“FORBIDDEN-WORD” LISTS ARE A SYMPTOM OF ADMINISTRATIVE BLOAT. “Rather than referring to the ‘low income and poor,’ the site advises, we should speak of “people whose self-reported income was in the lowest income bracket.” Way to go, phoney-baloney jobs people–that “self-reported” part just makes them sound like they are tax-dodgers. With a special appearance by Frederick Douglass(?!) as the first “Tarheel.”

A GREAT SUMMARY FOR LAYMEN OF THE SCOTUS ARGUMENTS OVER STUDENT LOANS. At this point, these interminable standing arguments are just enablers of government corruption.

How about this student loan plan: 1. Capitalize the schools to loan enough money for 4 years of student loans. 2. No selling the loan notes – let them loan the money and collect it. The end. What do you wanna bet that college suddenly gets rigorous and cheap?

FORMER GOVERNOR JIM MARTIN: N.C. NEEDS MORE NUCLEAR. Amen. (And don’t accuse me of NIMBY–I live near the pictured nuclear plant.)

As an aside, a retired engineer I know who worked for a major supplier to the nuclear industry told me it’s an open secret that the U.S. Northeast in particular would absolutely collapse without nuclear, even while the region’s Democrat pols frequently grandstand against it and for “renewables.”

‘HOW RENEGADE INVESTORS SPARKED A REVOLT AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY.’ Paper Belt on Fire tells the story of starting a venture capital firm based on getting “innovative kids to bypass college and develop their ideas”–and doing pretty well with it.

THE WAGES OF DEI AT TEXAS A&M. Tar. Feathers.

‘SCIENCE’: FILTERING REALITY THROUGH BELIEF. Apparently even zookeepers have to be politically correct nowadays: “Zookeepers have to manage the reality of animal aggression, even as they hate to acknowledge it. Zookeepers are eager to protect their animals, which puts them in the awkward position of taking precautions but not wanting to say why.” I learn something new every day.

HEATHER MAC DONALD: NEW METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART EXHIBIT CULTIVATES RACIAL RESENTMENT. You’ll never guess which one of these the Met scorns as a racist depiction of black people:

Update: Uhh, don’t look for pics of the back of that first one if you are at work.

HOW COLLEGE ADMISSIONS ACTUALLY WORKS. Prove him wrong! (Protip: You can’t.)

THE CASE AGAINST COLLEGE ADMISSIONS SELECTIVITY. I did not expect this to make such a good case. I am not sure if I remain unpersuaded because it’s unpersuasive or just because I am insufficiently open-minded on the issue.

As a counterpoint, Mark Bauerlein (one of the new trustees at the New College of Florida) makes the case for selectivity, but of the traditional kind, not what colleges practice now.

I’LL START BELIEVING IT’S A CRISIS WHEN THEY START ACTING LIKE IT’S A CRISIS. If Biden did indeed order the Nord Stream pipelines blown up, that means he chose to cause greenhouse emissions equivalent to burning 5 billion gallons of gasoline. But by all means, ban my SUV.

HOW MUCH MUST COURTS BLIND THEMSELVES TO ANTI-MALE DISCRIMINATION IN TITLE IX HEARINGS? In a Seventh Circuit amicus brief, FIRE and I argue that it’s way less than the district court judge in Doe v. Loyola University Chicago thought.

APP STATE’S MAGICAL VANISHING DEI COMMITTEE. Nothing to hide here, no sir. It’s all on the up-and-up.

CHINA CLAIMS BALLOON OVER U.S. IS… A WEATHER BALLOON. When Chinese soldiers jump out and start probing Midwestern farmers, I assume that will only further confirm the claim.

We deserve a better class of cover-up.

SOCIAL JUSTICE RESTRICTIONS ON RESEARCH HARM ALL OF US. Implemented to prevent another Tuskeegee Experiment, they now restrict things like outcomes that might “stigmatize,” even if helpful. But at least they prevent widespread and dangerous medical experimentation on people…. right?

SCHOOLS SHOULD THINK TWICE BEFORE PUNISHING FACULTY FOR THEIR SPEECH. Though it’s increasingly important that they stop being able to stick taxpayers with the bill for their expensive virtue-signaling (at Auburn, to the tune of $645,837).

“BREAKING: SECRET POPE BENEDICT BOOK IS PUBLISHED BLASTING PROGRESSIVE POPE FRANCIS, REVEALS US CATHOLIC SEMINARIES ARE HAVENS OF ‘GAY CLUBS.'” Whoa.

JAMIE LEE CURTIS REMOVES TWEET SHOWING OFF WEIRDO NAKED KID ART. You don’t need a pizza-related map to know that we need a total and complete shutdown of the elite fascination with creepy sexualized art (often involving kids) until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.

WILL AI AND CHATGPT CHANGE HIGHER ED FOR THE BETTER? Maybe not in the way you think.

‘APPLE HAS BEGUN SCANNING YOUR LOCAL IMAGE FILES WITHOUT CONSENT.’ I hope this guy’s mistaken, because I am close to 100% certain that the “child porn” for which claim they are scanning includes pictures like this…

…selected by people like this:

BOYS AND MEN NEED BETTER EDUCATIONAL POLICIES. 

TITLE IX ABUSE IS BACK ON THE MENU, BOYS! And I do mean boys. And men. Also it never really stopped, but the Trump/DeVos regs did slow it down.

GARLAND APPOINTS SPECIAL COUNSEL TO INVESTIGATE BIDEN CLASSIFIED DOCS. Welp, that’s what happens when you showboat to get bad orange man.

With both Biden and Trump, this almost certainly has way more to do with the government being addicted to secrecy and classifying everything in sight than it does with “muh nuclear codes!!”

RIPPED OFF BY THE THOUGHT POLICE. The Twitter Files show how censorship’s supporters got snookered.

OBJECTIVITY MUST BE DEFEATED. UNC is still “waiving” standardized testing until 2025. Because COVID. Must be the SR-71-X-AE-A10.5 strain I have been hearing about.

HOW’S THAT CENSORSHIP WORKING OUT FOR YOU, BRAZIL? Glenn Greenwald on about the Brazilian supreme court’s authoritarianism over speech, with 10 members of its Congress banned from social media by order of the court. Meanwhile, Brazilians made January 8 of this year a real version of what everyone pretends January 6, 2021, was in D.C. It’s almost like people think a government that silences its opponents lacks legitimacy!

Now, if you want to be really scared, consider that it’s quite possible that Trump will run under these conditions in 2024, with the connivance of (if probably not at the order of) the federal government.