OH, GOODY: New Malware Simulates Hard Drive Failure. “Of course, it’s all done in an attempt to get people to buy the software that will fix it.”

THE HILL: House lawmakers push back against Obama’s stand on 1967 borders.

AT AMAZON, markdowns on Adobe software for students and teachers.

RON RADOSH reports from the AIPAC conference.

SHERIFF DUPNIK UPDATE: ABC News: Tucson SWAT Team Defends Shooting Iraq Vet 60 Times.

L.A. TIMES: Mitch Daniels says ‘No’ to 2012 Republican presidential bid, citing family objections.

ED MORRISSEY: Don’t get carried away with the rapture schadenfreude. “I suspect that the media feeding frenzy Stanley describes has less to do with an impulse to lampoon the ridiculous than an impulse to ridicule Christianity in general. Despite Camping and his followers being an extremely small fringe group, the media has covered this story as if the entire Southern Baptist church made this prediction. . . . It’s not out of bounds to chuckle over the gullibility of those who rely on false prophets, but it’s worth considering who and what benefits from this avalanche of coverage of an obscure, already-discredited crank.”

UPDATE: Repent: The End Of Keynesian Economics Is At Hand. “I wish reporters would pay as much attention to a more important failed prediction: the Obama administration’s assurance that its policies, including the ‘stimulus,’ would foster job creation and prevent unemployment from reaching 8 percent. We have reproduced this graphic before.” Doesn’t fit the dumb-gullible-hicks narrative. But this bit of gullibility was a lot more expensive.

MARK STEYN: The unzippered princeling and the serving wench. “The arrest of a mediocre international civil servant in the first-class cabin of his jet isn’t just a sex story: It’s a glimpse of the widening gulf between the government class and their subjects in a post-prosperity West. Neither Geithner nor Strauss-Kahn have ever created a dime of wealth in their lives. They have devoted their careers to ‘public service,’ and thus are in the happy position of rarely if ever having to write a personal check. . . . A lifetime of devoted ‘public service’ in ‘socialist’ France isn’t yet as remunerative as in Mubarak’s Egypt or Saddam’s Iraq, but we’re getting there. As the developed world drowns under the weight of Big Government, the gilded princelings of statism will hunker down in their interior courtyards and guard their privileges ever more zealously. Once in a while, as in that Manhattan hotel suite, a chance encounter between the seigneurs and their subjects will go awry, but more often, as in the Geithner confirmation, it will be understood that the Great Men of the Permanent Governing Class cannot be bound by the rules they impose on the rest of you schmucks.”

SO MY FORMER STUDENT JAMIE WOODSON ISN’T SENATE MAJORITY LEADER, she’s stepping down as Senate Majority Leader. But that doesn’t make me old, right?

ROGER SIMON: American Jews: Breaking With Old Ideas. They told me if Obama were elected we’d see change. And they were right!

MALEMPLOYMENT BY COLLEGE MAJOR: “Leaving aside the salaries (not so surprising that engineering majors make more than education or humanities majors) it’s importantly to look pretty seriously at those light green bars. That represents people who went to college and are now employed in jobs that don’t require them to have gone to college. That’s 22 percent of employed people under age 25. They’re earning less than $16,000 a year on average. That’s depressing. Those are people who have jobs. There are a lot of college graduates out there who don’t have jobs and are not included in this chart.”

With this conclusion: “Somewhat obvious bottom line: If you’re going to college to boost your career prospects, major in something that, you know, actually corresponds to some type of career.”

Just ask Courtney Munna.

SOME POST-RAPTURE MUSIC: There’s got to be a morning after.

EDITORIAL STANDARDS at CNN.

SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS — A MOVING TARGET: Species extinction rates overestimated. “The point is not that we should ignore environmental concerns. The point is that we should be wary about claims that massive social and economic changes are necessary simply because the scientific consensus of the moment claims they’re desirable. Like the medical claims about salt I mentioned in my earlier post, and like this latest news, the consensus of the moment can turn out to be seriously flawed.”

THE CORNEL WEST / BARACK OBAMA RACIAL BROUHAHA continues.

GRAPHIC: We are living in the golden age of beer.

VIDEO: ANGINA P., a musical friend of mine from the old MP3.com days (sigh) playing live at Forms of Hands 2011 in Germany.

MILTON WOLF: ObamaCare Waiver Corruption Must Stop. “A government empowered to determine arbitrarily who may operate outside the rule of law invariably embraces favoritism as friends, allies and those with the best-funded lobbyists are rewarded. Favoritism inevitably leads to corruption, and corruption invites extortion. Ultimately, the rule of law ceases to exist in any recognizable form.”

TOM COBURN takes on “adult baby.”

AT AMAZON, summer markdowns on outdoor stuff.

CLAIRE BERLINSKI ON escaping the Internet. I enjoyed my break last week. I think everyone should cut the communication cord occasionally. It clears your mind.

I THINK IT’S MORE LIKE 10 OUT OF 10: Prices at gas pump painful for 4 in 10 Americans. “As $4 a gallon gasoline becomes commonplace, drivers have made tough choices: scaling back vacations, driving less or ditching the car altogether. And a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows the impact of sustained high prices is spreading among seniors and higher-income Americans.”

COULD NEW HAMPSHIRE become a right-to-work state?

DR. WEEVIL CRACKS DOWN on metaphor abuse.

YOU MIGHT BE A PSYCHOPATH IF . . .