Overnight News: Grasshoppers discover new and better ways to make Ants move away.

This has been a year of amazingly poor choices. For example, the NBA has only just now discovered that spitting on its fans – again and again – is a poor fan-retention strategy. St. Louis has not scared away enough taxpayers in recent years, so now it is criminalizing self-defense. Who needs a RiotScore™ by now? The NRA can tell you which states still permit human thriving.

Yesterday on BloodhoundBlog: Brian Brady: The Real Estate Correction of 2021. Crystal Ball salesmen: Please phone today!

Redfin: 22% of Homebuyers and Sellers Say the Presidential Election Is Impacting Their Plans. CTRL-F ‘riot’; not found. FWIW, getting things buttoned up before the election is wise – because of the riots.

Housing Wire: 400,000 mortgage borrowers are “needlessly delinquent.”

CNBC: Mortgage rates set another record low, sparking new strength in refinances.

Housing Wire: Mortgage applications rise 4.6%. “Purchase applications hit 20 straight weeks of year-over-year gains.”

Housing Wire: Opendoor discloses that it’s under federal investigation.

Fox News: McCloskeys indicted on gun charges stemming from standoff at St Louis mansion.

Aeon: The desire to fit in is the root of almost all wrongdoing.

Real Clear Politics: Who Wants to Blow Up Our Constitution? (It’s Not Trump.)

The American Mind: The Mount Rushmore Election.

American Greatness: Trump, Atlas: Time to Face Down Coronavirus Fear.

City Journal: In Defense of “Me-First Capitalism”. “Worse than the CEO who tends only to his company’s profits is the one who tends to your innermost thoughts.”