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THIS ISN’T SHOCKING NEWS: Students With Poor Health Habits Also Make Poor Grades. “There’s a strong link between teens’ health habits and their academic achievement, according to a new U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey.” If you read the story, the “link” is that both depend on bourgeois habits. Nobody tell the Penn Law faculty.

THE SCIENCE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SETTLED: US forecast models have been pretty terrible during Hurricane Irma: NOAA’s best weather model seems to be getting worse with hurricanes, not better.

BREACH OF DUTY: How Democrats left America naked before North Korea’s nukes.

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Millennial Chick Can’t Stop Having Sex with Trump Supporters.

Chicks dig bad boys, to coin an Instaphrase…

WE’RE GONNA PARTY LIKE IT’S 1984! OR, THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH, NOW WITH TWO-THIRDS MORE FUNK: “Statue Mania Comes to Minnesota,” John Hinderaker writes at Power Line, noting that “The Star Tribune reports on an effort to cart away a statue of Christopher Columbus and replace him with…Prince.”

Shouldn’t a statue of Apollonia or Vanity be added as well, to placate Minneapolis feminists?

ANOTHER ‘MIGHTY DAY:’ Irma to Hit Florida 117 Years After Galveston Storm Killed 12,000.

Galveston residents had no warning of the Category 4 storm bearing down on them, Rick Moran writes, in a chilling story (with video) of the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.

IF ONLY THERE WERE SOME INEXPENSIVE WAY TO KILL THEM IN LARGE NUMBERS: Infectious Mosquitoes Are Turning Up in New Regions.

THE GHOST OF LEONARD BERNSTEIN COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT AND NON-TAX DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS, as New York magazine comes full circle, nearly a half century later. New York Magazine: White Audiences Must ‘Examine Their Racist Failings:’

Relics of the past should be preserved, for the sake of history, art, and future generations. But the current frenzy to demand removal of (and in some cases actually violently destroy) Confederate monuments, and even American monuments threatens to erase large swaths of American history — noble and deplorable alike.

The arts are certainly not immune to the hysteria. In response to a theater in Tennessee cancelling a showing of Gone With the Wind, because of its “insensitivity,” New York Magazine’s Vulture published a piece calling the film, “a cinematic monument to the Confederacy.” However, Angelica Jade Bastien, the essayist, argued that the film should in fact be preserved. Why? “When watching Gone With the Wind, white audiences today who are willing to examine their racist failings must also examine how they specifically propagate the mythology that upholds white supremacy,” she reasoned.

Perhaps by holding lavish Park Avenue fundraisers to assuage their guilt, with the funds from elite leftists going to chicly radical organizations…

SO MAYBE K STREET IS GOOD FOR US TOO? Parasites Inside Your Body Could Actually Be Protecting You.

IRMA CAUSES KIRK CAMERON, JENNIFER LAWRENCE AND TOP POLITICO JOURNALISTS TO ACHIEVE RARE HARMONIC CONVERGENCE:

● Kirk Cameron: God sends hurricanes to teach us to repent.

● Jennifer Lawrence: ‘Mother Nature’s Rage’ Directed at U.S. Because of Trump.

● Politico Magazine: As Hurricane Irma prepares to strike, it’s worth remembering that Mother Nature never intended us to live here [in Florida].

As Iowahawk put it over a decade ago, “Top Scientists Warn: Sea Gods Angry!”

WW2 C-47 DELIVERING SUPPLIES IN HARVEY RELIEF EFFORT: This is a good story. The Bluebonnet Belle was built in 1944. Now she’s flown by the Commemorative Air Force. The plane few six missions over the Labor Day weekend.

THE WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL BOARD WRITES: Betsy DeVos’s remarks on campus sex assault were right on target.

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HISTORY: Another ‘Mighty Day’: Irma to Hit Florida 117 Years After Galveston Storm Killed 12,000.

HURRICANE HARVEY RELIEF FUNDRAISER: A former college roommate of mine is involved with this fundraiser. He also donated to it. A number of Rice University students suffered losses. He asked me to pass on the link. The athletic department helped organize this drive.

HOW’S THAT SPACE PROGRAM GOING? The Asteroid That Just Came Close to Earth Is So Huge It Has Its Own Moons.

GOOD: More Missile defenses installed in South Korea.

HMM: Lawyer who sued Gawker and Techdirt has a new target: Jezebel.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Married Teacher Charged with Rape, Sodomy for Allegedly Engaging in Sex Acts with Student.