HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The Future Of College: A brash tech entrepreneur thinks he can reinvent higher education by stripping it down to its essence, eliminating lectures and tenure along with football games, ivy-covered buildings, and research libraries. What if he’s right? Well, then higher education will be a lot cheaper, but also a lot less comfy for, well, guys like me.

SAME AS IT EVER WAS: The Latest Case Of An Interest Group Using Regulation To Stifle Competition: Teeth Whitening. “Complaints against the unlicensed teeth whiteners came, of course, entirely from dentists, not from customers who paid for the ‘unauthorized’ services.”

THE HILL: Obama calls for calm after ‘disturbing’ events in Ferguson.

Related: Police chief rips Obama remarks: “I would contend that discussing police tactics from Martha’s Vineyard is not helpful.”

WHY ARE UNWED WOMEN IN AMERICA having fewer babies?

BILL THEM FOR YOUR TIME, AND PUT A LIEN ON THEIR BUILDING IF THEY DON’T PAY: Behind The Veil Part 4: Customer Trying To Cancel Service Is Put On Hold Until Comcast Office Closes.

A friend of mine finally cancelled his Comcast service after many efforts — his last stop was the “Customer Retention” office — then they told him he had to personally return his equipment to their inconveniently located office. He found a line stretching out the door and into the parking lot, made up of people doing the same.

My take: If a line of people that long is willing to jump through all the hoops to cancel Comcast, short their stock. . . .

SOME ARE LIARS, SOME ARE IGNORANT, MANY ARE BOTH: The left professes ignorance about conservative, libertarian concerns over police militarization.

It is shocking to learn today that so many on the left appear utterly unaware of the vigorous debate conservatives have been engaging in over the increasing militarization and heavy-handedness of the police. The conservative columnist S.E. Cupp has compiled a fairly comprehensive list of voices on the right who have sounded the alarm over police forces exceeding their authority.

“Historians looking back at this period in America’s development will consider it to be profoundly odd that at the exact moment when violent crime hit a 50-year low, the nation’s police departments began to gear up as if the country were expecting invasion — and, on occasion, to behave as if one were underway,” The National Review’s Charles C. W. Cooke wrote in June.

“If cops continue to take a warlike us-versus-them approach to policing the population, they just might bring the left and right together,” Fox host John Stossel noted that same month. “Government is reckless, whether it is intruding into our lives with byzantine regulations that destroy a fledgling business or with a flash-bang grenade like the one that critically wounded a child in a recent SWAT raid in Janesville, Georgia.”

“So you combine the cops overstepping the Constitution and their bounds …. some of them just starting to go dark inside, and the militarization of our police force and you have a very bad combination,” Glenn Beck observed in February. “How does that end?”

Washington Post commentator Radley Balko’s best-selling book, The Rise of the Warrior Cop, might be the definitive work on the subject of police militarization. Balko would hardly describe himself as left-leaning. . . . The fact that some center-left commentators believe there is total silence on the right when it comes to issues relating to excessive police force and semi-military posture is a shocking admission of ignorance. It is a display of obliviousness

To be fair, they don’t actually have to know things, because they have David Brock and Ezra Klein to tell them what to think and say. But apparently, they don’t even read Popular Mechanics.

HEH: Alleged phone thief calls 911 because victim won’t leave her alone.

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AFTERBURNER: Bill Whittle On Thoughts Of Suicide.

CLINTON MACHINE TAKES OVER THE “allegedly nonpartisan (but actually left-wing) watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW).” “CREW, which plans to add a more explicitly political arm in order to target Republican politicians, donors, and other enemies of David Brock, is the latest addition to Brock’s stable of aggressive political attack outfits, such as Media Matters, American Bridge, and the recently announced American Independent Institute and American Democracy Legal Fund.”

Say, does Brock still have a loaded bodyguard?

UPDATE: Ethics watchdog to become Democratic lapdog: report. “Vogel reports that a greatly expanded CREW will now become part of Brock’s web of partisan organizations that provide opposition research and attack services for Democrats independent of the official party structure. His organizations have spent a lot of time preparing for a possible Hillary Clinton candidacy in 2016, by fending off attacks on her.”

If you’re out of line it’s your bang-pop.

I GUESS THEY’D BETTER BE NICE TO US, THEN: China’s Shale Gas Bust. “China is finding it harder than it expected to unlock a shale gas boom like the one in North America, calling into question its lofty goals to use natural gas to help clean up its air and control the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. Citing complicated geology and high production costs, the Chinese government has cut its ambitious 2020 target for shale gas development roughly in half.”

POLICE DEMILITARIZATION: Rand Paul gives a nice reference to my 2006 Popular Mechanics piece.

HOW EXERCISE HELPS US TOLERATE PAIN. Familiarity breeds contempt. Though after yesterday’s deadlifts, well. . . .

SCIENCE: Drink Up, America, It’s Good For You.

In moderation. Last weekend, I went to bed after splitting a couple of bottles of wine with my brother who was visiting, and my Fitbit showed that my sleep pattern — usually very good — was “restless.” There’s probably a connection.

TRACKING YOUR WORKOUT with a temporary tattoo. That’s okay, I think I’ll stick with my Fitbit. Though measuring things like lactic acid is cool.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 462.

ED MORRISSEY: Guilt by Accusation—How Colleges Deal with Campus Sex. “Furthermore, this pressure comes in part from a moral panic based on bad data.”

BAD NEWS: Money Won’t Buy Your Kids A Future.

Having grown up in New York City and attended an expensive college, I invariably came into contact with quite a few people who had sizable inheritances or trust funds coming to them. Over the years, I’ve grown quite sincerely glad that I wasn’t one of them. I can’t claim to have any scientific data, of course, but in my experience, too many of those people were always about to do something but never got to the point of actually having done it. They got jobs but left them when the job proved to be tiresome, or when they had a major setback such as a terrible performance review. They didn’t need to make a career in order to put food on the table, and that kept them from doing the often painful and unpleasant work of getting really good at their jobs. And ultimately, they weren’t happy about that. Their money protected them from the very real miseries of being broke. But it also protected them from the sweet smell of success. . . .

Help with a down payment on a reasonable mortgage is probably better than buying your kids a house (or a car, or a stock portfolio, or regular cash infusions). You want to give them the tools to build a prosperous life, but if you subsidize the life itself, they’ll end up building lives they can’t really sustain without your help. And I know more than one family that was counting on a sizable cash infusion when Grandpa or Mom died, only to find out that elderly relatives can burn up an astonishingly large estate on lengthy nursing home stays.

Indeed. The best thing you can do for your kids is to help them develop a good character, and a good work ethic. Which reminds me of Adam Shepard’s Scratch Beginnings, and the interview we did with him on the late, lamented, Glenn & Helen Show.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Inspector General: Former DARPA head promoted own company, violating rules.

PJTV: Obama Yanked the Troops and Iraq Collapsed, Should We Go Back?

Plus: Where the Caliphate is So Bad, Al Qaeda Disowned It.

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KAROL MARKOWICZ: My Jewish Family’s Incredible Shrinking World: Synagogues from the UK to France have been defaced, and there’s no sense of outrage to be found.

Related: The banality of anti-Semitic violence in Europe: Bubbling to the surface so often it’s now just part of the landscape in Paris and elsewhere. The news accounts usually don’t mention that it’s mostly by Muslim immigrants. But they do it, of course, because the nations to which they have immigrated allow them to.

ED DRISCOLL INTERVIEWS Daniel Halper about his new book, Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding Of A Political Machine.