Seriously.

Publicly-funded Lincoln University, located in southeast Pennsylvania just over the border from Newark, Delaware, has a graduation requirement on the books that students weigh in under a preset Body Mass Index in order to receive their parchment. The requirement is exclusive of whether the student has fulfilled all other academic requirements for graduation. If your BMI is 30 or above, you can't graduate.

I'm struggling for the most significant analogy this story has to a greater system of total government-run health care. There's a bunch. 

Ok I gave up. Take away from this what you will. Ultimately for me the lesson is that a) publicly-funded higher education for the most part is a bad idea and not much more than proxy organizations for radical left-wing ideology and, b) government or their proxies have no business forcing individuals to lead certain lifestyles. (G'head wingnuts, make your gay marriage argument here...I dare you)

As I was writing this HotAir puts up a story that is literally mind-blowing. Basically the University of Minnesota has dropped all pretense of teaching teachers to teach and has instead made it abundantly clear that a teachers highest priority is to act as de facto ACORN-ites and indoctrinate the next generation of socialists:

In a report compiled last summer, the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the U's College of Education and Human Development recommended that aspiring teachers there must repudiate the notion of "the American Dream" in order to obtain the recommendation for licensure required by the Minnesota Board of Teaching. Instead, teacher candidates must embrace -- and be prepared to teach our state's kids -- the task force's own vision of America as an oppressive hellhole: racist, sexist and homophobic.

First Al Franken and now this? Dude, Minnesota, get your house in order.

Russ