HEY, THAT’S FUNNY, OBAMA WAS JUST HOLDING AUSTRALIA UP AS AN EXAMPLE: Australian police say Sydney shooting ‘linked to terrorism’.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Everyone you know will be able to rate you on the terrifying ‘Yelp for people’ — whether you want them to or not. “As two empathetic, female entrepreneurs in the tech space, we want to spread love and positivity.” Yeah, this’ll do that.

CONDO BOARD SOON TO DISCOVER WHAT THE TERM “STREISAND EFFECT” MEANS: Homeowner fined after condo board bans American flags.

WELL, TO BE FAIR, MODERN JOURNALISM IS BASICALLY JUNIOR HIGH, BUT WITHOUT THE INTELLECTUAL RIGOR: “That headline — in the NYT — reminds me of the junior high school taunt: Nobody likes you.”

BETTER FOR YOU: A long walk, or a short stair-climb?

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE: Teen’s suicide after false rape claim.

And yet they still don’t publish the name of the false-accuser. “He was a wonderful young man with a great love of history.”

VIDEO: CHARLES COOKE PRESSES MARK HALPERIN AND MIKA BRZEZINSKI ON THEIR VAGUE THREATS TO THE SECOND AMENDMENT: “What is it that you’re proposing?”

AND YOU WONDER WHY PEOPLE DON’T TRUST GOVERNMENT: Secret Service director revises account of his role in leak case. “The director of the Secret Service knew that unflattering, private information about a congressman was circulating among agency staff members before it was leaked to the news media, contrary to an earlier statement made to federal investigators, according to two government officials briefed on the investigation.” Some people face criminal charges for that sort of thing. But he was attacking a Republican, so he may be safe. But when does the statute of limitations run out? . . .

AT AMAZON, Deals Galore in the Halloween Store.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Catalytic micromotors demonstrate carbon dioxide removal from water.

I THOUGHT THAT WAS WHAT WIVES ARE FOR: This Car Knows Your Next Misstep Before You Make It.

WHY? THE GOAL IS TO WRECK YOUR LIFESTYLE, NOT THEIRS: Oil Trade Group Challenges Environmentalists: Enough Talk, Try Actually Living Without Fossil Fuels:

Since announcing the Fossil Fuel Free Challenge two weeks ago, we’ve challenged numerous environmental groups to practice what they promote. We’ve called on companies like Starbucks, Nike, Walmart and others that have pledged to do away with fossil fuels to try going just one week without.

The reaction we get is people saying they’ll ride a bike to work or that they already drive a hybrid. However, those still use considerable amounts of fossil fuels and components that only come from oil and natural gas.

As Patrick Richardson writes, “The people protesting against fossil fuels don’t really want to live in a world without them. They just want to feel righteous, a problem even some within their ranks recognize they have.”

Related: Prominent Environmentalist Finally Discovers His Religion’s Catch-22.

BEFORE OUR FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION: When Engineers Had the Stars in Their Sights.

MILO YIANNOPOULOS: If You Want To Stop Mass Shootings, Try Treating Boys Better.

Masculinity isn’t fragile, as a spiteful, sociopathic feminist Twitter hashtag recently claimed. But — and here’s where some man-hating feminists almost get it right — it is powerful, and exciting, and it does have a flip-side if not properly respected. At its best, male competitiveness is the driving force behind most of society’s progress. We would be nowhere without the patriarchy, from the internet and space travel to the road under your feet and the roof on your house. The same thing that drives mass shooters inspires courage, too.

That doesn’t mean masculinity is “toxic.” What’s toxic is society’s attitudes towards men. Masculinity only becomes “toxic” when it is beaten down and suppressed and when men are told that what and who they are is defective. It becomes toxic when young boys are drugged in school because they don’t conform to feminine standards of behaviour.

What’s worse is that the media ridicules, criticises, punishes and demonises masculinity, then uses the product of its own hatred to justify more man-hating, in a Kafkaesque cycle of progressive insanity that has only one, inevitable consequence: more innocent dead people.

Progressives don’t see the irony in going after “straight white men.” But they are hypocritical bigots, hounding people for gender, skin colour and sexuality and saying that essential male characteristics are wrong. Men must be allowed to compete. To fight. To shoot things. Today’s man-punishing, feminised culture is creating killers by suppressing these urges. We have to stop it.

Read the whole thing.

IMAGES: A Brief Timeline Of How We’ve Imagined Martians.

CRIMINOLOGIST JAMES ALAN FOX: Umpqua shooting – a tragedy, not a trend. “I certainly don’t mean to minimize the suffering of the Oregon victims and their families, but the shooting spree is not a reflection of more deadly times. Consider the facts. According to a careful analysis of data on mass shootings (using the widely accepted definition of at least four killed), the Congressional Research Service found that there are, on average, just over 20 incidents annually. More important, the increase in cases, if there was one at all, is negligible. Indeed, the only genuine increase is in hype and hysteria.”

Hillary’s got an email scandal that won’t go away. Obama has a series of Mideast debacles of near-Bibilical proportions. Naturally, they — and their loyal allies in the press — would rather we be hysterical about something else.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 876.

FIVE REASONS THAT THE BENEFITS THAT FLOW FROM GUNS FAR OUTWEIGH THE RISKS INHERENT IN GUNS.