BUT HOW CAN THAT BE WHEN LIBERALISM IS VIRTUE? Is Contemporary Liberalism Creating a Soulless Monoculture? (SERIOUSLY the pliers.  Do you know how hard it is to talk with my tongue stuck that far into my cheek?)

MEN ARE REMAINING UNEMPLOYED BECAUSE ALL HRs ARE DOMINATED BY WOMEN:  Death by HR: Who Staffs HR Departments?  Mostly Women.

WHAT AN ODD REACTION FROM IMPARTIAL SCIENTISTS: Scientist Predicts ‘Little Ice Age,’ Gets Icy Reception From Colleagues.   Does anyone have a pair of pliers to pull out the tongue that’s stuck in my cheek?

THERE IS ACTUALLY A REASON FOR THIS: MALE BIOCHEMISTRY FLUCTUATES LESS: Women are dying because most medical research is done on men.

PRIOR TO THIS ELECTION, I’D HAVE NO INTEREST IN THIS TYPE OF BOOK: How I faked my own death.

CYBER ESPIONAGE: Project Sauron Malware Found Stealing Sensitive Data from 30 Government Networks Worldwide after Five Years Undetected.

SHOCKER: Surprise! Obamacare critics were right.

WHAT DO YOU CALL IT WHEN A LOT OF FOREIGN MEN COME INTO YOUR COUNTRY AGAINST YOUR WILL? Europe’s Wave of Migration Brought Too Many Men.

CHANGE: Microcephaly Isn’t The Only Threat Zika Virus Poses To Newborns.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. You don’t have to be a beer expert to enjoy something new.

TECHNOLOGY: Temporary Tattoo Tells You When You’re Drunk.

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SHE’S NEVER HELD TO ACCOUNT: Why? Well, privilege. Media Privilege. Media Privilege encourages arrogant recklessness — like Hillary’s.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Law Prof: Law School Deans Are ‘Running A Bait And Switch Operation.’ Apparently, this is happening all over.

LIFE IN A FUNDAMENTALLY-TRANSFORMED AMERICA: Harvard Study: 6 Million Americans’ Drinking Water Contaminated With Toxins.

DEVELOPING: MAN SCALES SIX 12+ FLOORS OF TRUMP TOWER USING SUCTION CUPS.

Live video at link.

Say, is he the guy who does the cupping on Michael Phelps?

UPDATE: [Live Video] There’s a Guy Climbing Trump Tower Right Now:

The bearded, 20-something climber – dressed in high-end mountain climbing gear – started his ascent around 2:45 pm and by 5 pm had reached what appeared to be the 12th floor, a witness said.

Cops climbed through the building’s air conditioning vents to reach him, but he suctioned his way away from him.

At one point, a cop broke a window two floors over him and stuck his head out to talk to him.

“He keeps going,” said Gerald Iorio, who works across the street from the Fifth Avenue building, told The Post. “The cops can’t get him.”

Like I said, “Developing.”

MORE: “The climber apparently wants an audience with Trump. The Donald ought to appreciate the showmanship involved in this stunt,” Paula Bolyard writes at PJM linking to a tweet from Mike Valerio of NBC’s Richmond affiliate, who writes, “#TrumpClimber tells NYPD his name is Steve from Virginia, and he wants #Trump to see him.”

UPDATE (6:12 PM EDT): The police have removed two windows a few stories above the climber’s current position in an attempt to stop his progress. Stay tuned!

UPDATE (6:38 PM EDT): Police have pulled him into the building, with Steve appearing to offer a bit of resistance. I await the movie of his stunt in a decade or three.

UPDATE (6:43 PM EDT): At Hot Air, video of what appears to be the pro-Trump climber’s message to The Donald. As Allahpundit writes, “The second clip, posted yesterday, speaks for itself. Sure looks like the same guy in the still photo for the livestream clip. He says he has something very important to talk to Trump about. I’d pay cash money to watch a livestream of that.” Or as one Allah’s commenters writes, “That video of him with his message to Trump: not creepy at all.”

Allahpundit adds, “Now we wait to find out why he did it and whether Trump will agree to hear him out. I can almost hear the words: ‘I like your moxie, kid. Whaddaya got for me?'”

UPDATE (7:01 PM EDT): “It’s a metaphor for whole election: ‘Man rises to ridiculous heights during crazy PR stunt. Authorities unable to stop him.'”

FLASHBACK: Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny’s.

THIS ISN’T THE 21st CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: Emotional support monkey gets loose on Las Vegas-bound Frontier Airlines flight from Ohio.

Flashback: “Federal law not only protects your right to live with an emotional support animal, it allows you to take them on airplanes.  But therapy animals have become increasingly controversial as more exotic creatures show up where standard pets are not even allowed. Like the unruly pig kicked off a US Airways flight two years ago. Or the couple that tried to bring a kangaroo into a Beaver Dam McDonald’s last year. Or the turkey spotted flying Delta just last month.”

DAN RATHER: Man Who Tried To Steal Election With Forged Documents Tells Trump “History Is Watching.”

NEO-NEOCON ON TRUMP AND THE “SECOND AMENDMENT PEOPLE:”

Trump is the opposite of too careful. That’s one of the things his followers love about him. He’s like a jazz musician, riffing on his favorite themes. He draws energy from the laughter and appreciation of the adoring crowds who regularly turn out for him, and you can see his delight in their delight at an especially bold improv.

So maybe this remark was that. Maybe it was a bad joke about assassination. Or maybe it was actually more innocuous than that. But one thing I do know is that Trump’s method of political address sets him up for such ambiguous, easily misunderstood, poorly-constructed and/or impulsive and controversial statements.

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Speaking of what our current president said during his campaign, remember bringing the gun to the knife fight? It didn’t matter with Obama, because his surface demeanor is such that people were inclined to give the most benign and metaphoric interpretation to what he said.

Which was rather easy to accomplish when the entire DNC-MSM was engaged in Orwellian levels of obfuscation to tamp down his rhetoric and hide his background.

QUESTION ASKED AND (PARTIALLY) ANSWERED: Why has this summer blockbuster season been so bad?

Because an industry that’s been utterly obsessed with sequels and remakes for two decades now has finally hit rock bottom?

On Sunday, Nina and I saw the reissue of the 1989 Batman with Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson that was playing at the Fort Worth Cinemark mega-multiplex. It’s not a bad movie, in spite of itself, if only because Keaton and to a lesser extent Nicholson took their characters seriously and finally buried Adam West-era bat-camp, along with the eye-popping production design and dark, noirish cinematography.

But the movie is also a study in hype, via the mammoth marketing campaign Warner Brothers assembled around the film (and in the film, via the badly shoehorned Prince songs). Future movie historians will look back at Batman as ground zero for where it all began to go wrong for a Hollywood that became far more interested in being a vertically integrated marketing machine for ancillary products such as toys, CDs and happy meals, than the product at the core of its business.

Of course, it’s a given that however bad Hollywood’s product is this year, it will only get worse going forward: “‘Ocean’s 8’ to Feature… All-Female Team of Thieves and Grifters. Have they learned nothing from Ghostbusters?”

CHANGE: The Zika Situation Gets Worse in Florida.

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UNEXPECTEDLY: BLS Just “Revised” Away Obama’s “Fastest” Wage Growth Since The Crisis.

CHANGE: New York Health Dept. Expands Zika-Testing Guidelines.