INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: The Cabinet From Another World. “There’s never been an administration led by so few people with any experience in the private sector.”

JIM TREACHER: Being a pedestrian in DC is like living inside a game of Grand Theft Auto played by a drunk 14-year-old with anger issues. “You can get mowed down at any time, and don’t expect much help from the police.”

DONATED COMPUTER TIME DISCOVERS NEW STAR: “Astronomers announced Thursday the discovery of a new star, found with help from a most unusual source — a screen saver. Chris and Helen Colvin, owners of the personal computer running the screen saver are participants in a project called Einstein@home, an experiment in distributed computing which uses the donated idle time from hundreds of thousands of home computers across the globe in lieu of more expensive supercomputers. The June 11 discovery in Ames, Iowa of a pulsar — a dense, rotating star that appears to pulse like a lighthouse beacon — was confirmed on June 14 by another user’s computer in Germany. It marks the first time an astronomical body has been discovered this way.” (Via Frank Munger).

HARVARD: Expert on Morality Is on Leave After Research Inquiry.

SHIKHA DALMIA ON The Ground Zero Mosque Controversy. “America, in short, represents not just how far humanity has yet to travel on the road to complete civility, but how far humanity has already traveled. For now, if the rest of the world just caught up with America, it would be a huge leap forward for the cause of toleration.”

CHANGE: Caterpillar selects Texas over Illinois for new excavator factory. (Via Newsalert).

STEALTH INFLATION? Turns Out Walmart Is Quietly Raising Prices.

HOME OWNERSHIP: American Dream, or American Headache?

JIM BENNETT LOOKS AT Afghanistan in 2050.

GOLDWATER INSTITUTE files challenge to ObamaCare.

REMEMBERING ROSTY: The Ghost of Rostenkowski and the Old School Rules.

TIM CAVANAUGH: Did IMF Say USA Is DOA?

GLENN BECK: What’s the big deal about gay marriage? “I believe what Thomas Jefferson said. If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?”

JAMES LILEKS: Let’s Invent New Vindictive Forms of Taxation for Fun!

UPDATE: C.J. Burch can do vindictive. Maybe a bit extreme?

AT AMAZON, a back-to-school grocery sale.

ANDREW KLAVAN: A Young Person’s Guide To The United States Constitution.

APPARENTLY, THEY TOOK OUT THE ONLY PART OF HIM THAT WASN’T MALIGNANT: Durbin has tumor removed; aide says no cancer found.

IS THIS BOOK INVISIBLE? “That kind of creative intelligence was rare enough in the mid-20th century. Today it is almost impossible to find amid the distractions of talk show yammering, the op-ed screeds that pass for wisdom, the inflammatory racial rhetoric that threatens rational debate.” As Webb Wilder says, the girls can’t see you if you don’t dress loud.

HEH: “If Al Franken is such a wit, why are you quoting Mark Twain?”

I’ll just note that the very same day I encouraged mockery of our ruling class, Al Franken obliged. Dance, my little marionette, dance!

DAN RIEHL: Media Steps Up Defense Of Obama. “The memo has gone out.” What, they weren’t going full-bore for him already?