NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: The Last Campaign (Innocents No More Book 7).

IF YOU’RE BUYING “GAS STATION HEROIN” ISN’T IT BASICALLY JUST EVOLUTION IN ACTION? Synthetic pot detected in samples of ‘gas station heroin’ Neptune’s Fix.

I mean, I guess it’s safer than gas station sushi . . . .

OUR FOREIGN POLICY ELITES: Bring Back Playground Psychology: American foreign policymakers would be more successful if they relied more often on a few simple rules of human nature.

WELL, DUH: Survey Shows Auto Dealers Still Annoyed With Biden EV Strategy.

WHEN YOU’RE BOTH VARIETIES OF HOMO SAPIENS, IT’S NOT BESTIALITY: Neanderthals and modern humans intermingled in Europe 45,000 years ago.

STICK IT TO THE MAN: A camera-based anti-facial recognition technique. This isn’t the sort of thing I’m looking for, though.

WELL, GOOD: High efficacy and good safety profile for the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine in African children.

NOW OUT FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: The Attack.

FIGHT THE POWER: Suspended ‘Jeremy’s Chocolates’ professor cleared, returns to classroom.

WHY ARE LEFTY MOVEMENTS SUCH CESSPITS OF HATE AND BIGOTRY? Columbia queer/non-binary student group ‘derecognized’ due to antisemitism, racism.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Biden and the Border: Are we approaching a Civil War?

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HIGHER EDUCTION BUBBLE UPDATE: MA cuts college degree requirements for 90% of state jobs.

NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: The Last Campaign (Innocents No More Book 7).

ROGER KIMBALL: Democracy in Decline: The Subversion of Rule of Law: There are many signs and portents that signal the guttering of the rule of law and its replacement: rule by law. It is an autumnal sign—a sign of civilization at the end of its tether.

FIGHT THE POWER: Victory to the French farmers: Europeans are right to rise up against our eco-obsessed elites.

IT’S A WINNING SLOGAN: ‘Deport every illegal’: Sky News host proposes new DEI slogan.

AT THIS POINT, ANYTHING IS BELIEVABLE: FBI charged with Jan. 6 ‘cover-up’ in Ashli Babbitt shooting case.

HMM: WATCH: Is Biden’s Brain Disease Contagious? Other White House staffers are exhibiting symptoms of severe cognitive decline.

EVERYONE KNOWS THE PLAN, BUT ONLY GREG ABBOTT IS DOING MUCH ABOUT IT: Elon Musk Triggered Lefties by Summing Up ‘Outrageous’ Reason Biden and Dems Want an Open Border.

LOL: Shush! L.A. Times Editor Asks “Departees” Not to Criticize California on Their Way Out.

IT’S BEEN A BLOATED AND CORRUPT SECTOR FOR YEARS: University Budget Cuts Were Overdue: Several large public universities are getting multimillion dollar budget cuts. Of course, the cuts will probably be at the expense of faculty, not administrators. . . .

OPEN THREAD: Make of it what you will.

SOME (MOSTLY LEGAL) THOUGHTS ON THE BIDEN/ABBOTT BORDER STANDOFF.

FREE THE SPACE REVOLUTION: Startups call for streamlined US regulations for emerging space capabilities.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Experts Confirm: US Is Dealing With an ‘Out-of-Control’ STI Epidemic. “The most common STI in the US in 2022 was chlamydia, which has remained in the top spot for years now. Nevertheless, it is the recent rise in syphilis that is concerning health officials most. According to CDC data, syphilis cases of all stages have increased by 80 percent in the past five years.”

Apparently 20-somethings don’t wrap it anymore. They aren’t afraid of AIDS, there are pills for Herpes and anyway everyone has it, they’re vaccinated against HPV, and the other stuff is curable (they at least think) with antibiotics. Good luck with that, kids.