#6900.  Best thing about it?  Marjorie Reynlds (from Holiday Inn!)  I need to do a Marjorie Reynolds film festival.  Holiday Inn.  Minestry of Fear (Frtiz Lang)  Time of Their Lives (Abbott and Costello.)  Monseur Beaucaire (Bob Hope, directed by George Marshall.)  and maybe No Holds Barred - William Baudine wrestling flick.

Got to 6900 pretty quick this week:  hit the VHS series and the ABC's of Death.  Not great but watchable for the genre.

Remember waaaay back to ....last week when I posted Algore's suggestion that we punish "deniers?"

They've started.

Pennsylvania Cop Charged With Homicide in Incident That Started Over Emissions Sticker

BUT OF COURSE: Hillary Doesn’t Take Questions After Speech Promising Open Relationship with Press.

I’D RATHER SEE THE MEDIA END ITS SUBSERVIENCE: Ron Fournier: 5 Ways To End Hillary Clinton’s War On The Media. Of course, as someone noted on Twitter, when Hillary said she wanted an “open relationship” what she really meant was that they would both screw other people. . . .

SO FROM THIS WE CAN TELL THAT WHATEVER WAS IN THE EMAILS WAS REALLY, TRULY AWFUL: Hillary Clinton wiped her server clean. Because it had to be something that would look worse than this. And this looks terrible.

SO WILL HILLARY BE HELD AS ACCOUNTABLE AS A BASKETBALL COACH?

U.S. Caves to Key Iranian Demands as Nuke Deal Comes Together: Limited options for Congress as Obama seeks to bypass lawmakers.

It's really getting harder and harder to tell.

FROM JONATHAN ADLER, thoughts on infants in college:

1) It’s not entirely clear how prevalent this phenomenon is. The demand for insulating students from potentially upsetting ideas does, for the moment, appears to come from a vocal minority and does not appear to have widespread support. Yet isn’t that always how these sorts of things start? And isn’t it well established that a vocal and highly motivated minority interest group can have an outsized influence on institutional policies?

2) Efforts to insulate students from challenging and even potentially offensive ideas cuts them off from the world and compromises much of the value of a traditional “liberal” education. It’s like some want to turn universities into the secular equivalents of Ave Maria Town.

3) One of the benefits of having been right-of-center in college was that my political and philosophical views were constantly challenged. There was no “safe space” — and I was better for it. I often felt that I received a better education than many of my peers precisely because I was not able to hold unchallenged assumptions or adopt unquestioned premises.

HIGHER EDUCATION UPDATE: “I’ve been in academe for about a decade now, and the only professors I’ve known who have slept with or dated students were female.”

Finally: An Anonymous, Online, Geo-Tagged System to Report Microaggressions at College!  You got that? A system to report microaggressions will lead to more reports of microaggressions. Pretty sure that's what happened in Salem during the witch-trial days.

since most of this silliness has thankfully blown over.

STARBUCKS: Where Only The Coffee Is Black! It’s not shocking at all that this lame “conversation about race” stuff is coming from an organization that’s as white as a Netroots Nation conference, an Obama campaign HQ, a New Republic alumni get-together or a Vox editorial board meeting.

The primary purpose of race-talk in America today is to allow elite whites to silence and shame non-elite whites. Thus, it’s not surprising that the people pushing it are. . . a bunch of elite whites.

ANDREW KLAVAN: Starbucks — and Why the Race Conversation Is Over.

Gore goes off the deep end, calls to ‘Punish Climate-Change Deniers’

ALTERNATIVELY, WE COULD MONITOR HOW LONG IT TAKES FOR THEM TO GET THE TAR AND FEATHERS OFF: EPA wants to monitor how long hotel guests spend in the shower.

I’M INCREASINGLY IN FAVOR OF BACKYARD TARRING-AND-FEATHERINGS THAT TARGET THE EPA: Backyard burger and wiener roasts targeted by EPA.

From the "I'll believe it's a disaster when the people telling me it's a disaster start acting like it's a disaster" dept:  While warning us of ‘rising oceans’ in SOTU, did Obama just buy a beachfront mansion?

Is it any wonder, given the sad state of our educational system and its approach to history and what passes for civics ed?

Two stories, sadly related.

I for some reason always liked C T Whitman.  Think I'm done with that now.  Christine Todd Whitman served as the governor of New Jersey and administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.  She is now an energy and environmental policy consultant. Given Whitman’s experience, you might think she is an expert in environmental law and the relationship between the federal and state governments.  Judging by Whitman’s latest op-ed in Politico, if you thought that, you would be wrong.  [Jonathan H. Adler] Yes, Gov. Whitman, states may choose which federal laws to implement

And then there's this: A POLITICAL REPORTER who is unfamiliar with the Declaration of Independence.  Illustrative of the damaging effects of Twitter.   I used to cover this regularly in several of my classes.