NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Novel Nanomaterial Could Yield Lossless Charge and Energy Transport.

ELON MUSK: This Dream Is Real.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER WEEK: This Week in Clinton Corruption for September 28, 2016

RIP: SHIMON PERES DEAD AT 93.

IT’S PROBABLY NOTHING: Core Durable Goods Orders Contract For 20th Straight Month – Longest Non-Recessionary Streak In US History.

I’d quibble with the use of “non-recessionary.”

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE:

Boy, that joke just never gets old.

DISPATCHES FROM THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH:

Fragile Leftists at New York Magazine Take Down Video Calling Lawrence of Arabia Sexist After Backlash: “What is ironic about the social justice criticism of Lawrence of Arabia is that some interpret O’Toole’s performance to intentionally have homosexual undertones and the film’s female editor won an academy award for her role in the film.”

Earlier: NY Post Writer Wants ‘Racist’ Gone with the Wind Banished, but Black America Disagrees.

Comrade Ogilvy could not be reached for comment.

HOW A SINGLE SOVIET OFFICER AVERTED A NUCLEAR WAR. “His name was Vasili Arkhipov.”

AND RIGHTLY SO: National Space Society Space Settlement Campaign Supports Elon Musk’s Mars Settlement Plans. “What has been a bold vision of the future for humanity is now becoming reality. Humanity has begun the first concrete steps towards space settlement. The next decade will be one of the most pivotal in human history. Today we are beginning the journey to becoming a multiplanetary species.”

JOHN SCHINDLER: Denying America’s Islamist Terror Problem Doesn’t Make It Go Away—It Makes It Worse: FBI release of Mateen 911 calls proves what media and government doesn’t want to admit.

TROUBLE IN CLINTONLAND?

LATimes tracking shows nudge toward Trump. Only one day post-debate, but *if *others are similar she is in deep trouble.

— Sean T at RCP (@SeanTrende) September 28, 2016

Stay tuned…

MASCOTS OF THE ANOINTED: Four Things The Media Won’t Tell You About Hillary’s Beauty Queen BFF.

THAT MEANS IT’S WORKING: Tenn. lawmakers, residents search for solutions after Blue Cross Blue Shield pulls out of ACA.

Some state lawmakers are working right now to try to figure out what should be done to help the more than 100,000 Tennesseans who will need to find new health insurance by January 1.

Chris Kane is one of nearly 30,000 people in the Knoxville region losing Blue Cross Blue Shield health care coverage. Kane and his family were insured under the exchange.

“We are pretty much left with Humana or we can pay full price with one of the carriers we want to go with, which isn’t in our budget,” said Chris Kane.

After three years in the Affordable Care Act exchange, Blue Cross is experiencing too many losses to continue to provide marketplace plans.

Tennessee’s ObamaCare exchange had been touted by Democrats as an example of a successful implementation of the law, and I suppose they’re right.

SCIENCE! Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson Uses Science to Explain Celebrity News, and Compares Kim Kardashian to This Celestial Body.

As an astrophysicist, Tyson is an excellent TV host.

NOW HERE’S A POLL I WON’T QUESTION: Self-driving cars will have to pry the steering wheel from our cold, dead hands, poll says.

Americans like the idea of self-driving cars, but are less willing to cede control of the steering wheel to a computer program, according to a new poll released today. An overwhelming majority, 80 percent, said humans should always have the option to drive themselves, while 64 percent expressed a need to be in control of their own vehicle.

Moreover, people are essentially torn between the promise of safety and the need for control: 49 percent said they prefer a safer roadway even if it means they would have less control over their vehicle, while 51 percent said wanted to stay in the driver seat, safer streets be damned.

Self-driving cars are inevitable, but it’s difficult to stomach the idea of getting into a car without a steering wheel.

SNIFF: Howard Dean under fire for alleging Trump cocaine use at debate.

But — yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgh! — here’s video of Dean pressing on with the charge.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Obama sending up to 600 more troops to Iraq.

Flashback: Obama declared ISIS ‘contained’ day before last November’s Paris attack.

NARRATIVE FLIP: Keith Scott Had Illegal Gun, Threatened Family with It.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1238.

SYRIAN CEASEFIRE UPDATE: Two Hospitals Hit as Syria Continues Offensive to Retake City.

Medical officials said strikes hit two hospitals — codenamed M2 and M10 — before dawn on Wednesday.

The head of M10 said generators and water-storage facilities were damaged while the ICU also sustained major damage.

“The destruction is everywhere,” Dr. Mohammad Abu Rajab told NBC News. “A wave of dust washed over the patients as they laid in their hospital beds.”

He said the hospital has been taken out of service “completely and indefinitely,” calling it a “sad day” for medical professionals.

“We cannot provide essential medical services to our patients who need it,” Rajab lamented.

That’s almost certainly a feature, not a bug, in the brutal Russo-Syrian effort to retake Aleppo.

BATTLE OF THE JAY-VEEs: FBI Gets Around to Worrying About ISIS.

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: The Arizona Republic Endorses First Democrat for President in Its History.

Barry Goldwater could not be reached for comment.

THIS MUST BE A METAPHOR FOR SOMETHING: Elevator trouble closes Washington Monument indefinitely.

LIFE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: So the whole “investigation” thing was stressful, even though it turned out okay. And I was particularly pleased to see the University emphasize First Amendment protection so strongly, which is not to be taken for granted these days. But for those of you who think I spent the interval strapped to a post and being beaten about the head and shoulders with bundles of kale, well, it wasn’t like that.

Lots of colleagues, students and alumni offered support. Some took me out for drinks. One colleague even stopped by my house with homemade lemon bars and a hug. Few of them agreed with my controversial tweet, and probably all of them wished I’d said something else, but they knew me and realized it was just a momentary lapse. And although the safe-space mentality isn’t super-common among our law students, it’s even less common among the faculty. (And that includes those on the left, some of whom were among my loudest defenders). I heard nice things from former students (some of them are judges now, which makes me feel old), former colleagues, and even a Law School maintenance man. And the IT folks made quick work of an attempt to hack my email account. (Of course, there was plenty of hatemail, and even some death threats, but those came from outside the law school.)

I should also note that the University’s embrace of the First Amendment should be a real attraction for students and faculty candidates in every discipline. Sure, I was being attacked by (mostly) lefties. But in today’s shame-hysteria culture, nobody’s safe, left or right. So it’s better to be in a place where free speech rules. If I were looking at schools today, as either a student or a faculty candidate, a FIRE green-light rating would be a major plus. And, of course, you could do worse than make a donation to FIRE. They’re needed more than ever.

And beginning to plan my exodus from Twitter. Not quite sure the best way to go about that — if I just delete my account, I think somebody else can pick it up. Maybe I’ll just sign out and let it keep robo-tweeting stuff from the blog. And lots of people are saying that I should move to Gab, but I don’t know much about it. Feel free to offer advice in the comments.