ANNALS OF WESTERN DE-CIVILIZATION: German Railway Launches Gender Segregated Carriages In Wake Of Sex Attacks.

WHY CONTEMPORARY CULTURE SUCKS, IN ONE SENTENCE: There’s no non-stupid sounding way to explain to a six-year-old that the movie about Batman fighting Superman isn’t for kids.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Feds charge 12 Detroit school principals with bribery. “The announcement comes nearly two months after ex-principal Kenyetta Wilbourn Snapp, who was hailed as a once-rising education star and turnaround specialist in Detroit Public Schools, pleaded guilty to bribery. Snapp admitted she pocketed a $58,050 bribe from a vendor and spent it on herself while working for the embattled Education Achievement Authority, a state-formed agency that was supposed to help Detroit’s most troubled schools.”

MIKE ROWE: ‘Free’ College Is A Myth That Smears Trade Schools.

MEGAN MCARDLE: Maybe We Should Quit Condescending To People Who Aren’t Doing Well Under Free Markets:

Instead of asking how we have ended up with an economy that offers stability and reward only to the holders of a college diploma, and how we might change that, elites of both parties focus on the things they want for themselves. Republicans offer tax cuts and deregulation, as if everyone in America were going to become an entrepreneur. Democrats offer free college tuition and paid maternity leave, as if these things were a great benefit to people who don’t have the ability, preparation or inclination to sit through four years of college, and as a result, can’t find a decent job from which to take their leave.

While there are a lot of things on the parties’ agendas that primarily benefit the educated, there are very few that primarily benefit people who aren’t like us. The implicit assumption of elites in both parties is that the solution for the rest of the country is to become more like us, either through education or entrepreneurship. Rarely does anyone discuss how we might build an economy that works for people who aren’t like us and don’t want to turn into us.

And the giant hole at the center of this discussion we aren’t having is work. We talk a lot about how to palliate the effects of a labor market that no longer offers many rewards to the less educated. We act as if jobs inevitably grow, like weeds, in the fertile soil of capitalism. Or worse, as if they were a sort of optional intermediary step in the important business of distributing money and fringe benefits. Given how central work is to the lives of the elite, how fearful we are of losing our own careers, this belief is somewhat inexplicable. It’s also politically suicidal, as the current moment now shows us.

True.

Related: The 89% Pay Cut That Brought Trump-Mania to America’s Heartland. Note that the lost US jobs were replaced by $1.75/hour Mexican jobs. The Mexicans like it, but it’s part of everything getting smeared around to what a Pakistani bricklayer would consider prosperity, to use Neal Stephenson’s evocative phrase.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How Many Women Have Breast Implants?

IMPACT, VISUALIZED: Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines.

WHO NEEDS ANGIE’S LIST? The One-Year Anniversary Sale on Amazon Home Services.

Plus, savings on Levi’s Jeans for men and women.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Unicorn Found in Siberia! Will Flying Pigs Be Next?

Insert obligatory BHO as Unicorn Rider jokes here.

RIP PATTY DUKE, 69: Her press representative’s statement, as quoted by USA Today, indicated that Duke’s “cause of death was sepsis from a ruptured intestine.”

I came pretty close to having a ruptured colon while on vacation in the Caribbean in 2013, learning the hard way that a colonoscopy is a very good thing. If you need help summoning the courage for the procedure, let Dave Barry help.

MICHELLE FIELDS UPDATE: Police Release Video Showing Trump Campaign Director Grabbed Fields.

IN WISCONSIN, ANTI-TRUMP DISORDER RAGES ON:

Trump is speaking at the hotel at 4 p.m. today, and the protesters attempted to occupy the place at 6:30 p.m. It seems as though part of the “professional” tactic is to intimidate any private business that might want to rent a venue to the Trump campaign.

LawProf John Banzhaf’s suggestion to sue the protesters and their financial backers is looking better and better. And wouldn’t discovery be interesting?

WHY I LOVE KNOXVILLE:

JAZZ SHAW: Is Our Best Century Behind Us? I don’t think so, but I can see why people might.

WHY ARE DEMOCRATS SO RACIST? Harry Reid accused of telling candidate to stand down because “a Muslim can’t win.”

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Nanotechnologies to advance solar energy utilization.

GIVEN THAT NEW HAVEN IS YALE’S BIGGEST NEGATIVE, THIS MAKES SENSE: Florida Gov. Rick Scott To Yale: Move To Florida, We Won’t Tax You! “Gov. Rick Scott of Florida saw opportunity in the Connecticut legislature’s proposal to levy a tax on income from Yale University’s enormous endowment. On Tuesday, the Republican issued a statement calling on the Ivy League institution to pick up stakes and move on down to sunny Florida.”

DEALS ON Lightning cables for Apple Devices.

WHEN I WAS IN LAW SCHOOL, WE DROVE TO FREEPORT ONE NIGHT AND HAD OUR PICTURE TAKEN IN FRONT OF THE CANOES AT 3 AM: The Never-Ending Greatness of L.L. Bean’s Boots.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Tiger Moms Hinder the Development of Children’s Imaginations.

DISCRIMINATION: Why Short Men Come Up Short.

BASED ON THEIR PAST PERFORMANCE, I CAN’T SAY I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO IRAN’S NEXT BIG EXPORT.

IF ONLY THE LEFT FOUGHT THE WAR ON TERROR WITH AS MUCH FEROCITY AS THEIR WAR ON BATHROOMS: NBA’s Threatening North Carolina Is Textbook Cultural Cronyism.

Related: Yugoslavia’s Warning to America.

GOOD LUCK WITH THAT FOR THE NEXT YEAR OR FIVE: Regarding Terrorism, It’s Time to Take Off the PC Gloves and Fight.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: How PC culture is killing higher education: Universities like Emory trivialize education by rewarding politically correct student dictators.