I thought I should let you know before the month is over.

Neurofibromatosis (Type 1 and Type 2) is a congenital disease causing “benign” tumorous growths (neurofibromas of various types) on nerve fibers anywhere throughout the body. I put “benign” in sneer quotes, because NF, as it is called in the community, depending on where the growths occur, can cause blindness and/or deafness, can be devastatingly disfiguring, painful, and even life-threatening. It is the disease of the Elephant Man. You’ve probably seen people with NF without knowing what to call it. Now you do.

Ricochet Editor-in-Chief Jon Gabriel appeared on “Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler” to discuss the NFL’s new anti-kneeling rules for players during the national anthem. Does it solve the problem or further muddy the issue?

So, inquiring minds have asked, if Comey and the FBI were so vested in the candidacy of HRC, how do you square that with the Weiner laptop surprise?

Remember, on October 28, 2016, Comey announced the reopening of the Midterm Exam (“MTE” was the FBI’s clever name for the Clinton email/unauthorized server scandal.) Weiner was once again accused of sexting with underage females. Police authorities in NYC had seized Anthony Weiner’s laptop and his wife, Huma Abedin, HRC’s trusted associate, had used that computer many times to print out HRC’s emails. HRC, it seems, liked only paper correspondence. So this laptop was a possible source for the “missing” emails that had otherwise been permanently removed from the Clinton unauthorized server. Comey was officially appraised of the existence this laptop on October 27 and quickly sought a warrant to search it. The MTE investigation band (the usual FBI suspects McCabe, Strzok, Page, et al.) was reluctantly put back together.

This evening I came back from grocery shopping and had to run our freezer bag into the house before going on another errand. Today in New Jersey had a high of 90 degrees, and so I left the car doors open for the three minutes it took to run into the house, put the ice cream in the freezer, and get back in the car to go to the pharmacy. Even just a few minutes with the doors closed would have been stifling, and I thought to myself “I wonder when I’ll see the first car seat death story this year.” Sadly, I had my answer when I opened Facebook tonight.

The New York Post reports the story out of Nashville, “Authorities say a recently adopted 1-year-old girl whose father left her in a truck has died. News outlets cite a release from Metro Nashville police saying the adoptive father “reportedly forgot” about the child after dropping off her sibling at day care on Wednesday. The girl’s adoptive mother found the child around 5:40 p.m. in a car seat inside the pickup truck parked outside their home.”

“Love Among the Ruins,” written in 1855 by Robert Browning:

Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles,
Miles and miles
On the solitary pastures where our sheep
Half-asleep
Tinkle homeward thro’ the twilight, stray or stop
As they crop—
Was the site once of a city great and gay,
(So they say)
Of our country’s very capital, its prince
Ages since
Held his court in, gathered councils, wielding far
Peace or war.

My most recent column over at PJ Media concerns Art Acevedo, chief of the Houston Police Department, who has risen to national attention in the wake of the school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas. The night of the shooting, Acevedo took to Facebook and posted an impassioned plea for “action” from lawmakers to address gun violence. What this action should be he did not specify, neither in the post nor in the many media appearances he has made since, except to call for a law requiring secure storage of firearms when children are present.

Such a law has been on the books in Texas since 1995 (scroll down to section 46.13), so it’s still unclear what recommendations Chief Acevedo would make. What is clear is that he is enjoying his moment in the sun, having been covered in glowing terms by CBS, the New York Times, and Rolling Stone, among many others.