BIGLAW PRACTICE ISN’T FOR EVERYONE. IN FACT, IT’S NOT FOR VERY MANY PEOPLE AT ALL. Why Are Older Women Leaving BigLaw? I left a big law firm, and I was neither old, nor a woman. But I looked at the partners and their lives and thought, “this is what it looks like when you win?”

But one thing I noticed about a lot of the partners was that they worked hard and pushed for more compensation because they were married to women who spent a lot of money. Perhaps the older women lawyers don’t have that incentive to stick around.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Email Hack Unmasks a Commander-in-Chief Who Can’t Even Protect Herself.

Related: Why Does Putin Own Everything? America’s weakest point: politicians.

Cyber-security requires discipline and a willingness to inconvenience oneself for the greater good. Those qualities are not widespread within America’s ruling class.

YEAH, THE PROBLEM IS THE DEBUNKING SITES ARE OFTEN BUNK: Snopes Caught Lying About Lack Of American Flags At Democratic Convention.

ZEROING IN ON THE IMPORTANT ISSUES: Can The New York Times Weddings Section Be Justified? I think, as a contrast to all the natter about inequality on the editorial pages, it serves a valuable function by reminding us what NYT readers really care about, and are really like. “The Times emphasizes four things about a person–college degrees, graduate degrees, career path, and parents’ profession–for these are the markers of upscale Americans today.”

Plus: “To argue that the page has diversified is tantamount to saying ‘Why, we feature lots of different kinds of people. There are transgender Harvard grads, Hispanic Harvard grads….'”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: “For right now, though, expect Hillary to get a bump in polling as Bernie Sanders voters reluctantly fall in line,” Ed Morrissey writes. “Whether that lasts for very long is debatable, though, given the headlines Hugh cites that stepped all over the last day of the convention in the Friday news cycle. By late August or early September, we should have a firm view of the post-convention political environment, so until then don’t take polling too much to heart.”

COOL: This guy used over 80,000 old photos to create a Google Street map of New York City in the 1800s.

New York City has a long and sprawling history, but looking at the city today, it’s hard to tell what it looked like in the past. Luckily, an enterprising coder has solved that problem by creating a Google Street View map for New York City for the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Developer Dan Vanderkam collaborated with the New York Public Library to plot all the old photos from the Photographic Views of New York City, 1870s-1970s collection on an interactive map.

The project, called OldNYC, lets you browse 19th-century New York as easily as you would click around on Google Maps. The collection contains over 80,000 original photographs.

The site is here.

VENEZUELA DECREES FORCED LABOR IN THE FIELDS FOR CITIZENS.

This is known as “bad luck.”

NO. NEXT QUESTION? Ilya Shapiro: Is Johnson-Weld a Libertarian Ticket?

Weld, who seems like a nice man and was apparently a decent governor, is the living expositor of the difference between a libertarian and someone who’s “socially liberal and fiscally conservative.”

Case in point: this week’s ReasonTV interview, where Weld praises Justice Stephen Breyer and Judge Merrick Garland, who are the jurists most deferential to the government on everything, whether environmental regulation or civil liberties. Later in the same interview, he similarly compliments Republican senators like Mark Kirk and Susan Collins, who are among the least libertarian of the GOP caucus in terms of the size and scope of government and its imposition on the private sector and civil society.

My point isn’t to criticize the Weld selection as a matter of political strategy. Indeed, he seems to have brought a certain respectability to a party that is rarely taken seriously. And if that moves the national political debate in a more libertarian direction, bully.

But then look at the most recent news made by the man at the top of the LP ticket. Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, in an interview with (my friend) Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner, calls religious freedom “a black hole” and endorses a federal role in preventing “discrimination” in all its guises. More specifically, he’s okay with fining a wedding photographer for not working a gay wedding – a case from New Mexico where Cato and every libertarian I know supported the photgrapher – and forcing the Little Sisters of the Poor to pay for contraceptives (where again Cato and libertarians supported religious liberty). He also bizarrely compare Mormonism to religiously motivated shootings.

In other words, Johnson doesn’t just come off as anti-religion, but completely misses the distinction between public (meaning government) and private action that is at the heart of (classical) liberal or libertarian legal theory. That’s a shame: it makes him no different than progressives in that regard – or social conservatives, who miss the distinction in the other direction, restricting individual rights in addition to government powers.

So, basically, we have three Democratic tickets running for President.

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DAILY KOS: Election Justice USA Study Finds that Without Election Fraud Sanders Would Have Won by Landslide.

NO, BUT POLITICS IS: Wired: Cool Catchphrase, Hillary, But Science Isn’t About Belief.

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THIS ISN’T THE 21st CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: People Body-Shamed a Plus Size Model for Losing Weight.

EZRA LEVANT: Trump “treason”? Actually, Russia signed a “mutual legal assistance” treaty — with Hillary’s husband, Bill.

HMM: Zika Virus in Florida: What We Know and What We Don’t Know. “Although the Zika virus has not yet been found in Florida mosquitoes, the state’s health department has decided to treat as mosquito-borne four cases in which Florida residents have tested positive. Some of the four victims — three men and one woman — worked in the same neighborhood, and it is thought they contracted it from mosquitoes there in early July.”

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO . . . OH, HELL, YOU KNOW: Authorities: Teacher Had Sex With Teen Boy, Gave Him A Gun. “Jamee Hiatt of Grass Lake was arrested by Jackson police in January after resigning from her job as third-grade teacher at Woodworth Elementary School in Leslie, Michigan. Prior to that, she taught at Leslie Middle School as recently as 2013, according to the district’s website. The 31-year-old was charged with criminal sexual conduct. Authorities say the charges stemmed from a sexual relationship with a boy that began in 2014, when he was 13 years old.”

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Justice Department Knew of IRS Scandal Two Years Before Congress but Did Nothing.

As Hillary said earlier this month, can you imagine electing a vindictive man who might send the IRS after his critics?

Who would even “joke” about it beforehand? Just imagine it!

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: America’s First Major Socialist Party Debuts in Philadelphia.

As with previous experiments in socialism, this will end well.

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“SKIN OF COLOR?” Patients With Skin of Color Less Likely to Survive Skin Cancer.

A new study published online in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology states that while Caucasians have a higher risk of skin cancer compared to the general population — and have the highest incidence of melanoma — people with skin of color are less likely to survive the disease.

Researchers analyzed the data of approximately 97,000 patients who were diagnosed with melanoma over a 17-year period (between 1992 and 2009). And even though Caucasians had the largest number of cases of the disease, they had the best overall survival rate, followed by Hispanic patients and patients in the Asian-American/Native American/Pacific Islander group.

The patients with the worst rate of survival: African-Americans. They were also the group most likely to be diagnosed when the disease reached its later stages.

One of the investigators explains that time may play a part in this alarming news, since patients with skin of color often do not seek immediate medical attention after spotting a suspicious marking. And while it’s still unclear, he adds that there might be biological differences in melanoma among these people, which results in a more aggressive form of the disease.

Hmm. Despite the name, I don’t think that more melanin has anything to do with more-aggressive melanoma, but who knows? But obviously there’s less contrast between a dark mole and dark skin and a dark mole and light skin. Plus, I think a lot of black people may assume that they’re immune to skin cancer. But less likely to get it isn’t the same as immune.

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-RUN INDUSTRIES SUCH CESSPITS OF RACISM? ‘It’s a racist myth that only a white man can save the world’: Constance Wu hits out at ‘whitewashed’ Great Wall film in which Matt Damon plays soldier in ancient China.

Why does an industry chockablock full of institutional racism deserve its own tax cuts anyhow?

NO WORSE FOR WEAR: SpaceX Successfully Test-Fires Recovered Rocket.

EMBRACE THE HEALING POWER OF ‘AND:’ Trevor Noah: Satirist? Or DNC Sellout?

DAVID SOLWAY: Domesticating Donald — What’s Not To Like?

UH OH: Nate Silver Officially Declares it time for Democrats to Panic. All the attacks on Jill Stein yesterday should have been the tipoff.