DOCTORS WITH BORDERS: The Divide between Physicians and Advanced Practice Registered Nurses.

WELL, YES: Johnston: Like All Free People, Israelis Need Second Amendment Rights.

GRAMSCIAN DAMAGE: If you want to know how we got here, read this essay by Eric S. Raymond.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Optimizing Your Home-Defense Handgun.

GOOD: Billionaire philanthropists leave Harvard board, scorch leadership over campus support for terrorism.

I’VE BLOGGED THIS IN THE PAST, but you can send a pizza to IDF soldiers at this link. (Or even sandwiches to an entire platoon.) Thanks to Mike Williamson for the reminder.

WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: Eating spicy food probably won’t hurt you in the long run.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: My computer science classes were too slow, so I dropped out to focus on my AI startup. Even my dad agreed.

JEFF GOLDSTEIN: How Dare Jew? Reflections on the collapse of the liberal order.

Understand this: Hamas and it’s supported aren’t engaged in a land dispute, or protesting “imperialism” or “colonialism.” Hamas is transparent in its aims: to wipe every last Jew off the face of the earth.*. Secular leftwing Jews who back every leftist cause, from BLM to “trans affirmation” to “Palestinian rights” — the cream of the self-haters and the sickeningly needy pleasers — will be killed with the same alacrity as Israeli soldiers, if Hamas and its supporters can manage it. They’ll slaughter babies and desecrate their tiny bodies; they’ll “dirty” women — raping them repeatedly — before torturing and killing them; they’ll execute any and all Jews whenever possible — and they’ll film and exhibit their barbarism while “innocent civilians” in Gaza celebrate, hand out sweets, attend mosques where the message is always the same: annihilate and exterminate every last Jew.

This is who and what they are — and the leftists and university activists and waffling media outlets and “world leaders” who sympathize with this animal behavior are complicit in it.

True.

PEOPLE ARE BEGINNING TO NOTICE THAT HIGHER EDUCATION HAS BECOME A TOXIC INDUSTRY.

For decades cowardly college administrators have enabled our universities to become nests of Anti-American/Anti-Western activism.

This week student groups at our most “elite” universities signed their names to proclamations siding with savages who murdered & mutilated babies…

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) October 13, 2023

LET’S HOPE THE MALARIA VACCINES WORK WELL: Endemic malaria found in high, dry northwestern Kenya.

I SELDOM SEE ANYONE WITH ACNE ANYMORE: Women with acne face social stigma. But I’m pretty sure that men with acne face social disadvantages too.

TOO BAD THE SCRUTINY DIDN’T HAPPEN BEFORE, SINCE IT’S ALWAYS BEEN OBVIOUS: Hamas Attack on Israel Brings New Scrutiny of Group’s Ties to Iran.

TO BE FAIR, THAT’S THE GOAL: ‘Decolonization’ Inevitably Leads to Barbarism.

IT’S MOSTLY HAVING THE GENES OF LONG-LIVED ANCESTORS: The Secret to Living to 100? It’s Not Good Habits.

I AGREE — GIVE GAZA BACK TO EGYPT! Professors champion Palestinian ‘decolonization’ after Hamas terror.

The Egyptians won’t take it back, though — and if they did, there would be thousands of disappearances and executions as part of the pacification project.

THERE SHOULD BE CONSEQUENCES FOR THIS CORRUPTION AND MALFEASANCE: Rand Paul: Everything Fauci And His Cohorts Were Saying Publicly, They Were Saying The Opposite Privately.

“Everything that Anthony Fauci and his cohorts, these other virologists were saying publicly, they were saying the opposite privately,” Paul said. “Then it turns out that many of the people that were appointed to be part of this all had quiet interests that they weren’t willing to reveal. Including Anthony Fauci. When I asked him directly under oath whether or not he was receiving royalties from any of the companies manufacturing vaccines, he refused to answer. When I asked him whether anybody on the committee was receiving royalties he lashed out and accused me of something but would never answer the question.”

“So there really are some big, big questions and some reforms that should be obvious to everybody,” Paul said. “You shouldn’t be allowed to be voting on a committee if you’re receiving money from the companies that are going to make billions of dollars because of your decision. We have uncovered a lot of conflicts of interest here. There’s much to be done. I’ve referred Anthony Fauci twice for criminal prosecution by the Department of Justice. As you know, Merrick Garland will probably not go down in history as the most objective of Attorneys General. So I don’t have much luck. But other than prosecuting Anthony Fauci, it is important to remember that the truth be told and that people see the evidence laid out as that this virus did come from a lab. It came from gain of function research that we were funding, that Anthony Fauci was funded.”

Severe consequences.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘Mission Accomplished’: UC Santa Cruz gave DEI fellowship to pro-Hamas scholar who ‘liked’ terrorist attacks.

A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Congressman Fire Alarm faces ethics complaint.

FROM CHEERING FOR RAPE AND BABY-MURDER TO PANIC: Panic Grips Gaza as Israel Calls for 1.1 Million People to Evacuate.

Why doesn’t neighboring Arab country Egypt open the gates and let them through? People seem to forget that Egypt has a (basically closed) border with Gaza. Where are the Egyptians’ humanitarian instincts?

UH OH:

The US Army and US Marines are running ads featuring white males again all of a sudden.

I think this means we are definitely going to war.

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) October 12, 2023

Follow up: “They all looked heterosexual and fit. It was weird.” (Bumped).

IF IT WEREN’T DONE BY AN APPROVED PROTEST GROUP, IT WOULD BE “INSURRECTION” WITH SOLITARY CONFINEMENT ALL AROUND: Pete Buttigieg chased off the stage by climate protesters.

As I was playing that video out loud, Meade said, “Why doesn’t a Cabinet Secretary have better security?” And that made me think perhaps the interruption was considered desirable — by Buttigieg, by the Biden administration/campaign. It isn’t hard to generate ideas about why getting interrupted by extreme and rude climate activists might be advantageous.

And yet Buttigieg’s response was so weak. . . . If the interruption had been anticipated, Buttigieg should have been prepared.

Well, Pete Buttigieg.

IT’S WHO THEY ARE, IT’S WHAT THEY DO: Michelle Goldberg: The leftist impulse to justify Hamas’ attack on Israel is pretty disturbing. “If you’re a left wing Jew watching your friends celebrate mass murder this week then you have my sympathy, but the case that you were naïve is pretty self-evident at this point. It’s not like the sympathies of the Squad or the leaders of the Women’s March or various BDS campus group have been a closely guarded secret.”

CONSENSUS: MTG, Don Jr. Agree, ‘Buy Ammo’ to counter ‘Day of Rage.’

FLASHBACK: The CDC, Colombian Hookers, the Secret Service, and Ebola: Reasons why Americans don’t trust institutions. “The White House played favorites in the investigation. Nepotism in hiring is one thing. Favoritism is another, perhaps worse, sin, particularly when the investigation and punishment reek of elitism.”

Now that’s the norm, of course.