SARAH HOYT: Publishing in Cloud-CooCoo Land.

THE INSTAWIFE: When Will They Outlaw Pickup Trucks?

MULL FASTER: House Intel Committee Mulls Contempt Citations Against FBI, DOJ.

YOU FIRST: Taxes Need to Go Up, Not Down.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Would You Drink Tequila from Scotland?

HEALTH: Most American Kids Today Will Be Obese by Age 35.

Obesity is classified as having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or higher. BMI is calculated by dividing the subject’s weight in kilograms by the square of their height in meters.

BMI is the most widely used system for establishing whether someone is underweight, of normal weight, overweight or obese. However, it’s rather simplistic and is controversial as a health indicator, as it doesn’t take into account the differences between fat and muscle (which is heavier than fat), nor does it factor in ethnic background.

The new research took data from five earlier studies about actual American children and adults’ height and weight, and simulated growth trajectories in order to project where today’s kids were likely to end up by the age of 35.

The results showed that 57.3% of today’s kids, up to the age of 19, will be obese by the age of 35. Of those, around half will become (or already be) obese during childhood, and half will become obese later on.

Good lord.

I think it’s safe to say that government dietary guidelines have been ineffective at best and practically murderous at worst.

I HAD ONE OF THESE, BUT IT WAS TOTALLY STOCK: Watch a Complete Air-Cooled VW Engine Teardown and Rebuild in Six Minutes Flat.

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REQUIRED READING: ‘The Strategy of Victory’: Thomas Fleming’s Last Testament to George Washington.

HIGHER EDUCATION: Cevro: An Interdisciplinary Czech College Run by Libertarians.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot: Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism.

—Headline, The New York Times, August 12.

● Chaser: What to Wear to Smash the State.

—Headline, the New York Times, Wednesday. (Link safe; goes to Hot Air.)

YES, BUT… Electricity Prices Plummet as Gas, Wind Gain Traction and Demand Stalls.

Your monthly electric bill doesn’t show the subsidies paid to producers of wind energy, but it should.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: US troops get freeze-dried plasma for battlefield bloodshed.

ANDREW MCCARTHY: What The Flynn Plea Means. “Obviously, it was wrong of Flynn to give the FBI false information; he could, after all, have simply refused to speak with the agents in the first place. That said, as I argued early this year, it remains unclear why the Obama Justice Department chose to investigate Flynn. There was nothing wrong with the incoming national-security adviser’s having meetings with foreign counterparts or discussing such matters as the sanctions in those meetings. Plus, if the FBI had FISA recordings of Flynn’s conversations with Kislyak, there was no need to ask Flynn what the conversations entailed.”

Refusing to speak with them seems like a no-brainer nowadays.

FASTER, PLEASE: Blockchains are poised to end the era of passwords – and password database security breaches. The idea of a self-sovereign ID should please everyone, although I still can’t stop laughing at the sentence at the end of the linked article.

GOOD NEWS FOR ME: Early receding hairline linked to higher risk of heart disease.

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YOU DON’T SAY: Chris Matthews Says Democrats ‘Pissed on’ White Working-Class Voters Too Long.

CAESAR INVADES BRITAIN UPDATE: Archaeologists find first archeological evidence for Julius Caesar’s invasion of Britain.

The first Roman invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar in 55BC is a historical fact, with vivid accounts passed down by Tacitus, Cicero and Caesar himself.

Yet, despite a huge landing force of legionaries from 800 ships, no archaeological evidence for the attack or any physical remains of encampments have ever been found.

Good read.

FASTER, PLEASE: Time to Relegate Lena Dunham to the Dust Bin of History.

OOPS: Real wish or drunken regret? A “Do Not Resuscitate” tattoo throws doctors.

LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: How Venezuela inadvertently became a cashless economy.

The cash crunch is so acute that ATMs now provide a daily limit of 10,000 bolívars, enough to buy just a few cups of coffee. Black-market money changers charge commissions of up to 20% to score paper money for small business people who pay their workers in cash. Banks are running out of banknotes.

“Sometimes, bank tellers will only pay you half of your pension and suggest that you come back later for the rest,” said Marta Milano, who was waiting in a long line outside a state-run bank in Caracas hoping to collect her pension.

Although many nations are moving away from paper money in favor of electronic payments – for convenience and to reduce street crime – critics contend that Venezuela is inadvertently turning into a cashless society thanks to economic blunders by President Nicolás Maduro’s socialist government.

Out-of-control state spending, government currency controls and other policies have led to what many describe as hyperinflation, as well the collapse of the bolívar – which now trades at about 107,000 to the pound on the black market.

Now, there is not enough cash in circulation to keep up with skyrocketing prices.

Another thing there isn’t enough of to go around? “Unexpectedlys” for this report.

BRIDGET JOHNSON WITH JUST THE FACTS, MA’AM: Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to FBI, Cooperating in Mueller Probe.

DAVE KOPEL: The American Indian foundation of American gun culture.