U.S. ACADEMIC: Kill unwanted stray cats and keep the rest indoors. Personally, I'd rather let the environmentalists/social justice warriors starve in the cold and dark and confine their enablers to locked rooms in the ivied halls. My cats are far less destructive to the environment than they.

IN THE UNITED STATES, which are the most heavily armed?

Wyoming is the clear winner by a landslide, but look who's second: Washington, D.C., the 'home state' of our ruling elite. If that doesn't scare the pants off you, you're too damned stupid to be allowed anywhere near a voting booth.

BUT, BUT ... voter fraud is a myth.

FIXED: Successes that aren't obvious.

BLUE ORIGIN'S rocket test went better than thought possible:

Blue Origin just successfully completed its first in-flight escape test, during which the empty crew capsule was able to make an emergency separation from the booster just seconds after takeoff. It's a maneuver that could save lives if it happens on a real flight. But Blue Origin stumbled upon some extra success: It landed the booster too.

The linked video has the entire test flight. It's long - over an hour. Booster liftoff is at 51:00; escape capsule ignition at 52:00. The capsule drogue chutes deploy at 52:30 and main chute deployment occurs at 53:30. Capsule landing is at about 54:00. The launch vehicle itself continued on its planned trajectory, reaching apogee at 55:00, and made a succesful landing at 58:30.

A magnificent achievement.

THE GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA SAFETY NANNIES are hyperventilating (as usual) about Hurricane Matthew this morning. For some perspective, consider these numbers:

Hurricane Katrina killed < 2,000 people in 2005;

Traffic accidents kill ~ 30,000 annually;

Homicides take ~ 16,000 lives annually; and

Suicides account for ~ 32,000 lives annually.

When you watch your 'hurricane nannies' on television, remember it's not about keeping you safe; it's about keeping them in control.

IF ONLY...

We can hope.

OBAMACARE ARCHITECT EZEKIEL EMANUEL: If you like your doctor, you can [pay more to] keep your doctor.

I did, and my health 'insurance' premiums still went up....

GOOD NEWS! Leo DiCaprio has disqualified himself from ever holding public office.

TAXIN’ TIM KAINE pushed to raise taxes on the poor.

I lived in Virginia when Kaine was Lt. Governor and then Governor. He was - and is - a bozo. Luckily for Virginians, he was an incompetent bozo.

THOMAS SOWELL: A brilliant idea to pierce the 'Ivy Curtain'.

YOU CAN THANK OBAMA FOR THAT: Our corner of the Milky Way might be bigger than previously thought.

WORRISOME? EEG Identification Can Steal Your Most Closely Held Secrets.

TIM KAINE: I'll be Hillarys' "right-hand person." For the only time in the VP debate, Kaine was right for he sure as hell isn't a "man" in any conventional sense of the word. A beta male at best.

WHEN TIM KAINE Said “stronger together” in the first 3 minutes, I turned it off.

I should have, but fortunately the television survived.

TRUMP/PENCE 2016: Make Liberals Grate Again.

More here.

HOWARD DEAN: It’s the media’s fault I accused Donald Trump of having a coke habit.

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: Now let's throw the insurance industry under the bus. Not that that's necessarily a bad idea, since the insurance industry was complicit in enacting ObamaCare, but it would be nice to throw the whole Obama administration under the bus as well.

UPDATE: Along with the taxpayers....

I DON'T THINK IT'S REALLY NECESSARY: Doctor offers men who plan to vote for Hillary a free testosterone test.

FLORIDA DEMOCRATS unhappy about voter registration drives at local Chick-fil-A restaurants.

But of course -- only Democrats are allowed to have voter registration drives. Often at cemeteries....