AS WE’VE BEEN IN THE LAST 30 YEARS:  We’re one step closer to a male birth control ‘pill’.

YOU DON’T WANT TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY:   Why you shouldn’t propose on a hot air balloon.

NANCY PELOSI?  JERRY BROWN?  California names an official state dinosaur.

SANITY MUCH NEEDED IN:  Award Shows.

OH WHAT A LOAD:  “Mad Pooper” Has a Spokesman and an Excuse.

UNFORTUNATELY NO.  NO CHANCE OF OCEAN FRONT PROPERTY IN DENVER:   Is Sea Level Rising?

EVEN I HAVE COME ACROSS THE “TRUMP IS NOT MENTIONING PUERTO RICO, OMG”:  You know what, actions speak louder than words.

SORRY, THAT’S INCONSISTENT WITH THE APPROVED NARRATIVE: Shall We Have a Conversation About Arrest Statistics for Those Privileged NFL Players?

INSULTING A DICTATOR’S “DIGNITY” IS A POTENTIALLY VALUABLE PSYCHOLOGICAL WEAPON: Trump’s nicknames, like Crooked Hillary and Rocket Man, are such damningly effective political caricatures they become psychological weapons. (Bumped)

AT AMAZON, save on bestselling Baby Gear and Supplies.

Plus, deals on Herbs, Spices, and Seasonings.

IT’S ABOUT TRUMPISM, NOT TRUMP: Roy Moore wins in Alabama. “What this humiliating loss tells President Trump is that Trumpism is not even about him. The indisputable lesson here for the president is that even he, the man who started the movement, is not bigger than the promises, ideas, agenda, and platform he ran on.” He’s a vehicle, he’s not the engine.

Plus: “In a different world, in a world where, for the last eight months, while in complete charge of the federal government, the Republican Party actually delivered on its promises; in a fantasyland where the GOP did not expose itself as a gang of feckless cowards unwilling to keep even the Obamacare repeal promise that defined the party’s existence for seven years, maybe Trump could have gotten away with supporting a Luther Strange. But that is not the world we live in.”

Instead we get Roy Moore. Which is a lesson for Trump, if he takes it, but also a lesson to the rest of us.

NOW OUT FROM LISA DE PASQUALE: The Social Justice Warrior Handbook: A Practical Survival Guide for Snowflakes, Millennials, and Generation Z.

SO THESE IMAGES HAVE BEEN CIRCULATING ON SOCIAL MEDIA, but I was reluctant to post without confirmation even though I’ve heard about them from some West Point alumni I know. But apparently they’re genuine, as the West Point press office has now commented. Pretty disgraceful, but kind of in tune with the times, sadly.

Perhaps there’s some context that would make these merely an example of dreadful taste and judgment, rather than something more like sedition.

More here. Not really sure what the Kaepernick link is, though, beyond juvenile grandstanding. At least, I’m unaware of Kaepernick saying “Communism Will Win.”

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: The Disgrace at Hamilton College. Faculty position open: Only leftists need apply. “I don’t think a large research university could actually get through a general requirement like this, though of course some individual departments of social justice studies would require this. But generalized for an entire campus, this represents the end of liberal education.”

Cost of attending Hamilton College: $66,250 per year.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Work and paranoid schizophrenia aren’t exactly a recipe for success.

FASTER, PLEASE: New synthetic molecule could trigger tissue regeneration.

INSULTING A DICTATOR’S “DIGNITY” IS A POTENTIALLY VALUABLE PSYCHOLOGICAL WEAPON: Trump’s nicknames, like Crooked Hillary and Rocket Man, are such damningly effective political caricatures they become psychological weapons.

HISTORY: “Everything was awful for a very long time, and then the industrial revolution happened. Interestingly, this is not the impression of history I got from the world history books I read in school.”

ANN ALTHOUSE: Is it wrong for foreign leaders to try to influence American elections? Hillary didn’t think so. Well, not if they’re influencing for her.

Also: How Hillary answered the question “Putin or Trump?”

CHANGE: Republican Sen. Bob Corker Announces He Won’t Run For Re-Election.

On Twitter: “Hey @instapundit: now’s your chance!” Sure, fine, but what if I won? Do you hate me so much?

Besides, it’ll be Peyton, or maybe Marsha Blackburn.

MIKE KERRIGAN ON TRUMP’S CADENCE: Male Pattern Boldness.

WHEN ATHLETES SHARE INFECTIONS. Hey, there’s a reason it’s called “athlete’s foot,” or “jock itch.”

Plus: “Wrestling and rugby are sufficiently well-known for skin-to-skin transfer that there are herpes virus skin infections actually named for them, Herpes gladiatorum and Herpes rugbiorum (also known as ‘scrum pox’).”

TRUMP 2020 GETS A SHOT IN THE ARM: NBA Coach: ‘White People Especially’ Need To Be Made ‘Uncomfortable.’

ADVICE FROM RAY KURZWEIL: Plan and Act in case AI or something else kills your job.

TYLER O’NEIL: 5 Things to Know About the Moore-Strange Runoff in Alabama.