NEWS YOU CAN USE: The 4 Most Dangerous Sex Positions.

HISTORIC IRONY: Looking back at Obama’s 2004 nominating speech. “Reading it now I could almost weep, because it is so deceptive, so unlike the Barack Obama we’ve come to know so well. If the guy portrayed in that speech had won an election, the result probably wouldn’t have been half bad. But that guy never existed; he was an actor reading his lines. 2004 was his first performance on the national stage, and he ought to have won an Oscar for it.” To be fair, he did get a Nobel Peace Prize.

WELL, THEY PROMISED “CHANGE.” Dems change tune after mocking GOP for ‘drill, baby, drill.’

Back when gas topped $4 a gallon, Republicans chanted “drill, baby, drill” at rallies across the country — arguing more domestic drilling would increase supplies, reduce dependence on foreign oil and boost the U.S. economy.

Democrats, almost universally, mocked the GOP plan. In 2012, President Obama called it “a slogan, a gimmick, and a bumper sticker … not a strategy.”

“They were waving their three-point plans for $2-a-gallon gas,” Obama told a laughing audience during an energy speech in Washington. “You remember that? Drill, baby, drill. We were going through all that. And none of it was really going to do anything to solve the problem.”

“‘Drill, baby, drill’ won’t lower gas prices today or tomorrow,” Rep. Janice Hahn, D-Calif., echoed on the floor of Congress in 2012. “But it will fuel our addiction to fossil fuel.”

Today, Democrats are singing a different tune, as increased domestic drilling has led to a record supply of domestic crude, put some $100 billion into the pockets of U.S. consumers and sent world oil prices tumbling.

They fought the law (of supply and demand) and the law won.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Molly Shattuck teen sex abuse case heads to court for hearing Wednesday.

The boy told police that Shattuck would pick him up during his lunch breaks from a summer class and that the two would “make out” in the back seat of her Cadillac Escalade. Shattuck would drive him to the parking lot of the T. Rowe Price building in Owings Mills, near the McDonogh School, where both the alleged victim and Shattuck’s oldest son are students, according to the documents.

Shattuck invited the boy to join her and her children and their friends at a rented beach house in Bethany Beach over Labor Day weekend, according to the documents. She gave the boy wine and beer, then pulled him away from the other teenagers by saying he needed to go to bed, the documents allege.

She then brought the boy to her bedroom, stripped down to her underwear and performed oral sex on him, according to the documents. She invited him to have sexual intercourse, documents say, but he decided to leave.

The indictment charged Shattuck with two counts of third-degree rape, which carries a potential sentence of two to 25 years in prison for each count; four counts of unlawful sexual contact in the second degree, which carry a penalty of up to three years in prison; and three counts of providing alcohol to a minor, which carry a fine of $100 to $500 and could lead to an order of community service or imprisonment of up to 60 days.

I’m guessing she won’t do serious time. Reverse the genders, though. . . .

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Can A Boulder Stop A Speeding Truck? A Forceful New Study Investigates. My sister-in-law needs to read this.

SECOND-COLDEST PLACE: MY OFFICE, SINCE THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE WENT ON AN ENERGY-SAVING KICK. What It’s Like Living in the Coldest Town on Earth.

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AGE AND THE SHINGLES VACCINE: I’ve been wondering if I should go ahead and get that. I’m nowhere near due, but my brother and two brothers-in-law have already come down with it. The chickenpox I had as a kid was really severe, but I’m not sure if that makes a difference.

MARK RIPPETOE: My Biggest Regret As A Strength Coach.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: 7 Weird Things Totally Messing With Your Libido.

SPACE: Planet hunters spot eight potentially habitable worlds. Given how things are going here on Earth, we need a warp drive soonest.

THE INSTA-WIFE LOOKS AT Salon’s Uncle Tim: The “Mind Reader” of Nerds.

I DON’T LIKE THIS: After Enterovirus 68 Outbreak, a Paralysis Mystery. “A nationwide outbreak of a respiratory virus last fall sent droves of children to emergency departments. The infections have now subsided, as researchers knew they would, but they have left behind a frightening mystery. Since August, 103 children in 34 states have had an unexplained, poliolike paralysis of an arm or leg. Each week, roughly three new cases of so-called acute flaccid myelitis are still reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. . . . For many families, the onset of persistent limb paralysis has been a bewildering experience. Roughly two thirds of the children with A.F.M. have reported some improvement, according to the C.D.C. About a third show none. Only one child has fully recovered.”

OUT: YOU ARE EITHER WITH US OR YOU ARE WITH THE TERRORISTS. In: White House: Obama Will Fight Media To Stop Anti-Jihad Articles.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Colleges ratchet up recruiting of applicants — just to turn them down; “Recruit to deny” makes schools look more selective, at students’ expense. “You are really breaking hearts of kids across the country.” If any other industry acted this way it would be roundly denounced by all right thinking people, instead of criticized by a few tiny, unimportant voices.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Piezoelectric monolayer joins toolkit for nanomanipulation.

#RAPECULTURE: She was charged with sex crime; Cretin-Derham 16-year-old got the blame. K-12 schools are apparently hotbeds of female sexual entitlement and victim-shaming.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Stormtroopers Surprise a Boy With His New 3D-Printed Prosthetic Arm.

I THINK WE SHOULD CALL THIS SORT OF BOGUS RESEARCH “HATE SCHOLARSHIP.” Ashe Schow: No, we did not just learn 1 in 3 college men would rape if they could get away with it. “The biggest problem with that study is that the researchers surveyed just 86 men (who received extra credit for their participation) at a single university in North Dakota. And the answers of just 73 men were used for analysis because the researchers discounted missing data and one man whose answers confused them. . . . The study is further tainted because it begins with a false premise — the often-repeated but thoroughly debunked statistic that one in five women will be raped during their college years.” If the researcher, Sarah Edwards, had done similarly shoddy and result-oriented scholarship about race she’d be drummed out of the academy. But shoddy research that makes men look like rapists is stylish now.

MY UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEAGUE VEJAS LIULEVICIUS HAS A NEW VIDEO OUT FROM THE GREAT COURSES (FORMERLY THE TEACHING COMPANY): History’s Greatest Voyages of Exploration. He’s a terrific lecturer, and his stuff is highly recommended.

TAXPROF: The IRS Scandal, Day 614.

LEE SMITH: Why Obama Wasn’t In Paris.

Hey, he was watching the NFL playoffs.

BUT OF COURSE: Obama’s College Plan Bows to Elites.

The major barriers to completing college do not include community-college tuition, which is low for everyone, and basically free for low-income families (you automatically qualify for a Pell Grant if your family income is less than $24,000 a year, and many others qualify above that line). Libby Nelson offers the wan defense that universal programs may enjoy greater support than those targeted at the poor, which would be more compelling if community college weren’t already basically free for low-income families. . . .

I suspect that this plan will mostly help subsidize people who could have afforded tuition on their own, while encouraging marginally attached students to stay enrolled. It’s not the worst way to spend government money, but in a world of limited resources, it’s probably not the way I’d choose to spend that money. Especially since community college completion rates, while hard to calculate, seem to be pretty unimpressive; five years after enrolling, only 25 percent of people had an associate or four-year degree. Another 11 percent had certificates, some of which may be economically valuable, but even if you add in those numbers, that’s still a pretty dismal record.

Of course, community colleges are often dealing with the most challenging students. More than 50 percent of community-college enrollees require remedial work, and of those, more than 40 percent never even complete their remedial courses.

Taking people who shouldn’t have graduated high school, and sending them to colleges they aren’t ready to attend.

Plus: “What if people in the policy elite stopped assuming that the ideal was to make everyone more like them, and started thinking about making society more hospitable to those who aren’t? . . . I would argue instead that what’s elitist is our current fixation on college. It starts from the supposition that being good at school is some sort of great personal virtue, so that any suggestion that many people aren’t good at school must mean that those people are not equal and valuable members of society. And that supposition is triple-distilled balderdash.”

Indeed.

TROLLING WENDY DAVIS: The Texas Democrat’s successor mocks her with cowboy boots.