A NICE FOOD BLOG: For Love Of The Table.

SAVE A TRIP TO THE STORE: Bounty Paper Towels, Prints, Big Roll, 6 Count.

WORST MOM IN THE WORLD DOUBLES DOWN: Jody Allard: Why I write about my kids.

POLITICS: As Gas Prices Fall to 12-Year Low, Schumer Claims Gas Prices ‘Never Go Down.’

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DIESEL DEBACLE UPDATE: Automakers agree to clean up diesels to avoid ban in German cities.

KA-BOOM: New Poll Has Kid Rock Up By 4 Over Debbie Stabenow.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, I-TOLD-YOU-SO EDITION: In Reversal, Colleges Rein In Tuition: Prices of higher education are rising in line with inflation as enrollment stagnates.

U.S. college tuition is growing at the slowest pace in decades, following a nearly 400% rise over the past three decades that fueled middle class anxieties and a surge in student debt.

Tuition at college and graduate school—after scholarships and grants are factored in—rose 1.9% in the year through June, broadly in line with overall inflation, Labor Department figures show. By contrast from 1990 through last year, tuition grew an average 6% a year, more than double the rate of inflation. In that time, the average annual cost for a four-year private college, including living expenses, rose 161% to about $27,500, according to the College Board.

Some schools are offering more discounts and cutting prices.

Abundant supply is running up against demand constraints. The number of two-year and four-year colleges increased 33% between 1990 and 2012 to 4,726, Education Department data show. But college enrollment is down more than 4% from a peak in 2010, partly because a healthy job market means fewer people are going back to school to learn new skills.

Also because the craziness on campus has damaged higher ed’s brand. If only someone had warned them.

IN LIGHT OF THE FLORIDA DROWNING STORY, THIS BY DAVID HYMAN: Rescue Without Law: An Empirical Perspective on the Duty to Rescue.

PUSHBACK: Dear sanctuary cities: ICE is “open for business.” If I lived in a “sanctuary city,” I’d buy an ICE cap and wear it around just to spread consternation. . . .

ELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN SPEAKS TRUTH TO POWER: “You can’t rape a robot you grievance-mongering whackos.”

Flashback: Sexbots: Why Women Should Panic.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Colorado State Pueblo Settles With Student It Falsely Accused of Rape: Grant Neal’s girlfriend told school administrators repeatedly that he didn’t rape her. They expelled him anyway.

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-MONOPOLY INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF PURITANICAL COMSTOCKERY? Cosmopolitan on “16 Nonsexual Things That Are 100 Times Hotter Than Sex:”

When it comes to sex, the internet has pretty much all the porn any woman could ever ask for. But if you’re like me, you may be looking for something to get your rocks off in a totally nonsexual way. Thus, I have created a comprehensive list of things that are probably way likelier to give you an orgasm than sex.

1. Rachel Maddow telling me everything is going to be OK. I need a Rhodes scholar in a blazer to calm me down from the world’s insanity, and Rachel’s just the intersectional feminist to fit the bill.

I’m so old, I can remember when Cosmo was still actually pro-sex.

Found via Alex Griswold of the Washington Free Beacon, who tweets, “My favorite song from Sweeney Todd is the one where he realizes we all deserve a violent death.”

Earlier: Cosmo on “Why Guys Get Turned on When You Orgasm — and Why That’s a Bad Thing.” As Steve noted in March, “It’s official now — there’s nothing that a determined Third Wave feminist can’t ruin.”

IN “SEE NO EVIL?”, ORIGINAL CITY JOURNAL EDITOR MYRON MAGNET WRITES:

I went into the Thalia theater with those rosy hopes as unquestioned bedrock assumptions. I came out with such certitude shattered. If so advanced a society as Germany’s—with so glorious a past in music and philosophy, such mighty achievements in science and industry—could do this in modern times, all talk of moral progress was just wind.

* * * * * * * *

But who can deny that there are some truths that history has taught—the Copybook Headings, Rudyard Kipling calls them—that we ignore at our peril? Has not history’s recurring tale been, as Kipling cautions, that “a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome?” So beware of UN-style promises of perpetual peace through disarmament, which you’ll find will have “sold us and delivered us bound to our foe.” Beware of a sexual freedom that will end when “our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith.” Don’t believe that you can achieve “abundance for all,/ By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul,” because the eternal truth is, “If you don’t work you die.” And the truth that history teaches is that when

the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

Man is a believing animal. We live by some of those beliefs, made plausible by the labors of the good and the great to embody them, and of the wise to explain how they have created a freer, more prosperous, more just, and more fulfilling life for mankind. But other beliefs, the stock-in-trade of the world’s deluded or power-hungry demagogues and charlatans, will kill us. Our nation’s fate depends on relearning the difference.

Read the whole thing.

IGNORING THE REAL PROBLEM, FOCUSING ON DISTRACTIONS: Mail-delivery of knives to be banned under proposed UK knife law.

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: ABA Censures Texas Southern Law School Following Gender Discrimination Complaint By Associate Dean.

Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law was publicly censured and must pay $15,000 for not complying with an American Bar Association standard that prohibits schools from discriminating against faculty members. . . .

James Douglas, interim dean of Thurgood Marshall Law, denied that there is sex discrimination or sexual harassment happening at the school.

“There were people who said, ‘I think that there is sexual discrimination in the law school.’ But no one has been able to find that to be a fact. The allegation and what the ABA is critical of is that that is what some of the females believe, and because some of the females believe it, we have an obligation to deal with it,” Douglas said. “They did not find that there was any truthfulness to the allegation, just the fact that the allegations existed and we didn’t respond in a manner they though the law school should have responded.”

Sorry, fella. Once there’s a complaint of sex discrimination, you’re presumed guilty.

CULTURE DIFFERENCES ON PUTTING UP WITH THE UNSATISFACTORY:

European journalist Jessica Furseth published a smart and thoughtful piece on Curbed describing the cultural differences uncovered when she and her American partner moved into a London apartment together and found their attitudes toward domestic appliances were worlds apart.

“He went through a rite of passage that every U.S. expat must endure: an encounter with the typical British combo washer-dryer,” Furseth writes. “It appears to be a stroke of genius until you realize that the dryer part doesn’t really work—and everyone who lives here knows this.”

This last sentence encapsulates what is, to me, a fundamental difference in the British and American psyches. The frustration an American feels upon removing a poorly washed, barely-dried load from his or her UK appliance isn’t really about the laundry at all. It’s about the tension between how each culture sees the world.

Indeed.

THERE ARE LOTS OF REASONS TO AVOID THEM, IN MY OPINION: Artificial Sweeteners May Cause Weight Gain.

FLASHBACK: What if the moon landings had continued past Apollo 17? Space stations and moon bases in the 1970s and people on Mars in the 1980s. We wasted many times what that would have cost on social programs of dubious provenance and still more dubious benefits, as it turned out.

Related (From Ed): “The decision to end hardware production was made by Congress in 1967,” Rand Simberg tweeted on Thursday, adding that John M. Logsdon “recently wrote definitive history,” with his 2015 book, After Apollo? Richard Nixon and the American Space Program. “Nixon canceled 18 & 19 (latter was to free up a Saturn for Skylab), but they feared crew loss was inevitable if they continued long past 13,” Rand noted in a follow-up tweet.

SEAN SPICIER TWEETS, “NYT: ‘These people don’t commit any crimes. Also, check out our special on illegals driving without licenses.’”

One of those two links is a parody account of a powerful northeast corridor insider. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to discern which is the satire, however.

UM: Jay Leno drives the Renew cannabis car – hemp you can’t dent: The Renew’s body is made from woven hemp.

NOT MUCH THESE DAYS, APPARENTLY: Mommy, What Does Does Congress Actually Do?

Flashback: “Why aren’t bills on infrastructure, tax reform and free speech lined up [by the House and Senate leadership] like planes on a runway?,” Glenn asked in USA Today in March.

NO DUTY TO RESCUE: Ann Althouse on that Florida drowning video: “Did the boys even have the ability to rescue the man? You could die trying to rescue a person. It’s not surprising that the law doesn’t require rescue. Such a law could cause more people to die.”

They do seem like awful people. But being an awful person isn’t — and shouldn’t — be a crime. As for requiring people to call the police when they see something, well, that’s what Justine Diamond did.