YOUR EDUCATION TAX DOLLARS IN ACTION:  Changes made to NYC teachers’ ‘anti-Israel’ classroom guide — but ‘damage is done’.

IT’S A NEW HOLLYWOOD ORDER (AND THEY’RE ASHAMED OF THEIR ANTECEDENTS): Hollywood’s Jewish founders knew exactly what a pogrom is. So why is its elite silent on Hamas now?

NOTHING TO LOSE BUT A MEANINGLESS DEATH:  Hero cancer patient threw himself on Hamas grenade during Israel festival massacre.

WOKE IS NOT MARKETABLE:  Victoria’s Secret offers a lesson for others.

Like all Marxism, it’s imposed from above by coercion.

“DIE” — AS THEY FIRST ACRONYMED IT BEFORE REALIZING IT WAS TOO ON THE NOSE — IS ANOTHER WORD FOR DESTROYING MERIT:  Former DEI director lays down reality on DEI.

And hiring, advancing, etc. for any reason other than merit is the death of competency, and ultimately civilization.

ON THE GOOD SIDE, THE IDIOTS AND THE MONSTERS KEEP EXPOSING THEMSELVES:  KU graduate teaching assistant union calls Israel ‘settler colonial project’.

OPEN THREAD: Saturday night’s alright for blogging.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: India tests launch escape system in step towards sending astronauts to orbit.

THE LAWFARE AGAINST TRUMP IS ELECTION INTERFERENCE THAT BIDS FAIR TO MAKE THE 2024 ELECTION ILLEGITIMATE BEFORE IT STARTS. Jonathan Turley: The Trump Gag Order Should Be Struck Down.

I’LL TAKE A HEADLINE YOU WON’T SEE IN THE NEW YORK TIMES FOR $1,000, ALEX: What is, “Palestinian terrorists bomb own hospital, lie and blame Israel.”

HOW GENDER AFFECTS IDEALS.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

Israel-Hamas war “is opening America’s eyes to how higher education has become indoctrination into a stew of bad ideas, among them the simplistic notion that the world is a binary place where everyone either an ‘Oppressor’ or ‘Oppressed’” – @BillMaher #RealTime pic.twitter.com/w9tyUbvFRz

— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) October 21, 2023

“If ignorance is a disease, Harvard Yard in the Wuhan wet market” – @BillMaher #RealTime pic.twitter.com/ReozVvO4NY

— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) October 21, 2023

More like the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a U.S. government-funded facility for producing deadly infections.

THE BLOOM IS OFF THE EV MARKET: Report: Mercedes Having Tough Time Selling EVs.

The dogs don’t like the dog food.

“WHY DID I SLEEP IN THE FACTORY SO MANY TIMES? BECAUSE IT MATTERED.” Elon Musk blasts the work-from-home crowd, saying they are ‘detached from reality.’

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Flesh-eating parasite spread by sand flies has foothold in U.S., scientists say.

READER FAVORITE: Calphalon 10-Piece Pots and Pans Set. #CommissionEarned

GOOD: Benitez’s Ruling in California Threatens Washington’s ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban, Too.

NOBODY’S FOOL: Richard Russo’s Deplorable Storytelling. Steven Malanga discusses the career and the latest novel of Richard Russo.

Among the many whose stories have increasingly been ignored by what now passes for serious fiction are America’s working classes, who have progressively struggled to find a place in the twenty-first-century economy and social order.

One happy exception is the novelist Richard Russo, who started out trying to establish a career as a professor/novelist but discovered that what really interested readers were his stories about growing up with an often-absent father in a declining upstate New York manufacturing community filled with struggling but memorable characters whom some might call “deplorables.” Russo, who won a Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, the tale of a New England mill town and its down-on-their-luck residents, has now returned with his tenth novel, Somebody’s Fool. It’s the third book in a trilogy about upstate New York’s fictional North Bath, a town that first appeared in Russo’s touching comic novel Nobody’s Fool, whose main character, the irascible yet still somehow lovable Donald “Sully” Sullivan, bears striking resemblance to the father Russo says came in and out of his life.

Read the whole thing — and Russo’s novel. If you haven’t read the earlier North Bath books, start with Nobody’s Fool, which made a great movie, too, starring Paul Newman as Sully. Another of Russo’s novels, Straight Man, a lampooning of campus culture, has been turned into “Lucky Hank,” an AMC series now on streaming platforms.

IT’S INHERITED. IF YOUR DAD DIDN’T PRODUCE SPERM, NEITHER WILL YOU. Why do some men not produce sperm? Scientists uncover one underlying reason for male infertility.

GIVEN THE RECORD OF THE LAST FEW YEARS, THAT IS NEWS. Strange phenomenon on Mars. Scientists have a clue.