SEVEN STUPID MOVIES ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE – you won’t believe the horrible product that Hollywood generates with their enormous carbon footprint, including:

#2. Snowpiercer (2013) Scientists try to reverse global warming by seeding the atmosphere. Works too well. The world freezes to death, except for the survivors on a train that endlessly circles the globe. I so wanted to like this film based on a best-selling graphic novel, but it is just too ridiculous. At the end of the movie, the last two survivors are cheered by seeing a polar bear, a sign that life goes on. They were probably eaten by the bear after the credits roll.

You don’t even want to know what the bear would be doing to them if they had made that film today.

TROUBLED SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY doesn’t want Koch Brothers money.

My take: “University administrations are making places less welcoming to conservatives. It is going to blow up in their faces, because they are a declining industry that is having trouble filling seats. If I were a trustee, I’d want to make my university welcoming to all views, because frankly they’ll need the tuition money.”

STEVEN HAYWARD: A Modest Proposal For Princeton And Yale.

Richard Epstein reviews the sorry record of Woodrow Wilson over at Ricochet, but concludes correctly that it is a stupid idea to start stripping names off of university programs. But if the prissy Princetonians insist on renaming the Woodrow Wilson School for Public Affairs, here’s a modest suggestion: Rename it for Warren Harding!

Harding was the anti-Wilson in all of the ways the campus protesters could want. He pardoned most of the political dissenters Woodrow Wilson had jailed during World War I, especially the socialist firebrand Eugene Debs, whom Harding then invited to the White House, saying afterward that he rather liked Debs. He also proposed civil rights protection for blacks, in a speech in Birmingham, Alabama, that drew boos and jeers from the mostly Democratic audience. “I want to see the time come when black men will regard themselves as full participants in the benefits and duties of American citizens,” Harding said in the speech; “We cannot go on, as we have gone on for more than half a century, with one great section of our population . . . set off from real contribution to solving national issues, because of a division on race lines.” Harding also urged Congress “to wipe out the stain of barbaric lynching from the banners of a free and orderly, representative democracy,” but southern Democrats made sure this suggestion died swiftly in Congress.

His support for advancing the interests of black Americans went beyond mere words. He appointed blacks to senior positions in the Departments of Labor and Interior, lobbied his entire cabinet to more blacks, and over 100 blacks to lower ranked administration posts—a high number for the time, especially after Wilson had purged blacks from government jobs and bestowing permanent civil service status of their white replacements a few years before.

So how about it Princeton?

And yet historians — well, until a month or two ago — have been much more positive about Wilson than about Harding.

SHE KEEPS FALLING BACK TO HER VAGINA BECAUSE, WELL, SHE CAN’T RUN ON HER RECORD, NOW CAN SHE? Smart, substantive new Hillary ad: “44 boys is too many.” “If we’re already at the ‘adorable little girls wishing for a woman president’ stage of Hillary’s gender pander, where will we be next October? Where can they go from here? The answer, I think, is towards victimization. Hopefulness of the sort you see below makes sense early in the campaign, when there’s no enemy yet to demonize. Now’s the time to add a feelgood glow to your campaign by emptying your arsenal of shiny-happy fireworks. Once there’s a GOP nominee to finally run against, that’ll be the moment to get crazy with the ‘voting for Republicans is like voting for rape’ war-on-women cheez whiz. If you enjoy following politics (especially elections) purely as spectacle, that’s one reason to be glad that Hillary will be the nominee: She’s a cinch to crank out some of the most cartoonishly demagogic ads in modern political history next fall. She’s famously ruthless, she has no meaningful policy accomplishments to run on, and she’s up against eight years of voter fatigue with the Democrats’ agenda.”

But this has me imagining a scene: Hillary: No living man can defeat me! Carly: [Laughs] But no living man am I!

I’VE MENTIONED GINA ELISE’S PINUPS FOR VETS OPERATION BEFORE, but here’s a FoxNews story and video about their newest calendar, marking their tenth anniversary.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Underground At Brown.

At Brown University, in Providence, R.I., there is a secret forum in which students may discuss potentially controversial issues freely. Let me say that again: At Brown, there is a secret forum in which students may discuss potentially controversial issues — or anything they want — freely. Yes, there is an underground group whose purpose is to allow kids to say what they ought to be free to say above ground. As David Frum remarked on Twitter, when he read the magazine piece, What is this? Warsaw 1983 or America 2015?

It is the goal of many in higher education to ensure that there’s as little difference as possible. Though Warsaw in 1983 at least had the U.S. government trying to promote freedom.

OVER-THE-COUNTER MEDICINES: Benefits And Dangers.

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ADVANTAGE KATHY SHAIDLE: The far left Nation magazine notes today that “much of what students are taught, and much of what most Americans think they know, about [Rosa] Parks’s activism is wrong. Here are corrections to ten commonly circulated myths about Rosa Parks:”

When the Montgomery bus boycott began, Rosa Parks was 42, a seasoned activist, while Martin Luther King was 26, a new minister pastoring his first church. Parks grew up in a family that supported Marcus Garvey, began her adult political life with the Scottsboro defense alongside her husband Raymond, and spent the next decade with E.D. Nixon pushing to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist chapter. Mentored by legendary organizer Ella Baker, she was inspired by the political visions of Highlander Folk School leaders Septima Clark and Myles Horton, when she attended the adult-organizer-training school the summer before her arrest. Throughout her life, she believed in the power of organized nonviolence and the moral right of self-defense and described Malcolm X as her personal hero.

The Nation’s article is headlined “Rosa Parks Wasn’t Meek, Passive, or Naive—and 7 Other Things You Probably Didn’t Learn in School:”

No — I learned all that samizdat from Canadian Blogger Kathy Shaidle at her Five Feet of Fury Website — six years ago:

Parks was not a “humble seamstress” who spontaneously decided to defy the rules one day.

She was the Secretary of her local chapter of the NAACP and had been trained in civil disobedience.

(Of course, up until recently, only “obscure right wing” sites dared to point out these facts. Unable to deny them any longer, leftists like those at Common Dreams have recently been forced to accept them, and then try to twist them into yet another narrative.)

As Kathy writes today in response to the Nation’s big “revelation:”

I love how The Nation is now scolding people for believing the received wisdom about “poor, meek, untrained, ordinary church lady” Rose Parks that their fellow “progressives” have shoved down our throats for 60 years.

See also: the Left’s surprise (including the clueless denizens of the New York Times) that Woodrow Wilson was, like most original “Progressives” a straight up racist. When, in 2002, Reason’s Charles Paul Freund wrote a piece charting just a few of the lowlights of, as he described him, “The menacing Mr. Wilson,” I know I didn’t hear anything about those aspects of his presidency from my Wilson-adoring history professors at the College of New Jersey, just down the road from Princeton itself.

ADVANTAGE VDH: As Glenn noted earlier, the Washington Post’s Richard Cohen is but the latest leftwing columnist to finally admit that Obama wasn’t quite the Lightworker he and his fellow Democratic operatives with bylines fantasized in 2008. In the passage from his column quoted by Glenn, Cohen wrote:

“The presidency has changed Barack Obama. His hair has gone gray, which is to be expected, and he looks older, which is also to be expected, but his eloquence has been replaced by petulance and he has lost the power to persuade, which is something of a surprise. You can speculate that if the Obama of today and not Winston Churchill had led Britain in World War II, the Old Vic theater would now be doing ‘Hamlet’ in German.”

Yes you could — and Victor Davis Hanson did exactly that in his October 18th column:

Winston Churchill, well before he became prime minister in May 1940, was busy all through 1939 prompting the British government to prepare for war — and then, as first lord of the Admiralty, helping to direct it once it broke out. But what if Churchill had been Barack Obama? What would Britain’s foremost opponent of appeasement have been like?

The Munich Agreement

Obama-Churchill might have said something like the following in regards to the 1938 Munich Agreement.

“We live in a complex world and at a challenging time. And none of these challenges lend themselves to quick or easy solutions, but all of them require British leadership. If we stay patient and determined, then we will, in fact, meet these challenges. The Munich Agreement is a comprehensive government agreement.  It is the first that actually constrains Nazi Germany from further aggression, and one whose provisions are transparent and enforceable. It is a sober and judicious way to preclude war and to bring Germany back into the family of nations and to become a credible regional power, while allowing the German people to express their legitimate aspirations.”

Doesn’t that sound very much like Obama’s vaporous rhetoric uttered while fighting hitting ISIS hard via a global warming agreement and a gala Parisian luncheon?

It wasn’t one of my most detailed Photoshops illustrating VDH’s article, as I did it on my laptop in a hotel room while traveling instead of my 24 gigs of RAM dual monitor HAL 9000 at home, (where I would have made the Churchill’s expansive body a bit more proportional to Obama’s gaunt face), but I think it got the point across:

Was VDH’s article floating around Cohen’s subconscious when he wrote the above passage, or as the kids like to say on the Interwebs, do great minds think alike?

CHANGE: Teenage prostitutes selling sex for the price of a sandwich as Greece’s crippling recession pushes prices to an all-time low.

A new report reveals that more Greek women than Eastern European women are working as prostitutes in Greece following the difficult years of austerity. ‘Some women just do it for a cheese pie, or a sandwich they need to eat because they are hungry,’ claims the report’s author, sociology professor Gregory Lazos at the Panteion University, Athens.

Prostitution is legal in Greece and with the fall in wages and rising unemployment, the industry has been growing rapidly.

‘Factor in the growing number of girls who drift in and out of the trade, depending on their needs, and the total number of female prostitutes is startling,’ Mr Lazos said. The Greek academic’s findings suggest that Greek women now dominate 80 per cent of the sex trade industry, which has become a €600 million business.

So, basically, free enterprise provides a safety net after the collapse of socialism.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Married, Pregnant 26-Year-Old Teacher Victimized 16-Year-Old Male With Sex, Cops Say.

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: George P. Bush Going to Court Over BLM ‘Land Grab.’

JUSTICE: Man in prison for rape convictions cleared by DNA testing after 16 years.

A BRUISING CRUZAPALOOZA! Ted Cruz: ‘The Overwhelming Majority of Violent Criminals Are Democrats.’

Now up to 1988 comments — join the “fun!”

TREATING UNTREATABLE CANCERS WITH BACTERIA and getting into ethical trouble. “We tried to treat patients.” Doing desperate things to try to save doomed patients with patients’ consent doesn’t seem unethical to me.

LET THEM REAP WHAT THEY HAVE SOWN: A West Virginia college divests its remaining conservatives.  A conservatarian academic discusses his experience at a financially ailing, ideologically intolerant college:

IF THEY HAD WANTED TO DEMONSTRATE THEIR SERIOUSNESS, THEY WOULD HAVE DONE IT BY SKYPE: The Paris Climate Talks Will Emit 300,000 Tons of CO2, by Our Math. Hope It’s Worth It. Nope.

Related: “Climate Change Crisis Requires Giving Money and Power to Global Elites,” say Global Elites.

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ROBERT MCMANUS: Why Sheldon Silver’s guilty verdict should make Cuomo very worried.

A CHILD IS A BLESSING: Mary Katharine Ham gives birth, two months after White House staffer husband Jake Brewer died.

ACADEMIA’S DIVERSITY PROBLEM: Big 10 Profs, Staff Lean Way Left On Campaign Cash. “Big 10 professors and administrators donated more than five times as much to Democrats as Republicans over the last 25 years, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of OpenSecrets.org data. Employees at the conference’s 14 institutions donated $18.4 million to Democrats versus $3.4 million to Republicans since 1990. University of Wisconsin professors and administrators lean furthest left.”

As the higher education bubble implodes, I think the higher education industry is going to be unhappy with the consequences of tying itself so closely to one political party.

SPYING: See for Yourself for the First Time What User Data the FBI Demanded in a National Security Letter. Without, remember, a warrant.

THIS SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED THE NEXT DAY, AND IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN UNANIMOUS: Yale Faculty Defend Freedom of Speech, Express Support for Christakises in Open Letter.

BELONG THERE? — HE MADE IT WHAT IS TODAY! Richard Epstein: Does Woodrow Wilson Belong at Princeton?

As the Heritage Foundation notes, as a self-described “Progressive,” Wilson believed “that both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution have outlived their usefulness—and their now outmoded truths:”

The scientific facts, Wilson coldly concludes, call for cooperation among the parts of government, not checks against one another.

Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of life, not of mechanics; it must develop. All the progressives ask or desire is permission—in an era when “development,” “evolution,” is the scientific word—to interpret the Constitution according to the Darwinian principle….

Wilson’s Darwinian constitutionalism means that an evolving human nature wipes away the need for the protection of individual rights by the separation of powers. Liberated from the old constraints demanded by an unchanging and flawed human nature, a government of now unlimited powers is unleashed to deal with the new political and economic conditions of corporations and political bosses.

Wilson laments that “Some citizens of this country have never got beyond the Declaration of Independence” ; they are not fighting today’s tyrants. The Declaration of Independence was an “eminently practical document…not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; not a theory of government, but a program of action.” His “new declaration of independence” enables Americans to fight the tyranny of “special interests,” of political machines and “selfish business.” Whatever the ills of the early 20th century, one might ask Wilson whether replacing the Declaration and the Constitution would not lead to even worse evils.

Such as airbrushing prominent yet suddenly inconvenient figures out of the historical record, just as Wilson proposed doing with that pesky Constitution that stood athwart him.