THAT’S SETTING THE BAR PRETTY HIGH. ER, LOW? WHATEVER: Wendy Davis Launches What Has to Be Her Most Dishonest and Desperate Attack Yet. She’s going to lose anyway. This just ensures that her memory will be uglier.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO ABUSE THE ELDERLY! “Two Winter Haven nursing assistants were charged with battery of an elderly person after police say they were captured on video tormenting and hitting a 76-year-old Alzheimer’s patient. On Wednesday, Winter Haven Police arrested Yashika Zenobiaha Jones, 28, and Rose Dorlean Blaise, 35, who work at Palm Gardens Nursing Home located at 1120 Cypress Gardens Blvd. S.E. in Winter Haven. Police say an investigation uncovered the abuse on three separate occasions in October.”

CANADA JOINS THE INCREASINGLY LONG LIST OF COUNTRIES GONE RACIST AND ANTI-SCIENCE: Canada restricts visas amid Ebola scare.

WHY WOULD ANYONE BE SURPRISED BY THIS? Individual genetic differences may affect Ebola survival – study.

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN: This is still a classic.

By Molly Lewis.

I’M MARRIED TO ONE: Cyborgs All Around Us. Once you go metal, you’ll never settle.

BAD NEWS: Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Suffers Deadly Crash.

Testing spaceships, like testing aircraft decades ago, is a risky business. It’s still worth doing.

UPDATE: From Doug Messier, what Rand Simberg calls a “long and prescient post” from last night.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN — with this spooky flashback to 2004.

EUROPEANS: A diverse population in and of themselves? “Europeans today have genes from three very different populations. The oldest of these populations were the first Europeans, who appear to have lived as hunter-gatherers. The second were farmers who expanded into Europe about 8,500 years ago from the Near East. But most living Europeans also carry genes from a third population, which appears to have arrived more recently.”

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SARAH HOYT: Moral Lepers.

BOURBON WORKS, TOO: Treating emotional heartache with OTC pain relievers.

In college I was feeling bad about a breakup, and then, two Jack Daniel’s later, I felt fine. This was actually therapeutic, as I figured that anything that could be dispelled by two drinks couldn’t be all that bad. The realization was still there the next day, and in fact has served me well in general. Once you know that whatever upset you’re feeling can be dispelled by a couple of stiff drinks, you don’t even need the drinks to take it less seriously.

HMM: Link seen between seizures and migraines in the brain. I used to get migraines a lot, and they were always headaches. Now they are much less common, but when they come they often manifest as visual disturbances — usually pretty subtle, but noticeable — or even just an overall feeling of wrongness that’s hard to describe. So this doesn’t entirely surprise me.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Kay Hagan scolded over hypocrisy… by PBS anchor Gwen Ifill?

SO WHEN MARY LANDRIEU SAYS HER CAMPAIGN IS HAVING TROUBLE BECAUSE LOUISIANA VOTERS ARE RACIST AND SEXIST, she’s clearly not aiming that statement at the Louisianans whose votes she needs. The only way it makes sense is if she figures she’s going to lose no matter what, and she needs a why-she-lost narrative that will play with her next employers, inside-the-beltway types who’ll buy that sort of thing.

BTW, hasn’t Louisiana elected women and minorities to statewide positions rather frequently in the past? Why yes, yes it has.

READER BOOK PLUG: From Rick Zalon, The Jingwei Bird.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? No one knows who’s been flying drones over French nuclear power plants.

ROGER SIMON: Welcome To Berlin, 1937. “I have never in my increasingly long life felt vulnerable as a Jew in America. I never even dreamed it would happen. But it has now — with the Obama administration. Something is seriously wrong.”

Buy a gun.

HE ALWAYS HAS BEEN: Buzz Aldrin’s Reddit AMA Proves He’s Still Pretty Badass.

UPDATE: ‘I am sceptical humans are causing global warming’: Buzz Aldrin says more research – and less politics – is needed. It takes a badass to say that these days.

CAMPUS SEX PANIC UPDATE: Feminist lawyer denounces handling of campus sexual assault cases. “Shatz describes what some of us already know: That school disciplinary panels handling sexual assault cases are throwing out due process in order to appease the Obama administration, which has demanded that college administrators crack down on the offense. . . . ‘As feminists, we should demand better than knee-jerk reactions from the government intended to appease anti-sexual assault activists without truly addressing their demands, and poorly designed university policies intended merely to protect the school’s federal funding at the expense of our core democratic values of fairness, due process, and the presumption of innocence.'”

In doing this — let me be clear, as they say — schools and their administrators are betraying their duty to their students in the service of lucre. It’s cowardly, self-serving, and a repudiation of what higher education is supposed to stand for. Naturally, they are rushing to submit with barely a word of protest.

But they should beware.

AS ELSEWHERE, COMMUNISM’S UGLY LEGACY IN THE EAST WILL TAKE GENERATIONS TO OVERCOME: The Berlin Wall fell 25 years ago — but Germany is still divided.

“PANIC” AS A RESULT OF ORSON WELLES’ WAR OF THE WORLDS: Another Media Myth.

SABRINA SCHAEFFER: Chivalry Is Dead, Long Live Feminism.