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SOME OF MY MEDICAL FRIENDS ARE EXCITED ABOUT THIS, THOUGH IT SOUNDS IFFY TO ME: The effects of grounding (earthing) on inflammation, the immune response, wound healing, and prevention and treatment of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. “Specifically, grounding an organism produces measurable differences in the concentrations of white blood cells, cytokines, and other molecules involved in the inflammatory response. We present several hypotheses to explain observed effects, based on current research results and our understanding of the electronic aspects of cell and tissue physiology, cell biology, biophysics, and biochemistry. An experimental injury to muscles, known as delayed onset muscle soreness, has been used to monitor the immune response under grounded versus ungrounded conditions. Grounding reduces pain and alters the numbers of circulating neutrophils and lymphocytes, and also affects various circulating chemical factors related to inflammation.”

I wonder if swimming in salt water has this effect. I always feel better after I do that!

IT’S ALWAYS NICE to make Twitchy.

HEADING TOWARD A CEAUSESCU MOMENT? Venezuelan President Is Chased by Angry Protesters.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. This election is pathological. Path-o-logical.

QUESTIONS NOBODY IS ASKING: Are You Ready for Mr. Loopy’s Transgender Bathroom Song for Kiddies?

COMPARE AND CONTRAST: Trump speaks in a black church in Detroit and Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild makes a “nice night” for Hillary Clinton on the lawn of her Martha’s Vineyard estate.

ASHE SCHOW: It’s Been a Very Bad Week for Hillary.

AND AGAIN: 14 Dead in Philippine Blast: Abu Sayyaf Suspected.

IT’S NOT SANDY, BUT IT’S A PROBLEM FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE: Tropical Storm Warning Issued for NYC Area as Hermine Nears.

“SMART DIPLOMACY:” Row on tarmac an awkward G20 start for U.S., China. “The same official shouted at a White House press aide who was instructing foreign reporters on where to stand as they recorded Obama disembarking from the plane. ‘This is our country. This is our airport,’ the official said in English, pointing and speaking angrily with the aide.”

SCIENCE: Vatican Endorses The Althouse Rule.

UPDATE: From the comments:

Laying the groundwork for female priests.

You have a study that shows male priests are superior!? Well, his Holy Father says be suspicious of it.

Hmm.

FREEDOM IS GOOD: Shakespearean Actresses Are Getting Nude Again, In The Name Of Free Expression.

LIFE IN CALIFORNIA: Jerry Brown’s Housing Hypocrisy.

Jerry Brown worrying about the California housing crisis is akin to the French policeman played by Claude Rains in “Casablanca” being “shocked, shocked” about gambling at the bar where he himself collects his winnings.

Brown has long been at the forefront on drafting and enforcing regulations that make building housing both difficult and very expensive. And now he has pushed new legislation, which seems certain to be passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor, that makes it worse by imposing even more stringent regulations on greenhouse gas emissions, mandating a 40 percent cut from 1990 levels by 2030.

Well, when California becomes part of Mexico, regulations will be relaxed. Plus, taco trucks on every corner!

WAIT, WHAT? Clinton losing support among Hispanics. “According to the Washington Post, a new Latino Decisions poll found that 70 percent of registered Hispanic voters say they will definitely vote for Clinton or were leaning towards doing so. That’s not a bad number, but it’s down 6 points from April. Moreover, the same survey found that only 55 percent of Hispanics view Clinton favorably. That’s down from 71 percent in April.”

This election really is a race to the bottom.

WAIT, WHAT? WOMEN LIKE TO BE PURSUED? Even Women With Headphones May Want A Man To Chase Them.

Well, they like to be pursued by high-status men. Being pursued by low-status men makes them worry about their own status.

NAVY BRINGS IN A PLAYER FROM THE STANDS: He’s a freshman and he didn’t suit up because he’s way down the depth chart as a quarterback. But in today’s game Navy’s starting quarterback got hurt and the midshipman in the stands was told to suit up. He eventually got into the game. SBNation writer Rodger Sherman remembers Texas Aggie lore of a player coming out of the stands — then he ends up needling Aggies, albeit mildly.

A key moment in college football lore is that about a century ago, Texas A&M had to grab a 12th man out of the stands to complete a game. You’d think in the modern era of college football we’d never have a moment like that, but Navy had to grab a freshman quarterback out of its stands in the season opener against Fordham.

Here’s the A&M 12th Man story.

READINESS: How Florida Power Was Ready For Hermine.

PUTIN VERSUS PUTIN: From Radio Free Europe: “The emperor is at war with his inner godfather. The autocrat is battling his inner kleptocrat. The commissar is struggling with his inner crime kingpin.”

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FLORIDA KGB MAN: Vladimir Putin arrested … in a Florida supermarket.

As Glenn tweets, “These Chekists are masters of disguise.”

VIDEO: Here’s what Donald Trump had to say during his visit to a black church in Detroit.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: For first time, carbon nanotube transistors outperform silicon.

TAMARA KEEL ON HILLARY’S LATEST:

This is about as plausible as “the dog ate my homework”. She claimed she didn’t know that the “c” meant “confidential”, that nobody told her that she should retain work emails as they are part of the public record. Further in the article, she throws her staff under the bus, in effect claiming that underlings and minions told the dog to eat her homework.

That’s some Grade A leadership there, right? Makes you wanna sign right up for that outfit, no?

Further, I have an Ivy League lawyer, wife of a former governor and president, who lived in the White House for eight damned years, then went on to be a senator and Secretary of State telling me she didn’t know about classified email and that work-related documents needed to be saved as part of the public record?

Look, I don’t mind you bullshitting me a little bit, Hillary, but don’t you ever lie to me like I’m Montel Williams.

Oops.