ROMNEY: “If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama? You know there’s something wrong with the kind of job he’s done as President, when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.”

ROMNEY’S EMPHASIS ON FAMILY AND PARENT-CHILD BONDS: A subtle dig at Obama?

TWEET OF THE NIGHT:

So glad that Mitt Romney didn’t “report for duty”

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) August 31, 2012

MARCO RUBIO ON OBAMA: “These are the ideas that people come to America to get away from.”

Also: “Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.”

CLINT EASTWOOD: “We all know that Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party.”

Plus: “We own this country. . . . It’s not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours. . . . And when somebody does not do the job, you gotta let ’em go.”

GETCHER ROMNEY/RYAN MAGNETIC BUMPER STICKERS RIGHT HERE.

#MSNBCRACISTS: Noted racial harmony expert Chris Matthews lives in ritzy town with ten whole black people in it.

TIMOTHY DALRYMPLE: Romney at the RNC: From the Audacity of Hype to the Tenacity of Hope. “Obama 2008 was about the audacity of hype. What Obama sold in 2008 was less hope than hype, because hope is not baseless, and Obama was all surface and no substance, all promise and no power. Americans — some of them, anyway — fell so in love with the promises that they failed to note that Obama possessed neither the record, the experience nor the expertise to suggest that he could follow through on those promises. Romney 2012 is about the tenacity of hope. The miracle that hope endures even through the worst of times, that it survives like a flower bud beneath the ruins of a stagnant economy and a dysfunctional government.”

IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE WOULD BE NO MATH: Jay Carney can’t explain why household median income is down under Obama.

RACHAEL BRANDON LARIMORE EXPLAINS why the “context” behind Obama’s “You Didn’t Build That” remark isn’t the issue. I’ll just note that for a guy who’s supposed to be the world’s greatest orator, Obama sure has a lot of trouble communicating.

NICK GILLESPIE: 3 Ways Romney, Ryan, and the Republicans Can Woo Libertarian Voters.

I suppose just reminding people of how idiotic 2008’s “Obamatarians” and “Liberaltarians” look now is too cruel.

WE’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER GLASS: Stephen Green Is Drunkblogging The Convention Finale.

UPDATE: Ann Althouse is liveblogging.

PAUL RAHE: Be Of Good Cheer. “For conservatives and for the Republican Party, Barack Obama is the gift that keeps on giving. He is for us what Herbert Hoover once was for the Democratic Party.”

DOUBLE STANDARDS: Democrat sends out a mailer saying crime has gone up “over 50% in our negrohood so far this year.” Ann Althouse comments: “Imagine if a Republican had done that. People would be saying the mask has slipped and this shows what all the Republicans are really like.”

And by “people,” I think she means the absolute leading lights of the journalistic establishment.

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TIM CARNEY: Republican Leaders Trample The Grassroots In Tampa. “You might think a party whose power in Washington is due to bottom-up, decentralized grassroots passion would not resort to top-down, centralized control.”

They don’t call it the “stupid party” for nothing.

UPDATE: Pushback from reader Bruce Newman:

I consider myself part of the “grass roots” and a “tea-partier”, but I don’t have too many issues with the rules. The damn Paul-bots stole my vote as a GOP NV caucus-goer.

Heh. Good point.

“I’VE BEEN DOING THIS SINCE GRADUATION, AND I CAN’T DO IT FOR FOUR MORE YEARS.” Boy, the “fading Obama poster” ad didn’t take long:

UPDATE: Reader Rosslyn Smith writes: “I think parents of kids who had to move back home will be a far bigger audience for this than the kids themselves. That may also be the intention, considering that the progression begins with a crib in a nursery. Who remembers what a child’s nursery looked like other than the child’s parents?”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The High Cost of Free Money.

Administrators at Long Island University, a private university in New York with multiple campuses, had to make budget cuts and are dealing with faculty pushback after the financial aid awarded by one of the college’s two main campuses exceeded the budgeted amount. Administrators overspent in an effort to meet enrollment targets and meet demonstrated need.

The university does not have a large endowment, so most of the aid came in the form of discounted tuition, meaning the college likely will not bring in as much in tuition revenue as expected. Administrators said the campus in question, referred to as the Post campus, did not have procedures in place to account for the financial aid awards relative to the budget.

“Existing business processes at Post did not effectively track the level of funds either committed or accepted by incoming students,” wrote President David Steinberg in a letter responding to an inquiry by the president of the faculty union. “By late fall 2011 it became clear that we were over-expending financial aid resources.”

Really? They “did not have procedures in place to account for the financial aid awards relative to the budget?”

EVEN LEFT-LEANING POLITIFACT SCORES IT “TRUE:” Reince Priebus says Mitt Romney ‘gave away his father’s inheritance.’

PERHAPS THEY NEVER EXISTED AT ALL? Three-Fifths of Milwaukee’s Black Voters Have Vanished Without A Trace.

BOGUS ETHICS CHARGE DEBUNKED: University: No Scientific Misconduct In Regnerus Study. But the purpose of the complaint — to discourage others from doing work that reaches politically undesirable conclusions — has been served. And make no mistake: That was the purpose of the complaint.

Lefties had better hope that this doesn’t start a round of tit-for-tat, though, because it’s pretty clear who’s more vulnerable if this becomes a popular sport.

LIVING LONGER: Increasing Lifespan May Be in Our Control. Faster, please: I’m not getting any younger. And neither is anybody else.

WELL, ISN’T THAT FITTING, SOMEHOW: Harvard Investigates “Unprecedented” Academic Dishonesty Case; Nearly half of more than 250 students in “Introduction to Congress” are under investigation.

UPDATE: An on-point comment:

What’s so pitiful about this story is that about 200 or so of our best and brightest had to cheat on an open book exam at a school where grade inflation is so rampant you would have to cite ayn rand or favorably refer to W. to get a B.

Just pitiful.

Scott Wiehle

Feel free to use my name. Loud and proud.

Loud, and proud indeed.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Lubricated nanoparticles penetrate the brain. “It was thought that the adhesiveness of brain tissue limited the size of particles that can smoothly spread through the brain. Signalling molecules, nutrients and waste products below 64 nanometres in diameter can pass through the tissue with relative ease, but larger nanoparticles – suitable for delivering a payload of drugs to a specific location in the brain – quickly get stuck. Now Hanes and his colleagues have doubled that size limit. They coated their nanoparticles with a densely-packed polymer shield, which lubricates their surface by preventing electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions with the surrounding tissue.”

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