UNSURPRISING: Study: Scrolling through online videos increases boredom.

THE ELECTRIC VEHICLE BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Ford Kills Plans for Large Electric SUVs, Switches to Hybrids.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: District Court Tosses Machine Gun Possession Charge, Rules They’re ‘Bearable Arms.’

The full opinion — which I have not read yet — is here.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Pros And Cons Of A Defensive Revolver.

FOR GIANT DANGEROUS MAMMALS, I LIKE THE IDEA OF A LONG SPEAR: Ice Age humans may have used pikes to hunt mammoths.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA wants clarity on Orion heat shield issue before stacking Artemis II rocket.

GOD KNOWS THEY NEED SOMETHING: New app might help young adults handle anxiety.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Federal Court: California Must Issue Concealed Carry Permits To Out-of-State Residents.

HMM: New ‘platelet score’ being used to gauge risk of stroke, heart attack. “The test assesses whether a person’s platelets are ‘hyperreactive,’ and thus prone to abnormal clotting that blocks arteries, according to the report published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.”

IT’S A PENCIL-NECK PROFESSION NOW: Where are Today’s Athlete Journalists?

KIMBERLEY STRASSEL: Kamala Harris at the DNC: Supersized Joe Biden: The vice president has come full circle to the very agenda that landed the president with rotten approval ratings.

Democrats rolled out Joe Biden late on the first night of their Chicago convention, eager to get his obligatory moment over before disappearing him until November. Yet it seems fitting Biden led the week, since everything but his face remains on the ballot. The Kamala Harris policy agenda has turned out to be nothing more than supersized Biden 2.0.

A month into her coronation, the Democratic nominee is finally fleshing out an agenda and has settled the big question of whether she’d revert to her 2020 progressive platform or chart any different path from Biden. Answer: a resounding no. She’s instead doubling down on the failing status quo. So much so that the Harris team didn’t even bother to put its stamp on the party platform, which was released in July under the expectation of a Biden renomination.

The campaign and press will continue to repackage her as “fresh,” but the policy substance is pure Biden redux–only wilder, spendier and more damaging.

Yeah, pretty much.

PUSHBACK WORKS: Jack Daniel’s renounces ‘woke’ agenda, latest iconic US brand to ‘bring sanity back’ to business. “Brown-Forman, the parent company of the Tennessee distiller, ‘preemptively announced,’ Starbuck wrote, that it was renouncing a series of diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI) and left-leaning initiatives.”

CAN YOU BLAME THEM? Jewish high school grads avoid Columbia amid anti-Israel protests.

Flashback: Jewish students, come here to the South — where you’ll be safe.

YOU SPELLED “RISIBLE TRADITION” WRONG: UMass will teach ‘rich tradition’ of ‘transnational Black feminist’ and ‘queer Marxist theorizing.’

JEFFREY CARTER: The BLS and Jobs: Not a Miss of 25%, a LIE of 25%.

LOL:

It’s nice to see Bill Clinton up there speaking and not some impeached, womanizing rapist. #DNC2024

— 🫃🏼💉🇺🇦🥥Hollaria Briden, Esq. (@HollyBriden) August 22, 2024

BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY:

This is astonishing: https://t.co/HWkGXsOAcp

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) August 21, 2024

WE SHOULD ABOLISH IMMUNITY FOR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, SO THAT THE PERPETRATORS OF THIS CAN BE SUED: The Worm Turns: House, Senate Investigate TSA Surveillance of Tulsi Gabbard.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Making families cool again — not federal cash — will solve US ‘birth dearth.’

Related:

Exactly:

“And then it dawned on me that the declining birth rate is not just a simple math problem – it fundamentally de-incentivizes civilization to look forward.” https://t.co/peuUfAcI8N

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 21, 2024

IT’S LIES ALL THE WAY DOWN, BUT THEY HAVE PRESS COVER SO IT’S OKAY:

“Walz misspoke about his military career, and the fertility treatments, and..” https://t.co/ieWCfJguNr

— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) August 21, 2024

Related:

Any brave journalist firefighters of truth wanna ask why the Kamala Kampaign has to keep explaining why Walz's lies are totally accidental in politically convenient ways? https://t.co/JS9PJmWvRG

— Sunny (@sunnyright) August 21, 2024

SO TYPICAL:

Here's a look at some of the houses owned by speakers at last night's Democratic National Convention who spoke out against inequality in America and urged voters to fight back against evil rich people like Donald Trump and his friends: pic.twitter.com/SGg6gUQKGT

— NotKennyRogers (@NotKennyRogers) August 21, 2024

It’s unsurprising, though:

LIFE IN BIDEN/HARRIS’S JOYFUL AMERICA:

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize and it’s being used with impunity against American citizens on our own streets. This isn’t just a Jewish issue others can dismiss. It’s an American issue. https://t.co/6HeBbxWD7X

— Victoria Coates (@VictoriaCoates) August 21, 2024

And the terrorism, as is usually the case, is government-enabled.

FERTILITY CRISIS:

The collapsing birth rate is actually way worse than you think.

One of the biggest things I've realized since becoming a father 3 months ago is that I spend an obscene amount of time thinking about the future.

This is because I want my child to have the best possible place to…

— Farzad (@farzyness) August 21, 2024

IT’S ALL LIES:

why does seemingly every Kamala spokesman brag out loud that they can’t let the public know who they really are before the election https://t.co/5W2GGs7vnI

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) August 21, 2024

WOKE BILL COMES DUE: Columbia Agonistes.

Words scarcely express what relief it was to finally escape Columbia University to turn whistleblower early last year. For the previous eleven years, across a range of prestigious schools, I was a reporter and PR flack charged with making people look good whether they deserved it or not, and oftentimes they didn’t. No doubt I promoted a bunch of dazzlingly impressive minds, but I also helped cover up for a lot of sloppy and misleading scholarship and no small amount of outright prejudice.

Today I stand especially relieved to have jumped ship ahead of Columbia’s calamitous past academic year, by far the most tumultuous and consequential in the university’s history since the notorious riots of 1968. It’s been “an even bigger sh1t show than Mattress Girl,” as I quipped on Twitter. Blow by blow, humiliation by humiliation, my heart has gone out to all of my former colleagues in the impossible position of trying to preserve Columbia’s reputation when it so manifestly deserves most of the embarrassing headlines and withering criticism.

Get woke, go broke.