WOMEN’S EQUALITY: ‘She has no right to be supported for life’: Judge tells ex-wife of millionaire racehorse vet to get a job in landmark divorce case. “I do not think the children will suffer if Mrs Wright has to work, and indeed a working mother at this stage of their lives may well provide them with a good role model. It is possible to find work that fits in with childcare responsibilities. I reject her other reasons relating to responsibilities for animals, or trees, or housekeeping.”

#WARONBOYS: Jennifer Link: How our schools are miserably failing our boys.

SPYING: How the NSA’s Firmware Hacking Works and Why It’s So Unsettling.

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JOHN TIERNEY: People Are More Pollyannaish Than You Think.

“UNINTENDED” CONSEQUENCE: Google warns FCC plan could help ISPs charge senders of Web traffic.

WAIT, I THOUGHT IF YOU WERE INNOCENT, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE: I strongly oppose ‘Audit the Fed,’ Yellen says. I guess audits are for the little people.

I DON’T WANT TO HEAR ANOTHER GODDAMN THING ABOUT MY CARBON FOOTPRINT: This Gulfstream Flew Around the World With Just One Fuel Stop. Also, I’d like one.

THE INSTAWIFE AND DAVE BARRY, on why home ownership sucks. Plus a few ways to ease the pain.

THINKING ABOUT ROBOTS AND ZMP (ZERO MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY) WORKERS. “Some robots do not cause a productivity explosion because they replace low productivity workers and the quality of the task done does not improve much after the initial introduction of robots. The automated equipment that turns a worker into a zero marginal productivity (ZMP) ex-worker does not need to offer a large and growing impact on the firm’s total productivity. It just has to lower total costs. . . . Suppose you manage low skilled and low productivity workers. Suppose they aren’t very conscientious. What is your day going to be like? Kinda like someone running around plugging new holes that spout in dikes. Will you like your job? For most people the answer is going to be “No!”. So automate the jobs and stop dealing with people who are a hassle to deal with. Think about it from the perspective of managers. They’d rather manage more fun and interesting problems and more talented people. Computer systems and robots are enabling them to do that. So I expect firms to develop technology that lets them shift their hiring preferences toward the sorts of workers their managers would rather manage. This might be why the labor market participation of high school drop-outs has dropped so low. Nobody wants to deal with them and the technology now exists to avoid it.”

If this is true, then an education focused on making people pleasant to work with might be as valuable as one focused on modest improvement in basic skills.

NOW IF WE COULD JUST GET 600 HP FOR 300 MILES: Porsche’s Tesla-fighter could have 600 hp and 300-mile range.

WELL, I WAS AGAINST IT FROM THE BEGINNING: 7 reasons it’s time to shut down the Department of Homeland Security.

And my predictions were pretty much on-target.

EXPIRATION DATE, REACHED: Senator Obama: ‘Irresponsible’ For FCC To Vote On Rules Unreleased To The Public. That Senator Obama seemed like a sensible fellow. Too bad he’s not President now.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 656.

WHEN THEY CAME FOR THE FRATERNITIES I DIDN’T SPEAK OUT, BECAUSE I WASN’T IN A FRATERNITY: Yale Professors Object To Vague, Overreaching Faculty Conduct Standards. “Is a professor sending out a late recommendation letter for a student as bad as one who commits academic misconduct or, say, sexually harasses a colleague? And shouldn’t staff and administrators be held to the same ethical standards as faculty members? Professors at Yale University are asking those questions, among others, and generally scratching their heads at what they say is a ‘curious’ and ‘confusing’ proposed faculty conduct code threatening undefined sanctions for a mishmash of transgressions.”

As with the sex rules, the goal here is maximum power, and minimum accountability, for administrators. Because that’s always the goal. My advice: Slash the number of administrators. Congressional Republicans should adjust federal funding formulas in ways that encourage universities, public and private, to run leaner operations.

ELIANA JOHNSON: Walker Settles On Immigration Message.

LAS VEGAS: PROTOTYPE LIBERTARIAN UTOPIA, OR NIGHTMARE?

Las Vegas has Disneyfied libertinism. But to do so, it employs armies of security guards and acres of surveillance cameras that are always and everywhere recording your every move.

This is a question I’ve asked myself before, funnily enough, when arguing with anarcho-capitalists. For those who do not follow the ins and outs of libertarian sectarianism, anarcho-capitalists want to replace the state with private institutions, with insurance companies and private security forces substituting for most current government functions. But when I’ve probed into the actual mechanics of this, I’ve often found that anarcho-capitalists end up describing something unpleasantly like a police state, only not called “the government” — like giving insurance companies and private police forces the ability to perform warrantless at-will searches in order to prosecute crimes. One way or another, society is going to protect itself against theft and violence, rape and murder, and putting those tools in the hands of private parties causes much the same trouble as they do in the hands of the police.

Well, possibly.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Looks like Gruber thought stupid Americans wouldn’t notice if he overbilled them. “Jonathan Gruber is still the gift that keeps on giving if you cover the political beat. Or perhaps in this case, the gift that keeps on taking. A review of the books seems to indicate that Mr. Gruber submitted some interesting invoices to the state of Vermont for his work on the development of the now abandoned Green Mountain Care single payer plan. Unfortunately, they may have been overstated.”

SO ARE WE JUST TRYING TO SCREW THIS THING UP, OR WHAT? Jordan furious over Pentagon leak on secret anti-terror traning camp.

DO YOU NOW HAVE, OR HAVE YOU EVER HAD, A NEGATIVE THOUGHT ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA? The Atlantic: Criticizing Govt. Press Crackdown Could Call Reporter’s Objectivity Into Question.

This seems about right: “I cannot imagine the Atlantic publishing such a servile, base, and cowardly endorsement of press restriction under any other president.”

WHEN AN ACTRESS COMPLAINS ABOUT HOW HOLLYWOOD TREATS WOMEN, IT MEANS SHE’S GETTING TOO OLD FOR PRIME ROLES: Female millionaire claims American women don’t have equal rights.

However, if I were a Republican in Congress, I’d immediately introduce the Hollywood Equal Pay Act of 2015, requiring that male and female cast members receive identical pay in every film based on level of billing. And hold hearings in which Hollywood executives were sharply questioned about sexism in their industry, while actresses of a certain age were invited to testify.

I’d also go after Hollywood Accounting. And, or course, repeal the Hollywood Tax Cuts!

AN OPED BY JOHN BOEHNER AND MITCH MCCONNELL: Obama’s Keystone Pipeline Veto Purely Political.

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IF YOU STRIKE ME DOWN, I SHALL BECOME MORE POWERFUL THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE: Thank The Left For Presidential Candidate Scott Walker: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s recall was a deadly error for state Democrats and labor activists. It made a college dropout into a potential Republican rock star. “Behold the beast the Democrats never intended to create: a thrice-elected Republican governor in a swing state with a cult following, appreciated by both the establishment of his party and the conservative base. He’s a governor with an enviable base approval rating who received an even larger share of his own party’s vote in 2014 than 2010. . . . It seems like every new challenge builds the cult of Walker. Every visual overstep by his foes, like the recent protests at his parents’ house, or recent perceived gotchas, simply bring more money and more ground troops to Team Walker. How did this happen? One horrendous political miscalculation, fueled by raging anger and hopelessness in the face of Act 10: the recall of 2012.”