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Penn State Investigation
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After busting Ohio State for trading trinkets for tattoos, the NCAA has decided it should have a look at possible pedophile perversion at Penn State.
Baby Talk
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Obama has warned that, if he is defeated, Republicans will leave you “on your own“. This is a bad thing? It is if you’r building the Nanny State.
Speaking of Change, last Thursday was Diaper Need Awareness Day in the state of Connecticut. It was a day for the diaper lobby to call attention to the needs of the diaper disadvantaged. The holiday prompted Mark Steyn to recall that the government already provides “adult baby” Stanley Thornton Jr. with income disability checks so he can wear a giant diaper, while laying around in a giant crib, under the attention of a buxom nanny. Apparently there are actual adults whose fetish for pooping their pants is now a federally recognized disability. Steyn considers this “almost too poignant an emblem of the republic at twilight”.
As usual, Homeland Security has been far ahead of the curve on this issue.
Signs of Times
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I seem to be on a red sign jag. Anyway here’s a good column from prof Hanson about occupying the the college bubble. And here’s a You Tube Howard Stern pop quiz for student protesters.
NCAA Gone Wild
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Only the NCAA could make you feel sorry for today’s self-centered elite athletes.
The self-centered ruling body of college sports made a late hit on Ohio State wide receiver DeVier Posey by adding 5 more games to an earlier suspension for trading trinkets for tattoos. The latest suspension was for earning $728 “too much” at his summer job.
Taylor Branch has a great piece in the Atlantic that shows how the NCAA wormed its way into a position to conspire with big-time college coaches, athletic directors, and presidents to deny so-called “student athletes” their property rights to the share of the wealth they help generate.
Gotcha, Granny
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When your local school district needs to pass a levy – or else, what’s the first thing they threaten to cut? The Assistant to the Associate Director of Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum Enrichment? Hell, no.
We’re All Investors Now
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Republicans used to call it tax and spend. Now it’s mostly just spend. Democrats call it investing. For all the hope and change, things have stayed pretty much the same.
I drew this in 1992. 
New Math
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The House returned from vacation to pass a $26 billion bail-out for the dues paying, campaign funding, men and women who educate our children. According to USA Today, federal workers make more than you. Teachers aren’t federal workers but neither is the city manager of Bell, California (pop 40,000). He earned even more vacation and sick time than teachers, clocking in at 28 weeks, and way more in salary – $800,000 per year! He lost his job when word got out thanks to the LA Times. Now he has to make do with a $600,000 per year pension. Bail-out for California, anyone?
Mission: Moon, Mars, Muslims
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Thought this was a parody when I first saw it. NASA chief, Charles Bolden, says Obama’s foremost charge to him is to help Muslim nations feel good about their historic contribution to science, math and engineering. Here’s the whole interview on Al Jazeera. And here’s Charles Lane in the Washington Post with more links.
Variation on the theme 
Middleman
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As President Obama signed into law the federal takeover of the student loan industry, he said he was “ending giveaways to banks” by “cutting out the middleman“. ”Middleman” Sallie Mae announced it will lay off 2500 employees.
Kid Talk
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The wing nuts demanded a congressional investigation after the president’s speech to school children. That would be President George H.W. Bush’s speech in 1991.
Fears that our future generation of social security payers would be brainwashed by President Obama’s speech this week were overstated. He told kids to study hard and stay in school.Unfortunately they’ll be staying in failing public schools in DC because the Department of Education is shutting down the popular voucher program there.