BELGIUM UPHOLDS THE BASIC HUMAN RIGHT TO KILL GRANN: Catholic Nursing Home Successfully Sued for Refusing Euthanasia. 

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Ankeny teacher arrested for sexual exploitation.

DISTURBINGLY PLAUSIBLE:

WELL, YES: “One of the clichés about politicians is that they are ‘out of touch.’ But listening to these debates, it struck me that academics and journalists are often far more elitist and out-of-touch than most politicians, whose jobs oblige them to speak to ordinary people on a regular basis.”

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LET THEM BE BOYS: How Raising Two Sons Is Teaching This Mom to Be Brave. “As they have grown, my two sons’ preferences lean quite clearly toward activities for which I have no skill set, sports that scare me, and bodily functions that don’t leave me laughing. When their dad died before they were in kindergarten, I felt brokenhearted and especially displaced; how I could I raise men without one? How could I keep up with their antics when I didn’t have an ounce of testosterone on my side? In my journey to reinvent myself in the widowed life, I had to embrace a whole separate something: I had to start thinking like a boy. When you live in a frat house, sometimes you have to suck it up and get in the game. And that’s exactly what I did.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY YOU KNOW: High tech communications and helicopters combined for a daring rescue in the middle of the Central African Republic.

Using a Delorme inReach satellite device while being shot at by armed guerrillas of the Lord’s Resistance Army, two travelers contacted RedPoint Resolutions which arranged for a helicopter pick up point, and Ripcord Rescue Travel Insurance sent the helicopter for a speedy and safe departure.  Movies have been based on less.

We’re proud to have Ripcord as a sponsor of Bullet and Bourbon 2016. But we think this was pretty cool even if they weren’t sponsors.

IF YOU’VE EMAILED ME AT THE INSTAPUNDIT EMAIL ACCOUNT AND DIDN’T GET AN ANSWER, TRY AGAIN. There was some sort of tech problem for a while, and I’m not sure all the messages got through.

THIS IS A SAFE PREDICTION: Tesla’s ‘Autopilot’ Will Make Mistakes. Humans Will Overreact.

RIP: HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR, AUTHOR AND NOBEL LAUREATE ELIE WIESEL HAS DIED AT AGE 87.

QUESTION ASKED: “Have you noticed that many liberals seem far more perturbed about Bill Clinton’s talk with Loretta Lynch than they are with anything Hillary Clinton has done?”

A HOSTILE EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT: UC Berkeley Student Columnist Maggie Lam Attacks the “White Devil,” “Skinny White Girls.”

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RUSH LIMBAUGH: We’re Being Played by the Clintons.

Earlier: J. Christian Adams on Rush Limbaugh: ‘Loretta Lynch ‘Recusing’ Herself Benefits Hillary!’

EVERYTHING IS A PROBLEM: Guys and the pressure to be beach body perfect.

Beach season is here and more guys are pumping iron at the gym and running shirtless at lunch hour. Men’s Health just featured another guy with ripped abs and biceps on their cover. And Instagram is overflowing with perfectly sculpted dudes surfing waves, climbing mountains and running on soccer fields.

It can make regular guys feel downright depressed.

“The summer can for some people increase the anxiety associated with body image concerns because your body is more exposed,” said Dr. Katharine Phillips, director of the Body Dysmorphic Disorder Program at Rhode Island Hospital, and professor of psychiatry at Brown University.

Some of her male patients with body image concerns even get blue about the extra hours of daylight summer brings, Phillips told CBS News. “They really don’t like their body to be seen.”

If you don’t like the way you look, change it. You can get help from Gary Taubes, from Mark Rippetoe, and — if you really care about how you look — from Arnold.

UPDATE: In the comments, a reader recommends this as a less science-heavy, more focused version of Taubes’ advice.

HILLARY GRILLED AT FBI HEADQUARTERS: The Washington Examiner reports Hillary’s campaign confirmed she’d met with FBI investigators at FBI HQ. At least one report on Friday claimed she’d arranged to meet investigators at her Washington home. Apparently not. Seems they brought her downtown for questioning  — an echo of a 1940s Hollywood cops and robbers flick.  However,  her campaign described her meet up as a “voluntary interview.” Hmmm. Hillary’s voluntary interview lasted three and a half hours. That sounds a lot like a grilling, doesn’t it? Perhaps not. But now even Hillary’s staff admits it’s a criminal investigation. Squish language spewed for media dissemination is classic Clinton. The Observer essay at the link surveys Hillary’s insistent use of rhetorical squish. Remember, she insisted the FBI investigation was an “inquiry?” It also documents a blatant example of a mainstream media outlet echoing her preferred lingo. The timing of Ms. Clinton’s FBI meet up also strikes me as negotiated. Her grilling occurred during a three-day holiday weekend–typically a burial ground for bad news. However, the Loretta Lynch-Bill Clinton Phoenix Airport Connivance was so sensationally corrupt even pro-Clinton mainstream media corpses can’t ignore this story.

GUESS I MIGHT AS WELL BUY THAT LINCOLN NAVIGATOR AFTER ALL, THEN: We’ve missed our chance to seriously stop climate change, study finds.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Barack Obama, November 18, 2009: “I think that we’ve restored America’s standing in the world.”

Washington Post, today: In Yemeni capital, signs of hatred toward Americans are everywhere.

ANNUAL ONSLAUGHT OF LIB MEDIA THINK PIECES EXPRESSING BITTERNESS ABOUT 4TH OF JULY FUN BEGINS.

THAT’S IMPRESSIVE: Great frigate birds found able to fly for months at a time. “In charting their flight patterns, the team found that the birds travel incredible distances—sometimes covering up to 250 miles in a single day. They also found that the birds were able to take advantage of another type of updraft when need be, they would slip under a cumulus cloud and allow themselves to be very quickly pulled upward (up to 5 meters per second), without having to flap their wings a single time. Such sudden elevations could take them as high as 1,600 meters, where the air is extremely thin, and the temperature freezing. From there, they would glide down for hours, until reaching another updraft.”

WHY YOU SHOULD MOVE OUT OF CALIFORNIA: New Gun Control Bill in CA Would Allow People to have Firearms Confiscated from Co-Workers.

As Kate of Canada’s Small Dead Animals blog likes to say, “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas, Hear My Prayer.”

REMEMBER, THEY DON’T HAVE TO BE PERFECT, JUST BETTER THAN WHAT WE HAVE NOW: Fatal Tesla Self-Driving Car Crash Reminds Us That Robots Aren’t Perfect.

EVERYTHING SEEMINGLY IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL: The Greatest Headline About Horse Herpes and Stick Ponies You’ll Ever See.

HELIUM HIGH: Drill baby drill — this time for helium. Peak helium? So doomsters claimed.

Drillers in Africa’s Great Rift Valley have discovered significant helium reserves. “…volcanic activity in the Rift Valley releases helium buried in ancient rocks, which rises up and becomes trapped in shallower gas fields.”

Gas fields. And drilling. When will Obama object?

Well, helium is a gas, and like natural gas it’s a valuable gas. Researchers from Oxford and Durham universities worked with a Norwegian exlporation company, Helium One. Private industry inventiveness scores again.

There’ve been other recent helium discoveries. This link discusses one in Montana, though the reservoir’s geology appears to differ from the find in Tanzania.

ANOTHER WIN FOR FEMINIST GHOSTBUSTERS.