PROF. JACOBSON: The zero-tolerance war on kindergarteners: Even talking about Bubble and Nerf guns gets punished. My USA Today column for this week will discuss this. It’s a case of religious fanatics having taken over the schools.

CHANGE: Lousiana State Senator Switches Party, First Black Republican in Legislature Since Reconstruction.

TECHNOLOGY: The Rise Of The Hookup App.

LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: “I feel like I’m working really hard,” he says, “but I’m not getting ahead.”

AMY ALKON ON BLOGTALK RADIO interviews Helen about her new book, Men On Strike.

BARRY RUBIN: Massive Demonstrations Shake Turkey.

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Dallas District Attorney Under Fire: “The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into allegations the Democratic district attorney for Dallas abused the power of his office by filing a fraud lawsuit to benefit a campaign contributor. The investigation concerns accusations that Dallas County DA Craig Watkins filed a mortgage fraud lawsuit against Albert Hill III in order to benefit Lisa Blue, a Dallas trial lawyer who is one of Watkins’ campaign contributors, the Wall Street Journal reports.”

GENDER INJUSTICE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: Providence College student: What a difference the sex of the sex perp makes.

OFTEN FORGOTTEN IN ESTATE PLANNING: Online Passwords.

AT AMAZON, markdowns for men in Clothing, Shoes & Accessories.

DRAW! The Smoky Mountain Shootist Society Brings an Entirely Different Sort of Re-Enactment to East Tennessee. “Once a month, a large group of armed men, and quite a few armed women, converge on a hilly area near Oak Ridge and start blasting away. Some coolly chew tobacco or smoke brown cheroots. Six-shooters blazing, they have it out.”

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: According to a recent Gallup poll, cheating on your spouse is the most morally reprehensible thing a person can do. “Americans view cheating as being worse than cloning humans, polygamy, suicide, abortion, cloning animals, taking birth control, homosexuality and divorce.” What about, I dunno, rape and murder and stuff.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: You Shouldn’t Have Sex While Driving. Yeah, but who hasn’t?

HEH: The tax man danceth? Line dance video complicates IRS defense.

As I say, you can kill two birds with one stone: Punish them for the political-targeting shenanigans by zeroing out the budget for conferences and entertainment.

AT AMAZON, bestsellers in Science Fiction.

CORNELIUS VANDERBILT’S censored anti-Nazi film. “Vanderbilt’s documentary might well be the first American anti-Nazi film, but its contemporary reception speaks volumes about how criticism of the new Nazi regime was suppressed in the mid-thirties; the film was censored across the U.S., denied a license, and banned.”

Hard to believe that U.S. authorities would have censored speech against a country and an ideology that, less than a decade later, was our biggest enemy.

COOL PIC: Cockpit view as Marines F-18 fires live missile. Click on the image to see it full-size.

GREG GUTFELD: THE GROUNDING OF BIG GOVERNMENT. “Nevermind the appeasers–the IRS scandal IS a big deal. It’s such a big deal, it could ruin the agency forever, and take a few others down with it. And sure, it’s a lot of fun on the right to be clamoring for scalps–like, who should be fired and how many. But pink slips are small potatoes. The end game is way, way bigger than that stuff. What we are witnessing is a collapse of trust in big government, which ultimately–to our benefit as small-government types–leads to a permanent undermining of the whole system.”

Or as Peggy Noonan said: “What does it mean when half the country—literally half the country—understands that the revenue-gathering arm of its federal government is politically corrupt, sees them as targets, and will shoot at them if they try to raise their heads? That is the kind of thing that can kill a country, letting half its citizens believe that they no longer have full political rights.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Law Graduate Overproduction and Lawyers Per Capita by State.

TOOLS: Phone app places gun-free zones in crosshairs.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Recovery in US incomes weakest in a half century.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 24.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Is Technology Ruining Dating?

WELL, SO FAR, MAYBE: Eric Holder’s Worst Week Ever?

KINDA COOL: Here’s what Pangea looks like mapped with modern political borders.