I’M OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER WHEN WE DIDN’T HAVE TO ASK… WHICH MAKES ME ONE YEARS OLD: OPEC+ Rejects Biden’s Call to Pump More Oil.

BRAVE SIR BIDEN BRAVELY TURNED AND FLED: Biden Goes Back to His Vacation After Addressing Afghanistan Crisis.

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Biden Emerges to Address His Catastrophe in Afghanistan. “Biden overruled his military leaders to do it. He owns it.”

BINGO:

Biden talked a lot about the 20-year-long mess in Afghanistan, but didn’t accept any responsibility for the murderously f***ed-up way he handled our exit.

SPEAKING OF SELF-SERVING PUTZES, HERE’S TOM NICHOLS TO TELL YOU THAT Afghanistan Is Your Fault.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The entire foreign-policy crowd right now:

THE COUNTRY IS IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: CNN Says ‘Taliban Chanting ‘Death to America’ But Seem Friendly’ While Biden Watches Fake TV.

MEANWHILE, IN BRITAIN: Village terrorised by bandit pouring baked beans through letterboxes.

FLASHBACK: Chuck Schumer Praised Joe Biden’s ‘Careful and Thought-Out Plan’ for Afghanistan Withdrawal.

JOSH ROGIN: ‘Here are the WH Afghanistan talking points Pelosi’s office just sent around. They are not good.’

GIULIANI’S NEW YORK CITY IS DEAD AND DE BLASIO KILLED IT: Shoot Somebody and Get $1,000 Per Month to Play Nice. Way to Go, de Blasio.

“DON’T UNDERESTIMATE JOE’S ABILITY TO F*** THINGS UP”: Biden’s Afghanistan Predictions Were All Wrong.

OH, SNAP! Food Stamps Get a 25% Raise While Your Paycheck Shrinks.

SAD: Today’s trans-identified teen: bored, privileged, lonely and entitled.

There has been a lot of information out about teen girls suddenly declaring they are trans with Lisa Littman’s study that found it’s a social contagion and Abigail Shrier’s book “Irreversible Damage,” which studied the transitioning trend among young girls and teens.

But there had not been much on boys within this so-called transgender craze, so I helped start a group for parents of trans-identifying boys.

What we noticed after a while was that the scientific and medical communities refuse to study this phenomenon, so we started doing our own research.

Quickly some interesting commonalities emerged: 85 percent of our boys had an IQ over 130. We learned that these are mostly smart nerdy boys who claim they are straight and want to identify as a lesbian. They also were also often on the autism spectrum, had suffered trauma, or had internalized homophobia.

But, as we dug deeper, we began to notice more common threads, and as we pulled on them, the story came into focus. On average, our kids are white kids coming from two-parent homes, with comfortable lives — sometimes even VERY comfortable lives.

What on earth can this mean? What are these kids so lacking that they hope to find by identifying as trans? One can speculate.

In a world in which the racially oppressed and marginalized are placed on pedestals and celebrated as brave heroes, where do these privileged white boys fit in? They’re called oppressors, supremacists, and toxic, so they seek to identify with an oppressed class.

Perhaps they are ashamed that they have it so good?

Read the whole thing.

CRISIS BY DESIGN: ‘I Am So Sick to My Stomach Right Now’: Retired Marine Reacts to ‘POS’ Joe Biden’s Disastrous Bugout From Afghanistan.

JOANNE JACOBS: When a D becomes a ‘pass.’

Teachers see grades as a mark of achievement, writes Darren Miller, a high school math teacher, on Right on the Left Coast. Grades aren’t supposed to be “candy.”

In response to the inequities created by remote education, California will let high school students change low grades to “pass” to protect their grade point averages.

The University of California, California State University system and many private colleges have agreed to accept the pass/fail grades, even in required college-prep courses. Applicants can turn as many grades into “pass” as they like.

It seems the value of almost everything is being inflated away.

HE FIGHTS: Florida’s DeSantis Is Just Trolling the Media With Another Bold Move and It’s Fantastic to Watch.

BIDENFLATION: Joe Biden has just given you a pay cut, America. Get ready for more. “The CEO of Tyson Foods, the nation’s largest chicken producer, said on a recent earnings call that costs are rising faster than the company’s ability to raise prices. Half of second-quarter nominal GDP growth is phantom inflation gains.”

IT’S CALLED BREASTFEEDING: Don’t Call It ‘Breastfeeding’ When You Can Refer to It as ‘Parent’s Milk.’

DECADES LATE, DESPERATELY NEEDED: Boebert bill a move towards meaningful forest management. “Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, with 16 cosponsors, has introduced the “Active Forest Management, Wildfire Prevention, and Community Protection Act.” Were the bill to pass, it would significantly improve the health of national forests by removing beetle-killed trees, thinning and restoring forests on a landscape-scale, and streamlining the bureaucratic paralysis and unending litigation that for decades have hampered virtually any large-scale solution.”

MONEY TALKS: Taliban Is Paying Military Commanders to Surrender Cities, Journalist Embedded in Afghanistan Says.

IT’S NON-LETHAL: The first hand-held electric rail gun for the public and law enforcement. “The Anvil generates muzzle energy – the energy of the projectile as it leaves the barrel – of around 85 joules, according to New Scientist, comparable to high-end air rifles ‘or about half the power of a .22 caliber rifle.'”

I’m holding out for a phased-plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: So…Anything Happen In Afghanistan Over the Weekend? “The situation in Afghanistan went from ‘Let’s see what happens…’ to ‘The Taliban are waltzing into Kabul with the greatest of ease…’ in less time than it took the NFL to complete its weekend preseason schedule. By the time Sunday morning rolled around in any time zone, the news coming in from Afghanistan was a firehose of awfulness.”

AFGHANISTAN ROUT: Biden, Psaki Remain Silent While Kabul Weeps.

COLORADO: Polis Says He’ll Lower Hammer on Scofflaw Districts to Stop COVID School Shutdowns. “This doesn’t necessarily mean that state officials would order such districts to impose the use of face coverings for all students and staffers, too. In the governor’s words, ‘If you don’t like mask-wearing, maybe you’ll have to do universal testing surveillance’ — rapid-testing of all employees and attendees at the beginning of every school day.”

Meanwhile, the hospitalization rate for 5-17-year-olds remains essentially zero.

Last week’s hospitalization rate for all age groups shows that the much-dreaded Delta spike is already fading — without the dead lining hospital corridors like cordwood.

BUT WHAT FLAVOR ICE CREAM DID SHE HAVE? Pelosi ‘Commends’ Biden in Carefully Worded Statement on the Obliteration of Afghanistan.