SHAME ABOUT NY CITY SCHOOLS: How civic innovation helped New Orleans roar back.

AND OUR LITTLE DOGS TOO: Did Dog-Human Alliance Drive Out the Neanderthals?

TO BE FAIR, HILLARY’S PANTSUIT WAS IMPERFECTLY CREASED: How Your New York Times Op-Ed Sausage Gets Made.

THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS IS NOT JUST A NOVEL: Migrant trains reach Germany as EU asylum system creaks. “Thank God nobody asked for a passport … No police, no problem.”

DO TELL: Slate: Obama Is a Climate Hypocrite. His Trip to Alaska Proves It. Taking your own jet 4,200 miles to talk about people’s carbon footprint. Par for the course.

TO BE FAIR, IT’S IN SHORT SUPPLY ALL OVER: “It’s uncomfortable watching a grown man doing this in public. There is no virtus there.”

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I THOUGHT I’D ALREADY BLOGGED THIS STORY, BUT APPARENTLY I JUST MEANT TO: YouTube-taught javelin thrower Julius Yego wins gold at world championships. “The 26-year-old does not have a coach, and learned how to throw by watching YouTube video of the sport’s greats. . . . ‘I watched YouTube and it really paid off for me, to see the training techniques and skills they are using.'”

OF COURSE THEY DO: New York’s Taxi Cartel Is Collapsing. Now They Want a Bailout.

BILL QUICK DOESN’T MINCE WORDS: “Chickenshit Charlie Manson wannabes.”

A POST ABOUT ELIZABETH WARREN, but not about politics.

IT’S ALL ABOUT CONTROL: The Latest Frontier In Total Regulation? Exercise. “If you think about this for a moment, it appears that the regulators have their eye on CrossFit, just as they want to strangle Uber.”

THIS WILL CAUSE SOME HEADS TO EXPLODE: Gluten-free GM wheat can help celiac patients.

AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Blast Seen in Chemical Industry Zone in Shandong, Daily Reports.

FEDERAL RESERVE INCOMPETENCE: The Sleeper Campaign Issue of 2016?

Since the Great Recession ended in 2009, the recovery has been slow and painful. Wages have been so stagnant that the average American family earns $1,000 a year less in income than it did in 2008. That’s why some two-thirds of people believe that their children won’t be better off than they were — a reversal of the American Dream. A growing number of people believe the Federal Reserve has hurt rather than helped the recovery. It has pursued zero-interest-rate policies that have perversely made it impossible for many businesses to get credit to expand. The Fed and other central banks have injected trillions of dollars into the global economy; according to the New York Sun, the result is that “the world is now afflicted by a public-sector debt bubble that could rupture in any of a number of countries.” The Fed’s blatant attempt to prop up asset prices has fueled inequality. The Fed’s low-interest-rate policies have “exacerbated the wealth gap between the poor and the rich, because the rich have assets,” former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg recently said. “And that is what is being hiked here because of low interest rates, whether they own stocks or whatever the case may be.”

Plus:

Jeff Bell, a former adviser to Ronald Reagan and now the director of policy at the American Principles Project, told the conference he was excited by a new poll his group commissioned from pollster McLaughlin and Associates. It asked 1,000 likely voters whether they supported a gold standard, while recognizing that many people would be unfamiliar with the concept. But a surprising 39 percent agreed that the country would be better off with one, with only 15 percent disagreeing. The remaining 46 percent did not know. Surprisingly, support for a fixed monetary rule crossed demographic divides. While 45 percent of Republicans backed gold, so too did 37 percent of Democrats. A surprising 39 percent of African Americans favored a gold standard, the same number as the general population. Hispanics, at 45 percent, and Asians, at 61 percent, were significantly more in favor of the concept. By age, 38 percent of those younger than 30 wanted a gold standard, while only 34 percent of those over 65 agreed.

That is surprising. At least, I’m surprised.

WHEN “FIND” MEANS, BASICALLY, “SWAM RIGHT INTO IT:” Researchers find sunken military vessel missing for decades.

HOPE THE VACCINE IS BETTER TARGETED THIS YEAR: Flu Season Just Around the Corner.

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MISSING FROM THIS STORY IS ANY FOCUS ON THE FACT THAT THE KILLER WAS HIMSELF A NEWSMAN: Virginia TV Shooting Leaves News Crews Rattled. But it’s true that changes in technology — and budget cuts — make situational awareness tough. Used to be you’d have at least 3 people on a shoot. Now you’ve got the on air talent — who has to look at the camera — and maybe a cameraman — who has to look through the camera — and no producer or production assistant or anyone who can keep an eye on surroundings.

SERIES FINALE: Nanny Of The Month: Cops Shut Down Jerry Seinfeld; What’s Up with Lemonade Stands?

AT 20, SHE’S TOO YOUNG TO HAVE VOTED FOR OBAMA: Woman Who Can’t Spell “Whore” Allegedly Keyed Her “Wore” Friend’s Car.

“VESTER FLANAGAN, POSTER BOY FOR LEFTIST ‘MICROAGGRESSION’ CULTURE:” At Big Government, Ben Shapiro writes:

According to The New York Post, Williams took nearly everything as a racial insult. Trevor Fair, a cameraman at WDBJ, said Parker would say, “The reporter’s out in the field,” and Williams would respond, “What are you saying, cotton fields? That’s racist.” When a manager brought in watermelon for employees, Williams reportedly said, “You’re doing that because of me… You guys are calling me out because I’m black.” He even accused 7-Eleven of racism for selling watermelon-flavored Slurpees.

Bryce Williams may have been mentally ill. But he was the ultimate product of the left’s microaggression society, seeking offense everywhere and then lashing out at others based on a perceived sense of victimization. Some victimization is objectively true, but that doesn’t mean that all claims of victimization are. The notion that subjective self-assessment of victimization should take precedence over objective fact is deeply dangerous.

Jim Geraghty dubbed Flanagan a “Grievance Collector:”

There are disturbing ramifications if media discussions are indeed driving us to become a more grievance-minded society. Willard Gaylin, one of the world’s preeminent psychology professors, writes about the dangers of “grievance collecting” in his book Hatred: The Psychological Descent into Violence:

Grievance collecting is a step on the journey to a full-blown paranoid psychosis. A grievance collector will move from the passive assumption of deprivation and low expectancy common to most paranoid personalities to a more aggressive mode. He will not endure passively his deprived state; he will occupy himself with accumulating evidence of his misfortunes and locating the sources. Grievance collectors are distrustful and provocative, convinced that they are always taken advantage of and given less than their fair share. . . .

Underlying this philosophy is an undeviating comparative and competitive view of life. Everything is part of a zero-sum game. Deprivation can be felt in another person’s abundance of good fortune.

At the heart of the grievance collector’s worldview is that he is not responsible for the condition of his life; a vast conspiracy of malevolent individuals and forces is entirely at fault. There is always someone else to blame, and the Virginia shooter quickly finds ways to excuse his actions and deflect the responsibility to others.

For decades, the media has given “grievance collectors” plenty of fuel for their paranoia. In a fawning 1990 profile of Bryant Gumbel, then co-host of NBC’s Today Show, a New York Times journalist off-handedly wrote:

The writer-producer Allison Davis, who is also black, notes that Gumbel does many subtle things on the air to help change images. One example, she says: “Bryant Gumbel does not say ‘Black Monday’ when talking about the stock market. He’s constantly qualifying and looking at stories where the issue of race may or may not be germane.”

And every November, like clockwork, someone in the media sees racism in the phrase “Black Friday.” In 2012, the words “golf” and “Chicago” were deemed racist by a division of NBC.

In 2011, Democrats in the media instantaneously seized on Sarah Palin’s clip art as a cause for the shooting in Tucson. When it was obvious that the shooter never saw Palin’s clip art or its concurrent use by Democrats (it’s the nature of elections that everyone is being “targeted” for defeat by someone) this was followed by lots of trolling leftist articles demanding a new civility from politicians and the media on both sides of the aisle.

Naturally, nothing changed; don’t look for the media to stop providing rhetorical ammo to grievance collectors anytime soon, either.

(Of course, as long as the violence is merely rhetorical, it’s fascinating to watch the grievance collectors devour each other — such as the left turning against leftist house organ Salon for describing Trinidadian-born American rap star Nicki Minaj as “savage” in a tweet.)

UPDATE: Joe Scarborough: Cable news has put lives at risk, including MSNBC, for “a few ratings points.”

ALSO, A MILITARY BUILDUP: Fear of Russia Drives High-Voltage Power Projects in the Baltics.

THERE IS AN INDIVIDUAL WHO IS RESPONSIBLE. THAT INDIVIDUAL IS KNOWN. THAT INDIVIDUAL WILL EVENTUALLY TALK. Mystery deepens into how classified emails got onto Clinton’s unclassified server. “It is hard to move classified documents into the non-classified system. You couldn’t move a document by mistake.”

GOP OUTSIDERS SURGE IN LATEST IOWA POLL: The Monmouth University poll, conducted Aug. 27-30, now has Trump and Carson tied in Iowa at 23%, with Carly Fiorina third at 10%. Jeb Bush is far behind, at 5% support (pretty horrific for someone with such broad name recognition), and his unfavorables are higher than any other candidate, at an astonishing 51%.

It’s definitely the year of the anti-establishment candidate.