TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 542.

ACTUALLY, PLEASE DON’T DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS:

As you read this on your iPhone, eat an organic avocado grown in California and buy a plane ticket home for winter break, I urge you to think about what a world without fossil fuel use would mean. Energy is embedded in virtually everything we do and consume, from life-saving drugs to our clothing. Because the divestment movement is not just about how colleges spend their money, it is about taking down the enormous carbon fuel industry. This would be a different story if a viable option to fossil fuels existed that could handle all the world’s needs. But sadly we are not there yet.

And this isn’t just about getting to keep your iPhone. Lower-income households spend almost a quarter of their income on energy. Cutting out fossil fuels would cause energy prices to soar, punishing the poor the most.

It’s all about SJW-types feeling good about themselves, and having an issue — any issue — to keep student cadre-building going for The Party.

DO TELL: Divorce court and child custody play a big part in the soldier suicide epidemic.

AT AMAZON, Fall Deals in Patio, Lawn & Garden.

Plus, the Men’s Denim Store.

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

REVENGE OF THE NERPS. Northeastern Republican Politicians do seem to be having a better than average year.

EBOLA: Trust a politician, or an expert? Problem is, even a lot of the “experts” are acting like politicians. Can we import some Nigerian experts?

WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: Experts: Worst-case U.S. Ebola scenario 130 cases by end of 2014.

Infectious disease experts predict anywhere from a mere one or two additional cases of Ebola to a worst-case scenario of 130, according to simulations conducted for the Associated Press.

Almost all of the predicted cases will be healthcare workers returning from West Africa.

“I don’t think there’s going to be a huge outbreak here, no,” Dr. David Relman, a professor of infectious disease, microbiology and immunology at Stanford University’s medical school, told the AP. “However, as best we can tell right now, it is quite possible that every major city will see at least a handful of cases.”

A total of eight patients have currently been treated for Ebola in the U.S.

Only two of them contracted Ebola within the U.S., and both were healthcare workers who treated Thomas Eric Duncan, who contracted Ebola in Liberia.

Well, I’m not worried. We’ve got top men on it. Top men.

ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES: “Ultimately the question is, does ‘mankind’ really need men?” “That’s from the NYT, which is, of course, written for women. Stuff like this is considered light entertainment. It will be interspersed with serious articles about the ‘war on women.’ Enjoy!”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO INFECT! ‘I can infect whomever I please’: HIV-positive woman steals frozen food from Texas Walmart, tries to infect employee, cops say. Funny, she doesn’t look like a person with a firm grasp of the who/whom distinction.

STEPHEN GUTOWSKI: Ambush Interviews And Double Standards. 60 Minutes/Michael Moore: Fine! Journalism! Jason Mattera/James O’Keefe: Stalking! Harassment!

WEIRD: For Man in Ebola Virus Cleanup, a History of Fraud.

FASTER, PLEASE: Prototype “Ambulance Drone” Could Be a Lifesaver, Literally. “Developed to combat the high mortality rate of cardiac arrest victims—’around 800,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest in the European Union every year and only 8.0 percent survive,’ says Momont—the prototype drone comes equipped with a defibrillator and, assuming its destination is within a four-and-a-half-square mile radius, can arrive on the scene in less than a minute.”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Rape Is Rape, Even When the Teacher Is a Woman. Even when.

AT AMAZON, get ahead on Christmas shopping with the Holiday Toy List.

Also, Fall Deals on Outdoor Gear.

And as you do your Christmas, Hanukkah, and other shopping in the coming months, I’d appreciate it if you’d click through one of my Amazon links first!

MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY: Federal Government Made $20 Billion in Secret Purchases in Recent Months.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN EZRA KLEIN COMPLAINS ABOUT The Politicization Of Absolutely Everything? It means he’s losing.

UPDATE: You May Not Be Interested in the Gleichschaltung, but the Gleichschaltung is Interested in You.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: The Coming ‘Civil War’ Between Doctrinal Faculty and Experiential Faculty as Law Schools Downsize.

SO I GUESS UNDER CONGRESS’S POWER TO REGULATE INTERSTATE COMMERCE, which nowadays is interpreted as the power to do anything that might boost interstate commerce, Congress could pressure women to have more kids. Or, a la ObamaCare, tax them for not doing so. Study: Women with more children are more productive at work. After all, they justified the drug war in part on a federal interest in workplace productivity. . . .

AND SO GOD CREATED A TRIAL LAWYER. A Bruce Braley/Paul Harvey tribute.

BEWARE, BERKELEY SJWs: If You Strike Bill Maher Down, He Shall Become More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine. “As hard as it may be to believe, the phrase ‘Banned in Boston’ was once used by book publishers as a badge of honor, to note a work of cultural, political (or erotic) significance too dangerous to be allowed in a town dominated by pious bluebloods. Today the phrase ‘Banned at Berkeley’ could be used in much the same way. The only difference is that the pieties have changed, as Bill Maher is discovering, for his outspoken and heretical view that Islam is not a religion of peace.”

AT LEAST HALLOWEEN IS OVER: 4-Acre Spider Web Engulfs Building.

SEXISM IN POLITICS: “Obama Courts Women in Campaign Swing” — courts women?! Not men?

MICHAEL LEDEEN: Obama’s Inner Nixon.

WHAT HAPPENED to Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship Two? “This was a test flight. This is what test flights are for. The desert around Mojave has a decades-long history of smoking holes in the ground and test-pilot funerals, though most of them usually originate from Edwards AFB, a few mile to the south. The company won’t be flying passengers until they’ve had many successful consecutive test flights, with whatever new vehicle they develop, assuming they follow through on pledges at the press conference yesterday, and move forward.”

“DEHUMANIZE?” HELL, I JUST WISH WE WERE AS COMPETENT AT HANDING EBOLA AS NIGERIA HAS BEEN. Don’t Let Ebola Dehumanize Africa.