YOUR DAILY MEMO from the Thought Police. Also the Junior Anti-Sex League.

TO START WITH, AVOID MANOLO-TYPE SHOES: What To Do About Bunions. I’ve had law students talk about having “the Manolo toe” and bunions from extreme shoes. Don’t wear those.

IT’S THE LAST DAY for the Amazon Labor Day Sale.

But there are fresh deals on Halloween costumes for women and Halloween costumes for men.

HEH: Rick Perry street art appears in Austin.

FLY A DRONE IN YELLOWSTONE, get six months in jail?

CENSORSHIP: Russia vs. America.

WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: Yellowstone supervolcano eruption will be nightmarish but not catastrophic: Study.

JOURNALISM: “So maybe Arby’s story was accurate all along. After all, restaurant patrons make special requests all the time, and Arby’s customers tend to be people who like meat.”

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 480.

DICK DURBIN LOOKING PRETTY WEAK IN ILLINOIS. The gap has shrunk to 7%, which is much closer than a Democratic incumbent in a deep-blue state should face. Maybe it’s those ads about him paying female staffers less than men. . . . .

INDIA IN ASIA: Asia will gain from India finally taking foreign policy seriously. Now if only America would!

Tighter relations with Japan are important for security (see article). With Australia, India is likely to sign a deal to buy uranium. It is welcome that the world’s most populous democracy should make its influence felt in its region. But India will not realise its true promise so long as it is held back by three legacies that still linger from the days of Nehru.

First, it has differences with two of its neighbours, which are at best a distraction and at worst an obstacle. Given how much it has to gain from peace with Pakistan, India should strive to launch talks that were recently put off because it objected to contacts between Pakistani diplomats and Kashmiri separatists. For Mr Modi, a Hindu nationalist who is feared by many Indian Muslims, a settlement with Pakistan should be a special priority. But Mr Modi also has a disputed border with China in the Himalayas. That too is a flashpoint for conflict, which he needs to discuss with Mr Xi—if only because India’s relations with China will count for more commercially and strategically than its relations with any other Asian country.

Second, to promote India as a trading nation, Mr Modi should ditch protectionism. He blundered in July when he rescinded India’s agreement to a World Trade Organisation deal to ease trade, opting instead to protect food and farm subsidies at home. Since India plays no part in many other regional trade forums, such as the Trans Pacific Partnership, it risks falling behind others who will set higher standards.

Last of all, he needs a government service that can support his diplomacy. India’s foreign service is roughly the size of New Zealand’s. The country’s defence-procurement system is rotten and dependent on second-rate state-owned firms. Newly eased restrictions on foreigners investing in defence could help. And India’s armed forces need skilled employees, modern equipment, more outside scrutiny and better co-operation between commands. For India to become influential abroad, Mr Modi has to do some tightening up at home.

Now if only America would . . .

I PREDICT A GROWTH OF STRANGE NEW RESPECT: Obama: Bush-Cheney ‘Security Apparatus’ Makes Us ‘Pretty Safe.’

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CONTROL IS THEIR TOP PRIORITY: Liberals Not So Hot On Uber. “One weakness of Uber’s business model is that it is easy to replicate, but so are cheap hamburgers, which is why we have lots of fast-food burger chains and we don’t need a Big Mac regulator, and why Uber is unlikely to achieve any kind of durable monopoly position. One way they actually might, however, is if app-based car services become subject to government regulation, in which case the industry will become cartelized for the benefit of incumbent firms. The scholarship on this point, and the empirical evidence behind it, is overwhelming—so overwhelming that you’d think even Salon might get it.”

ROGER SIMON: My ISIS Strategy. “I don’t have much question about what to do about ISIS. Obliterate it.”

SO THIS IS BASICALLY THE INTERNATIONAL-AFFAIRS VERSION OF THE “AMERICA HAS BECOME UNGOVERNABLE” COVER STORY: “It’s difficult virtually to the point of impossibility to have a grand strategy in a world that is so fluid.”

OUT: HOPE AND CHANGE. IN: PREPARE FOR ARMAGEDDON! Strategy irony: Obama declares ‘National Preparedness Month,’ ‘PrepareAthon.’

Well, you can start at . . . well, you know.

DANIEL HANNAN: Rotherham child sex scandal: these children were victims of ‘anti-racism.’

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