MATHEMATICS IS THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE: Mathematics Has a Biological Origin, Study Reveals.

CLIMATE CHANGE: Reminder: 50 million tons of water vapor from Tonga’s eruption could warm Earth for years: The explosive event increased atmospheric water vapor by 5%.

MILE MARKERS ON THE ROAD TO DETROIT: Luxury San Francisco store may close after 166 years due to ‘litany of destructive’ policies making the city ‘unlivable.’

UNEXPECTEDLY! One Year Later, President Biden’s ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Is a Total Flop.

One year ago today, President Biden signed the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” into law. Today, the president will take the stage and attempt to take a victory lap over this legislative “victory.” But an honest accounting reveals that the misleadingly-named Inflation Reduction Act has woefully failed at its namesake goal: reducing inflation.

The legislation mostly consisted of green energy subsidies, healthcare subsidies, tax increases, and more funding for the Internal Revenue Service. Yet the President sold it to the public as a way to bring down the crushing inflation that continues to bankrupt the American people. (The typical U.S. family spent $709 more on monthly expenses last month, July 2023, than it did in July two years ago.)

The president promised during the debate over the legislation that the Inflation Reduction Act was “the strongest bill you can pass to lower inflation, reduce costs, and tackle our climate crisis.” But, while the inflation rate has dropped significantly, many economists from across the political spectrum agree that the IRA has had essentially no impact on that decline, which is almost entirely due to other factors, including the expiration of COVID stimulus spending and the Federal Reserve’s changes in monetary policy.

Why, it’s as if:

John Podesta just spent three minutes at the White House press briefing explaining how the "Inflation Reduction Act" is actually just a massive piece of climate legislation. pic.twitter.com/FcyAZTgyrF

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) August 16, 2023

GET WOKE, GO…: Target’s Quarterly Earnings Fall by 5.4%.

IT APPEARS THAT UNCONSCIOUS PEOPLE ARE MORE CONSCIOUS THAN WE REALIZE: Source of hidden consciousness in ‘comatose’ brain injury patients found.

This is why I’ve executed an Advanced Sexual Directive as part of my living will package, authorizing, and even encouraging, the Insta-Wife to, er, provide effective stimulation even if I appear to be unconscious. It might even aid recovery, and why take chances?

MARK JUDGE: Oliver Anthony could teach Rolling Stone a thing or two.

Rolling Stone magazine is a joke. Its editorial slant is always far Left, and it has been busted more than once for unethical reporting.

There was its infamous Duke Lacrosse case, which resulted in the magazine settling a lawsuit . Then, last year, Rolling Stone Editor-in-Chief Noah Shachtman was accused of omitting a key fact from a story — namely, that a journalist had been raided not due to government overreach, but as part of a federal investigation into child pornography.

Then there was the story about Oklahoma hospitals allegedly being overwhelmed by patients who the magazine claimed overdosed on the drug ivermectin to treat COVID-19. The story was garbage, with even the Washington Post writing the “bogus” story “was just too good to check.” (Full disclosure: Rolling Stone has also taken a few whacks at me.)

Now the magazine is criticizing “Rich Men North of Richmond,” the country song by Oliver Anthony that went supernova last week. The song is a lament about low wages and political corruption. But according to Rolling Stone, the song “is a passionate screed against the state of the country and right-wing influencers are very into it.” Reporter Joseph Hudak argues that the reason the song “is appealing to right-wing influencers” is that it “wades into some Reagan-era talking points about welfare” and even makes a reference to pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and his infamous island.

It’s a ridiculous take on a powerful and complex song. Like all other mainstream journalistic institutions, Rolling Stone has collapsed. Ideology has eroded creativity and critical thinking.

It’s a shame because Rolling Stone was once great — a magazine whose business model was one that modern conservatives would do well to emulate.

To be fair, Tom Wolfe, P.J. O’Rourke, and Hunter S. Thompson left the building a very long time ago.

Flashback: Sticky Fingers: A New Biography Explores the Seedier Side of Jann Wenner.

UNEXPECTED HEADLINES: ‘Flying Aliens’ Harassing Village in Peru Are Actually Illegal Miners With Jetpacks, Cops Say.

THE SIMPLEST WAY TO EXPLAIN THE BEHAVIOR OF ANY BUREAUCRATIC ORGANIZATION IS TO ASSUME THAT IT IS CONTROLLED BY A CABAL OF ITS ENEMIES: Snow White — How To Destroy Your Own Movie. New video by the Critical Drinker on Disney’s latest woes:

And if you missed it earlier from Steve: Disney Already Knows Who to Blame for Its Next Massive Flop.

(Classical reference in headline.)

UPDATE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARIES ACCORDINGLY, COMRADES: Rachel Levine calls mothers as ‘egg producers’ while visiting a gender clinic.

LAMBO MAY EVEN PASS THEM IN RELIABILITY: Mitsubishi Could Soon Sell Fewer Models Than Lamborghini in the U.S.

Back in the 1990s I had a first-generation Mitsubishi Eclipse sports car. The design was excellent, the handling was good, it was fast by the standards of the day (that is, a slug by the standards of today, but a rocket by the standards of the late 70s.) The interior was nice, the only downside was that it didn’t run worth a damn. When I was on my third engine before 50,000 miles I gave up and replaced it with a Mazda MX-6, which had all its virtues and none of its vices. The Mitsu people were fine about honoring the warranty, and even said they’d take care of me past the 50,000 mile mark if needed, but I was over it. I was just grateful that the first engine blowup waited until I got home from my cross-country drive, instead of stranding me in the middle of US 50 across Nevada.

SCIENCE IS NEVER SETTLED: Skull found in China points to an unknown human species. “In some respects, the skull looked very similar to modern humans, particularly the facial structure. But other aspects of the skull seem to significantly diverge. Chief among these differences is the distinct lack of a chin, a trait this hominid may have shared with the Denisovans, a cousin of humanity that branched off evolutionarily from the rest hundreds of thousands of years ago.”

GROOMING A FALL GUY: Disney Already Knows Who to Blame for Its Next Massive Flop.

HAHA: New Hampshire Libertarians Offer to Buy Back Cops’ Guns With Gift Cards, Donuts.

COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE LEFTISM: U. Chicago report: 30 million Americans believe violence justified to keep Trump from presidency.

CHRIS QUEEN: The Trump Team Has One Potentially Advantageous Card up Its Sleeve in Fulton County.

READER FAVORITE: COOFANDY Men’s Cotton Linen Henley Shirt. #CommissionEarned

BIDENOMICS: Despite Rebound, US Industrial Production Remains Lower Year-Over-Year.

Since government spending is counted as GDP, Biden’s massive spending hikes help provide a nice-looking headline number for economic growth. The situation on the ground tells a different story.

ASTEROIDS: Ryugu asteroid origins in the solar nebula decoded by carbonates.

RESTORING DECENCY TO GOVERNMENT: The Biden Administration Brags About Leaving Americans Behind in Afghanistan.

WELL, GOOD: Good cardiorespiratory fitness associated with up to 40% lower risk of 9 cancers.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is It Time to Ban Electric Vehicles?

The New York Fire Department recently reported that so far this year there have been 108 lithium-ion battery fires in New York City, which have injured 66 people and killed 13. According to FDNY Commissioner Laura Kavanagh, “There is not a small amount of fire, it (the vehicle) literally explodes.” The resulting fire is “very difficult to extinguish and so it is particularly dangerous.”

Last year there were more than 200 fires from batteries from e-bikes, EVs, and other devices.
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Now let’s be honest: 13 deaths in a city the size of New York with some 8 million people is hardly an epidemic. Regulations should always be based on a cost versus benefit calculation, or there would be no cars at all.

And yet the same scaremongers on the left who have zero tolerance and want bans for small risks when it comes to everything from swimming pool diving boards, gas stoves, plastic straws, vaping, fireworks, and so on, have a surprisingly high pain threshold when it comes to people dying or suffering critical injured from “green” electric battery fires.

How many ICE engines spontaneously blew up in that same timeframe?

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Recreational drugs detected in more than 1 in 10 cardiac intensive care patients.

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY UPDATE: Trump Pledges to Appoint Special Counsel to Go After ‘Manchurian Candidate’ Biden.

WELL, GOOD: Occasional drinking unlikely to raise risk of breast cancer recurrence, study shows.