TEST DRIVE: 2016 Porsche Cayman GT4. “We didn’t think Porsche would ever build this car. It’s a Cayman with the 911’s engine for base-911 money: $85,595. Many have heralded this as fratricide. But here’s why the Grand Cayman won’t kill the 911: Not many GT4s will be made, the GT4 is manual only, and 911s sell because they are 911s.”

A GLOBAL PHENOMENON: Young People Who Can’t Afford To Be Adults.

AT AMAZON, deals for the Holiday Host.

Plus, deals for gardeners.

“IT’S THE MOST COMMON DISEASE YOU NEVER HEARD OF:” Robin Williams’ Struggle With Lewy Body Dementia.

I’M NOT SAYING THAT IT’S ALIENS. BUT IT’S ALIENS. NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Are you on the autistic spectrum? Take the test.

GERMAN CHURCH REMOVES SYMBOLS OF CHRISTIANITY TO MAKE MIGRANTS ‘COMFORTABLE.’

To be fair, German churches have had a lot of practice updating the various symbols from time to time when demanded by conquering hordes.

(Via Maggie’s Farm.)

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

“We often read nowadays of the valor or audacity with which some rebel attacks a hoary tyranny or an antiquated superstition.  There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one’s grandmother.  The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers.”

—G.K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World, 1910.

RED-LIGHT CAMERAS AS dangerous highway distractions.

UM… ABOUT THOSE SCANDI SOCIALIST ‘PARADISES…’

CHANGE: Bevin Win in Kentucky Underscores Decimated Democratic Party Under Obama.

CONFUSED, ELDERLY GRAY LADY SURPRISINGLY DISAPPOINTED THAT MEN CAN’T JOIN HER IN THE LADIES’ ROOM: New York Times Throws Massive Fit over Houston Voters Rejecting Transgender Bathroom Measure.

Meanwhile, the Atlantic, which a decade ago replaced Mark Steyn with Legendary Uterus Investigative Journalist Andrew Sullivan, begins to think the unthinkable: Liberals Are Losing the Culture Wars.

Even before voters flushed Houston’s bathroom bill, David French of NRO posited, “Sorry, Social Justice Warriors: Political Correctness Has Peaked.”

Nahh — at the very most it’s merely a sitzkrieg in its endless kampf against reality.

ZIP IT: GOP STUDENTS ‘INTIMIDATED’ ON CAMPUS, SAY VIEWS LESS TOLERATED, Paul Bedard writes at the Washington Examiner:

The rise of the Tea Party and a rowdy 2016 Republican presidential primary has done little to boost conservative speech on the nation’s college campuses where right-leaning students say they feel intimidated and their views sneered at.

In a poll sponsored by Yale University’s William F. Buckley Jr. program, 800 national undergrads said that by a nearly two-to-one margin, colleges were more tolerant to liberals. Pollster Jim McLaughlin of McLaughlin & Associates, found that 37 percent felt school more tolerant of liberals views, just 20 percent of conservatives, and 36 percent equally tolerant.

And while students believed their schools do a good job to bolster intellectual diversity, half, or 49 percent, said they have “often felt intimidated to share beliefs other than their professors.” And 50 percent felt intimidated to share their thoughts with students whose views differ.

Perhaps young conservatives should consider this a preview of what to expect when they enter the Brave New Workplace of the 21st century. Particularly old media; as the late Washington Post ombudswoman Deborah Howell wrote immediately after the 2008 election,  “Journalism naturally draws liberals; we like to change the world*. I’ll bet that most Post journalists voted for Obama. I did. There are centrists at The Post as well. But the conservatives I know here feel so outnumbered that they don’t even want to be quoted by name in a memo:”

Journalists bristle at the thought of their coverage being viewed as unfair or unbalanced; they believe that their decisions are journalistically reasonable and that their politics do not affect how they cover and display stories. [Stop laughing. – Ed]

Tom Rosenstiel, a former political reporter who directs the Project for Excellence in Journalism, said, “The perception of liberal bias is a problem by itself for the news media. It’s not okay to dismiss it. Conservatives who think the press is deliberately trying to help Democrats are wrong. [Dammit, stop laughing! – Ed] But conservatives are right that journalism has too many liberals and not enough conservatives. It’s inconceivable that that is irrelevant.”

And yeah, the MSM has worked ever so hard to correct that imbalance in the last six years. And to bring this post full circle, as Thomas Sowell once wrote, “The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.”

*And bury the news when it doesn’t work out so well.

PLANNED WEBSITE OUTAGE TONIGHT AT 12:30 AM EASTERN/9:30 PM PST: The tech people who oversee the servers that host both Instapundit and PJ Media are performing some updates, and both sites will be down for one to two hours. There is no need to panic.

Other than our being out of coffee.

Update: Headline adjusted, as the start time was pushed back a half-hour by our tech boffins.

THE FINAL OUTRAGE: “The hearts are the final straw: it’s time to nationalise Twitter,” demands London Guardian columnist.

Doesn’t our Nobel Peace Prize-winning administration have enough wars on its hands these days without planning an invasion of Twitter’s office building as well?

CNN CLAIM: U.S. OFFICIALS BELIEVE ISIS PLANTED BOMB ON RUSSIAN PLANE.

Update: “If this latest intel proves accurate, this would be biggest (successful) terrorist attack on a plane since 9/11,” Jake Tapper tweets. Plus much from Hot Air’s Allahpundit.

ELON MUSK: In 20 Years, Non-Autonomous Cars “Will Be Like Owning a Horse.”

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Advice To The Koch Brothers: Invest in Media, Not Politicians.

ANOTHER LEFTIST PROBE GOES DOWN TO DEFEAT — FOR NOW, Michael Walsh writes:

And bathrooms won, as Texas voters said to hell with with “equality and inclusiveness,” which they and the rest of the country are just now figuring out mean a wholesale destruction of cultural norms as the descendants of the Frankfurt School continue their merry work to overturn thousands of years of human history. The war against the Left is partly a fight over the language, which we are losing, and this is a good example. ”Transgender” bathroom “rights” has gone down in Houston. But it will keep coming back until heteronormativity is destroyed.

For my interview with Michael on how the Frankfurt School began their war on language and meaning click here.

And for a backgrounder on what Houston’s wannabe-Weimar socialists proposed, read “With Its Bathroom Ordinance, Houston Takes Leave of Its Municipal Senses,” written by Kevin D. Williamson on the eve of yesterday’s election.

Update: “How does the DC Media protect Dems, you ask? You seen any asked if they stand w/the Houston referendum that just went down? That’s how,” John Nolte tweets.

NEW QUINNIPIAC POLL: Carson, Rubio, Cruz, and Christie Over Hillary, Jeb! Continues His Free-Fall.

He’ll always have Paris, though.

CHINA BECOMING A MILITARY SUPERPOWER by spying and copying others’ technology.

COST OF SEQUENCING A HUMAN GENOME is plummeting. “What the present much lower cost of sequencing tells us: the number of genetic variants with known impact is going to soar in the next 5 years and soar even more in the next 10 years. By the year 2025 the number of pieces of useful information you can get from getting yourself sequenced is going to be large. It is going to be especially large for people who are thinking about having kids.”

WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: Yes, There Is a Technology Bubble, and That’s Okay.

AMMUNITION HAS COME A LONG WAY IN THE PAST COUPLE OF DECADES: FBI Switching Back To 9mm.