YOUR BASE IS WHO YOU PANDER TO:

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:

(Also, eschew all modalities of cocksuredness.)

FROM MARY CATELLI:  Writing and Reflections Volume 3: Essays on the Writing Process from World-Building to Words.

Reflections on the many and far-flung fields that writing can touch upon, from original inspiration to the final work.

Magic and science. Talking birds and cats. Ideas and their origins. Magic, in schools, on the battlefield, and whether it is evil. Fairy tales. Exposition. Utopias. Wandering heroes in series. Wicked stepmothers and their motives. And more.

THE BIGGEST SIGN WE HAVE THAT THE DEMOCRATS AREN’T SURE OF WOMEN IS THE IMPORTANCE GIVEN THE CLANCY CASE AND THE CORNELL CASE:  About That Night in Cornell.

Third, the timing of the claim is suspicious. I know her suit was technically filed in September, but coming as it does shortly before an election it qualifies as an “October Surprise.”

When I make this observation, I get criticized because the politicians who have shown the most interest in the case are Democrats running for office in deep-blue New York, and they are hardly in danger of losing their respective elections.

I think the critics miss the point. The timing and sensational nature of the claims about this case made by leftist pols force every other politician to take a public position on the case. No politician, even one cruising to re-election, wants to be seen equivocating on an issue like rape.

Now, it seems to have been mostly dropped, so it didn’t work. I’m almost in fear of what they come up with next to make women fall in line at the polls. Any bets? I hope it doesn’t involve a pregnant woman getting shot (by the police of maybe ICE) as is the old trick of communists everywhere.

SETTING AN EXAMPLE: Fort Hood Shooter’s Execution Will Be Public and Streamed Live, Pentagon Says.

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UPDATE: I would not lose sleep over impalement, drawing and quartering, or burning alive.

The real injustice is that it took so many years.

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

DECLINE IS A CHOICE AND NYC HAS MADE IT: