HOPE: SpaceX To Fly To International Space Station In November.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Study: College Is Expensive But Still Worth The Money. Does the methodology here take account of self-selection?

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: More In-Kind Contributions To The Democrats From The New York Times.

HOPE AND CHANGE: “We’re the people! They’re not!”

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? Booming business of fear: Sales of safes soar. “Amid the market turmoil, sales of security safes and vaults have spiked. While some shoppers sought to protect whatever valuables they had left, others needed a place to stash their newly-acquired safe haven assets such as gold and cash.”

QUESTION: Does Excessive Welfare Spending Cause Riots? “At a minimum, the facts certainly negate any suggestion that criminals can be kept out of sight and out of mind by being bribed with welfare money.”

RONNIE SCHREIBER: Which Automotive Ad Is More Sexist? “Jalopnik and Autoblog, two leading car blogs, are exercised over the ‘sexism’ of a 40+ year old Goodyear tire commercial yet have nothing to say about how negatively men are portrayed in today’s ads.”

HOPE AND CHANGE? Moody’s Lowers Economic Growth Outlook. Well, change, anyway.

DUTCH NOT SO HOT ON MULTICULTURALISM THESE DAYS. “The taboos are gone, and now you’re suspect if you say anything positive about multiculturalism.”

Probably not related: Dutch Scientists Make Bulletproof Human Skin.

SHOCKER: California’s ‘Amazon Tax’ Already Proving a Bust.

AT AMAZON, markdowns on bestselling cookbooks.

WAR AGAINST PHOTOGRAPHY UPDATE: Police Chief Jim McDonnell has confirmed that detaining photographers for taking pictures “with no apparent esthetic value” is within Long Beach Police Department policy.

Send Chief McDonnell a copy of Morgan Manning’s article on photographers’ rights.

UPDATE: Reader Steven Hupp makes the inevitable no-apparent-esthetic-value joke: “So, it’s probably been said already, but would I be detained if I took a picture of Chief Jim McDonnell?”

LOWER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Katie Granju: When latte-sipping, NPR-listening parents avoid neighborhood schools.

BARACK OBAMA MUST BE A ROBERT HEINLEIN FAN! Robert Heinlein:

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”

Barack Obama:

“We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again,” Obama told a crowd in Decorah, Iowa. “But over the last six months we’ve had a run of bad luck.”

Fan, instantiation, whatever.

I EXPECT THIS WILL HAPPEN MORE OFTEN: BREAKING: TEA PARTY ACTIVISTS CONFRONT OBAMA IN IOWA.

UPDATE: Tea partier heckles Obama: Why are you talking about civility when Biden’s calling us terrorists?

Plus this: “Jonathan Last‘s already wondering how long it’ll be after Perry takes the lead in national polls before the left decides that George W. Bush, a.k.a. the new Hitler, was a genteel chap compared to this new Texan hybrid of Hitler, Bin Laden, and Yosemite Sam. Over/under: Six weeks.”

THE VISCERAL TERROR of a Tea Party Presidency.

ONLY IN SWITZERLAND: Battle-rifle open carry at the Apple Store. Okay, maybe Israel, too.

THE LONDON RIOTS’ HIPSTER HERO: Saving the Day with a Fixed-Gear and a Twitter Feed.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Student Loan Debt Climbs. “Americans have cut back on credit of all kinds, with one notable exception. . . . Mortgage debt, home equity loans, credit card debt and auto loans are all down sharply — partly because people are being more careful, but also because many have defaulted. But student loans are up sharply. There was $550 billion in student debt outstanding in the second quarter, up 25% from $440 billion in the third quarter of 2008.” Well, you can’t really default on student loans.

HOW TO KNOW WHEN it’s time to retire. For those who can still afford, to, anyway. . . .

THE PROBLEM WITH peanut butter.

HOLLY BECK: Building in Nicaragua: Eucalyptus Plantation Politics.

REPRESSING THE INTERNET, Western-style.

A REALLY NICE Cayman dive video.

ED DRISCOLL: Patrick McGoohan, Double-Oh Kafka.