PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN RECENTLY ILL react more strongly to sick faces.

INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY: 5 Myths Behind Obama’s Infrastructure Spending Push.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Mortgage default warnings spiked in August, signaling potential new foreclosure wave.

THE FUTURE OF SKIN: “Stretchable electronics and smart tattoos give human skin an upgrade from the future.”

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why Are So Many Outdoor Concert Stages Collapsing?

WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS: A Digital Scouting Camera. I should put one in my backyard just to see what wanders through.

UPDATE: Reader Peter Grout emails: “These cameras can also be called ‘Digital Evidence Collectors’. If you live in a rural/semi-rural area, put one of these pointing on to the road to your house. Burglars don’t look for them, and even if you can’t get enough resolution for the license plate, you can at least get make/model/color for a BOLO.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Bryan Frymire writes: “I can personally confirm that those game cameras are great for evidence collection. I used one to get some good pictures of people stealing from my isolated, rural property. The local police recognized one of the people in the pictures and since I had some nice ‘No Trespassing’ signs up… well, long story short — my “neighbor” ended up spending 30 days in jail. So rural property owners need one. I may even get one more myself!” (Bumped).

MICHAEL WALSH: “Do President Obama’s advisers realize they’ve got him frittering away the last political asset he has left? As unpopular as the president’s policies — and especially his results — have proved, a majority of Americans still like and, somehow, even trust him personally. But his new political strategy is based on a manuever that even fellow Democrats see as transparently cynical.”

FIGURING OUT PROTEINS at Oak Ridge.

UPDATE: Had the wrong link before. Fixed now. Sorry! One day I’ll master cut-and-paste. . . .

THIS WILL CERTAINLY BOLSTER THEIR PARTY’S REPUTATION FOR FISCAL PROBITY: House Democrats Introduce Bill To Abolish Debt Ceiling. If I were in Congress, I’d respond with a bill requiring a referendum on any increase, said referendum to coincide with Congressional elections. . . .

BEWARE THE High-Maintenance Boyfriend. “With the overwhelming acceptance of (or resignation to) metrosexuality, men who once feared being ridiculed for their highmay ways are stepping out of their walk-in closets onto the well-manicured path blazed by their sartorially-inclined cousins.”

REVIEW: The 2012 Infiniti M35h Hybrid.

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BOOKS: Walt Harrington: Dubya And Me. “As he talked, I even thought about an old Saturday Night Live skit in which an amiable, bumbling President Ronald Reagan, played by Phil Hartman, goes behind closed doors to suddenly become a masterful operator in total charge at the White House. The transformation in Bush was that stunning to me. . . . His only remark about Barack Obama was, as I recall it, ‘No matter who wins, when he hears what I hear every morning, it will change him.'”

LOCHNER ISN’T A DIRTY WORD: Damon Root reviews David Bernstein’s Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform.

ROBERT ZUBRIN SAYS we can achieve $2/gallon gas.

ARE THERE FIRST AMENDMENT PROBLEMS WITH barring sex offenders from public libraries? Honestly, if you’re not willing to keep them in jail, you should leave them alone. The endless array of petty penalties is just tacky.

UPDATE: Reader Mark Davis writes: “Not only are the punishments becoming more petty; the definition of ‘sex offender’ becomes more petty by the day. For instance, in many jurisdictions you don’t want to get caught answering nature’s emergency call by the side of the road. Who knew such distress could someday cause the yanking of your library card? And worse. Much worse.” Indeed. The entire thing is a disgrace. And probably a due-process violation, properly understood.

WHITE HOUSE PRESSURES GENERAL ON BEHALF OF A POLITICAL DONOR? “The Pentagon has worried for months that a project backed by a prominent Democratic donor might interfere with military GPS. Now Congress wants to know if the White House pressured a general to change his testimony.”

“SORRY, WE THOUGHT YOU WERE A JEW.” If I were a country that imported half its calories and that was running out of foreign currency to pay for food imports, I’d be nicer to foreigners of all stripes, especially if — as with Egypt — my main source of foreign currency was tourism. But they’re idiots, and the result will be disaster.

111 MPGe with the Toyota Prius plug-in hybrid.

MICHAEL YON: Narco-Poetry.

STEVE CARTER: Google Discount Leaves Churches To Beg.