WELL, I GUESS WE’VE FOUND THAT OBAMA 2012 ELECTION SLOGAN: IRS Commissioner on Declining Service to Taxpayers This Filing Season: ‘I’m Proud — It Could Have Been Worse.’

NEW ROMNEY AD: What You Won’t Hear At The Democratic Convention.

Besides, you know, “What’s the matter? Dog not good enough for ya?”

ORIENT EXPRESS: Did Katzenberg’s support for Obama fast-track movie deal with China?

MITT ROMNEY: This election is about jobs, not about Obama eating dogs. Well, it’s about Obama eating the economy. Which has been pretty much a dog of an economy under Obama. So . . .

Plus, Allah comments: “The sad truth: A few more months of weak job growth and The One might actually prefer an election about dog-eating. . . . I love the fact that even for a meme as dumb as this, which is being pushed as a goof on how moronic the Democrats’ ‘dog’ attacks on Romney are, you’ve still got Obama shills very earnestly engaging with the subject to try to draw a contrast. But then, they have to, right? Like I said last night, the story about Mitt and Seamus really is part of Hopenchange’s campaign strategy. They’re not going to win on the issues but maybe, if they spend enough, they can create enough of a ‘likability gap’ to nose out Romney at the wire.”

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: College Letters Fat and Thin. “The college admission process is hard. It’s particularly hard on a lot of young Americans because the college admissions process is the event that demonstrates how much they are surrounded by hypocritical lying weasels. . . . Grade inflation and self esteem chitchat fuzz the harsh edges of the real world, but then come SAT scores and the competition for college admissions and scholarships. It turns out that you don’t live in Lake Wobegon: a lot of kids are below average, and you just might be one of them.”

Plus, useful advice on what to do next, whether you’re above average or below. Including this: “The kids with the best grades, and the kids who work hardest and most successfully to please adults, often do not turn out to be the happiest, most successful and most useful adults. I used to tell my students at Yale that 99 percent of the students who graduate from Yale are never heard from again.”

WAIT, SO ALL THAT “FOOD DESERT” TALK WAS JUST A BUNCH OF CRAP? Studies Question the Pairing of Food Deserts and Obesity.

It has become an article of faith among some policy makers and advocates, including Michelle Obama, that poor urban neighborhoods are food deserts, bereft of fresh fruits and vegetables.

But two new studies have found something unexpected. Such neighborhoods not only have more fast food restaurants and convenience stores than more affluent ones, but more grocery stores, supermarkets and full-service restaurants, too. And there is no relationship between the type of food being sold in a neighborhood and obesity among its children and adolescents.

Huh. And I thought the social science was settled.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: No, I will not sleep with your dog.

Hey, so long as you don’t cook and eat it. . . .

WHEN SIGHTSEEING IN D.C., be sure to bring a snack!

ANDREW MALCOLM: What’s with Obama? His Falklands gaffe angers Brits, puzzles others.

HOW TO GET UNSTUCK.

VIDEO: PJTV Remembers Dick Clark.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: You’re 28 years old. If you truly want children, and you want to have them with a partner, then you are too old to be emotionally investing in anyone who isn’t completely open to the idea of having kids with you.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Nanoparticles reduce tumors in clinical trial.

AT AMAZON, warehouse deals in health & personal care.

VIDEO: Economist Walter Williams on the Power of Profit.

DOG-GATE: Joe Scarborough Loses It Laughing Over News That Obama Has Eaten Dog Meat.

Somehow I’m reminded of the mutant dad in The Hills Have Eyes: “What’s the matter? Dog not good enough for ya?”

Related: Dreams From My Schnauzer.

The scary part is at the end, when Bo discovers that To Serve Dogs is a . . . cookbook!

Plus, a new campaign button:

And Jim Treacher comments:

If Obama gets another four years, by the end of his second term nobody will care that he ate dogs, because nobody will be able to afford to eat anything else. He’ll solve it the same way he solves everything else: a snappy catchphrase.

“If you like your dachshund, you can eat your dachshund.”

Hey, if you weren’t supposed to eat them, they wouldn’t look so much like a hot dog.

MORE: A reader sends this image:

Heh. This just keeps getting funnier.

And another reader writes: “If ‘Man Bites Dog’ is news, then shouldn’t ‘President Bites Dog’ be on the front page?”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Elite Universities’ Online Play. “Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor have teamed up with a for-profit company to offer free versions of their coveted courses this year to online audiences. By doing so, they join a growing group of top-tier universities that are embracing massively open online courses, or MOOCs, as the logical extension of elite higher education in an increasingly online, global landscape.”

SAY HELLO TO STRATOLAUNCH, the world’s largest airplane. “Stratolaunch measures 385 feet long—more than 100 feet longer than an Airbus A380. It was built from the pieces of two 747s. It will carry a SpaceX rocket into the sky for an aerial launch.”

PAT SUMMITT is stepping down.

THE HUXTABLE TAX: “Movements to raise taxes on the ‘wealthy’ distort the facts since the tax code is already highly progressive.”

THE IMPORTANCE OF AVOIDING ASTEROID-STRIKE EXTINCTION: “If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, we would be the laughing stock of aliens in the galaxy, for having a large brain and a space program, yet we met the same fate as that pea-brained, space program-less dinosaurs that came before us.”

ANOTHER 99 CENT READER KINDLE BOOK: Leah And Her Twelve Brothers, by reader William Saunders.

WHEN YOU’RE MIDDLE-AGED, YOU’RE NOT IN DECLINE: You’re highly evolved.

VITAMIN D UPDATE: Vitamin D may lower risk of deadly prostate cancer. “Vitamin D does not protect men from getting prostate cancer, but it may lessen their chances of dying of it. In a new study, men with the highest levels of vitamin D in their blood were 57 percent less likely than men with the lowest levels to succumb to prostate cancer. However, no link was found between vitamin D levels and having prostate cancer, the researchers said.”

AND TO THINK THAT NOT LONG AGO PEOPLE WERE SAYING THAT THE BLOWJOB WAS OUT OF STYLE.