SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – OVERNIGHT: 

BIG SHOT FAMILY NEWS – OVERNIGHT:  WE ARE DEDICATED TO BRINGING YOU THE MAJOR NEWS FROM FAMILIES AROUND THE WORLD.  IN THAT SPIRIT, WE REPORT THE FOLLOWING, FROM DAILY MAIL:  Prince Andrew would 'shout and scream' if his teddy bear collection was knocked out of place by palace maids, a former royalty protection officer has claimed.  Former bodyguard Paul Page made the revelation during an interview with Ranvir Singh for the upcoming ITV documentary, Ghislaine, Prince Andrew and the Paedophile.  The former constable, who left the Metropolitan Police in 2007, was part of the elite Royal Protection Squad and had access to the Duke of York's private residence.  He claimed that Andrew had a bed with '50 or 60' stuffed toys and maids were given a laminated picture so each bear could carefully be put back in its original position.  And to think, we complain about Hunter Biden. 

OH HOW JUICY – OVERNIGHT:  OUR WONDERFUL HOUSES OF LEARNING, YUCH!  FROM COLLEGE FIX:   A group of America’s most prestigious universities formed a “cartel” to keep the net price of attendance artificially high, according to a lawsuit filed in an Illinois federal court this week.  The lawsuit was filed against 16 schools that are being accused of illegally colluding to limit the amount of financial assistance they offer students. Such a practice would save schools money and prevent students from fleeing to competitor schools that offered more generous financial aid packages.  “In critical respects, elite, private universities like Defendants are gatekeepers to the American Dream,” reads the lawsuit. “Defendants’ misconduct is therefore particularly egregious because it has narrowed a critical pathway to upward mobility that admission to their institutions represents.”  The schools accused of illegal collusion include Brown University, Northwestern University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College, University of Chicago, Cornell University, Georgetown University, University of Notre Dame, Vanderbilt University, Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, and others.  And now they've graduated to wokeness.  What a bunch!  It's time the American press took a good, hard look at some of these institutional gems, but they won't, because the press is filled with their graduates. 

January 16, 2022