HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: U. California students remove offensive American flag from ‘inclusive’ space.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Chelsea Clinton: Men must ‘lead the way’ to gender equality.

During an interview with Fortune, Chelsea Clinton (daughter of Bill and Hillary, interviewer of computer-animated geckos) claimed that around the world men must be the ones to lead the way to gender equality.

“We’ve seen some real cultural normative shifts — and candidly it often has to be men who lead the way,” Clinton said when asked specifically about gender equality in Japan. “In countries where we’ve seen real declining rates in child marriage, of female genital mutilation, it has always been the result of a real cross-sector coalition [with men leading].”

Sorry ladies, it is not you who can bring about the change we need. It’s time for you to get out of the way and let the menfolk take over.

As always with the politics of the era of Hope & Change, The Onion got here first: Man Finally Put In Charge Of Struggling Feminist Movement.

After decades spent battling gender discrimination and inequality in the workplace, the feminist movement underwent a high-level shake-up last month, when 53-year-old management consultant Peter “Buck” McGowan took over as new chief of the worldwide initiative for women’s rights. . . .

McGowan claimed that one of the main reasons the movement enjoyed so little success in the past was that the previous management was often too timid and passive and should have been much more results-focused.

“You can’t waste time pussyfooting around with protests and getting all emotional about a bunch of irrelevant details,” McGowan said. “If you want to enjoy equal rights, you have to have a real man-to-man chat with the people in charge until you can hammer out some more equitable custody laws.”

“And don’t get me started on how disorganized and scatterbrained their old fundraising methods were,” McGowan added. “Let’s just say the movement never really had a head for numbers.”

The Onion: Not actually parody, so much as prescience.

EXPIRATION DATE, REACHED: 20 Times Obama Administration Officials Said No Iran Deal Is Better Than a Bad Deal.

THE EMILY LITELLA PRESIDENCY: Obama: DOJ right not to charge Ferguson cop.

President Obama on Friday defended the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) conclusion that there was insufficient evidence to bring civil rights charges against Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot dead Michael Brown, an unarmed black man, in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014.

Obama said during a town hall in South Carolina that he had “complete confidence and [stood] fully behind” the DOJ’s decision regarding Wilson, whom said he killed Brown in self defense.

“We may never know exactly what happened, but Officer Wilson — like anyone else who is charged with a crime — benefits from due process and a reasonable-doubt standard,” Obama said, fielding a question about why the DOJ didn’t charge Wilson.

“If there is uncertainty about what happened then you can’t just charge him anyway, just because what happened was tragic,” Obama added, noting that it was “an objective, thorough, independent federal investigation.”

The case, which sparked national protests, fueled concerns over use of force by police and raised debates about racially charged policing tactics.

The whole “hands up, don’t shoot” thing was a lie.

BRIDGET JOHNSON: Days Before News of Corruption Charges, Menendez Warned of Political Foes Trying to ‘Break’ Him Over Iran Resolve.

MEDIA INCITEMENT: Discredited ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Claim Spread by Media a Gajillion Times. Here are Some of Them.

One of my favorite music producers, and generally a pretty lefty guy, Brian Transeau, was complaining about this kind of thing on Twitter. So I guess people are noticing.

MICHAEL WALSH: What the Left Doesn’t Get About Robert A. Heinlein.

YEAH, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND IF YOU ADD ASIANS, WHO ALREADY COUNT AS “SUPER WHITE” FOR COLLEGE ADMISSIONS PURPOSES, THAT WON’T BE TRUE: White US children will be minorities by 2020 after immigrant ‘baby boom’, Census reveals.

ADVICE ON HOW NOT TO TWEET, FROM FRANK J. FLEMING: “Wen u writ lik dis u luk lik a mron.”

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STEPHEN KRUISER: Slate Sex Trafficking Post Proves Feminists Can’t Be Happy Even When You Agree with Them. It’s almost like complaining isn’t a means to an end, but an end in itself.

SARAH HOYT ON THE GOP: Winter At Valley Forge. “I am sorry, no offense meant. It’s just that I think you – all of you – are barking up the wrong tree and failing to see both the progress and the problems with your chosen course.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LIQUIDATION EDITION: Sweet Briar College to Close; Who Gets the $80 Million Endowment? “Because most colleges that close have run out of all of their cash, there is no endowment to divide up. But within hours of Sweet Briar’s announcement Tuesday, alumnae and higher education observers started posting comments to social media asking who would get the leftover funds.”

Related: Mark Cuban: This Is Just The Start Of The College Implosion. “A few years ago, Cuban bought the domain ‘collegedebt.com,’ which publishes a live update of how much college loan debt is held by students. The current total is just over $1.3 trillion.”

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.

PORTLAND WOMAN SEEKS $100K DAMAGES for bad Valentine’s Day service.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Ex-teacher indicted for sex with student. “A former Coahulla Creek High School teacher who was indicted Tuesday by a Whitfield County grand jury for having sex with a student is not a sexual predator and refuses to be labeled as such, her attorney said.”

SKYNET ANTICIPATES: The Scary-Dexterous Robots of the Darpa Challenge.

IT’S NOT JUST VITAMIN D: The sunshine itself may be beneficial.

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FRANK J. FLEMING: Do The Jetsons Go To Church?

SAY WASN’T HE JUST CRITICIZING OBAMA’S IRAN POLICY? Feds prepare criminal corruption charges against Senator Bob Menendez. This stuff goes back before the 2012 election, but it’s coming to a head now? I question the timing.

ME AND THE INSTA-WIFE DID THAT THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY: Engineering The Perfect Baby. Okay, to be honest, we might have chosen to edit out the ear-infection gene.

OUT: DON’T BE EVIL. IN: WHAT’S EVIL, REALLY? Google Considers Ranking Sites According to Political Correctness, I Mean, Truthfulness.

IN CASE YOU WERE CONFUSED ABOUT HOW THE SIDES LINE UP: The Hill: Democrats Vow To Protect Boehner Against Tea Party Coup.

JOE PAPPALARDO: Why SpaceX Still Hasn’t Broken Ground at Its Texas Spaceport of Dreams.

WELL, IF THE THREAT OF SOCIAL UPHEAVAL IS ALL IT TAKES TO SWING THE SUPREME COURT, THEN I’M PREPARED TO DO SOME UPHEAVIN’: Unintentional self-parody alert: Dana Milbank predicts “social upheaval” if the USSC rules against Obamacare.

Didn’t lynch mobs once make similar threats when it looked like black defendants might get acquitted?