Top 10 Myths About Mass Shootings. So while our elected dimwits continue to think that passing legislation will somehow stop mass killings, they do nothing about things that are far more likely to happen to your precious child in school. Namely sexual assault/abuse by their teachers.

Statistical sampling of the student population nationwide indicates that 4.5 million students currently in grades K-12 have suffered some form of sexual abuse by an educator, and more than 3 million have experienced sexual touching or assault.

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logprof, I think, nixed my Spacehog.

So here's Baby Chaos, Ignoramus.

I liked this song immediately. If you hate it immediately, I imagine you'll always hate it. It's not one of those that "grows on you" with its complexity and subtlety. It's a nursery rhyme with amps. more...

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I'm knocking off early.

I might post a little more on The Conversation because Iowahawk and I have a back-and-forth going (sort of just ripping off our old jokes about Harry "The Searchlight Strangler" Reid), but I think I'm beat.

Enjoy some Spacehog. more...

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Over at The Conversation.

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Or, "lunged at me," as she says.

After dinner, King drove them back to his apartment where he tried to put the moves on her. “So we sat there and what can I say, he lunged,” Couric said (to the delight/horror of everyone watching probably.)

Couric explained the bizarre meet-up: “I was a whore."

Wait, I'm sorry, there was a glitch in the copy-edit function on that last sentence; she didn't say that. She said something like "I wanted to meet new people" or something. Like men 23 years her senior who just happened to have some power in her industry.

I wish I could change that bad copy-paste error but damnit, I just don't have the time.

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After having a “nice enough time,” they left the restaurant together. Noticing that King wasn’t driving towards her home, she recalled saying, “‘Larry, where are we going?’ And he said, ‘My place.’”

“I was like, 'Oh mother of god.' I was like 'Dear, Cosmo what do I do?' I was only 30, I could not figure out how to extricate myself from it.”

"So I wound up mounting him, and as I was doing so, he barked out, 'Go vagina, you're live,' like my ladynethers were some housewife from Duluth or something," she said.

Again, sorry, she doesn't say that, she says she "quickly rebuffed" his advance. Again, copy-paste error.

via @uproxx at Uproxx.com.

In related news, Larry King and Katie Couric are now "Twinsies!," I think it's called.

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Chuck's not a strong thinker.

Dealing with Iran is complicated, but President Obama’s policy on the question of whether a nuclear-armed Iran could be successfully “contained’’ – the way the Soviet Union was during the cold war – is simple.

His answer is no.

But in the weeks of preparation for his Senate confirmation hearing to be defense secretary on Thursday, either no one explained that to Chuck Hagel, Mr. ObamaÂ’s nominee for secretary of defense, or he forgot it. And so on his first outing, Mr. Hagel fell immediately into the trap that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and several other administration officials have complained about in recent years. He became the latest official to send what many inside the administration fear has been an inconsistent and confusing message to IranÂ’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, about whether the Obama administration would, if there was no other option, take military measures to prevent Iran from possessing a weapon.

“It’s somewhere between baffling and incomprehensible,” a member of Mr. Obama’s own team of advisers on Iran said on Thursday night when asked about Mr. Hagel’s stumbling performance on the question during the all-day hearing.

I'll say one thing about that -- Hagel's answer really is Obama's answer. Obama plans to allow Iran to have the bomb, and then try containment; he's lying for political reasons.

If Hagel's answer on that was incomprehensible, it's because the policy he's trying to parrot is incomprehensible. And dishonest.

The liberal New York magazine also admits Hagel stunk the joint up.

The nomination of Chuck Hagel was a giddy moment for a small cadre of intellectuals eager to shift the foreign-policy debate in general, and the Democratic Party’s foreign-policy thinking in particular, to the left. The Atlantic’s Steve Clemons, a “realist” advocating a return to Nixon-Kissinger foreign-policy-making with little regard for human rights, pounded the table for Hagel’s nomination. Peter Beinart called Hagel “the New Eisenhower” and predicted naming him “will be the greatest blow in years to the culture of timidity that dominates the Democratic foreign-policy class.” Clemons predicted the Hagel nomination would be a cakewalk: “The GOP rightly or wrongly has had its cannon blast over Susan Rice. They can’t do it twice.”

As it turned out, the Hagel nomination has been a fiasco....

Hagel repeatedly ran away from his own statements, at one point explaining that he wished he could “go back and edit that, like many of the things I’ve said, I would like to change the words and the meaning.” If he could turn back time, if he could find a way, he’d take back all the words that hurt you.

He then snarkily links Cher's "If I Could Turn Back Time." This of course is liberal bloggers' method of expressing contempt so perfect you don't even bother with a solid joke. (Actually, I guess it's my method, too.)

He not only had to correct and revise statements he had made in the past. He also kept making new statements during the hearings that required real-time renunciation. He called the Iranian government “elected, legitimate,” and when asked to clarify how this could describe a government whose election process and popular legitimacy are, to say the least, shaky...

The most embarrassing moment came when Hagel defended a policy of containing nuclear Iran, before being reminded by the incredulous (friendly!) chairman Carl Levin that this was not the administrationÂ’s policy. Hagel quickly agreed.

And you want that kind of firmness of mind and steelness of resolve in your Secretary of Defense.

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Touching, and timely. more...

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This guy's got a lot to say.

Let us heed his wisdom.

“I was trying to make the horse have a baby,” Mendoza explained. “I was thinking it would have a horseman baby.”

Artist's Conception

He added, “I ain’t going to lie, I blew a nut in the horse. I then got off the bucket and put my clothes back on and left. I promise that I have not been back over to the horse since that time."

He's also available for babysitting,
or touching your uncooked food.

Mr. Andrew Mendoza, age 29, was just nominated by Obama to be Secretary of Defense.

By the way: He intended this quote to be exculpatory. This wasn't a confession, not really. This was his attempt to convince the cops they should let him go.

Thaks to @slublog.

Sad Update: Mr. Mendoza, a starry-eyed idealist who dreamed of a world of horsemanbabies, hanged himself while being held for trespassing and indecency with a child.

We had just gotten to know him, and now he's gone! Below, a musical tribute.
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