U.S.-allied dictator carried out targeted assassination in Washington (WP)

Stop the presses! Pinochet killed Letelier. Coming soon: a Genoese mariner landed on an island near Cuba in 1492, Chinese discovered gunpowder, Grok make wheel.

No, Donald Trump isn’t hurting Republicans with Latinos (WP)

Don’t be fooled by this Washington Post headline.

After all, the paper is now owned by Jeff Bezos, a Cuban-American, and it now nakedly represents a right-wing view; before, it was owned by the limousine liberal Graham family, which hired very few minorities to positions of responsibility—yes, Eugene Robinson, you’re just the token black face—and had no pangs of conscience when they busted unions in their shop.

Moreover, the “news” story is based on a Gallup poll. When George Gallup—whom I knew to be a gentleman and a courageous social scientist—ran these polls, they were reputable. However, last February when Jim Clifton, current CEO of the Gallup organization, didn’t like the falling unemployment figures, he spoke of them as part an Obama Administration “Big Lie”—because, of course, Obama is just like Hitler, right?

Welcome to the Fox Post.

Thai police chief laments lack of ‘CSI technology’ as bombing investigation seems stalled (TeleUK)

The background: a bomber killed 20 people visiting a famous shrine and police can’t catch him. The police chief, however, laments to reporters that his officers “have to use imagination”—imagine that!

Of course, there’s the highly inaccurate depiction of all CSI techs having multiple specialties. In reality, they don’t. In fact, I know of one trial in which the CSI witness was asked whether a certain test was done and he replied, in the thickest Brooklynese, “that wasn’t in da werk ahdah.” That settles it, don’t it?

Still, can’t help sympathizing: those poor Thais dreaming of U.S. technology—as seen on TV.

Asteroid the size of a town will NOT hit Earth on September 15, says NASA (DRScot)

Nor will Nessie come out to trick or treat in Edinburgh on October 31. Seems as if Scottish readers like to read the news that will not occur.

Apparently, this was an Internet meme gone wild. Never heard of it, but here it is, with NASA’s firm denial.

Over 10,000 sign up in first 24 hours for PM Narendra Modi’s reception in US (TimInd)

The sign that techs from India have arrived: thousands of them sign up to see their PM when he tours of Silicon Valley. In 1980, there were about 350,000 Indian Americans in the United States; today there are 3.4 million—including two governors (Nikki Haley and Bobby Jindal) and at least 20 or 30 celebrities (such as Kal Penn, Deepak Chopra, Norah Jones, Fareed Zakaria and M. Night Shyamalan).