HOW DOES IT FEEL? Rolling Stone, Once a Counterculture Bible, Will Be Put Up for Sale:

From a loft in San Francisco in 1967, a 21-year-old named Jann S. Wenner started a magazine that would become the counterculture bible for baby boomers. Rolling Stone defined cool, cultivated literary icons and produced star-making covers that were such coveted real estate they inspired a song.

But the headwinds buffeting the publishing industry, and some costly strategic missteps, have steadily taken a financial toll on Rolling Stone, and a botched story three years ago about an unproven gang rape at the University of Virginia badly bruised the magazine’s journalistic reputation.

As K.C. Johnson of Brooklyn College and the co-author of The Campus Rape Frenzy tweets, that last sentence contains “Some interesting word choices in this NYT description (used twice in article) about Rolling Stone-UVA.”

Law blogger Scott Greenfield adds, “The word they were searching for is ‘false.'”

(For our readers who aren’t AARP members, that’s a classical reference in headline.)

DISINFORMATION: Byron York: Over DACA, an acute case of Trump Panic Syndrome. “In other words, the whole episode changed pretty much nothing. Anyone who followed Trump during the campaign knows he is headed toward some sort of accommodation for DACA recipients. And anyone who follows the Trump administration and Congress knows there will be showdowns on Capitol Hill over the wall and other border security and enforcement measures. That is where the DACA issue stood before the freakout of Wednesday night and Thursday morning, and that is where the issue stood afterward. All that panic for nothing.”

Well, not nothing. It generated a lot of pageviews.

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I’M NOT SURE THIS IS “PROOF,” EXACTLY, BUT THEY PRESENT SOME FAIRLY COMPELLING ARGUMENTS: Proof that swimsuits will always be sexy.

LEARNING EXPERIENCE: I moved from a blue state to a red state and it changed my life.

DAVID AUERBACH WAITED UNTIL JERRY POURNELLE WAS DEAD before calling him a fascist. Which was probably smart, if not especially brave.

NOW OUT FROM E.C. WILLIAMS: Assault on Zanzibar: Book Four of the Westerly Gales Saga. I very much enjoyed the earlier books in this series, and have been waiting for this one. I started it last night and so far it’s as good as its predecessors.

UPDATE: If you haven’t tried this series, the first book is Westerly Gales.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Campus Rape and Why Liberals are to Blame for Trump’s Election. Actually, this piece explains a lot about what’s wrong, on and off campus, that led to Trump’s win.

HEY, IF PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THE CONSTITUTION, THEY MIGHT START WONDERING WHY THE GOVERNMENT ISN’T FOLLOWING IT: Public ignorance about the Constitution.

COMING OUT IN 2017: Mom, Dad…I’m a Conservative (video).

In 2011, actor/comedian Paul Rodriguez explained his own coming out to the Annual California Republican Assembly Convention, which neatly parallels the video at the above link to a video by “Red Pill Black” videomaker Candace Owens:

I remember many years since, trying to contemplate the idea of joining the Grand Old Party, and I said I better run this through Mom. I said, “Ma, Dad, sit down, I want to talk to you.” Before I could go any further, they said, “Oh, my God, he’s gay. (AUDIENCE LAUGHTER) Ay, Dios mio, he’s gay.” I said, “No, no, no, Mom, I’m thinking of being a Republican.” She said, “I wish you were gay. (AUDIENCE LAUGHTER) Please look, what have we done?”

It’s OK – you start to see the world much more clearly once you swallow the red pill.

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Non-binary Georgia Tech student, 21, is shot dead by campus police after ‘refusing to stop approaching officers while carrying small knife.’

CATHY YOUNG: The Injustice of the ‘Rape-Culture’ Theory: For those in the grips of hysteria, proof is the enemy.

CHICKS DIG BAD BOYS: Why I Want To Have Sex With Pennywise The Clown After Seeing The Movie ‘It.’ “For me, sexiness and danger have always shared the same chunk of my brain space. . . . While child murder has never been and never would be something that turns me on, of course, show me a tall, immature man in makeup who is obsessed with keying into all of my greatest fears while also draining me of my life’s essence and you’ve basically just described every musician I dated in my 20s.”

GOOD: EPA chief Scott Pruitt calls out Germany’s Angela Merkel as climate hypocrite.

“You know, our [carbon dioxide] footprint dropped by over 18 percent from 2000 to 2014. How? Because of government mandate? No, because of innovation called hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling,” Pruitt said.

He then poked at German Chancellor Angela Merkel, suggesting she is a hypocrite for turning her back on emissions-free nuclear power while prodding the U.S. to do more to reduce greenhouse gases.

“If Chancellor Merkel … really cares about reducing CO2 in this world, why is she going away from nuclear?” Pruitt asked. “It’s so hypocritical for countries to look at the United States and say, ‘You need to do more.’ Really? So, we’ve reduced our pollutants under the Clean Air Act [criteria pollutants and CO2].”

Germany turned away from nuclear power in 2011 after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima, Japan, after a tsunami caused an international outcry against nuclear power. Germany gets 40 percent of it electricity from coal and is highly dependent on energy imports to sustain its economy, according to the nuclear industry.

Merkel has been a leading critic of the Trump administration for deciding to leave the Paris climate change agreement, which seeks to reduce carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.

“The environmental Left has truly created this mindset that somehow environmental protection is ‘do not touch.’ Really? When we are called to feed the world, really? When we are called to power the world. When we do it better than anyone in the world already,” Pruitt said.

More of this, please.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: “Unfortunately, I lost my shit immediately after we slept together because I went off my anxiety meds, flipped out, and he ghosted me. I probably deserved it, but now I’m drunk and invincible!”

COMEDY GOLD: Washington Post’s Dana Milbank Claims Donald Trump Is Killing Him.

Poor Dana Milbank. For all of his life he has been the picture of perfect health. And then Donald Trump was elected President and completely ruined it to the point where he is now dying. Milbank discusses his health crises in his September 15 Washington Post column, President Trump is killing me. Really.

President Trump is killing me.

No, really. He’s killing me.

It wasn’t one of his campaign promises but we’ll take it.

Heh. Of course, as Glenn has written, “Trump is not the cause of Washington’s decline. He’s a symptom, the wrecking ball that many Americans think was required.”

QED:

Oh and speaking of symptoms and decline, can Milbank be sure that it’s Trump who is killing him? Has he checked that he’s on good terms with Sally Quinn?

GLUTTON FOR PUNISHMENT: Man Thought Dead After 234-MPH Motorcycle Crash Pursues New Land-Speed Record.

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SPACE: A high profile SpaceX investor tells a datacenter crowd why he believes in Elon Musk.

PATRICK POOLE: London Underground Bombing Another ‘Known Wolf’ Terror Attack?

Related: ABC Whines Trump Using Latest London Attack to Push Travel Ban.

Flashback: George Stephanopoulos discloses $75,000 contribution to Clinton Foundation.

THE ECONOMIST: The Trump administration’s approach to rape on campus is welcome: Barack Obama’s government put undue pressure on colleges to secure convictions in return for public money.

THE 21st CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT THE WAY I HAD HOPED:

● Shot: Woman arrested after ‘spraying four Americans tourists with acid’ at a Marseille train station causing burns to their faces and legs.

— The London Daily Mail, today.

● Chaser: Theresa May’s Britain — Where the foxes caper unmolested, the government packs your school lunch, and the BBC advises “how to do your makeup after an acid attack.”

— Small Dead Animals, yesterday.

● Hangover: California lawmakers approve landmark ‘sanctuary state’ bill to expand protections for immigrants.

— The Los Angeles Times, today.

THE WORST POLITICAL CLASS IN AMERICAN HISTORY, TO COIN AN INSTA-PHRASE: A Jihad Apologist at the Helm of the New York Review of Books.

I MISS THIS CARTOON: 30 Of The Best Far Side Cartoons Of All Time.