I thought sure I'd gained weight, but I actually am two pounds down from last week. I also got a notice from the Mall-walking group, and they're having their rewards next month. I'm a half mile from getting my t-shirt, so I guess I'd better get to it, right?

Apparently the power went out on Sunday morning. Most of what I was taping came up, except that I blew it on "24."

I'm going through old papers and mementoes. I discovered the trip to San Francisco with the Girl Scouts was October 17, 1980. I also found out we went to see the Pope (in Monterey) on September 17, 1987.

I read one Virginia Tech student's account, when he was cowering in his classroom. "We should barricade the door..." but he was too terrified to move. Finally someone did move a desk there, and it saved their lives. I couldn't believe that being too scared... oh, I'd be scared, but I would hope I'd be trying to save myself, not waiting for Someone Else to do it.

Michelle Malkin"

There's no polite way or time to say it: American college and universities have become coddle industries. Big Nanny administrators oversee speech codes, segregrated dorms, politically correct academic departments, and designated "safe spaces" to protect students selectively from hurtful (conservative) opinions—while allowing mob rule for approved leftist positions (textbook case: Columbia University's anti-Minuteman Project protesters).

Instead of teaching students to defend their beliefs, American educators shield them from vigorous intellectual debate. Instead of encouraging autonomy, our higher institutions of learning stoke passivity and conflict-avoidance.

And as the erosion of intellectual self-defense goes, so goes the erosion of physical self-defense.

The Anchoress says the same, Throw a desk, a heavy book, make him flinch...

Mark Steyn, A Culture of Passivity:

we live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are “children” if they’re serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton’s Oval Office.

A campus shooting in 2002.