GOOD MORNING: Start it right with Liz Sheld’s Morning Brief.

WHY ARE LEFTY SPORTS NETWORKS SUCH CESSPITS OF SEXISM? SportsCenter’s Shameful Coverage Of Women’s Sports.

Clearly we need a Title IX for sports broadcasters, mandating equal time for women.

HONESTLY? I ALSO OFTEN ASK THIS: What Purpose Government?

UNEXPECTEDLY!  Aetna exiting all ACA insurance marketplaces in 2018.

EDUCATED BEYOND THEIR INTELLIGENCE: It is doubtful they ever had any usefulness.  Cal Poly Professor Argues Squirrels Are Subjected to Racially-Charged Media Bias .

THAT WORD AGAIN: The Constitution: Treason Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means.

THERE IS A RAPE CULTURE: It’s not in college campuses.

DUH! Majority of Unemployed Americans Want Obamacare Repealed, Illegal Immigration Stopped.

THEY HAD A REMAINING BEND TO GO AROUND? Are they seeing their own backs, yet?  The Associated Press Goes Around the Bend on Comey.

THEY DREAM OF IMPEACHMENT: Frankly, jinns in bottles are more likely.  Comey firing roundup.

NEW LEVELS OF DEGENRATION at the Associated Press.

STACY MCCAIN: Bob Owens, R.I.P.

Here’s the GoFundMe page to raise money for his family. I donated.

AT AMAZON, save on Musical Instruments and recording gear.

Plus, big savings in Kitchen and Housewares.

I THINK WE NEED A CAMPAIGN TO ELIMINATE SEXIST “CREDITISM,” BECAUSE IT’S NOT OKAY! “Women were nearly three times as likely to consider credit score a major influence on a potential partner compared to men (20% versus 7%).”

WELL, GOOD: Scientists studying cancer stumble on ‘breakthrough’ in search for baldness cure.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: What James Comey Got Wrong While He Was FBI Director.

MARK BAUERLEIN: No Guilt This Time. “Which brings us back to Donald Trump. Why do people hate him so? Because he won’t accept this appointed condition. He has no white guilt. He doesn’t feel any male guilt, either, or American guilt or Christian guilt. He talks about the United States with uncritical approval—’America First’—and that’s a thought crime in the eyes of liberals.”

He rejects their assumed position of moral and intellectual supremacy. Which is both fair, and painful, because that position has always been a lie.

THERE’S A NON-TRIVIAL CHANCE THE ANSWER IS “NEVER:” How long until another Industrial Revolution would have taken place?

LONG TIME COMING: Earliest Signs of Life on Land Have Been Found in 3.48 Billion-Year-Old Australian Rocks.

66 MEN ON THE DOWNSIDES OF BEING A MAN.

OKAY, I’M JUST SPITBALLING HERE, BUT — THAT THEY HAD SHOES? What Does This 5,500-Year-old Shoe Found in a Cave Tell Us About Ancient Armenians?

THE BAD NEWS IS, THEY’LL BE CONTROLLED BY SKYNET: Self-Driving Electric Cars Will Dominate Roads by 2030.

WAS FORMER KGB COLONEL VLADIMIR PUTIN A VICTIM OF KGB PROPAGANDA?: No, that isn’t the title, but it could be. The BBC is reviewing a 1973 Soviet television series about a Russian “James Bond” operating in Nazi Germany during WW2.

Westerners were growing up on the films of James Bond, Soviet citizens had their own favourite spy, a wartime agent who went under the name of Max Otto von Stierlitz. And it could easily have been Stierlitz who prompted Vladimir Putin to join the KGB, writes Dina Newman.

The USSR’s answer to James Bond was a very different kind of spy. He had no time for women or gadgets. His life was devoted entirely to his work in Berlin in World War Two, where, under cover, he infiltrated the German high command.

Stierlitz was the hero of a 12-part series, Seventeen Moments of Spring, screened on Soviet TV every year around 9 May – the date the USSR marked as the end of World War Two.

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Apart from being a gripping drama, it has a perfect Cold War plotline, with Stierlitz disrupting secret peace negotiations between the Nazis and the Americans in 1945. But the film also had another hidden purpose.

“The film showed the importance of secret agents, who are highly respected people in our country. It instilled patriotism in the post-war generation,” says Shashkova.

In fact, it was commissioned by Yuri Andropov – then head of the KGB, later the country’s leader – as part of a PR campaign designed to attract young, educated recruits.

Vladimir Putin has never said whether or not it was Stierlitz who inspired him to become a spy. But he was 21 when the film was first screened, and he joined the KGB two years later.

As for me, I prefer The Americans, since that series portrays the KGB as the reprehensibly evil force it was. Does anyone out there know precisely how many people Elizabeth and Philip have killed since Season One, Episode One?

12 CHEAP CLASSIC CARS THAT ARE CRIMINALLY OVERLOOKED GEMS. My brother always wanted a Sunbeam Tiger. He drove a Sunbeam Rapier rally car across a big chunk of Africa once.

OCEANIA HAS NEVER INVESTIGATED EASTASIA: The Government Investigates – and Andrew Klavan is on the case:

The greats make the complex seem so simple and understandable.