JOE BIDEN MORPHED INTO GRANDPA SIMPSON SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED: Internet roasts Joe Biden for ‘No Malarkey’ campaign bus.

IT’S BEEN GOING ON TWO DECADES SINCE MICKEY KAUS noted the welfare/terrorism connection.

And yet: London Bridge attacker boasted about his UK benefits while plotting ‘Mumbai-style attack.’

KAMALA HAS ALWAYS DRIPPED CONTEMPT FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Harris aide, in resignation letter, says ‘I have never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly.’ To be fair, the aide undoubtedly would have put up with it and kept quiet if Harris were the frontrunner.

TO SERVE MAN: Joe Biden munches wife Jill’s finger at Iowa campaign stop.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. It’s Time For Civilian Control Of The State Department.

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THE BIDEN SOAP OPERA CONTINUES: Hunter Biden demands his financial records are kept SECRET by court in child support suit following claims of significant debts – but baby mama Lunden Roberts refuses to agree.

ANTISEMITISM IN THE HOMELAND OF VIDKUN QUISLING: Norwegian mayor asks church to replace Star of David decor, cites Israel.

Norway’s embassy to the United States is here. Their email is . Their phone is 202.469.3965.

JUST OUT FROM CHRISTOPHER NUTTALL: Their Last Full Measure (A Learning Experience Book 6).

Yes, he has two new books out in close order. He’s a prolific guy.

OPEN THREAD: Live large in the comments.

I STARTED A JOKE, WHICH STARTED THE WHOLE WORLD CRYING: Canadian Comedian Ordered to Pay $35,000 over a Joke.

BE PREPARED:  Yes, at least if you live in the USA, you can own a narwhal tusk like the one used against the London Bridge terrorist, but they are not cheap.

THIS WAS MY DAD’S HOMETOWN: How a Meteorite Ruined an Alabama Woman’s Afternoon 65 Years Ago Today. If you’re hit by a meteor while sitting on your couch, you might conclude that the universe is out to get you. Still: “Shockingly, Hodges is not the only person to have been hit by a meteorite.”

WELL, THAT’S TOTALLY NORMAL: Joe Biden Interrupts His Wife’s Campaign Speech To Bite Her Finger.

THAT SOUNDS USEFUL: Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electricity But Not Heat.

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TRUMP’S SOCIAL MEDIA GAME IS GROUCHO, AND THE PRESS IS MARGARET DUMONT: “Donald Trump Campaign Disputes Claim that Photo of President as Rocky Balboa Was ‘Doctored.'”

Team Trump was witty enough to say, “Washington Post claims – without evidence – that @realDonaldTrump shared a ‘doctored’ photo.”

That’s not — as Newsweek imagines — a dispute of WaPo’s “claim” that the photo did not show the real body of Donald Trump. It’s making fun of WaPo for saying what didn’t need to be said.

I believe it is also intended as mockery of the use of the phrase “without evidence” in reports on the impeachment hearings.

And it’s hilarious.

HEH:

Plus, the obvious answer is “a badass.”

Not the hero England wanted, but the hero England needed.

UPDATE 10/10 WOULD BUY: After the London Bridge terror attack, people are considering narwhal tusk attachments for their AR-15s.

MY DOC FRIENDS DON’T LIKE LOSING PATIENTS: Experienced Physicians More Likely to Struggle With Grief.

NOW OUT FROM CHRISTOPHER NUTTALL: First Strike. I started it last night and it’s good, like all his stuff.

HEH: Nation Looking For Right Phrase To Describe Media That Behaves Like Some Kind Of Adversary Of The Populace.

From America’s Paper of Record, the Babylon Bee.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Leftists Attack The ‘1619 Project.’

In the “Idea Laundering” post the other day, I mentioned an excellent interview on the World Socialist Web Site with Princeton historian James McPherson, one of the top Civil War scholars in the nation, in which McPherson tore apart The New York Times‘s ballyhooed “1619 Project.” That project, as regular readers will recall, is a massive effort by the newspaper to “reframe” (its word) the American founding around slavery. In the interview, McPherson basically argued that the project’s claims are woke nonsense. 

Read the whole thing. Meanwhile, Reason’s Cathy Young tweets an explanation for much of the New York Times’ craziness in the last few years: “Interesting fact about Gerald Horne, the historian whose work is most commonly cited as basis for the ‘1619 Project’ (or at least the claim that the ‘real’ goal of the American Revolution was to preserve slavery): he’s an actual, pro-Soviet Communist.”

HEADLINE: Life expectancy in the US keeps going down, and a new study says America’s worsening inequality could be to blame.

Problem: after adjusting for inflation, inequality hasn’t changed much since the 1960s.