SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET: 

GREAT MOMENTS IN EDUCATION – From Truth Revolt:  "Board members of California's Oakland Unified School District unanimously voted on Wednesday to cease suspending students for what they call "willful defiance." Those behaviors can include swearing/yelling at teachers, refusing direct orders, texting, and storming out of class, to name a few.  The reason? Concern that too many black students are being suspended for willful defiance."  Great way to solve a behavior problem – just stop punishing the behavior.  Brilliant, really brilliant.

REPORT FROM SOUTH WALES – From College Insurrection:  "Students at Aberystwyth University, the former university of Prince Charles, voted to ban Bibles being automatically placed in their accommodation, ending a tradition going back generations."  The reason given was a lack of multiculturalism in the Bible.  Here the Bible is plainly guilty.  I have read many Bible stories, and not once did I encounter one about a Nebraskan.  And Argentinian gays?  Forget about it.  And with all the mention of music, not a single word about jazz.  Didn't those guys with beards ever hear of Louis Armstrong?  The Bible must be examined by our Department of Education.  I mean, what are we feeding our children?

END OF WORLD NEWS – It's official, reported by the Anchorage Daily Times:  "The Arctic Ocean is warming up and icebergs are growing scarcer in some places, the seals find the water too hot..."  That does it for me.  No more questions.  No more skepticism.  Global warming.  Why, I...wait a second...just a minute.  Uh, yeah, that story is from the Anchorage Daily Times.  Page one, major headline.  But I didn't notice it was from the edition of November 2, 1922.  That's 93 years ago.  Well, maybe they just had a scoop or somethin'.  Look, global warming could be old, like from before Michelle Obama got her law degree.  Sure. that's it.  And there were plenty of people in Model T's causing it!  I think we just broke a story.

May 16, 2015