THEODORE DALRYMPLE: The Dark Side of Human Equality: Everyone should suffer just as much as me!

MAN-CAUSED DISASTER: House Dem. Jim McDermott: I Haven’t Seen This Much Panic on the Floor Since 9/11.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: “Obama is waist deep in quicksand. The first rule of quicksand is not to struggle; to swim your way out. But Obama won’t. Can’t. The deeper he gets the harder he thrashes. No shame. No self control. And therefore this may end in the manner of the Beast From Hollow Mountain.”

Plus this: “Meanwhile the conservatives, who cannot at present account for more than half the voters, are in a strategic waiting game. At best they can consolidate the half into the nether millstone against which events may grind. The single greatest task for conservatives is to fix their own leadership problems. In so doing they must avoid the single greatest mistake Obama has made, which is to rely on fantasy. The facts, however unpalatable. The truth, no matter how bitter.”

MIDEAST: Christians ‘face extinction’ amid sectarian terror, minister warns. “Violence against Christian worshippers and other religious minorities by fanatics has become a ‘global crisis’ and is the gravest challenge facing the world this century, Baroness Warsi will say.”

WAPO: The Insiders: For Democrats, dark days ahead. “Meanwhile, this is the administration that felt compelled to affirmatively announce twice on camera in the past week that they are ‘not stupid.'” Don’t get cocky, Republicans.

POLITICO: “I don’t know how he f—-ed this up so badly,” said one House Democrat who has been very supportive of Obama in the past.

Obviously, now suddenly a racist, per Oprah.

MEDIAITE: For Democrats, Obamacare Unfolding Like a Greek Tragedy. For me, it’s more of a comedy. Kind of like watching Dabney Coleman get hoisted to the ceiling in 9 to 5.

NO, IT’S BECAUSE HE’S A FUCK-UP. YOU’RE NOT HELPING BLACK PEOPLE OUT BY BLURRING THE DISTINCTION. Oprah Winfrey: Americans Disrespect Obama Because He Is Black.

TRAIN WRECK UPDATE: Emails show officials warned of ObamaCare website ‘crash’ in July.

MORALE: Air Force Pilots Passing Up Big Bonuses To Leave. “In June, the Air Force announced a $225,000 bonus for eligible fighter pilots in exchange for a nine-year commitment. However, pilots are not taking the service up on the offer because of reduced flying hours caused by budget cuts, acting Secretary of the Air Force Eric Fanning said.”

HEH: If Schadenfreude had calories, I’d weigh 300 pounds.

GOOD NEWS: EPA Backing Off Of Ethanol Requirements.

MICKEY KAUS: I’d like to toe the party line on insurance cancellations, but it keeps changing! Hourly.

THE DAY THE MARINES MET THEIR Robotic Mule.

NO RECOVERY FOR THE LEGAL PROFESSION: Study: Demand for Legal Work Down 5 Percent This Year.

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING CONSUMER REPORTS BUYING GUIDE. “By 2015 at the latest, you’ll have to be subscribing to their Web site and/or installing their app to get any of this information. Count on it.”

UPDATE: Link was busted before. Fixed now. Sorry! (Bumped).

YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY: ‘I try to keep a list of all my conquests so I don’t forget but sometimes I have to put descriptions or question marks instead of names.’

IF YOU LIKE YOUR HEAD, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEAD: Syrian Jihadist Rebels Cut Off Wrong Man’s Head.

I WAS EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Eruption at Sinabung Intensifies. “The latest explosive plumes from the Indonesian volcano have topped 5-7 km (16,500-23,000 feet). All this activity has caused over 5,300 people to be evacuated from the region around the volcano, and as with any extended evacuation, issues with food and water access are occurring. Additionally, the farmland around Sinabung has been heavily damaged by the ash fall. The eruption has also started to produce small pyroclastic flows (see right) that have moved down the slopes of the volcano, so the 5 km exclusion zone may expand if that threat continues to grow.”

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Military Robots Expected To Outnumber U.S. Troops By 2023.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Crazy Couple Tweets Their Absurd Arguments in Epic Social Media Fail.

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21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Herpes Virus Found on Library Copies of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’

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CHUCK TODD: C’mon, Obama has no power to make this ObamaCare fix.

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