BUT THEY WANT US ALL TO RENT: Research finds that renting ages you faster than smoking, obesity.

ELITE STANDARDS: Nearly 80% of Yale grades were A’s.

HMM: “On winter evenings in Rock Creek Park, strollers may observe the President of the United States wading pale and naked into the ice-clogged stream, followed by shivering members of his Cabinet.”

MAYBE AGAINST ELITE UNIVERSITIES: Students at elite universities call for ‘intifada revolution.’

THE POOL OF PEOPLE WHO WANT TO BE PROFESSORS IS VERY DEEP, SO I DON’T THINK THIS IS A HUGE LOSS: NY Times: Why Tax Prof Neil Buchanan And Other Liberal Tenured Professors Are Leaving Florida’s Public Universities.

The headliner in this story, taxprof Neil Buchanan, shows 7,649 total downloads on SSRN. By contrast, taxprof Paul Caron has 41,665. And, by way of comparison, I have 152,940. Just sayin’.

Anyway, I doubt Ron DeSantis is shedding any tears over this trend.

POLITICS IS DOWNSTREAM FROM CULTURE: ‘Lady Ballers’ Becomes ‘Biggest Launch’ In Daily Wire History. “‘Lady Ballers’ is a feature length comedy lampooning transgender ideology and the leftist push to make room for men who identify as women in women’s sports.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: How the college degree lost its value: Nearly half of US companies plan to ax Bachelor’s degree requirements – after Walmart, Accenture and IBM led the charge.

CHANGE: Foley & Lardner Is Third Law Firm To Rescind Offer To Incoming Associate Due To Anti-Israel Comments.

TRUE: The most serious problem in any organization is the one that cannot be discussed.

IT WOULD BE NICE IF THE STATE DEPARTMENT WERE PRIMARILY LOYAL TO THE UNITED STATES, AND TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION: The Colonialism Slander in the State Department and Beyond.

An organizer of the dissent cable and author of the accusation that the president whom she serves is complicit in genocide, Sylvia Yacoub is “a foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of Middle East Affairs for more than two years.” The obscene abuse of the term “genocide” to characterize Israel’s exercise of its right of self-defense is a tell-tale sign that Yacoub subscribes to the colonialism slander. Had she described the jubilantly executed atrocities and proudly proclaimed goal of the Hamas jihadists as genocide, she would have employed the term correctly.

It’s not just a matter of being misinformed. They deliberately run interference for the enemy.

TITLE IX AND THE ASSAULT ON HILLSDALE COLLEGE: The school gets no federal money, but a lawsuit seeks to rope it in because it’s a tax-exempt nonprofit.

Title IX should be repealed, or limited to its actual text, which in no way supports the absurd superstructure erected on top of it by courts and bureaucrats.

Title IX’s actual text: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

From this colleges have inserted into the dating lives of students, the social programs of fraternities, and allegedly “offensive” classroom discussion, and much more.

LIFE IN BIDEN’S AMERICA:

It’s not even worth asking “what would happen if any other group had this mob outside their restaurant”

The question is, why do we know that no one cares when Jews have lynch mobs outside our businesses? https://t.co/ZINVii78Pd

— Matthew Foldi (@MatthewFoldi) December 3, 2023

ALMOST?

It's almost as if the antiwestern coalition has ordered all its client states and 5th columnists to overload the defenses of the Pax Americana in a strategic swarm attack.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) December 3, 2023

TEN YEARS AGO, THIS WAS THE #1 ITEM ON THE ENTIRE USA TODAY SITE: Abolish the TSA.

In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the United States took a number of rapid actions. One was the passage of the Patriot Act, which I regarded as a mistake then, and which doesn’t seem much better now. Another was the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, a bureaucratic monstrosity that doesn’t seem to have done much to keep us actually, you know, safer. And another was the federal takeover of aviation security by the Transportation Security Administration, which also seems to have been a bust.

There’s now some talk about repealing or revising the Patriot Act, and the failure of the Department of Homeland Security to do much good seems pretty widely acknowledged. But it’s widely accepted — even by the Government Accountability Office — that the TSA’s army of unionized federal employees is no better, and perhaps worse, than private screeners.

Still true.

OPEN THREAD: It’s all you.

SMART, BUT KINDA EMBARRASSING FOR BLUE ORIGIN: Amazon adds Falcon 9 to multi-billion-dollar Project Kuiper launch campaign.

IT’S NICE WE’RE STILL GETTING USE OUT OF THOSE: Apollo Samples Reveal The Moon Holds Hydrogen Hurled From The Sun. But I thought we already knew that.

THAT WOULD BE NICE: Can Type 2 Diabetes Be Reversed for Good? Experts Weigh In.

READER BOOK PLUG: Enemies Among Us.

SO THAT PROBABLY MEANS THERE’S A NEW VIRUS, BASED ON RECENT HISTORY: Respiratory illnesses in China not caused by new virus, CDC director testifies.

Right? Plus: “The United Nations health agency has asked China to provide more information about the surge in respiratory illnesses, NBC News reported. Both the Chinese government and WHO have faced criticism over a lack of transparency in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Add the CDC to that list.

HMM: EPA’s Own Data Shows Only 19% of All Climate Stations Reported Warming Since 1948.

Related: UN: Okay, Maybe the Planet Isn’t Warming That Quickly.

OOPS: NHTSA Opens Investigation Into the Chevy Volt.

SKYNET SWIMS: Watch this eel robot effortlessly glide underwater.

STILL A FEW BUGS IN THE SYSTEM: Trick prompts ChatGPT to leak private data.

INDUSTRY: Car Expert Sandy Munro Estimates Tesla Can Make 250,000 to 500,000 Cybertrucks per Year.

Related: Drive by Wire and 48V Architecture in New Cybertruck. “The Tesla Cybertruck is twice as efficient as a Hummer EV.”