TRIVIALIZING THE DISCOURSE. Highered Intelligence has more on the guerrilla theater deployed by the College Republicans at UCLA (motto: On! Wisconsin!). Somebody took issue with the bake sale thusly: "By reducing the complexity of this issue into dollars and cents and cookies they are working to stop discourse." I'm going to have to remember that one the next time there's a "pay equity" cookie sale nearby ... it demeans the research of numerous economists into labor force participation.

UPDATE: The pay equity bake sale will face the same questions in St. Cloud.