MILO YIANNOPOULOS IS NOW #1 on Amazon. Dropping him is going to cost his old publisher a lot of money, and self-publishing will put a lot more money in Yiannopoulos’ pocket anyway. “If you strike me down. . . .”

And frankly, if you know your book is going to be a big seller, why use a publisher at all? And where are publishers once people figure that out?

AETNA-MAGEDDON: Aetna-maggedon: Adding to Connecticut’s fiscal woes, Hartford is losing one of its signature companies.

AT AMAZON, save big on Wheels and Tires.

Plus, deals on Sports Nutrition.

BOB DYLAN FINALLY DELIVERS NOBEL PRIZE LECTURE: It’s worth 900 grand. He lauded Buddy Holly.

Dylan had until 10 June to deliver the lecture or forfeit the prize money.

Hey, don’t look back.

IF YOU WANT TO WIN, YOU NEED TO GO ALL SHERMAN AND SHERIDAN, WITH PERHAPS A SOUPCON OF LEMAY: Counter-terror Lessons from America’s Civil War. “The way to win the war is to frighten the larger community of Muslims who passively support terror by action or inaction–frighten them so badly that they will inform on family members. Frightening the larger Muslim population in the West does not require a great deal of effort: a few thousand deportations would do.”

MILO YIANNOPOULOS: He’s Baa-aack!

KURT SCHLICHTER: A Week Of Surfing On A Sea Of Liberal Tears. “The big event was when President Trump did something that has caused the liberal elite and the conservative Wormtongue contingent to wet their collective Underoos. He chose democracy, science, and normal Americans over the elitist twits of the pagan climate cult.”

BAD ECONOMICS, MICRO AND MACRO EDITION:

Micro: ‘We are the Obama people,’ said Camille Sweeney, a New York writer and member of the Authors Guild. Her insurance is being canceled, and she is dismayed that neither her pediatrician nor her general practitioner appears to be on the exchange plans. What to do has become a hot topic on Facebook and at dinner parties frequented by her fellow writers and artists. ‘I’m for it,’ she said. ‘But what is the reality of it?’

—NRO, December 14, 2013.

Macro: “California Democrats Just Voted for Single-Payer Healthcare But Have No Idea How to Pay for It.”

—Headline, Heat Street, yesterday.

As Yuval Levin wrote at NRO’s Corner after quoting Sweeney’s “I’m for it. But what is the reality of it?” line, “Answer first, question second. This would be funny if it weren’t so sad and serious.”

California is likely to become increasingly sad and serious in the coming years. This is known as “bad luck.”

IT SOUNDS BEAUTIFUL: I Went to a Place Where Trucks Can’t Block All the Lanes on a Freeway: And it was everything I thought it would be.

THE ABOLITION OF BRITAIN, PART 1,237,322:

Turn to this video captured during the attack, and you’ll see, or rather hear, what I’m talking about. You’ll see police barge into a pub near London Bridge, shouting at customers to get on the ground. http://vlt.tc/2vhp At the 37 second mark, you’ll hear a man, in the midst of an attack and likely believing his life was in danger, shout “F–king Muslim c–ts!” The man making the video replies, “Shut up mate, you f–king idiot. It’s not Muslims.” He later took to Twitter to follow up. http://vlt.tc/2vj8  “It’s me saying it isn’t the Muslims in that video because it bloody well isn’t. Stop grouping people based on a cult. They aren’t Islamic. It’s f–king lazy and downright racist to label all Islam alongside these scumbags.” So again, keep in mind that as this video is being filmed, people are being stabbed and attacked. The police are running to try and stop them. And in the middle of this attack, this young Brit’s priority is to say “not all Muslims” to those huddled on the floor. A nation of juveniles yelling “that’s racist” on their phones in the midst of a terror attack does not exactly indicate the persistence of the toughened spines that beat the Boche.

Expat British conservative John Derbyshire coined the phrase “Better dead than rude” to describe the PC mindset shortly after 9/11. It’s staggering to see how internalized it’s become among the residents of Airstrip One.

Earlier: In the Face of Terror, Londoners Told to “Run, Hide, Tell.”

(Classical reference in headline.)

IDIOCY ON PARADE: New York Magazine Writers Revolt Over Colleague’s Suggestion That Gal Gadot Is Conventionally Attractive.

But Jim Treacher has spotted the real problem: “Wonder Woman, both the film and the character, erase the lived experiences of women who were born male. It’s bad enough that creeps like Edelstein notice that a supermodel is good-looking, but the whole thing is pretty damn transphobic smdh. How about Wonder Person Who Identifies As Female? Tell me I’m right or else you’re a bigot.”

IT’S WEIRD HOW WHEN PEOPLE MAKE PUBLIC STATEMENTS LEFTIES DON’T LIKE, LEFTIES WANT TO “INVESTIGATE” THEM, RATHER THAN TRYING TO REFUTE THE STATEMENTS. Evergreen faculty demand ‘investigation’ into professor who dissented from no-whites day. I assume this response stems from a fear that the statements are not capable of being refuted.

OF COURSE IT DOES: Washington Post covers up left-wing violence in Portland.

IF ONLY THERE WERE SOME WAY TO INEXPENSIVELY KILL MOSQUITOES IN LARGE NUMBERS: Zika: What to Expect this Year.

CULTURE OF HATE: Liberal Entertainers, Journalists Can’t Stop Fantasizing About Violence Toward Trump.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Most Annoying Moviegoers, Ranked.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Trump Is Ruining My Teeth.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: To fight climate change, start with Leonardo DiCaprio’s private jet lifestyle: Even though President Trump withdrew from the Paris climate agreement, there’s plenty Congress can do.

VIDEO: Muslim Man Runs Into Christian Wedding in Spain, Attacks Priest.

JIHADI TV: Neighbors identify London Bridge attack suspect as man featured in recent documentary.

Neighbors have identified one of the London Bridge attack suspects as a man known by the nickname “ABZ” or “Abs” who was featured in a recent documentary on the British Channel 4 from 2016 called “The Jihadist Next Door.”

Neighbors say he was the attacker who wore the fake suicide vest during the vehicle and stabbing attack that killed seven people in London on Saturday night.

He was a member of Al Muhajiroun, a small group of men led by Anjem Choudary and Siddartha Dhar who openly preached for the need for Sharia law.

The group was closely monitored by authorities. Police know the man’s name but have not yet publicly announced it.

Yet another known wolf — this time in the most public way possible.

MEDICINE: Dangerously Addictive Painkiller Prescribed for Patients Who Shouldn’t Have Received It, Says Whistleblower. “It’s called Subsys and it’s a painkiller 100 times more powerful than morphine that was approved by the FDA for cancer patients whose agony can’t be relieved by other narcotics alone. But despite the fact that what’s known as ‘breakthrough cancer pain’ is uncommon, Insys Therapeutics — the Arizona-based company that sells what can be a highly addictive drug, and nothing else — has sold almost a billion dollars worth of this medication in five years.”

LONG OVERDUE: Trump plans week-long focus on infrastructure, starting with privatizing air traffic control. It’s been done with success by those Randian anarchocapitalists, the Canadians.

THAT’S (NOT) ENTERTAINMENT! ISIS rock star Choudary extends Islamist influence – even from behind bars.

WHITE WOMEN: Are they the worst, or what? “White women, especially the monied ones, are so dangerous because they are allowed to be so soft. Stroke by stroke, they construct a type of womanhood that viciously negates the fact their bodies still function as agents of white supremacy. . . . I don’t know if I liked sleeping with white women because I’m queer or because they all smell so good.”