HYPOCRITE, NAILED: ‘Saint Bono’ the anti-poverty campaigner facing huge Glastonbury protest – for avoiding tax.

Taxes are for the little people.

DAN MILLER: How Low Can Higher Ed Go? “Higher education should build upon solid learning foundations built from elementary to high school. Alas, the issue before us is one of damage control and course correction. Where to begin? Perhaps with teachers themselves.”

Somewhat related item here.

AT AMAZON, downloadable tunes for 69 cents.

SYRIA UPDATE: Syrian opposition: Anti-Israel rioters paid $1,000. I guess Assad is really desperate for a distraction.

EURO UPDATE: Portugal election: Socialists admit defeat.

CHUCK SIMMINS: E. Coli Infection No Stranger To New York.

THE DAILY: Weiner’s Tale Unraveling.

UPDATE: Moe Lane: What Is The Weinergate Endgame?

ANN ALTHOUSE: What is Glenn Reynolds saying about the Wisconsin protesters? By the time I read this, her commenters had already pretty well thrashed it out.

WAR AGAINST PHOTOGRAPHY, CONT’D: “Michael Segal said he was filming the protesters for a website, manchfree.com, when a police officer took his cellphone and arrested him when he inquired about how he would get it back. Segal, 25, of Coral Springs, Fla., was charged with disorderly conduct.”

And, see, when they’ve got your cellphone they’ve got your contacts and other information, too. That’s an advantage for the cheap dedicated videocams, unless you’re using the cellphone to stream the video elsewhere for safekeeping.

NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY: What Is A College Education Really Worth?

Executives at U.S. companies routinely complain about the lack of reading, writing and math skills in the recent graduates they hire. Maybe they too will get tired of using higher education as a credentialing system. Maybe it will be easier to recruit if they don’t have to be concerned about the overwhelming student debt of their new employees.

Employers may decide that there are better ways to get high school students ready for careers. What if they returned to the idea of apprenticeship, not just for shoemakers and plumbers but for white-collar jobs? College as a sorting process for talent or a way to babysit 18-year-olds is not very efficient for anyone involved. Would students rather show their SAT scores to companies and then apply for training positions where they can learn the skills they need to be successful? Maybe the companies could throw in some liberal arts courses along the way. At least they would pick the most important ones and require that students put in some serious effort. Even a 40-hour workweek would be a step up from what many students are asked to do now.

If tuition continues to rise faster than inflation, and colleges cannot provide a compelling mission for undergraduate education, we may move further away from Obama’s vision of education and closer to Peter Thiel’s.

It’s like there’s been some sort of bubble going on or something. (Via NewsAlert).

MICHAEL BARONE: Obama Tunes Out, And Business Goes On A Hiring Strike. “The signal was clear. Obama had already ignored his own deficit reduction commission in preparing his annual budget, which was later rejected 97-0 in the Senate. Now he was signaling that the time for governing was over and that he was entering campaign mode 19 months before the November 2012 election. People took notice, especially those people who decide whether to hire or not. Goldman Sachs’s Current Activity Indicator stood at 4.2 percent in March. In April — in the middle of which came Obama’s GW speech — it was 1.6 percent. For May it is 1 percent. . . . The message to job creators was clear. Hire at your own risk. Higher taxes, more burdensome regulation and crony capitalism may be here for some time to come.”

SO I WENT SHOOTING WITH SAYUNCLE and local lawyer extraordinaire John Lucas. It was a competition run by the Glock Sport Shooting Foundation, and it prized both accuracy and speed. I’m better at the former than the latter since I don’t shoot competitively, but “not bad, for a law professor” is good enough for me, especially when shooting with a special forces veteran and America’s top gunblogger. The Glock folks did a great job running it, keeping things going smoothly even though there were twice as many people this year as last year. If you like to shoot, and you’ve never tried anything like this, I recommend it.

NEWLY UNCOVERED PHOTOS of postwar Oak Ridge.

AT AMAZON, 60% off men’s pants.

WEINERGATE: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Meet Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.

SHOCKING DISCOVERY: Arab newspaper: Why, Arab dictators are worse than the Zionists!

Hey, maybe there’s hope for Andrew Klavan’s one-state solution after all.

DAFYDD AB HUGH: I like Paul Ryan, but . . .

A CIVIL RIGHTS VICTORY: Chicago Must Pay for Denying Second Amendment Rights.

WHAT A NOVEL IDEA: ‘Breastaurants’ Ring Up Big Profits. “Restauran