LIFE IN 2016: 200 Audience Members Walk Out On Amy Schumer After She Attacks Trump.

IT’S ON: Chelsea Clinton, Bernie Sanders to go to Arizona.

Related: “If the presidential race in Arizona is close, Native Americans could throw it to Clinton.”

More: “I think he’s going to lose Arizona,” said Matthew Benson, a Republican state operative and former senior aide to Gov. Jan Brewer. “Barring something unforeseen, Trump is going to lose Arizona, and you’re still not seeing the type of activity you’d expect to see if he expects to save it.”

If there’s anything to these stories, Trump could be in worse trouble than McCain was after he “suspended” his campaign to return to Washington to get publicly rolled by Pelosi, Reid, and Obama.

NEWS YOUR DM CAN USE: Practical Advice On Running a Mash-Up RPG Campaign.

No, not that kind of M*A*S*H, though it certainly would be fun to send your wounded paladins and rangers for surgery at the four-oh-double-natural.

STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: NASA’s Juno spacecraft changes plans after engine troubles.

COULD SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS RUIN YOUR TECH COMPANY? The Insta-Wife reviews Jeb Kinnison’s Death By HR.

PRICE CUTS ON THE Chevy Camaro.

OH, CANADA: SJW Seeks Canadian Court Order Banning Cleveland Indians Logo and NAME at MLB Playoff Games.

So, second look at Jonah Goldberg’s modest proposal to finally resolve squabbles with our hyper-blue 51st state?

GEORGE KORDA: Should Donald Trump get out of the presidential race, or stay in?

EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: 32 Percent of Millennials Who Believe George W. Bush Killed More People Than Stalin.

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation released its first “Annual Report on U.S. Attitudes Towards Socialism” Monday. The survey showed a distinct generation gap regarding beliefs about socialism and communism between older and younger Americans.

For example, 80 percent of baby boomers and 91 percent of elderly Americans believe that communism was and still is a problem in the world today, while just 55 percent of millennials say the same.

Just 37 percent of millennials had a “very unfavorable” view of communism, compared to 57 percent of Americans overall. Close to half (45 percent) of Americans aged 16 to 20 said they would vote for a socialist, and 21 percent would vote for a communist.

When asked their opinion of capitalism, 64 percent of Americans over the age of 65 said they viewed it favorably, compared to just 42 percent of millennials.

The survey also revealed a general lack of historical knowledge, especially among young adults. According to the report, one-third (32 percent) of millennials believed that more people were killed under George W. Bush than under Joseph Stalin.

We have a brand new Lost Generation without a shot being fired.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Universities Are Churning Out the Next Generation of Higher Ed Bureaucrats.

The number of non-academic administrators at colleges and universities has more than doubled in the last 25 years, far outpacing the growth in students and faculty. According to a report from the American Institutes for Research, between 2000 and 2012 the average ratio of full-time faculty and staff per administrator declined 40 percent, to around 2.5 to 1.

Today, there’s an administrative position for everything: marketing, diversity, disability services, sustainability, environmental health, recruiting, technology, fundraising, and so on and so forth. Every year universities seem to find a “need” for new administrators, and each one brings a host of new lower-level staff positions. This trend has resulted in a vast bureaucracy living “high on the hog” at taxpayer expense. Perhaps equally troubling is that it also has resulted in the creation of advanced degree programs aimed at churning out university administrators.

During a period in which many universities are experiencing budget shortfalls and enrollment stagnation, and advanced degree holders in more scholarly fields are working as adjunct professors and underemployed, the rise of higher education administration degree programs should come as a shock to university leaders and to taxpayers. Universities exist to transmit knowledge to new generations and to create new knowledge through research, not to create an army of bureaucrats who have little or no connection to improving student learning, and who enter the profession imbued with the social justice mindset (more on that later).

Several hundred universities now offer programs specifically tailored to train the next generation of orientation directors and student affairs specialists. Students interested in entry-level positions in higher education administration, such as dorm manager and diversity coordinator, typically pursue a master’s degree.

By, of, and for the educrats. Faculty are increasingly an afterthought. Sadly, I was talking to a close friend from another school this weekend, and he was remarking that if his outside income keeps doing well, he might retire early. He’d always thought he’d never retire, but although he still likes the teaching, the administrative hassles are making the job much less enjoyable. Of course, the educrats won’t mind. Since they see faculty as interchangeable units of production, they’d be happy to lose a distinguished full professor, replace him with cheap, underpaid adjuncts — and have more money for educrat travel and conferences.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON ON A POSTMODERN NFL: “The NFL has a long history of insisting that all political messaging and behavior remain taboo and absent from the turf, from expressing support for fallen police to patriotic demonstrations. Nothing enrages Americans more than the combination of sanctimony with rank hypocrisy. No matter. The postmodern NFL and media narrative can remain — for now. But there is no such thing as postmodern ratings, audience share — and money. When the last of these runs out, Kaepernick’s idealistic teammates will see that their contracts reflect their principles.”

ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO MISS: An Insta-reader catches an unintentionally ironic juxtaposition by the New York Times on its front page today:

According to the DNC-MSM, fascism is forever descending upon the American right, but it always seems to land rather far left of the target, to paraphrase Tom Wolfe.

2016, MAN:

Scientists are testing "methane backpacks" on cows as a way to reduce emissions https://t.co/mi2Q0H68um pic.twitter.com/UHgSia1czt

— Bloomberg (@business) October 17, 2016

ANDREW MCCARTHY: The Problem Is Not the Presidential Candidates.

We should always be on guard against presentism, but in this instance I do not hesitate to say that the upcoming presidential election is the most alarming in American history. I can make that statement with confidence because I do not believe the most disturbing aspect of the election is the choice of candidates – even though the two major party nominees present the worst choice the American people have faced in my lifetime (Eisenhower was president when I was born), and perhaps ever.

The reason this is such a frightening election is that the Constitution’s mechanisms for reining in or ousting a rogue president are in tatters.

Read the whole thing.

YOU STAY CLASSY, LIZ WARREN: Trump’s a ‘selfish little sleaze ball’

Speaking of selfish, Warren “got paid $350,000 to teach just one class at Harvard,” despite that school’s crushing tuition costs.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1257.

GREAT MOMENTS IN GASLIGHTING: CNN’s Brian Stelter: It’s ‘False’ and ‘Ludicrous’ that the Media Colluded with Clinton Campaign.

Wow, where would the public get the wacky, kooky notion that CNN was colluding with the Democrats?

Related: Naturally, CNN’s parent company is one of Hillary Clinton’s biggest donors.

UPDATE: “CNN’s Chris Cuomo told viewers it is illegal for them to possess emails leaked by the website WikiLeaks, and as a result they could not read them and had to rely entirely on the media to learn about their content…Even if downloading the emails were illegal, that is totally irrelevant in this case, because nobody has to download the WikiLeaks emails in order to read them. They’re all freely available to read on a website anybody can access.”

But Cuomo’s remarks dovetail perfectly with Iowahawk’s observation that “Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving,” and Jim Treacher’s line that in the 21st century, the profession “is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn’t know because they might reflect badly on Democrats.”

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Japan May Ramp Up Missile Defense In Wake Of North Korea Rocket Tests.

LAW ENFORCEMENT IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: Feds Walk Into A Building. Demand Everyone’s Fingerprints To Open Phones.

THE IMPORTANT LESSONS WE’VE LEARNED FROM TRUMP’S CHAOTIC RUN:

1) No experience required . . . In the matchup of neophyte Sen. Barack Obama against the polymorphously experienced Sen. John McCain in 2008, Obama’s thin résumé was shrugged off by the voters, thanks in part to a complicit media that preferred to cast Obama as refreshing rather than underqualified. In 2016, though, a businessman with no political or military experience whatsoever has a shot at being elected president. Trump would be the first person never to have been either a military leader or a political officeholder ever to attain the presidency — and he turned this startling lack of engagement with the political system into an asset in a year when voters felt alienated from Washington. The idea that a true outsider could capture the White House no longer looks at all far-fetched. Some other business leader or celebrity could be a viable candidate in 2020.

2). . . but character still matters. One huge advantage held by professional politicians is that they’ve already been vetted, faced opposition research. Trump, despite having been a public figure for more than 30 years, never faced the same scrutiny, as we learned in the dizzying final weeks of the campaign. Why? Because it was never in anyone’s direct interest to take him on. If he had run for any significant lower office, the resources of a political party would have been focused on destroying him by digging up dirt from his past. Any public figure with skeletons in his closet should assume they will be not only found but fetishized.

But only if he’s a Republican.

SO MUCH FOR “PEAK OIL:” At Long Last, Kashagan Comes Back Online.

It’s a moment 16 years and more than $50 billion in the making: Kazakhstan’s shallow-water Kashagan oil and gas project just exported its first commercial cargoes of oil. . . .

It’s been a long road to this point. Kashagan has been a nightmare for its investors, coming in more than $30 billion over budget and more than a decade behind schedule, but the important thing is that, at long last, the crude is starting to flow.

From a producers’ standpoint, though, the timing couldn’t be worse. The operators of the Kashagan field won’t be happy that their product is being sold for less than half of what it would’ve fetched three summers back (when the project should have been off the ground). Likewise, petrostate producers like Saudi Arabia and Russia will be loathe to see yet another source of supply coming online, just as they’re working putting the final touches on a deal that would see OPEC reduce its overall output and have Moscow potentially freeze its production levels.

While these oil-soaked regimes struggle with the effects the global oil glut is having on their state budgets, suppliers elsewhere are busy fighting for their own share of the crowded market. We’re living in a time of extraordinary hydrocarbon abundance—so much for “peak oil.”

I remember when lefties greeted any expressed doubts about “peak oil” with their trademark combination of shock and outrage, followed by assertions that you were a shill for Exxon or something.

COUNTERESPIONAGE: Bank accounts of Russian state broadcaster Russia Today are FROZEN in the UK.

Margarita Simonyan, 36, editor of the Kremlin-funded 24-hour television news network, tweeted this morning: ‘Our accounts in the UK have been closed. All accounts. “The decision is not subject to revision”. Long live freedom of speech!’

RT published a letter it claimed to have been sent by NatWest, which said: ‘We have recently undertaken a review of your banking arrangements with us.’

The letter – said to have been sent to the channel’s offices at the Millbank Tower in Westminster – added that the bank had ‘reached the conclusion that we will no longer provide these facilities’.

The bank said in the note dated last Wednesday that the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, of which NatWest is part, would not service RT – and that this was final.

The watchdog Ofcom has ruled against RT in the past over what it said were a series of biased or misleading shows on Syria and Ukraine that flouted broadcasting codes.

Almost anything — or almost anyone — appearing on RT ought to be suspect.

MINDY KALING’S FAMILY FEUD EXPOSES AMERICA’S CULTURAL DIVIDE, Naomi Schaefer Riley writes:

Mindy wanted a career in entertainment. Vijay wanted to become a doctor like his mother. But upon realizing how hard it was, he tried another route. He saw that a friend of his from a similar ethnic and educational background did not get into a single medical school. So he decided to pretend he was African-American.

Despite mediocre grades and board scores, he was interviewed by 11 of the 14 elite medical schools he applied to and was admitted to one. Though he made no claim to be disadvantaged — admissions committees were aware that his parents were well-off professionals, that he went to expensive schools and that he needed no financial aid — he was treated like someone who needed a leg up in life merely because he was black.

When the truth came out, critics jumped on Chokal-Ingam. Writing for CNN, Jeff Yang called the ploy “offensive.” The Daily Beast’s Stereo Williams says it is “insulting to what black people endure in this country, both institutionally and culturally.” Writing at Yahoo News, Jamilah King says, “What makes Chokal-Ingam’s argument especially hard to stomach is that it diminishes the hardships faced by black medical-school students and doctors.”

However ham-handed you find his bait-and-switch and the resulting memoir, the truth is that Chokal-Ingam said something perfectly obvious about affirmative action. When you give preference to one racial group, you take away something from another. Which is why so many South and East Asians are denied admissions to good universities across the country — when they are more qualified than the kids who do get in. According to “No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal,” a book by two Princeton professors released in 2009, an Asian-American student must score 450 points higher on the combined math and verbal sections of the SAT to have the same chance of being admitted to an elite university as an African-American applicant.

But Chokal-Ingam is supposed to be ashamed of saying this aloud. Uttering racial truths in 21st century America is simply verboten.

Charles Murray, call your office.

GOOD LORD: Man beats Chicago police officer who refused to shoot him for fear of public backlash, rips out her hair as other cops Tase him.