KASHMIR HILL: Using Twitter To Identify Psychopaths.

NO WORD ON HOW MANY OF THOSE WERE UNVERIFIED CREDIT CARD DONATIONS ONLINE: Obama out-raises Romney in direct contributions for month of June.

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A NEW GOVERNMENT CHEESE VIDEO.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: This 66-year-old woman landed a 28-year-old guy by getting breast implants and posting pictures of them on Facebook.

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THIS WEEK IN THE FUTURE.

TAXPROF: IRS Audit of Romney Donor Raises Questions About Presidential Enemies List.

AT AMAZON, up to 25% off on college essentials.

Also, markdowns on new and used textbooks.

ED DRISCOLL: Failing Upward: The Narrative and the Journalists Who Advance It.

HOPE AND CHANGE: FAA Has Authorized 106 Government ‘Entities’ to Fly Domestic Drones.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Unemployment Rises In Six of Ten Battleground States.

DAVID HARSANYI: Are Obama’s Ideas Un-American? “If not un-American, the ideas that propel Obama’s re-election campaign are certainly unprecedented. . . . The president’s central case rests on the idea that individuals should view government as society’s moral center, the engine of prosperity and the arbiter of fairness. Traditionally speaking, that’s not a very American notion. Surely, he’s not the first president to think it, but he’s probably the first to say it — and he says it over and over again.”

SCIENCE: Mesmerizing Videos of Northern and Southern Lights Seen From Space.

THE NEW YORK TIMES SAYS “organized labor is in free fall.”

WHEN YOUR WINDOW-TINTING also generates electricity. “UCLA researchers have developed a new transparent solar cell that is an advance toward giving windows in homes and other buildings the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to see outside. The UCLA team describes a new kind of polymer solar cell (PSC) that produces energy by absorbing mainly infrared light, not visible light, making the cells nearly 70% transparent to the human eye. They made the device from a photoactive plastic that converts infrared light into an electrical current.”

WHY OBAMA LIKES FACEBOOK: “The real power of the president’s Facebook app: providing a window on supporters’ friends.”

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Russia’s Nightmare and the Danger of Abandoning Assad. “Someone is killing Russia’s pro-government, moderate, Muslim clerics. . . . From Syria to the Caucasus to Tatarstan and Moscow, radical Sunnism is a force the Russian authorities cannot ignore. But it is easier to recognize the danger than to fight it effectively, and nothing the Kremlin has tried so far has had much success.”

JEREMY LOTT: “Did anybody else read this anti-summer break piece by Peter Orszag and feel the urge to give the author a tremendous wedgie?” “Let’s grant that there is some evidence of summer slippage. But to look at the vast wasteland that is American public education — the poor teaching, the awful curriculum, the low standards, the anemic achievement, the institutional resistance to needed reform — and say that the real problem is summer vacation takes a special sort of mind.”

A LOOK AT NASA’s Next Spacesuit. “The Z-1 prototype—currently being tested in a vacuum chamber—has been designed for versatility: to explore alien surfaces, float outside a space station, and even weather the radiation of deep space.”

HEADLINE OF THE WEEK: Spitzer Thinks It Might Be Too Soon for Weiner Comeback.

FASTER, PLEASE: Nanoscale Scaffolds Grow Replacement Cartilage.

IN MANHATTAN, a breath of dissent from Bloomberg’s anti-gun nannyism. More and stronger, please.

UPDATE: Compare this disgraceful piece of blood-libel agitprop from the Daily News. For shame. And I’m sure it’s somehow racist to tie Obama to James Holmes.

JOEL GEHRKE: A Short, Incomplete History of Media Trying To Tie The Tea Party To Tragedies.

STOP THE PRESSES — A CEO WANTS SUBSIDIES: BMW CEO says governments need to offer more tax subsidies for EVs.