IN THE HEART OF DIVERSITY CULTURE: “Such is the parochialism of a Manhattan childhood that it seems entirely plausible I simply never imagined that anyone I was fond of could be a Republican.”

UPDATE (From Ed): There’s a reason why Manhattan liberal turned conservative Harry Stein’s book published shortly after Obama was elected was titled I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next to a Republican!

It’s the phrase an elite lefty bellowed the previous year when Stein punctured the tulip-mania level groupthink a dinner party in tawny Hastings-on-Hudson (Keith Olbermann’s childhood town!) by suggesting that perhaps Obama might be just a tad ill-suited and unprepared for the presidency.

PRIME MINISTER ZOOLANDER: Trudeau’s leadership MIA during terror scare.

THIS IS WHY ELITES ARE SO EAGER TO DISSOLVE THE PEOPLE AND ELECT ANOTHER: German President Booed, Attacked; Claims “The People Are The Problem, Not The Elites.”

This kind of thinking is a worldwide problem.

YET ANOTHER REASON NOT TO TRUST THE INTERNET OF THINGS: Nest thermostats offline in massive outage during U.S. heatwave.

ON THIS DAY IN 2003, THE HUGE NYC BLACKOUT BEGAN.

Here’s Amy Langfield’s blog tick-tock. Her advice about keeping a stash of small bills handy — because ATMs and credit-card readers don’t work when the power’s out — is good.

Some related items here.

And here’s an InstaPundit post from that night, featuring live on-the-scene reports from Insta-readers. Much more of a novelty in 2003 than today!

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: “Though President Obama swore that he would never find himself in a proxy war with Russia in Syria, that was exactly the result. Moreover, it is a proxy war he is losing.”

THE INSTA-WIFE: Will Women’s Pets Now Have More Rights Than Men?

AT AMAZON, save in Arts, Crafts & Sewing.

Plus, deals on bestselling Game Downloads.

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Man harpooned in brawl over photo of women in burkinis in Corsica: Fracas between North Africans and local youths a day after French court upheld ban on swimsuits.

Hatchets and harpoons were thrown in a beach brawl that broke out after a tourist was seen taking pictures of women wearing burkinis in Corsica.

The fracas between a group described as North African ‘Muslim families’ and local youths broke out a day after a ban on the head-to-toe swimsuits was upheld by a judge in Cannes.

A tourist was seen taking pictures of women wearing the full-body swimwear on a creek near the village of Sisco on the French island.

When the bathers objected, a group of local teenagers are said to have come to the photographer’s defence.

Local reports said that the group of North African men armed themselves and took on the young Corsicans. One man was hit by a spear-like weapon and a pregnant women was taken to hospital with injuries.

Tension between local communities in France and Muslims of North African origin has grown since 85 people were massacred by a lorry driver in a jihadi-linked terror attack in Nice on July 14.

This is fine.

LOUISE MENSCH AND VOX DAY debate Marital Rape.

RIOT FIRST, LEARN FACTS LATER: Milwaukee man shot by police seen with gun in body camera footage, officials say.

Black officer, black police chief, but Black Lives Matter is, ultimately, about ending the policing of black neighborhoods.

ROBO-CALLS IN GENERAL ARE OUT OF CONTROL: Student debt collectors want to robo-call your cellphone, but FCC says not so fast.

I want a system that charges people a dollar to call me if they’re not on my whitelist.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Milwaukee is the latest example that the American Left are “Lying Black Folks to Death,” writes Andrew Klavan.

CHANGE: GM Is Using Glue to Build Its New Cars.

THIS WEEK ONLY: $20 off the Kindle Paperwhite. And get the Kindle for just $59.95. And take $20 off the Fire Kids’ Edition.

Plus, get the Fire TV Stick with voice remote for just $49.95. When we went to the beach a couple of weeks ago, I took the Fire TV Stick and plugged it into the TV in our rental condo, so that the Insta-Daughter and I could continue binge-watching That 70s Show. It was a huge success.

METAPHOR ALERT: US monuments are getting covered in slime, and no one knows how to stop it. “Besides the Jefferson Memorial, the NPS reports that the biofilm – which they’ve not gone into specifics about yet – has also started to cover the Lincoln Memorial and some tombstones at the Congressional Cemetery.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Here’s why time seems to go by more quickly as we get older. So is there a limit to how long a human life might seem, even if it were actually endless? So that adding an extra century or millennium would just approach that limit asymptotically?

TRUMP SAYS HE’D BE UP 20 POINTS IF NOT FOR CROOKED MEDIA: He’s running against Media Privilege. And he darn well should.

NORTH KOREA’S NUMBERS STATION: The post includes a brief history of numbers stations.

DIGITAL DEVASTATION: Excess Light Exposure May Take Toll on Muscles and Bones.

LESS THAN YOU THINK, BUT MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE GET: How Much Exercise Do You Really Need to Protect Against Disease?

BLACK LIVES MATTER MAY STILL GET TRUMP ELECTED:

VIOLENCE IN MILWAUKEE: CHANTS OF ‘BLACK POWER!’ AS GAS STATION BURNS.

UPDATE: “Hey beat up every white person!” said one protester caught on camera. “He white! Beat his sh*t!”

Reminder: Milwaukee Hasn’t Had a Republican Mayor Since 1908.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1193.