AT AMAZON, up to 75% off on men’s clothing.

Also, today only: 45% Off Puma BioWeb Elite Running Shoes ($54.95).

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: US government declares hacking an act of war, then hacks allies.

STOP THE PRESSES: Noam Chomsky is actually right about something. Hey, it had to happen eventually . . . .

THE INSTA-WIFE’S MEN ON STRIKE GETS A NICE REVIEW FROM KYLE (NO RELATION) SMITH: Man of kneel: Sick of being treated like the enemy, guys are dropping out of society. (Bumped).

SOMEHOW I HAD MISSED THIS: #REDTIEGUY UPSTAGES OBAMA.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: FYI, Happy Ending Massages Are Totally Legal In China.

DON’T FEAR THE LEAKER: My USA Today column for tomorrow, on leaks and legitimacy.

HE NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN PROSECUTED: Sidewalk Chalk “Vandal” Acquitted By Jury. The prosecutor should be fired for bringing this case. Or at least have something nasty and snarky chalked in front of his house.

CHANGE: Encryption Has Foiled Wiretaps for First Time Ever, Feds Say.

Encryption was reported for 15 wiretaps in 2012 and for 7 wiretaps conducted during previous years. In four of these wiretaps, officials were unable to decipher the plain text of the messages. This is the first time that jurisdictions have reported that encryption prevented officials from obtaining the plain text of the communications since the AO began collecting encryption data in 2001.

I suspect we’ll see more of that.

THE ROLLING STONES’ LIVE SHOW gets a great review. But don’t diss Paul McCartney — several people who saw him at Bonnaroo told me that his show was awesome.

UPDATE: Reader Robert McCarthy writes:

Glenn,

I took my 13-year-old son, a guitar aficionado and student of rock, to the Stones concert at the Garden in Boston a few weeks ago. I had seen them 2 or 3 times, all rather uneventful to be honest. I prepared for the worst…I mean, how could these men, nearly twice my age and bruised and battered with every imaginable drug in their system, actually do anything beyond stand and strum? In a word, they were ‘amazing’. My son left with a smile plastered on his face, a t-shirt on his back, and a gleam in his eye that said “I could be there some day”. And that was worth everything.

I can imagine.

HOW’S THAT “SMART DIPLOMACY” WORKIN’ FOR YA? (CONT’D): Many will say that the president of the United States cannot of course control events in Egypt. That’s true. But he did everything possible to lead to this crisis. “The point is that Obama policy is so obviously bad—having circles run around it by Iran; the shameful Benghazi affair; the love affair with the Turkish regime; Kerry behaving as if he’ll have peace in the Middle East next Thursday and he cannot understand why no one ever thought of this before.”

DISASTER PREP: New algorithm quickly identifies most dangerous risks in a power grid amid millions or billions of possible failures.

CLASSY: Texas Democrat Tweets Repugnant Joke Involving Abortion and Dick Cheney.

Plus: “It’s a safe bet that Houston’s local TV media won’t cover Wu’s disgusting tweet. He’s married to local TV political reporter Miya Shay. That’s not in her official station bio but does appear on her Facebook page.”

JOHN FUND: Hollywood Once Bowed to Nazi Censors, Is it Now Kowtowing to Chinese Censors?

Repeal the Hollywood tax cuts!

AT AMAZON, it’s the Fourth Of July Sale.

SUPREME COURT UPDATE: Public Approval of Supreme Court Falls to All-Time Low. John Roberts seems to have operated with one eye on the media and it doesn’t seem to have made the Court more popular.

PAULA DEEN GOES DOWN, BUT ALEC BALDWIN GETS A PASS. WHY? Because he’s the very model of a modern media liberal.

NON-METAPHORIC IDIOT: Mainstream Media Scream: MSNBC guest calls Justice Thomas ‘a metaphoric Hitler.’

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How Will You Replace Google Reader? The great RSS reader hunt of 2013 begins.

JOURNALISM: Cretins gloat, pass around George Zimmerman’s Social Security number after CNN airs it.

THE APP CRAZE branches into forestry. “A startup has developed software and smartphone tools for cataloguing the trees in forests.”

HUMANS BASICALLY EVOLVED TO THROW FASTBALLS: “No other primate throws with anything comparable to human force. Chimpanzees, who are much, much stronger, pound for pound, than human beings, can throw, as any zoo visitor knows. But the best an adult male can do is about 20 miles per hour. A 12-year-old human pitcher can easily throw three times that fast.” It’s all in the shoulder articulation.

CHANGE: Bringing Back The No-Stigma Extended Vacation. In my world, there’s never been a stigma. . ..

UPDATE: A reader emails: “Your link on the 2 week vacations shows exactly what we would normally expect when marginal tax rates are increased on ‘the wealthy.’ These people can afford to choose: work an extra 2 weeks a year or vacation an extra 2 weeks a year. When you get to keep 75-80% of what you earn, you might choose to work and earn a little extra. When you only keep 40 cents on the dollar, why bother? Take a vacation instead.”

THE RESILIENCE OF EGYPTIAN CIVIL SOCIETY HAS BEEN A GRATIFYING SURPRISE: J.J. Gould: Tahrir Square Redux: Could This Be the Tipping Point for Democracy in Egypt?

NINETEEN FIREFIGHTERS KILLED IN ARIZONA: “The men were killed about 85 miles northwest of Phoenix, near the town of Yarnell. It was the biggest loss of firefighter life since 340 died at the World Trade Center. It was the worst in a wildfire since 1933, when 29 were killed in Los Angeles.”