#WARONWOMEN: ‘I want to murder Ann Romney’; Left hurls misogynist hate, death threats at multiple GOP women.

ADVERTISING AGE: Obama’s Reddit Q&A: Smart Tactic, but Empty of Actual Content. “The reality is that this is not authenticity. It’s the opposite.” Typical, in other words.

Say, did Louisiana ever get that disaster declaration Bobby Jindal was asking him for?

WATCHING ROB PORTMAN, it’s clear that Ryan was a much better pick.

PREJUDICE GETS ZIMMERMAN TRIAL JUDGE REMOVED. This whole affair has been a politicized travesty.

ANN ALTHOUSE is live-blogging the RNC.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Aspirin May Aid Cancer Recovery. “Men treated for prostate cancer who took aspirin regularly for other medical conditions were less likely to die of their cancer than patients who weren’t taking aspirin, according to a new study published on Tuesday in The Journal of Clinical Oncology.”

VIDEO: Mia Love Rocks GOP Convention, MSNBC Ignores. Paying attention would blow the narrative.

And here’s my interview with Mia Love from earlier this year. (Bumped from last night). (Bumped again).

UPDATE: Meanwhile, if you look at NBC’s RNC video page, it’s as if Mia Love and Artur Davis never spoke.

Is NBC racist? Looks that way. I mean, they’re airbrushing out the black people!

ANOTHER UPDATE: Vandalism from racist Democrats: Sick: Wikipedia entry calls Mia Love ‘dirty, worthless whore’ and ‘House Nigger.’

Meanwhile, non-racists are donating to the Mia Love Love Bomb.

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A REMINDER FROM ANDREW BREITBART: “Once our voices are heard, then Democracy will happen.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: “For years, Silicon Valley has failed to breach the walls of higher education with disruptive technology. But the tide of battle is changing. A report from the front lines.”

THOUGHTS ON LIVING LONGER AND AGING LESS. I think most people’s ideas of how long they want to live are colored, consciously or unconsciously, by the idea of decline with age, even when talking about anti-aging technologies.

CHANGE: Mia Love tops Google searches after ‘rousing’ speech at GOP convention. A rousing speech, I should note, that NBC pretended never happened. Racists.

Related: Romney gets bump from first full day at Republican convention. “Romney’s image has received a five-point bump after the convention’s first day, according to data presented at a Wednesday breakfast sponsored by The Hill at the law offices of Holland & Knight.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why That Woman Is Trying To Steal Your Boyfriend.

UPDATE: Reader Jeff Burhans writes:

Did you notice that all the reasons they give come down to: Because she was hurt by a MAN at some point in her life!

Responsibility for their choices? Not so much. So apparently, 90% of women (because that was the number who said they would poach if their match was married) have all been hurt by scummy, potential-rapist MEN.

Maybe the article was written by a student-life staffer from the University of Montana.

HIRED GUNS: After $100k ‘public relations’ payment from teachers union, Media Matters attacked Fox News. And by that I’m not referring to the illegal-in-the-District Glock carried by David Brock’s “assistant.”

MEANWHILE, OBAMA IS GIVING A CAMPAIGN SPEECH: ‘Worse than Katrina’: Pics of Plaquemines Parish where rising floods strand residents.

NANOTECHNOLOGY WILL BE THE THEME of the first Autodesk Design Night.

ABUSE OF POWER: Partisan Politics in the Classroom. “As faculty members at Ohio State last week double-checked their syllabi, glanced at their rosters, and ran through the usual routines for the start of fall courses, some of them found a surprise in their e-mail in boxes. A senior English professor invited his colleagues to open their classrooms in the weeks ahead to organizers in the Obama campaign. They would first encourage students to register to vote and then, if the instructors were willing, encourage students to volunteer for the Obama campaign.”

ROGER SIMON: DATELINE TAMPA: RACISTS OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA.

Racism is stalking the Republican Convention in Tampa. But it’s not from the Republicans. It’s from the mainstream media.

First it was MSNBC treating convention speakers Artur Davis, Mia Love, and Ted Cruz like nonpersons. And now it’s Yahoo! Washington Bureau Chief David Chalian getting caught on an ABC webcast saying Mitt Romney would be “happy to have a party when black people drown.”

Chalian, not surprisingly, was fired almost immediately when the word got out, but the climate in which he would make such an insane statement is very much alive and well. Why would anyone dream of saying such a thing in a semi-public situation if he didn’t feel safe and among friends?

The left/liberal need to think Republicans and conservatives racists is more than just projection. At this point, it is nothing short of a mental illness. It is so far divorced from reality, it has to be pathological. No longer are these people able to observe reality with anything close to impartiality. We are not in the world of politics, ladies and gentlemen. We are in the world Freud, Jung, Adler, and people bouncing off walls.

Indeed. Plus this: “The executives at Yahoo, and ABC, where Chalian once worked, are obviously in damage control mode. But they would be better advised to examine the culture (their culture) that allowed this to happen.”

People are joking on Twitter that NBC stands for “No Black Conservatives.”

UPDATE: Prof. Stephen Clark writes:

Glenn,

The sheer pathology that Roger Simon highlights may well be one of the biggest stories of this election season. It’s becoming hard to ignore it and becoming more apparent to a larger number of people. At the same time, intended victims are less likely to be cowed.

Democrats and the left have lazily relied on the power of ad hominem coupled with race for the better part of 40 years now. The power of that was bound to diminish with passing time and generations. We’re seeing it now and also seeing that Democrats, and the left generally, have done nothing to prepare for that day. They are desperate, because they have nothing else to offer as rebuttal in policy disputes. Nothing.

This is the price to paid for 40 years of intellectual stasis on the left.

I believe they are preparing the way for a preference cascade.

MIA LOVE: The America I Know.

HIGH ON THE LIST OF COOL ACTIVITIES: Chasing the U-2 Spy Plane—In a Pontiac GTO.

SCIENCE: Curbing Killer Bacteria Isn’t Rocket Science. “That so many hospitals fail to take these precautions is both bewildering and inexcusable. Preventing these needless infections would not only save lives but millions of dollars in health care costs.”

PROGRESS: A growing number of apps hope to turn smartphones into personal assistants.

TECHNOLOGY MARCHES ON: The Underwater Wheelchair. “Ms Austin, who has been a wheelchair user since 1996, developed the chair with help from dive experts and academics. . . . Finding a suitable dive propulsion vehicle to propel the chair was initially difficult because most propeller models were designed to be hand-held and Ms Austin lacked the strength to hold on to them. Eventually she trialled a model that was designed for divers with disabilities – and then added two to the wheelchair.”

THE WORLD’S NEW WONDER MATERIAL: Wood pulp!

ROGER KIMBALL: Love And Change In Tampa.