Daily Bafflements

• America’s elite schools and universities don’t need to worry about being “disrupted” by technology, according to Moody analysts (via Matt Phillips for Quartz). “The most vulnerable to the threat of online education are less selective schools that are more reliant on tuition to pay the bills and keep the lights on. ‘Colleges with high acceptance rates also tend to be most reliant on student charges and have relatively modest wealth,’ Moody’s writes. ‘They will be most vulnerable to long-term disruption from technology.'”

• Fighting fire with fire, er, fighting exorbitant cash with exorbitant cash: the New York Times on a super PAC against the influence big money in politics.

• Nope, sorry, we’ve got more important things to read about today: The Hill presents the “50 Most Beautiful” D.C. staffers. (Via Alex Abad-Santos.)

• In related news from Nancy Scola this morning, “The Speaker of the U.S. House of Reps has made a listicle and it involves Billy Joel so that’s where we are now: http://1.usa.gov/WLrPPv.”