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

COURSE CHANGE – FROM THE COLLEGE FIX:   A “Men in Literature” course taught successfully for eight years at Springfield College has now been canceled after campus officials complained the class was too focused on men.  The popular humanities department-approved course was taught by Dr. Dennis Gouws. Campus leaders, prior to axing the course, accused the scholar of turning the English class into something of a men’s gender studies class.  I'm so relieved that they finally got rid of this abomination.  Men in literature?  How dare they.

MADNESS – FROM JUDICIAL WATCH:  The Obama administration has ordered the nation’s colleges and universities to stop asking applicants about criminal and school disciplinary history because it discriminates against minorities. Institutions are also being asked to offer those with criminal records special support services such as counseling, mentoring and legal aid once enrolled. The government’s official term for these perspective students is “justice-involved individuals” and the new directive aims to remove barriers to higher education for the overwhelmingly minority population that’s had encounters with the law or disciplinary issues through high school.  Sure, we should help people get back into society, but not asking about criminal backgrounds is sheer madness.  What about sex predators?  Men with a history of assaulting women?  Don't colleges have a right to know the full backgrounds of their students? 

INEVITABLE – FROM DAILY CALLER:   A female security guard working at a Washington, D.C. grocery store was arrested Monday afternoon for physically escorting a man out of the women’s restroom after he refused to leave because he identifies as a woman.  The shopper — a young, African-American male who identified himself as Ebony Belcher to local news outlets — reportedly passed the security guard on his way into the women’s restroom at a Giant grocery store in Northeast D.C.  After seeing Belcher walk into the women’s restroom, the security guard followed him in and ordered the man to leave. When he refused, the security guard had to physically escort him out of the women’s restroom.   Upon leaving the store, Belcher called police to have the security guard arrested. D.C. police confirmed to NBC4 Washington that the woman was arrested and charged with simple assault. D.C. police told TheDC that they are treating the incident as a “suspected hate crime.”  Belcher told NBC4 that the security guard told him: “You guys cannot keep coming in here and using our women’s restroom. They did not pass the law yet.”  The security guard was acting reasonably.  But political correctness governs all.  Don't expect the "women's movement" to come to this guard's assistance, even though she was protecting women.  Left-wing politics comes first.

May 23,  2016