PROFESSOR TO STUDENTS: Don’t Email Me.

ROGER SIMON IS inside Obama’s OODA Loop.

OBAMA HAS “NO STRATEGY” FOR DEALING WITH ISIS, but he’s all over a hush-hush “green energy” baron fundraiser with rich donors in New Rochelle.

IT’S COME TO THIS: A ‘Placeholder’ Engagement Ring Could Have Saved Your Proposal. “After months of dropping hints, visiting jewelers, and quizzing your soon-to-be fiance on your ideal engagement ring, the first time you laid eyes on the diamond he chose, your heart sank. While you still wanted to marry him (of course), your once-in-a-lifetime moment was marred by a rock you immediately wanted to exchange — and he probably felt terrible. What could have prevented that disappointment?” Well, he could have proposed to someone less superficial. . . .

I’M SORRY, BUT IF YOU’RE NOT PREPARED TO IMPOSE BEHAVIORAL STANDARDS ON WOMEN, it makes no sense to defend chivalry. Chivalry was a system, in which the male behavior the writer favors was embedded. Demolishing the system and expecting the male behavior to remain is like knocking down the walls and expecting the roof to stay up.

AMAZING, GIVEN THE DIFFERENCE IN MEDIA HYPE: Paul Ryan’s book beats Hillary Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’ on New York Times Bestseller list.

AUSTIN BAY ON VLADIMIR PUTIN’S UKRAINE INVASION.

TONY WOODLIEF: The Turned Back.

I will tell you something about courage and cowardice. I will speak primarily about men, because I am a man, and because the evil that grieves me was glimpsed by men, and these men turned away their eyes.

News accounts from England reveal that over 1,400 children in the borough of Rotherham were systematically brutalized over the past decade. The authors of this damning report indicate that the actual number is likely much higher. The report also details gang rapes of 11 year-olds. Children doused in gasoline and threatened with matches. A “grooming” process that entails addicting children to drugs. Children murdered, others missing.

Local police have known about this for over ten years. So have all manner of child welfare authorities and local government officials. They convened conferences to discuss it. They combatted it with guidelines and policies. They bravely met for many hours, and boldly authored internal memos.

Perhaps we should expect no more when community preservation is outsourced to bureaucracies, but the unavoidable reality is that on many occasions, Rotherham police came upon children being sexually exploited—in some cases, in the very instance of being raped—and arrested no one. The perpetrators are Pakistani; they might call us racists. The children seemed to consent. These gangs are violent.

All of which amount to an admission by those police officers that they are cowards, and something less than men. I’m reminded of the janitors who discovered Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky’s rape of children, and who said nothing, for fear of losing their jobs. They were cowards too, and deserve to be remembered as such.

Indeed. A moral response to this behavior might involve those officials, among others, hanging from lampposts. The legal system is, ultimately, an ancient bargain: Renounce your mob violence and blood feuds and we will provide you with justice. It could be argued that such a default as this calls the whole bargain into question, and justifies self-help along ancient lines.

IT’S COME TO THIS: French Cheesemakers Crippled by EU Health Measures. Europe is having a bad year. Not that ours is exactly stellar.

PENNIES FOR PLAINTIFFS, MILLIONS FOR LAWYERS. “Concern over this issue has begun to expand beyond grousing libertarians, with courts and legislators moving to restrain some of the worst excesses. So this story is not entirely surprising: The judge presiding over a Hewlett-Packard shareholder suit has balked at the $48 million in fees negotiated by attorneys in a settlement. The amount of money that shareholders were going to get was not negligible, unlike some of the consumer suits where the victims get a coupon good for more product from the company they’ve accused of doing them wrong. But the judge seems to think that it’s disproportionally small compared with what the lawyers were getting.”

MICHAEL WALSH ON EXPATS FIGHTING FOR ISIS: “They’re not Americans. Or ‘Britons.’ Or ‘Norwegians.’ Call them what they call themselves: Muslim members of the ummah.”

SCIENCE: Why Are We So Fat? The Multimillion-Dollar Scientific Quest to Find Out.

I lean toward the Gary Taubes explanation, myself. But Taubes’ book isn’t based on new and rigorous studies, so this research is good.

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IT’S COMPETITION: Recruiting From Competitors Isn’t Sabotage: Overstating The Uber/Lyft Fight.

HOW MUCH IS your privacy worth? “Despite the outcry over government and corporate snooping, some people allow themselves be monitored for money or rewards.”

SMART DIPLOMACY: Russia invades Ukraine, Obama expresses ‘concern.’ “There is no better example of the ruinous Obama foreign policy than Ukraine. The president has issued empty threats, diminished sanctions and refused to allow Ukraine to protect itself. If you are the leader of a Baltic state, you’re probably and justifiably panicked. The president will no doubt issue more empty threats. But that doesn’t do Ukraine any good, and it surely won’t protect other potential victims. Hillary Clinton‘s reset policy, it seems, has been a complete failure. Or is she going to blame others for this one as well?” If I were the Poles, I’d be trying to obtain nuclear weapons.

SCENT OF A WOMAN:

Lo and behold, we are just as sensitive to the scent of the opposite sex as the humble lemming. Humans can discriminate odors in just a single whiff, which at a minimum takes approximately 400 milliseconds. Like male beetles, bees, lizards, lemmings, and a whole suite of other species, men can discern the scent of a woman ready to become pregnant.

They find the smell of sweat from women who are close to ovulation more pleasing and even sexier.

And not just their body odor, men also prefer the voice, the complexion, and basically everything about a woman near ovulation. The thing is, men know women are ovulating because they can smell it, but they don’t know that they know! . . .

Women, the same holds true for us. When we are ovulating we strongly prefer the scent of a male, but not just any male, a more symmetrical male.

Interesting. I had a girlfriend in college that I think I broke up with in part because she smelled wrong. Not bad, just, somehow, wrong.

OF COURSE IT’S THE DEMOCRATS. HE’S A REPUBLICAN. Guess Which Party Says Rand Paul ‘Blames America’ (Seriously, Guess).

NEWS IN NAVAL ARCHITECTURE: 8 Incredible Vessels That Changed How Ships Are Made.

WELL, THAT’S ENCOURAGING: WHO says Ebola outbreak could strike 20,000 people.

A WHILE BACK, I suggested that conservative moneybags should be buying women’s magazines.

Here’s more evidence: Women to GOP: Get with the times.

Women think the Republican Party is “intolerant,” “lacking in compassion” and “stuck in the past,” according to a new report from the Karl Rove-backed Crossroads GPS and American Action Network.

The report, provided exclusively to Politico, shows that women by and large are turned off by GOP policies, especially women in the Northeast and Midwest. Not only that, but policies the GOP thought would be wins for the party among women, such as support for charter schools and offering women flexibility in the workplace, were “the least popular policies among female voters,” according to Politico.

This is no surprise, because woman-targeted media all repeat this message over and over again with almost no contradictory messaging in their media universe. And as long as that is the case, it won’t do the GOP any good to change its policies, because whatever it does will be presented as intolerant, lacking in compassion, and stuck in the past.

Advice to GOP bigwigs: Read Myrna Blyth’s Spin Sisters, then hire her as a consultant or something. And if you don’t have time to read the book — though you should — here’s your cheat-sheet summary from Cathy Seipp.

ASHE SCHOW: 5 problems with California’s ‘affirmative consent’ bill. “In the rush to advance legislation to combat sexual assault on college campuses, California lawmakers have cast aside the due process rights of the accused. As a result, more college men could find themselves unfairly branded as rapists. . . . The law is being pitched as a way to ensure the safety of college students. But instead of merely making sure that all accusations of rape are treated seriously, it creates a standard that stacks the deck against the accused.”

Bad news for higher education enrollments.

RUSSELL BERMAN: Academic Freedom And Academic Standards.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 476.