MOLON LABE: 3D-Printed Semiautomatic .22 Debuts. “If you take my gun, I will simply print another one.”

BUZZ ALDRIN talks about the Moon.

REVOLVING DOOR UPDATE: U.S. Aides Find New Door To Jobs on Campuses Dealing With Sex Crimes.

To the list of defense contractors recruiting retiring Pentagon officials, corporate law firms hiring former SEC and Justice Department officials, and trade associations signing up former senators, add another new hot recruiting field for the private sector. Universities are snapping up employees with experience related to the federal Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, which is in charge of enforcing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

That law is best known for boosting the presence of women’s sports on college campuses, spawning a sports-bra company of the same name. Lawyers with experience related to the federal Office of Civil Rights are in high demand at the moment, though, not because of any ability coaching undergraduate soccer players or designing athletic apparel. Rather, they are being sought after for their ability to coach college administrators through the legal mine field that is the latest guidance from the Obama administration on “Title IX and Sexual Violence.”

Later this month, Valerie Simons will start a $150,000-a-year job as Title IX coordinator at the University of Colorado. The Boulder Daily Camera reports that Ms. Simons “served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Education Section, where she was the lead attorney in charge of enforcing Title IX and other civil rights laws around the U.S.” In her new position, she will report directly to the university’s chancellor.

In May of this year, Stanford announced that Catherine Criswell would join that university as its Title IX coordinator after a 19-year career at the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights.

Harvard last year hired as its Title IX coordinator Mia Karvonides, another Department of Education Office of Civil Rights lawyer; a Harvard memo at the time reported by the Boston Globe reported that her “duties at the Office of Civil Rights included investigating post-secondary and elementary/secondary institutions for compliance with Title IX. “

More such hires are on the way.

Write complicated, intrusive regulations — then get hired by their targets to help them comply, and to use your connections with the new crop of enforcers. Yet another argument for my revolving-door surtax.

YEAH, PRETTY MUCH: Is Obama’s Foreign Policy Too European? “While Mr. Obama’s new style of diplomacy — soft power and nonintervention — was at first seen as a welcome break with the Bush years, five years later a dismal realization has set in. It turns out that soft power cannot replace hard power. On the contrary, soft power is merely a complementary foreign policy tool that can yield results only when it is backed up by real might and the political will to employ it if necessary.” Do tell.

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POLITICS IN OBAMA’S AMERICA: ‘Tequila Party’ Asks Holder to Prosecute Tea Party for Murrieta ‘Terrorism.’ It’s always about criminalizing the opposition with these people.

This also seems like time for another mention of Kurt Schlichter’s new book.

SCOTT OTT: 3 Reasons Why the Border Crisis Is Much Worse Than ‘Obama’s Katrina Moment.’

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Enrollment In Journalism Programs Drops For Second Straight Year.

POWER LINE: A Window Opens Onto the Left-Wing Conspiracy. “The Democracy Alliance is not a famous organization, but it deserves to be. The Alliance consists of approximately 100 rich liberals who have taken upon themselves the task of coordinating America’s many left-wing organizations to promote a single radical agenda. The Alliance does not publicize the names of its members, but it held a conference for its ‘partners’ and membership prospects in April, at the Ritz Carlton Hotel (naturally) in Chicago. Someone who attended the conference unfortunately (heh) left his or her copy of the documents passed out by the Democracy Alliance behind, and they eventually fell into the wrong hands. Ours.”

ONCE AGAIN, THE HIGHER EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT DEMONSTRATES ITS COMMITMENT TO OPENNESS: Boise State U. Charged Libertarian Students Gigantic ‘Security Fee’ to Host Pro-Gun Speaker.

SPACE: The Surprisingly Strong Case For Colonizing Venus.

NOW UP AT PJTV: Helen’s first report from the Detroit Men’s Rights Conference. Including psychological advice for men who are married to or dating women with Borderline Personality Disorder, and reports on colleges’ prejudices against mens’ student groups. More to come!

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YES, IT IS: Grover Norquist thinks Republicans can ride Uber to power in urban areas. That’s probably a stretch.

That said, the treatment of new companies like Uber and Lyft by established interests provides an object lesson in what government is really all about.

KEVIN WILLIAMSON: The Problem With Science Is Scientists.

As Thomas Ray once said, every successful system accumulates parasites. Science has been a very successful system.

CYBERTERRORISM: How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will. “Beneath its slick interface and crystal clear GPS-enabled vision of the world, Google Maps roils with local rivalries, score-settling, and deception. Maps are dotted with thousands of spam business listings for nonexistent locksmiths and plumbers. Legitimate businesses sometimes see their listings hijacked by competitors or cloned into a duplicate with a different phone number or website.”

PEOPLE KEEP ASKING ME IF ZEPHYR TEACHOUT IS RELATED TO TERRY TEACHOUT: Surprisingly, no.

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SHOCKING NEWS FROM OUR GOVERNMENT: “People who are unmarried or separated are most likely to live in areas of concentrated poverty.”

Of course, after the “food deserts” debacle, I’m not sure I should entirely trust this “areas of concentrated poverty” study, either.

Plus: “If food deserts actually exist, why can’t both the USDA and the local bureaucrats make an accurate map of them?”

GOOGLE’S LARRY PAGE: “I Think the Government’s Likely to Collapse Under Its Own Weight.”

DON’T WORRY, IT ONLY LOOKS LIKE THE APOCALYPSE: “Workers are attempting to remove three enormous Boeing 737 fuselages from the Clark Fork River near Missoula, Montana, after they were ejected from a derailed train over the weekend. 50 men and eight heavy-duty machines are on site, where a fourth fuselage has been shredded by the accident.”

WE’VE HAD TOP MEN WORKING ON THIS. TOP MEN. Forgotten vials of smallpox found in storage room. “A government scientist cleaning out an old storage room at a research center near Washington made a startling discovery last week — decades-old vials of smallpox packed away and forgotten in a cardboard box. . . . It was the second recent incident in which a government health agency appeared to have mishandled a highly dangerous germ. Last month, a laboratory safety lapse at the CDC in Atlanta led the agency to give scores of employees antibiotics as a precaution against anthrax.” May I suggest that our disease-fighting experts focus more on addressing this kind of stuff, and less on junk food and gun control?

EUROPE: Slouching Toward Post-Democracy.

SCIENCE: Why Societies Sanction Female Promiscuity:

Results of both studies were consistent with the theory that opposition to promiscuity arises in circumstances where paternity certainty is particularly important and suggest that such opposition will more likely emerge in environments in which women are more dependent economically on a male mate. . . .

In other words, the more dependent on men women are, the higher the reproductive stakes: If you get pregnant and can’t make a strong case that a given man was the father, you (and your child) could be in serious trouble.

This is a pretty old-school way of looking at things, of course, but that’s the point: Not all aspects of human culture are caught up to modern life. As the researchers write, these “beliefs may persist due to cultural evolutionary adaptive lag … that is, because the environment has changed faster than the moral system.” Today, thanks to modern contraception, when we want to separate sex and reproduction, we can do so with a very high success rate. Many of our older and more conservative ideas of morality may have developed before this was the case.

Even in modern life, paternity fraud is a problem. In response to an earlier post on this subject, a reader who asks anonymity writes:

I am familiar with a massive ongoing multi-generational genetic study. . . . (Please don’t mention either it or my name.) The participants were predominantly “greatest generation” and their kids’ generation. Middle-class and white a bit more than the general population. It was looking for hereditary cancers (not too common, maybe 10% or so, last time I checked).

But, of course, in the process of all this, they discovered so-called “false paternities”. (Their rules prohibited them from divulging this info to participants.) Anyway, the overall false paternity rate for this bunch from the “Leave it to Beaver demographic” was about 16%.

16%. One in six. In middle America. Not your mom, of course, nor mine, but hey, that’s going to be a lot of data to discuss around the dinner table.

Just thought you might enjoy some numbers!

We could bring things up to date for this new era of reproductive science, of course, with mandatory paternity testing at birth.

DEFINING FEMINIST PORN: “Is that XXX flick organic?”