Piketty. It isn’t even close.

THE REAL JOBS PICTURE: Stephen Green: Your Monday Morning Gloom & Doom. “Jobs, cars, and homes make up the bulk of the value of most Americans’ incomes and possessions, so happy days must indeed be here again, right? Wrong. I looked beneath the headline numbers, and now I’m sorry.”

IS EBOLA HEADING to a city near you?