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TRAVIS BICKLE, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Giuliani Blames New York’s Homeless Crisis on Progressivism of De Blasio.

SEVEN SURPRISING DOWNSIDES OF BEING EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT.

The last item is the most important on the list. (See also: The Dunning–Kruger Effect.)

SHOCKER: Study Finds That Chicago Criminals Get Guns From Friends, Family; Not acquired from gun shows or online sales.

A survey conducted by researchers from Duke University and the University of Chicago found that Chicago criminals obtained their firearms almost exclusively from friends and family.

The survey, funded by the Joyce Foundation and set to be published in the October edition of Preventive Medicine, consisted of interviews with 99 inmates at Chicago’s Cook County Jail who had illegally possessed a gun within six months of their incarceration. It found that most criminals only acquired guns from people they knew and trusted.

“It is rare for offenders to buy from licensed dealers, and also rare for them to steal their guns,” the study says. “Rather, the predominant sources of guns to offenders are family, acquaintances, fellow gang members—which is to say, members of their social network.”

The study found that due to fears of encountering undercover police officers attempting sting operations, a large majority of the criminals surveyed would only make illegal gun purchases from people they knew. “In discussing the underground gun market in their neighborhoods, most respondents emphasized the importance of connections—prior relationships that could create sufficient trust to reassure the seller that the transaction would not create an unacceptable legal risk,” the survey says. “A majority of the primary guns (40 of the 48 for which we have detailed information on the source) were obtained from family, fellow gang members, or other social connections; the fraction is still higher for secondary guns.”

“Only 2 of the 70 primary guns (3%) and no secondary guns were reported as purchased directly from a gun store.”

It’s as if all the “anti crime” gun-control proposals we hear were mostly meant to make it harder for ordinary, law-abiding people to buy guns.

ROGER SIMON ASKS, WHICH REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES COULD WIN THE GENERAL?

TO BE FAIR, THAT’S ALWAYS THE LEFT’S PREFERRED APPROACH TO UNDESIRABLES: Guardian Columnist Julie Bindel Says Put All Males ‘In Some Kind of Camp.’

RELATED: Guardian columnist proclaims “Wasps may have stung me in the testicles – but I love them anyway.” Unexpectedly.

THE EDUCATION OF TOM BROKAW CONTINUES APACE: Brokaw ‘Stunned’ by Clinton’s Answers on Her E-Mail Use.

But of course — Brokaw is always stunned or surprised by Democrat malfeasance and incompetence, to the point where he ridiculously claimed on the eve of the 2008 election to Charlie Rose that “We don’t know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy,” despite having two years to observe and interview the man, study up on him, his background and influences, and an entire news department available at his beck and call to research the issue. But then, you don’t rise to near the top of the Inner Party without being able to perform some serious doublethink when necessary to help advance the cause.

THE DEFINITIVE LIST OF THE 19 UGLIEST COLLEGE CAMPUSES IN AMERICA: As Tom Wolfe famously wrote in From Bauhaus to Our House, postwar American architecture was so in thrall to the socialist worker housing of the Bauhaus that it effectively lobotomized itself. Modern architects could only work in two modes without being declares apostates to the cause: Miesian steel and glass, or the even more soul-crushing and appropriately named brutalist concrete architecture inspired by Le Corbusier. The rest is the Daily Caller’s list.

Which college campuses would you add to the architectural hall of shame? Let us know in the comments below.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How Long Can You Survive On Beer Alone?

‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’—A YEAR FROM NOW: Victor Davis Hanson explores the predecessors to the “Black Lives Matter” slogan and the many reasons why its current iteration will be gone within a year. What will replace it?

DOES NPR NOT READ NPR WHEN IT COMES TO GUN VIOLENCE?

Assuming that that second number NPR quotes is accurate: the ‘psychic toll of gun violence’ apparently is worst among people who can’t understand why gun homicide rates keep going down, ‘despite’ the fact that the Left can’t get gun control laws passed. This is not a new problem for the gun control crowd: they’ve been waiting to see gun violence rates rise ever since the ‘assault weapons’ ban expired. Waiting and waiting and waiting.

Hey, that narrative won’t shape itself.

JANE THE ACTUARY: Killing the goose that laid the golden egg, or, Culture Matters.

It’s practically an article of faith in the United States in 2015 that “diversity is our strength” (I voiced skepticism here), and that we have to respect all world cultures and have a certain understanding of them. But at the same time, we still gloss over cultural differences, and are too willing to resort to platitudes like “no culture is better than any other” or imagine that “culture” is limited to special foods or music or dance or celebrations, or perhaps recognize differences such as whether it’s polite to be on time or an hour later than the specified commencement of an event, but ignore the way culture is a mindset at a much deeper level.

If Germany admits 800,000 Syrians, or 8,000,000 Syrians, or some similarly huge number, this year or the next, or cumulatively over time, on top of Turks and other Muslims already living in the country, there is a very real issue of assimilation — and already-resident Turks are for the most part already poorly assimilated. It’s not about their being Muslim, per se, if they were as indifferently Muslim as most Germans are indifferently Christian. It’s about the sudden arrival of very large numbers of (mostly male) migrants who don’t speak the language and are by and large poorly educated in any language, and who, even if they learn German and become educated (and that alone is a huge task, much bigger than the simple provision of funds and social services), are unlikely to share in German culture.

It’s about more than sharing the wealth, though that’s part of it, as resettlement assistance risks overwhelming German finances. Especially considering how low Germany’s birth rate is (a steady 1.4 TFR for the past generation), a high rate of immigration (via asylum-seekers or otherwise) will change Germany, and it risks becoming merely a place name, without the culture that built up its economic power. Should this happen, the migrants who sought prosperity will have killed the goose that laid the golden egg.

Not killing the goose requires long-term rationality and self-control.

SECOND ANNUAL LABOR DAY INDIE AUTHOR SALE:  Eyes of Osiris by Anita Young, $2.99 and Acts of War by James Young, $2.99

I’VE SAID THIS FOR YEARS: Millennials Are Out-Reading Older Generations. This is, after all, the generation that had to become fluent readers in order to participate in the online give and take.  No matter how they abbreviated or misspelled, they still had to read well.

HAIL ATLANTIS:  Yes, of course I’m joking, but this is interesting.  Plus some nice photos.

LOOKING FOR: The Fall Guy.

INSOMNIA THEATER (LABOR DAY EDITION)! Filmmaker Ted Balaker is coming out with an awesome and important new film called Can We Take a Joke? this fall. The documentary will feature brand new interviews with top comedians, including Gilbert Gottfried, Penn Jillette, Jim Norton, Lisa Lampanelli, Adam Carolla, Heather McDonald, and Karith Foster. It will also include interviews with authors Jon Ronson and Jonathan Rauch, as well as free speech specialists like Ron Collins, Bob Corn-Revere, and me.

My organization, FIRE, has been working with Ted on this project from the very beginning. In order to support free speech, satire, parody, and comedy on campus, we just launched a new fundraising campaign. Under this new campaign we will support the right to be funny on campus (and the right not to be punished when you fall flat), produce a lengthy video of our interview with comedian Penn Jillette about the essentiality of free speech and comedy, and, at risk of protests and disinvitations, plan screenings of Can We Take a Joke? on campuses next spring.

Look out for more news about the documentary in the next few months. In the meantime, sign up for the film’s email list at its website, follow the Twitter account, “like” the Facebook page, and check out the interview Ted did with Reason’s Nick Gillespie to learn more about the film:

SECOND ANNUAL LABOR DAY INDIE AUTHOR SALE: Outcasts and Gods by Pam Uphoff, 99c

POTEMKIN GLACIER: Of Photo-Ops, Glaciers, and Climate Change.

THIS SURPRISES NO ONE WHO WAS ALIVE THEN: Colleges brainwash students into believing 9/11 was our fault.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Take Yourself Out Of Business.

SECOND ANNUAL LABOR DAY INDIE AUTHOR SALE: Ninth Euclid’s Prince by Dan Hoyt, 2.99

HEADESKHEADDESKHEADDESK, THAT’S ALL:Parchin inspection plan won’t work, IAEA’s credibility on the line, says ex-deputy.

IT’S EUROPE: Europe’s multi-layered hypocrisy on refugees.