J.D. TUCCILLE: Will a Mockable Week in Higher Education Help Deflate the College Bubble?

EUGENE KONTOROVICH: “Isolation” And The Israeli Elections.

HOUSE PASSES CROMNIBUS. Senate to pass short-term funding bill until it can do the same.

WILL “CROMNIBUS” CROAK? White House Preps Feds For Shutdown. Wonder if they’ll engage in Obama’s patented pain-maximizing park-and-monument closures this time, when Elizabeth Warren is leading the charge?

Related: Ed Driscoll: Shutdowns Then and Now: Tanks for the Memories, TNR! “As always, for the left, the motto is, ‘It’s Different When We Do It.'”

Well, on the one hand it’s a transparently partisan flipflop. On the other hand, I’m kind of amazed to discover that there’s anyone left at TNR.

THE WASHINGTON POST’S ERIK WEMPLE: The full demise of Rolling Stone’s rape story. “[T]he shoddiest piece of journalism in recent memory. . . . Erdely’s mission appears to have been to present as sensational and damaging an account of fraternity excesses as she could gather.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Is the Bar Exam Broken? Or Are Law Students Dumber? Not mutually exclusive, of course.

SHUTDOWN FLASHBACK: Elizabeth Warren slams House GOP’s “anarchy gang” — The Massachusetts senator delivers a rousing defense of government against “anarchists.”

UPDATE: You know, it’s cynical but I wonder if part of Warren’s trouble with Cromnibus is the campaign-finance provision that would give the party apparat a lot more power. That would be of great advantage to Hillary . . . .

BEN BARTON ON WORKING OUT IN SLOVENIA: “The gym is nice, but plays deafening EDM on a loop and often has a long line of ripped and surly guys blocking the squat rack. In short, not ok for me.”

A PORSCHE SO RARE, even Google hadn’t heard of it.

MY FAVORITE TWEET THIS WEEK: Made @instapundit s lamb and guiness stew again. Perfect meal for cold nights. I cooked bacon with the onion. Here’s the recipe. Bacon couldn’t hurt!

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Survive A Helicopter Crash. According to my friends Bill and Stevie Ray, the best way is to avoid helicopters.

ASHE SCHOW: Due process for everyone but those accused of rape. “‘[B]ecause essentially burden of proof is a defense of the perpetrator,’ said Stanford University activist Elisabeth Dee.” Due process weakens the state vis-a-vis the individual, so when lefties control the state, they’re against it. When they don’t, they’re all for it.

ATTACKING YOUR CUSTOMERS IS EXPENSIVE: Anti-GamerGate Campaign Cost Gawker Over A Million Dollars. “The cost to Gawker Media of its ridicule and viciousness toward video gamers was ‘seven figures’ in lost advertising revenue, according to the company’s head of advertising, Andrew Gorenstein. In addition, founder Nick Denton has stepped down as president and editorial director Joel Johnson has been removed from his post and will probably leave the company, reports Capital New York. . . . Gawker, together with Vox Media, represent the ‘worst offenders’ in the media, according to GamerGate forums: they have both, through properties such as Kotaku and Polygon, respectively, repeatedly mocked video gamers and uncritically reported claims of threats and harassment from feminist campaigners which are falling apart under closer scrutiny.”

Other media outlets may want to take note, as may their critics.

HURRAY FOR PROF. JACOBSON: Legal Insurrection wins FOIA suit over David Gregory gun law non-prosecution: D.C. ordered to turn over police Affidavit which sought Gregory’s arrest.

I THINK WE MAY WIND UP NEEDING SOMETHING LIKE THIS SOONER, RATHER THAN LATER: Navy Laser Blasts Targets In Air, On Sea | Raw Video.

SOME PEOPLE ARE READY FOR A ONE-WAY TRIP TO MARS. I’ve got a little list, they never will be missed . . . oh, wait, what? Never mind.

PUBLIC RESTROOMS: Not actually especially dirty.

MOLLIE HEMINGWAY: Why The Media’s Fact Problems Are Way Bigger Than Rolling Stone: Too many reporters have “Jackies” — politicians and causes they trust uncritically no matter what.