FLASHBACK: Biden’s return to ‘normalcy’ brought us crazy instead — like Sam Brinton.

WESTERN LEADERS AGAINST THE WESTERN TRADITION:

What we are seeing is precisely why the West was such an anomaly in the history of mankind. Specifically, the reflex to suppress speech with which the rulers/elite disagree is the default reflex, and we are seeing a return to it. The West is facing the classic Herculean fork in… https://t.co/oW1oxraPkQ

— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) August 10, 2024

Related: “Putin’s strongest tactical weapon on the world stage is the Western imposition of LGBTQ and the rest of the world’s resistance to it. What used to be Western soft power has now been transformed into Russian soft power – like a boomerang.”

ICYMI: IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE:

🚨 Tim Walz gets TORCHED by his battalion commander pic.twitter.com/Z82VuCsdrB

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 11, 2024

First the chaplain, and his replacement sergeant, now this. Can Tim Walz stay on the ticket? Or is he the 21st Century’s Thomas Eagleton? And given that choosing him was Kamala’s first executive decision, it doesn’t reflect well on her either way.

Plus:

Hi, @Tim_Walz and @KamalaHarris—
Just wondering, did you also “misprint” your rank as Command Sergeant Major on your Congressional Challenge Coin?

cc: @NBCNews https://t.co/KIILqMgj9S pic.twitter.com/fkZrb4luHv

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) August 11, 2024

AS A YALE LAW ALUMNUS MYSELF, I AM NOT HAPPY WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT: “Our economic policymakers are increasingly Yale Law grads rather than business leaders or economists.”

OPEN THREAD: Ring out the weekend.

JEFFREY CARTER: The Onslaught. “Over the past couple of weeks, there has been a coordinated effort by the media, and especially in social media, to show that Kamala Harris is popular and can beat Trump. It’s designed to break the spirit of Trump voters who were very fired up after the botched assassination attempt. They want you to think there is no chance and you should stay quiet and especially stay home.”

Related: A friend writes: “Democrats are hilarious. Everyone, them included, thought Kamala Harris was embarrassing. Now she is a mix of Angela Merkel and Margaret Thatcher.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: U.S. Army gears up for space warfare, drawing lessons from Ukraine.

MORE:

Hi, @Tim_Walz and @KamalaHarris—
Just wondering, did you also “misprint” your rank as Command Sergeant Major on your Congressional Challenge Coin?

cc: @NBCNews https://t.co/KIILqMgj9S pic.twitter.com/fkZrb4luHv

— Bree A Dail (@breeadail) August 11, 2024

IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE:

🚨 Tim Walz gets TORCHED by his battalion commander pic.twitter.com/Z82VuCsdrB

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) August 11, 2024

First the chaplain, and his replacement sergeant, now this. Can Tim Walz stay on the ticket? Or is he the 21st Century’s Thomas Eagleton?

And regardless, given that choosing him as her running mate was her first executive decision, Kamala’s not looking so good.

WHEN YOU’RE DONE, YOU HAVE BROCCOLI? Scientists Revealed a Healthier Way to Cook Broccoli – But There’s a Catch. Actually, I like broccoli, though I don’t digest it as well as I did.

HMM: Do Anxiety Pills Have a Dark Side? Research Reveals Dementia Risks. From reading the article, though, it seems that — as I have suspected for a while — the anxiety is associated with dementia, and the use of benzodiazepenes is more of a marker for anxiety than a cause. I suspect the same is true of Benadryl, which has shown a similar association with dementia, since lots of people use Benadryl as an OTC anxiety/sleep med.

QUESTIONING THE INEVITABILITY of the NextGen Bar Examination.

IT’S ALL ABOUT WHO HE REGARDS AS A THREAT TO HIS POWER:

Let me get this straight:

Keir Starmer is releasing violent criminals from prison just to replace them with people who commit thought crimes on @X.

And he is spending police resources investigating and going after people for retweets and Facebook posts when there is a shitload…

— Melissa Chen (@MsMelChen) August 10, 2024

NO, NEXT QUESTION: QOTD: Do You Want Fake Exhausts?

SCIENCE: The abstemious scientists accused of using ‘flawed’ research to tell you to stop drinking.

Dr Tim Stockwell’s work – which has been published in The Lancet, among other esteemed organs – has inspired a new crackdown on alcohol that has seen daily drinking guidelines slashed in Canada and Australia. The US may next year follow suit, and the UK anti-alcohol lobby is using Dr Stockwell’s work as it warms up for a similar fight.

But many of Dr Stockwell’s respected peers say it is far from settled science and have cast doubt on his research. They question his motives and accuse him of being a front for a worldwide temperance lobby that is secretly attempting to ban alcohol.

Plus:

The research was widely reported without a hint of the row it had triggered in the scientific community. In common with other news outlets, The Daily Mail stated baldly that the longstanding belief that one or two drinks a day is good for you was based on “flawed” scientific research.

However, it was the final straw for many fellow academics and experts who told The Telegraph they read the report in disbelief, concluding it was yet another example of Dr Stockwell “cherry picking” the evidence to suit his agenda.

Former British government scientist Richard Harding, who gave evidence on safe drinking to the House of Commons select committee on science and technology in 2011, told The Telegraph that Dr Stockwell had wrongly taken a correlation to be causal.

“Dr Stockwell’s research is essentially epidemiology, which is the study of populations,” Dr Harding said. “You record people’s lifestyle and then see what diseases they get and try to correlate the disease with some aspect of their lifestyle. But it is just a correlation, it’s just an association. Epidemiology can never establish causality on its own.

“And in this particular case, Dr Stockwell selected six studies out of 107 to focus on. You could say he cherry picked them.”

Seems like the vegetarians have been running something like this for years.

MAKE THEM PAY: Federal Appellate Court Rules in Favor of Takings Lawsuit Against the CDC’s Covid-Era Eviction Moratorium.

HMM: Memory problems in old age linked to a key enzyme, study in mice finds.

WHEN EVEN THE CHAPLAIN IS DENOUNCING YOU. . . Chaplain of Tim Walz’s National Guard battalion calls VP pick ‘cowardly’ for abandoning unit.

DAVID BARON CALL YOUR OFFICE: How invasion of enormous wild beasts has left shocked residents in idyllic Wyoming mountain towns fearing for their lives: ‘I do a lot of praying.’

Pray for bearskin rugs.

REMINDER:

"Far right" is a synonym for "poor".https://t.co/wve62gOTdQ

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) August 10, 2024

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Three Columbia administrators resign after ‘antisemitic’ text controversy: University should have fired all four deans months ago, congresswoman says.

WHY WOULD TAXPAYERS WANT TO SUBSIDIZE INSTITUTIONS FULL OF PEOPLE WHO HATE THEM? The rise of academic hate: Faculty have gone from professors to extremists.

JUSTICE FOR ASHLI: Justice Department ordered to answer for Jan. 6 killing of Ashli Babbitt.

No justice, no peace.

LOCK UP ANY OFFENDERS: Virginia Secretary of Education Warns Universities To Prepare For Anti-Israel Protests Amid Reports Campus Disruptions ‘Will Be Even More Chaotic.’ And expel any misbehaving students, while suing non-students for damages caused by their disruption.

Protest is protected; vandalism and violence aren’t.

LOL, CNN. #JOURNALISM: CNN’s Brianna Keilar Lectures CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Respecting JD Vance’s Military Service.

What’s impressive is that J.D. Vance got her to do a 180 with a single tweet.