AND YET, THEY WONDER WHY THEY’RE SO DESPISED: Media Quickly Moves from ‘Build’ to ‘Destroy’ with Ken Bone for Honesty About Trayvon Martin.

As Sean Davis of the Federalist tweeted, “Joe the Plumber, Elizabeth Lauten, Justine Sacco, Ken Bone. If what happened to them doesn’t prove how much media loathe you, nothing will.”

(Headline via Carl Paulus.)

ROAD LESS TRAVELED, TRAVELING WITH LESS ROAD: Getting From the Atlantic to the Pacific using as little paved road as possible.

AND NOW A FEW WORDS FROM DONALD “BANE” TRUMP:

To be fair though, while Trump is a populist and former Democrat, even I don’t think he’s as far to the left as Gotham’s Darth Vader meets Che Guevara.

SADLY, THIS IS PROBABLY TRUE EVEN IF IT’S GARY JOHNSON: No Matter Who’s Elected, Surveillance Powers And Programs Unlikely To Be Scaled Back.

JUST WHEN I THOUGHT I WAS OUT… THEY PULL ME BACK IN! To Trump or Not to Trump: GOP Candidates Weigh Politics of Unendorsing, Re-endorsing.

1984 WAS JUST A FEW DECADES TOO EARLY: George Orwell never dreamed of advertising as invasive as Yahoo’s proposal.

OCTOBER 14, 1947: CHUCK YEAGER BREAKS THE SOUND BARRIER.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Brain Implant Allows Man to Feel Touch on Robotic Hand.

Plus: This Robot Can Do More Push-Ups Because It Sweats. “The approach goes way beyond just running water channels through the frame and circulating water through them, since that wouldn’t have solved the problem of needing to place a radiator in there somewhere. The researchers instead decided to try a passive technique, allowing the water to seep out through the frame around the motors to cool them evaporatively. In other words, Kengoro sweats.”

There was something about this in the short-lived Yancy Butler Mann & Machine TV show, as I recall. It was a cop buddy show where one of the cop-buddies (Butler) was a hot robot, and she was able to sweat as a cooling mechanism, which I thought at the time was a novel approach. Ahead of its time!

UPDATE: Some of this is on YouTube.

THEY’RE ALL PART OF THE CLINTON TEAM: Emails: Washington Post WH Bureau Chief Warns Podesta of New Story.

IF YOU’RE IN THE D-FW METROPLEX AREA, THIS WEEKEND IS THE ARLINGTON GUITAR SHOW. I’ll be there tomorrow; here’s my video from the 2007 show:

UPDATE: Here’s a report on last year’s show, giving you a great sense of what to expect if you go.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why You Should Never, Ever Buy a Car Sight-Unseen.

I GUESS THEY LISTENED TO BARACK OBAMA OR SOMETHING: England Axes Art History A-Levels In Cull Of “Soft Subjects.”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: America’s Civilizational Paralysis.

WELL, GOOD. US in Yemen: If you threaten us, we’ll respond.

MORE ON THE REBELLION IN MOSUL: Stephen Green has a prior post up about the failed rebellion in Mosul against the Islamic State’s senior leaders.This report adds some more details. ISIS police (Diwan al-Hisba) moved against conspirators on Wednesday. Meanwhile, ISIS commanders are seeding the entire city with mines and booby traps.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 1254.

ROGER SIMON: Free the FBI 100!

JAYVEE: ISIS Spreads Its Roots in the Philippines.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Are Global Warming Alarmists Disappointed Hurricane Matthew Wasn’t Worse?

Samuel L. Jackson, Ellen Barkin, Dana Milbank, James Wolcott, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Michael Moore and former DNC Chairman Don Fowler could not be reached for comment.

CC: ROGER GOODELL: NHL’s Dallas Stars Will Honor Slain Police Officers With Helmet Decal.

CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE: Slur in Video Exposes Racial Rifts in Iconic Gay Enclave.

Black gays and lesbians in the city say they are carded at clubs in the area known as the Gayborhood while they watch white patrons stroll in. At bars, they say, they wait longer for drinks and are subjected to dress codes that ban athletic gear, Timberland boots and hooded sweatshirts, rules they say are meant to exclude them.

Now, they say, the video finally provides tangible evidence of their concerns. It has sparked outrage among many in the city’s LGBT community, bolstered by the Black Lives Matter movement and support for gay safe spaces in the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando.

“The minute you walk into the Gayborhood as a black or brown person, you feel it,” said Shani Akilah Robin, creator of the Black and Brown Workers Collective, which held protests after the video release. “They play our music and target us for the very blackness they’re making money off of. This is the reality of being black and queer in America.”

Why are Democrat-run cities such cesspits of racial intolerance?

PUSHBACK: Trump vows to ignore UN, recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

FRACK, BABY, FRACK: Shale Gas Drags US Energy Emissions to 25-Year Low.

The United States has emitted less carbon through June of this year than at any other point in the past 25 years. . . .

The EIA wants to credit the growth of renewables like wind and solar for part of this historic decline in energy-related emissions, and while they undoubtedly played a part, it was a minor one. Let’s keep in mind that renewable energy sources accounted for less than 11 percent of our energy consumption in June of this year, a far cry from fossil fuels, which were responsible for more than 80 percent of our overall consumption.

No, it was coal’s sharp decline—a drop of 18 percent in the first half of this year as compared to 2015—that really moved the needle on America’s energy emissions. And let’s not forget that Old King Coal isn’t being dethroned by onerous regulations, but rather by market forces. More specifically, coal’s demise has been precipitated by the sudden rise in domestic natural gas production that has led to an oversupply (and, as a result bargain prices). This, of course, comes to us courtesy of the great shale revolution.

The next time you hear an environmentalist bemoaning the devilish ways of American frackers, remind them that shale gas is one of the very few climate change solutions that doesn’t involve donning an economic hair shirt.

To a lot of environmentalists, that’s a bug, not a feature.

WELL, GOOD: Israel suspends cooperation with UNESCO over Jerusalem resolution.

Israel suspended cooperation with UNESCO on Friday, a day after the U.N. cultural agency adopted a draft resolution that Israel says denies the deep, historic Jewish connection to holy sites in Jerusalem.

UNESCO’s draft resolution, sponsored by several Arab countries, uses only the Islamic name for a hilltop compound sacred to both Jews and Muslims, which includes the Western Wall, a remnant of the biblical temple and the holiest site where Jews can pray. The validated resolution is expected early next week, but the wording is unlikely to change.

Flashback: Obama Budget Supersizes U.S. Funding for UN, Global Military.