WEIRD THAT HE COULD ONLY WIN VIA THE KGB TAKING OVER ALL THE VOTING MACHINES OR SOMETHING: The Hill: Poll: Clinton more unpopular than Trump.

BLESS THEIR HEARTS: Not Enough ‘Women,’ ‘People of Color’ in Dunkirk, USA Today Complains.

“The guy from USA Today: he does know it’s history, right?”

Sure it’s history – but is it a history that’s usable to advance the “Progressive” agenda?

WELL, THAT’S THE QUESTION, ISN’T IT? GOP in Congress: a bunch of idiots, or simply split?

LUNCH MEAT AND LIBERALS: “David Brooks’ friend doesn’t need him to ‘sensitively’ take her somewhere she already knows while pondering on the social signifiers that keep her from being as enlightened as he is,” Charlie Martin writes. “What she needs is for him to pull his nose down far enough to say ‘it’s salami.’”

But if you’re David Brooks, is life worth living if you can’t feel superior to the plebes?

Read the whole thing.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Study Finds Massive Drop in Israel Support … Among Jewish College Students.

Curiously, the one nation in the Middle East where they’re not tossing gays off tall buildings isn’t popular among the American far left, either.

THE SCIENCE WASN’T SETTLED: Does Testosterone Really Just Make Men Aggressive? New Research Turns Conventional Wisdom About Male Hormone On Its Head.

A BOLD PLAN FOR MILITARY REFORM.

DEALS OUT THE WAZOO: Shop Amazon Warehouse Deals – Deep Discounts on Open-box and Used Products.

Plus, Shop Amazon Outlet – Clearance, Markdowns and Overstock Deals.

I’M SORRY, I THOUGHT THAT BIOLOGY WAS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT:. “Peak fertility occurs in a woman’s twenties. While women can give birth for about 30-35 years, the best chance of carrying a healthy baby to term is between ages 23 and 28, says world-renowned fertility specialist David Adamson, founder and Chief Medical Officer at ARCFertility. As a woman ages, the eggs available to make a baby have an increased chance of miscarriage or genetic problems. Think you have plenty of time? You actually don’t. Because peak fertility ends at age 31.”

TAKE A BOW, CNN. ‘Giant online pantsing’: CNN’s Chris Cillizza’s Reddit AMA goes epically, hilariously bad.

OH, GOODY: People could make smallpox from scratch in a lab, scientists warn.

WHAT IS THIS ROGER WATERS “LOGIC” YOU SPEAK OF? Roger Waters Logic Captured in Meme.

As I’ve said before, who knew The Wall was going to be the how-to guide for Waters’ post-Pink Floyd career?

FLASHBACK: Joel Rosenberg and the Minneapolis Police Department.. “See, to the sort of people who are proud of petty power, it is offensive for a mere citizen to invoke the rule of law to limit that power. During the Cultural Revolution, a jailed dissident quoted the Little Red Book to her jailers for the proposition that she was wrongly confined. The jailers, scandalized, replied ‘the Book is not for you!‘”

THE BACKLASH…ALWAYS THE BACKLASH: “Whenever a police officer shoots a civilian under questionable circumstances, one question looms large: How can our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters frame the narrative to advance liberal agenda items? When a white cop shoots a black person, of course that’s racism. When a black cop shoots a black person, then that’s institutionalized racism. But what if it’s a black Muslim cop shooting a white person?”

CANCER SCREENING: Better Save Than Sorry? “Doctors and medical organizations often advise that past a certain age, older adults can forgo various screening tests for cancer. But many patients, no matter how old or sick they may be, are reluctant to abandon tests they’ve long been told can be lifesaving.”

I still question the timing regarding how “early detection is key!” switched overnight to “many tests are a waste” after ObamaCare passed.

JONATHAN HAIDT AND GREG LUKIANOFF: Why It’s a Bad Idea to Tell Students Words Are Violence: A claim increasingly heard on campus will make them more anxious and more willing to justify physical harm.

Plus, see this related item from Yale Law School’s new Dean, Heather Gerken.

“MAYBE YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE CRIED WOLF ALL THOSE OTHER TIMES:” WaPo scratches its head at poll showing the Don Jr. “smoking gun” hasn’t budged opinion about Trump and collusion with Russia. Well also, it wasn’t a smoking gun.

WELL, THAT’S A RELIEF: T Rex could not have outrun a speedy human, scientists conclude.

DIMPLE AJMIRA IS THE UGLY FACE OF PREJUDICE IN TODAY’S AMERICA: City Council member says Trump supporters ‘have no place’ leading Charlotte government.

COLLUSION: Hillary Clinton sided with Russia on sanctions as Bill made $500G on Moscow speech.

TAMARA KEEL: Warning Sign:

So, about the glaring red flag in the recent Minneapolis police shooting…

No, not the fact that the cop was a Somali-American. Some people are all “zomg he was Somali and named Mohammed! Terr’ism!” Settle your ass down. If it were terrorism, he’d have shot the other cop and then all the responding cops until somebody shot him. It wasn’t terrorism.

No, big red flag is that he was a grown man with a college degree and an apparently reasonably successful career in property management decides, in his thirties, to drop it all to go be the police. There are two kinds of people who do that, and one is a disaster waiting to happen.

After Philando Castile, among other things, it seems clear that the Minnesota police — at the very best — have a serious training and management problem.

UPDATE: Changed to correct suggestion that Philando Castile was shot by Minneapolis Police.

ANOTHER UPDATE: A Police Shooting With A Difference.

In this case there is no heartbreaking video. In this case, moreover, the officer involved is black and the shooting victim is white. Indeed, as of March 2015, Officer Noor is the first Somali officer on the Minneapolis police force. I take it there will be no rush to judgment in this case and that we will be spared the disruptive protests featured in the Castile case. We may have to be grateful for small mercies.

I reached out to a trusted law enforcement source for any insight he might be able to offer. He responds: “My first thought was that it was accidental, but rumor has it [Officer Noor is] denying that it was a negligent discharge.” He adds: “If there aren’t some sort of mitigating circumstances, and I’m struggling to imagine what they could be, this may be the most egregious police shooting in my lifetime if not longer…But not many facts are known at this point and it’s hard to pass judgement before knowing more than what’s being leaked to the media.”

I assume there will be a U.S. DOJ investigation.

A MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Claremont McKenna College disciplines seven students for blockade that shut down Heather Mac Donald speech. A one-year-suspension isn’t nothing, though if this sort of thing continues it’s going to need actual expulsions.

OF “BREAKING NEWS” AND TALKING POINTS. “Is this what’s left to them after the collusion with Russia effort failed? Bullying Trump about his weight?”

HELEN AND I WATCHED THE FIRST EPISODE OF THIS, AND IT WAS SO WHINY AND DEPRESSING WE GAVE UP: Friends from College: why Generation X can’t grow up: The latest screen depiction of midlife crisis shows it’s not just the characters who are in denial about getting older – it’s the film-makers, too.