FROM ROGER KIMBALL, thoughts on world order and Islamism.

AT AMAZON, Coupons Galore in Industrial & Scientific Gear. Which includes things like toilet paper and duct tape, but I guess scientists need those too. . . .

NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. ENJOY YOUR DAY. WHO convenes emergency talks on MERS virus. “The first recorded MERS death was in June 2012 in Saudi Arabia. The number of infections has ticked up steadily, with a flurry this April, May and June taking it to 79. Forty-three MERS patients have died to date, an extremely high rate of 54 percent, compared to nine percent of the 8,273 recorded patients with SARS, which was centred on Asia.”

Bill Quick observes: “This is kind of bubbling along underneath the event horizon of the general public. I hope it stays there. But, you know, in the real world bugs eat us when they can.”

ANDREW BRANCA: Why Zimmerman’s Motion for Acquittal Should Have Been Granted.

“WHY DID YOU SHOOT ME? I was reading a book!”

CLAUDIA ROSETT: The Airbrushing of Egypt’s Mohamed ElBaradei. He’s got a Nobel Peace Prize. Of course he needs airbrushing. . . .

MY USA TODAY COLUMN IS UP EARLY: Upholding The Third Amendment.

NOT FEELING THE HOPENCHANGE at The Diplomad. Well, the Obama Administration’s foreign policy record isn’t exactly brilliant. And the domestic side is worse.

E.HOWARD HUNT WAS UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT: Cameras Catch Mystery Break-In at Whistleblower’s Law Firm.

The offices of a Dallas law firm representing a high-profile State Department whistleblower were broken into last weekend. Burglars stole three computers and broke into the firm’s file cabinets. But silver bars, video equipment and other valuables were left untouched, according to local Fox affiliate KDFW, which aired security camera footage of the suspected burglars entering and leaving the offices around the time of the incident.

The firm Schulman & Mathias represents Aurelia Fedenisn, a former investigator at the State Department’s Office of the Inspector General. In recent weeks, she raised a slew of explosive allegations against the department and its contractors ranging from illicit drug use, soliciting sexual favors from minors and prostitutes and sexual harassment. . . . Last month, her lawyers told The Cable that the department tried to intimidate her into silence. “They had law enforcement officers camp out in front of her house, harass her children and attempt to incriminate herself,” claimed Schulman.

I hope the law firm salted its hard drives with phony files designed to give State Department officials heartburn.

UPDATE: Sorry, wrong headline there for a minute. Had two edit windows open at once, pasted into the wrong one. Too many scandals!

SCIENCE: “Men who eat more saturated fat have sex more frequently!”

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Also, remember that Amazon carries shooting supplies.

RADLEY BALKO: Ten Historic Police Raids Gone Wrong.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: 514 Colleges Have Higher Default Rates Than Graduation Rates.

Related: The Argument For Putting College On Hold.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Police Called To Investigate Farting Dispute.

AMPUTEE BUILDS A PROSTHETIC LEG entirely out of LEGOs. Okay, but I’d be even more impressed if she did it with Lincoln Logs.

THE UNIVERSE: Still not very well understood.

THE GRILL WARS CONTINUE: Grilling Over Charcoal Is Objectively, Scientifically Better Than Grilling Over Gas.

ZAP! A solar-flare-disaster miniseries called The Carrington Event. Sounds a bit like William Forstchen’s One Second After.

Meanwhile, in response to my earlier post on Where Are The Bicycles In Apocalyptic Fiction? I should note that the Montague Paratrooper Pro Folding Bike seems to fill the bill nicely.

And, of course, for the immediate aftermath of an apocalyptic event, you’ll want one of these.

OR YOU COULD JUST ASK THE NSA FOR THE DATA: Using a Smartphone’s Eyes and Ears to Log Your Every Move.

THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW about Airstream trailers. I liked this one: “William Hawley Bowlus, a former airplane manufacturer, designed the first riveted aluminum Airstream. He was part of the design team that built the Spirit of St. Louis, the pioneering aircraft that Charles Lindbergh flew on the first nonstop single-engine plane trip from New York to Paris.”

SARAH HOYT: If you don’t work, you die.

SHOCKER: Old And Sick Swamp ObamaCare Rolls.

One result of the Obamacare employer mandate delay is increased pressure on the exchanges: if employers drop coverage of their employees, or even simply don’t offer coverage to currently uninsured employees, more people will have to migrate to the exchanges to fulfill the individual mandate. But the delay isn’t the only unexpected new influx into the Obamacare exchanges. Both Detroit and Chicago are hoping to save money and reduce pension obligations by moving retirees off city health care plans and onto the exchanges. . . .

It’s not clear yet what the outcome of this will be, or whether other states or cities will adopt this tactic. But one thing is true: Obamacare’s success depends in large part on enough healthy young Americans signing up for insurance to balance a risk pool that will now include the previously uninsured sick. If, in addition to them, tons of currently insured older Americans are going to lose their insurance and be kicked onto the exchanges, the number of younger people signing up for coverage has to be that much higher to counteract those new people entertaining the exchanges.

The ACA, to put it gently, is already on shaky ground.

Kill it off before it kills us.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Snowden has a “well founded fear of persecution” by Obama.

HOPEY-CHANGEY: In Secret, Court Vastly Broadens Powers of N.S.A.