WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY SUCH A CESSPIT OF BIGOTRY? Outcry from Sanders supporters after leaked DNC ‘atheism’ emails.

Bernie Sanders supporters Friday tore into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) on social media after a leaked email appeared to show a DNC official plotting to question Sanders’s religion.

The email, written by Chief Financial Officer Brad Marshall and leaked by the DNC hacker Guccifer 2.0 to WikiLeaks, suggests sending a surrogate to ask an unnamed candidate whether that candidate believed in God.

The email does not name the Vermont senator, but it talks about a man of “Jewish heritage” Marshall believes to be an atheist. It makes reference to voters in Kentucky and West Virginia, two states that were weeks away from a Democratic primary at the time.

“It might may no difference, but for KY and WVA can we get someone to ask his belief. Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist,” said the email, to other party officials in its entirety. . . .

The leaked email prompted swift outcry online Friday afternoon. One apparent Sanders supporter tweeted: “HRC folks called Sanders “McCarthyite” & ranted about purity while DNC plotted to smear him as godless commie Jew.”

Whatever works.

L.A. TIMES: Why the weasel word ‘problematic’ should be banned.

Urban Dictionary, that indispensable compendium of vernacular terms and usages, defines “problematic” as “a corporate-academic weasel word used mainly by people who sense that something may be oppressive, but don’t want to do any actual thinking about what the problem is or why it exists.” . . .

What’s more, as I’ve observed it, “problematic” tends to get used in inverse proportion to the seriousness of the offense.

We don’t hear “problematic” applied to police shootings of unarmed black men or to legislation preventing transgender people from using certain bathrooms. (The operative description of those issues would be, respectively, “actual problem” and “stupid.”) We certainly don’t hear it when the topic is international finance or the NFL because most people who use “problematic” can’t be bothered to follow such things. In the last few months the word has been applied, with some fanfare, to Calvin Trillin, who published a poem about Chinese food in the New Yorker that was deemed racist, and to Taylor Swift’s new boyfriend, whom fans are unhappy about because … I have no idea.

People who obsess over such things should be brutally mocked. It should be painful to be that stupid.

CHANGE: I (was a lifer) am a Dem and I’m Voting for Trump. Let’s talk about it… #DemExit.

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I HOPE WE’RE NOT TOO MESSIANIC, OR A TRIFLE TOO SATANIC: Me In The New York Post: Trump’s Not A Savior, But Neither Was Obama.

IMAGERY: Ivanka Trump is the Anti-Bill Clinton: Two featured family members paint the convention choice between new and inspiring, old and tired.

Bill’s not looking so good these days. It’ll be interesting to see what they do with him at the Convention.

WHAT, YOU THOUGHT HILLARY WOULD CHOOSE A RUNNING MATE WHO WASN’T CORRUPT? Kaine accepted clothes, vacation as gifts.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Dream of Muslim Outreach Has Become a Nightmare. “When President Obama entered office, he dreamed that his hope-and-change messaging and his references to his familial Islamic roots would win over the Muslim world. The soon-to-be Nobel Peace Prize laureate would make the U.S. liked in the Middle East. Then, terrorism would decrease. But, as with his approach to racial relations, Obama’s remedies proved worse than the original illness.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Georgetown 3L: Law School Is A Terrible Idea For Most People. Of course, that’s true of any graduate program. Or college major.

ISWYDT:

IF ONLY WE HAD SOME WAY TO KILL THEM EFFECTIVELY, EN MASSE: Aedes Aegypti Mosquito: Fighting the Most Dangerous Animal in the World.

GOOD BOY: Dog’s heroic action saves 79-year-old owner’s life.

JOHN HINDERAKER LOOKS AT LIBERAL HYPOCRISY: They count on voter ignorance.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Twins, 44, Try to Get Pregnant With Cancer-Patient Method.

MUNICH POLICE SAY THEY’RE LOOKING FOR THREE ISLAMIST SUSPECTS IN FATAL SHOOTING OF 8 PEOPLE.

UPDATE: “The suspect was an 18-year-old Iranian who lived in Munich, police told a news conference, but his motive is unclear,” the BBC reports (read: obfuscates).

TURKEY’S PURGE (bumped)

MEN’S LIVES MATTER:

CROOKED HILLARY CACKLES OVER CRUZ CONVENTION SPEECH: Her interpretation differs from Newt’s. Republican divisions over Trump were the convention’s biggest issue.

SCOTTY, TWO TO DRINK UP: Celebrating 50 years of Star Trek with Schmaltz Brewing Company’s “The Trouble with Tribbles” beer.

I’m holding out for a blackmarket bottle of Romulan Ale — only for medicinal purposes, of course.