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FIRST, YOU PUT YOUR HAND IN ITS MOUTH: Video: Shark Hook Removal.

Related: “Shark Whisperers” Lull Ocean Predators Into Trance.

BESIDES MEDIA MATTERS, THAT IS: 4 Parasites That Want To Invade Your Brain.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Four Weirdest Jobs You Can Get At SpaceX.

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HERE’S A HINT: I don’t think a man in a Speedo will get taken very seriously, either.

UPDATE: Link corrected.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Teenage Girl Gives Blowjobs At Eminem Concert, Pictures Posted Online, Epic Slut-Shaming Ensues. Or, maybe, none of it’s true because it’s on the Internet.

WEIGHTLESSNESS + WATER + ENCLOSED HELMET = TROUBLE. Astronaut Tells Of Near-Drowning On Spacewalk.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Are The High Seas Ready For Drones?

HEY, IT TOOK ME LIKE 8 YEARS TO GET THEM TO FIX MY NAME FROM “GLENN HARLAN ROBERTS:” New York Times declines to correct 1991 review that says ‘John’ Lynch made ‘Eraserhead.’ “For older articles, no readers would remember (and on a more realistic note, we don’t have the resources or often the ability to look up something that happened 20, 50 or 100 years ago).” Um, really?

EDUCATION: It’s No Big Deal, Except When It Is.

INSTAVISION: I talk with Mark Levin about his new book, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic.

FINANCES: New York, California, Illinois Hemorrhage Tax Dollars.

Blue states like California and Illinois are struggling meeting obligations for their own public pension funds, so they certainly don’t need this latest bit of news—their tax bases are shrinking drastically. A new study on state-by-state income migration from the Tax Foundation (h/t WSJ), found that New York, California, and Illinois—the largest blue states in the country—led the country in income flight during the last decade. New York was hit particularly hard, losing $46 billion dollars of taxable income to people leaving the state over the past ten years. And these states were not alone: blue stalwarts like Maryland, New Jersey, and Massachusetts were not far behind.

Red and purple destinations like Florida, Texas, Arizona and North Carolina led the pack of states benefiting from this migration, each gaining over $10 billion in taxable income due to new migrants from other states. Although the red/blue divide breaks down somewhat towards the middle of the group—red states like Louisiana saw some minor losses while blue states like Vermont enjoyed modest gains—the overall pattern is hard to miss.

One of the trends driving blue boosters to despair is that the most extensive government programs require taxes hikes which tend to cause businesses to flee, eventually taking residents and their tax dollars with them. This erosion of the tax base forces states to hike taxes further to keep the system running which only accelerates the process.

Then there are the businesses — like gunmakers — who have left in the face of cultural/legal pogroms. Either way, bring your jobs to Tennessee!

NICK GILLESPIE: #Winning: Progressive Think Tank Demos Targets “Libertarian Right.” “If Christie voices right-wing anxiety about libertarians’ rising prestige and influence on politics and culture, the think-tank Demos articulates the left-wing version. The group has just announced its ‘Gordon Gamm Initiative,’ which is explicitly geared to roll back the tide of laissez-faire it feels has swamped a nation.”

Well, when you’re taking flak, you know you’re over the target.

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TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 105.

JAMES TARANTO: Is Anything Private? Liberal assumptions about “income inequality” have some surprising implications.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: More on Subjecting Law School Officials to Professional Discipline for Deceitful Marketing.

HANG ON, BARRY, IT’LL SOON BE LABOR DAY: Post-Vacation, Obama Faces Bitterly Divided Washington.

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Mad Men Economics? No, we can’t return to the sky-high tax rates of postwar America.

IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR HARD-HITTING FINANCIAL JOURNALISM, American Banker may not be the place to look.

ROLL CALL: Corker Asks Obama for NSA Briefings. “Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., sent a letter to President Barack Obama on Wednesday demanding a briefing from administration officials on the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance programs. Corker, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, set a Sept. 13 deadline for the briefing, in the wake of reports that the scope of the NSA’s surveillance of American citizens has been much wider than previously believed.”

TUNKU VARADARAJAN: Why Egypt Has Coups And We Don’t. With reflections on Bush v. Gore.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Case Western’s Entering 1L Class Shrinks 37%.