DISPOSABLE ELECTRONICS: Cellphones and cameras don’t ripen, like bananas, on the way to the store. But given their short 'shelf life', perhaps they should.

DEMOCRATS: the deficit's not a bug, it's a feature.

VIDEOS FROM DAY 3 of the Republican National Convention.

Olympians
Artur Davis
Ann Romney
Marco Rubio
Mitt Romney

More videos from CSPAN here.

THE JUPITER-BOUND JUNO SPACECRAFT, which is about 300 million miles from earth, fired its main engine for just short of 30 minutes in the first of two crucial maneuvers intended to bring it toward Earth for a momentum-gathering fly-by. Juno is scheduled to arrive in 2016 for a year-long study of the planet.

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AN AIRCRAFT THAT RESEMBLES A FOUR-POINT NINJA STAR could go into supersonic mode by simply turning 90 degrees in midair.


The bidirectional flying wing kicks the general concept up a notch by essentially laying two flying wings on top of one another at a 90 degree angle, so that the aircraft faces one way for subsonic flight and rotates another way for supersonic flight.

A TERRIBLE THOUGHT: Debbie Wasserman Schultz in the Speaker's chair. Vote for Karen Harrington.

BREAKING NEWS: Chevy Chase, MD, is in the District of Columbia.

RACIST CODEWORDS: Just in case you don't know what not to say.

STATE DEPARTMENT: 'Hold down the fort' could be offensive.

Now try to tell me that government isn't too big, too burdensome, too wasteful -- and too stupid -- to be allowed to continue on its current path.

BILL WHITTLE: The Incredible Shrinking Man.

GO AHEAD, MAKE MY DAY: Clint Eastwood at the Republican National Convention.

SOME VIDEOS from Day 2 of the Republican National Convention:

Mia Love
Condoleezza Rice
Susana Martinez
Paul Ryan

More videos from CSPAN here.

IF 'BED REST', 'personal journaling', and 'helping a relative with household tasks and errands' now meet the work requirements for welfare, then I should apply.

NOW IT'S OUR TURN.

THE BEST alarm clock is a hungry cat. If only they weren't set for 5:30 am.

LOOK FOR used car prices to skyrocket. Buy now, save money.

DEAD VOTERS and a dying democracy?

FIRST, throw out the wonks: “Common sense is in spite of,” wrote Victor Hugo, “not the result of, education.”

THE MIDAS EFFECT: Everything Obama touches turns to Volt.