INSERT KISSINGER IRAN-IRAQ WAR JOKE HERE. RNC CHAOS: Alex Jones, Roger Stone Crash Set of Cenk Uygur’s Young Turks Show (Video).

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NO WIMPS: No confirming trace of “weakly interacting massive particles” turned up in this experiment, conducted from October 2014 to May 2016 in a mine in South Dakota’s Black Hills. The search for dark matter remains, for the most part, in the dark.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO ABUSE: “My mother abused my dying father, withholding medicine and food.”

ACE OF SPADES: Yes, #NeverTrumpers, You Are In Fact Morally Responsible for the Hillary Clinton Presidency You’re Agitating For.

Read the whole thing.

IS TED CRUZ FINISHED NATIONALLY?

Or as Allahpundit writes, “It’s strange to recall now but not so long ago Cruz’s path to the Republican nomination depended upon winning over Trump’s populist voters: Once Trump imploded, the theory went, Cruz would clean up among Trump’s base and march to victory as the anti-establishment choice. That was the whole point of the Cruz/Trump ‘bromance’ last year. It’s also why Cruz strained not to get personal with Trump despite the many months of ‘Lyin’ Ted’ and shots at Heidi Cruz and the nutty JFK thing about his father until, under the strain of looming defeat, Cruz finally snapped during a presser on the morning of the Indiana primary and went off on him for 10 minutes. He put a lot of effort into not writing off Trump’s voters. And now: Gone.”

ANTI-POLICE PROTESTORS: Blue Lives Murder. Painted on a concrete barrier in Cleveland, along with other typical hard left slogans. Great photos. Someone is doing a good job of documenting the belligerent stupidity. I’ve previously linked to my Observer essay on the subject but it’s still relevant. As Police Chief Brown said in Dallas “All I know is this, this must stop, this divisiveness.” Unfortunately sir, the political left thrives on divisiveness.

LIVEBLOGGING THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION — DAY FOUR.

DON’T CROSS THE STREAMS: Great Scott, There’s a DeLorean Hot Tub Time Machine.

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THIS ISN’T THE 21st CENTURY I WAS PROMISED: Bring On Those Self Driving Cars!

Detroit automobile designer turned Blade Runner production designer Syd Mead must sit around wondering where it all went wrong.

LIVE FROM CLEVELAND IT’S THE GLOP CULTURE PODCAST AT RICOCHET, with Rob Long, John Podhoretz, and Jonah Goldberg.

In addition to the political talk, nice Spinal Tap callback on the opening, and loads of Garry Marshall stories along the way.

IT’S ONLY SHOCKING IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THE DIVERSITY OF THE GOP: Peter Thiel’s Appearance at RNC Freaking Out Silicon Valley Leftist Hive-mind.

(Classical reference in headline.)

THIS DOESN’T SEEM LIKE A GOOD IDEA FOR A LOT OF TINDER USERS: Introducing Tinder Social.

If you want to go out, then Tinder will ask you to invite one of your “friends on Tinder Social” from a selection of your Facebook friends who may or may not be on Tinder.

Once you invite one of your existing friends, you can then begin swiping left or right on groups and individuals looking to go out.

“Users must unlock Tinder Social by opting into the feature. If a user opts in, Tinder will display a list of Facebook friends (who have also unlocked Tinder Social) to choose from to add to their group,” a spokesperson for Tinder told Mashable when questioned about this feature.

In other words, if you want to use the feature, you should make sure you’re 100% OK with your Facebook friends knowing you use the app.

There are bound to be more than a few comedo-tragic results for the internet to share and enjoy.

DEMOCRATS BEFORE CONVENTION: “We’re Panicked.”

Related: DNC replaces two Vermont delegates — because they’re men. “State Sen. Tim Ashe and party insider Ken Dean were ordered to be replaced by the DNC so that the party could achieve a gender balance. Dean and Ashe have filed a formal complaint with the DNC’s credentials committee, according to the Associated Press.”

ROGER AILES resigns from Fox News.

“STAR TREK INTO DROWSINESS:”  “For the love of God, stop making ‘Star Trek’ movies,” shouts Kyle Smith of the New York Post after screening Star Trek Beyond.

Personally, I’ve never accepted the new cast in the roles made famous by Shatner, Nimoy, De Kelley, Doohan, etc. I wish Paramount had created a new ship and crew rather than dust off Kirk and Spock to be portrayed by young actors.

NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Another powerful nanoengine remembered.

‘VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE’ WAS A RORSCHACH TEST, AND DONALD TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN FAILED: “Trump’s campaign could’ve made lemonade out of Cruz’s speech. Instead, it opened the wound Cruz caused and squirted lemon juice into it,” Sean Davis writes at the Federalist.

If not lemonade, perhaps a nice Trump Merlot? (Just looking for an excuse to dust off this Photoshop from the primaries, back in March.)

UH OH: Black Lives Matter Activists Occupy Police Union Headquarters in D.C. and New York: “When police officers kill us, they call their police union rep first.”

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: A tale of two Teds.

I’M GUESSING MARK RIPPETOE WILL HAVE THOUGHTS: Lifting Lighter Weights Can Be Just as Effective as Heavy Ones.

But they didn’t ask permission to use my picture with this story. For shame. . . .

BOOM! Cornel West: Hillary Presidency ‘Could Lead to World War III.’

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LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Gene Therapy Trial Wrenches Families as One Child’s Death Saves Another.