IT’S COME TO THIS: Leftists Want Craft Beer To Stop Being Sexist. Wait, What? “Panty Peeler. Phat Bottom. And all the unfortunate beers that use the color of a woman’s hair that also coordinate with a beer style—Blonde, Amber—and take a large bra size to create a name. … This is still a male-dominated industry, both in terms of its employees and its customers. The jocular attitude that women are somehow beneath men or simply objects, however, is something that should have been eradicated a long time ago.”

Oh, stuff it. Besides, you’re an even bigger idiot, apparently, than that makes you sound like: “Take, for instance, the Panty Peeler, which All About Beer magazine specifically mentioned in its editorial. It drew national attention when a Fullbright scholar accused it of promoting “rape culture.” But the beer was actually created and named by the female co-founder of Midnight Sun Brewing Co., who told Heat Street last fall that she meant it to be ‘consensual-sex positive.’ She chose the logo as a symbol of female empowerment, a reference to Lady Godiva.”

Sorry, honey, the feminists have decided that the only acceptable role for a Strong, Independent Woman is victim.

GOVERNOR MALLOY FORCES COPS TO CHOOSE JOB SECURITY OVER PUBLIC SAFETY, Jack Dunphy writes:

It appears that Gov. Malloy would not endorse the deportation of our hypothetical killer, and that he would support disciplining any police officer who sought to bring it about.

Read the whole thing.

IN THEIR PLACE, WOULDN’T YOU BE TOO? Huffington Post Thrilled by Meaningless Dem Win in Delaware.

FASTER, PLEASE: New malaria vaccine is fully effective in very small clinical trial.

VIDEO: The Most Liberal Moments From the 2017 Oscars.

THERE IS ONE? How to Fix the Orgasm Gap Between Straight Men and Women.

ROGER SIMON: Who’s Behind the Latest Spate of Anti-Semitic Bomb Threats?

WETWARE IS STILL THE BEST-WARE: The future of computing may be inside our skulls.

HMM: Pending home sales drop unexpectedly to lowest in a year, down 2.8% in January.

We’ve been creaking along for almost a decade, borrowing for sub-par growth with bubble-tastically low interest rates, unsustainable deficit spending, and slowly expanding the market for car and home loans to worse and worse credit risks. But even lousy parties must end eventually.

A LINK BETWEEN BACK PAIN AND EARLY MORTALITY? Well, the study involved people over 70, so not early early.

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MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Higher ed’s prejudice problem: It’s bias against conservatives, Republicans and libertarians. But help may be on the way.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. “[P]eople who feel as though the rules don’t care about them don’t care about the rules.”

Hence the warnings about the coming middle-class anarchy. Yet another consequence of the elites’ revolt against the masses.

SALON: The cognitive effects of this administration’s actions could be disastrous.

Trump has certainly made segments of the Professional Left seem further removed from reality than usual, which is no small feat.

RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: Video shows beheading of sailor by ISIS-linked terrorists.

In 2008, beheading victim Gustav Kantner had been held captive by Somali pirates for two months.

I LIKE THE ROADSTER: Mercedes Shows Off Three Special Edition AMGs For Its 50th Anniversary. Unlike certain other luxury brands (*cough* Lexus! *cough*) Mercedes’ styling has really improved of late.

THEY TOLD ME THAT IF TRUMP BECAME PRESIDENT, NARROW-MINDED CONFORMISTS WOULD SHUT DOWN VITAL RESEARCH — AND THEY WERE RIGHT! Threatening Violence, Trans Activists Expel Un-PC Research At Medical Conference.

TRANSPARENCY: California Law Enforcement Union Sues To Block Police Accountability.

“SANCTUARY?” Missouri Governor Vows to Block Abortion Sanctuary City Movement.

QUESTION ASKED: Why did Keith Ellison lose the DNC race?

As this year’s “establishment” candidate, Perez posed almost no ideological challenge to Ellison or Sanders voters, or the party platform they had helped to write. (Ellison served on the 2016 platform committee.) He broke with them on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which, as a member of the Obama administration, he supported. But when he did so, he always posited TPP as an improvement on deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, which he’d opposed.

But on most of the left’s other causes, Perez was simpatico. Inside the Obama administration, he supported raising the minimum wage and endorsed the Fight for $15 campaign; he pushed through regulations that hiked overtime pay; he sued states that implemented voter ID laws. In the summer of 2016, when he was floated as a running mate for Hillary Clinton, conservatives labeled him radical, and progressive groups said he’d be preferable to the eventual choice, Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.).

Ellison would have struggled to run to Perez’s left, and he largely did not try.

In other words, Perez won because he’s just as “progressive” as Ellison, but carries less baggage.

For the 2017-18 DNC, it’s still about marketing, not about moderation.

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GARY TAUBES, CALL YOUR OFFICE: The First Signs of Obesity in Certain Arctic Groups Have Been Linked to Instant Noodles. “Obesity has not previously existed in these indigenous populations, but the first cases are now being reported, and a marked change in diet – including instant noodles and pasta – appears to be responsible.”

FLASHBACK: Obama administration spied on Fox News reporter James Rosen.

ROGER KIMBALL: News, Fake News, Very Fake News: A Primer.

IT BEGINS: MSM STARTS TO PLAY FORMER WORSE THAN HITLER PRESIDENT AGAINST CURRENT WORSE THAN HITLER PRESIDENT: George W. Bush: Media essential to democracy.

And yet, how to account for this quote from 2004?

[The New Yorker’s Ken] Auletta, for example, can describe Bush at a barbeque for the press in August, where a reporter says to the president: is it really true you don’t read us, don’t even watch the news? Bush confirms it.

And the reporter then said: Well, how do you then know, Mr. President, what the public is thinking? And Bush, without missing a beat said: You’re making a powerful assumption, young man. You’re assuming that you represent the public. I don’t accept that.

Which is a powerful statement. And if Bush believes it (a possibility not to be dismissed) then we must credit the president with an original idea, or the germ of one. Bush’s people have developed it into a thesis, which they explained to Auletta, who told it to co-host Brooke Gladstone:

That’s his attitude. And when you ask the Bush people to explain that attitude, what they say is: We don’t accept that you have a check and balance function. We think that you are in the game of “Gotcha.” Oh, you’re interested in headlines, and you’re interested in conflict. You’re not interested in having a serious discussion… and exploring things.

Further data point: The Bush Thesis. If Auletta’s reporting is on, then Bush and his advisors have their own press think, which they are trying out as policy. Reporters do not represent the interests of a broader public. They aren’t a pipeline to the people, because people see through the game of Gotcha. The press has forfeited, if it ever had, its quasi-official role in the checks and balances of government. Here the Bush Thesis is bold. It says: there is no such role— official or otherwise.

The above was written by Jay Rosen, far left media critic and NYU journalism professor in 2004. Assuming the quote from Bush is anywhere near accurate, at least Trump has the guts to act on the same opinions on the DNC-MSM that Bush himself held while in office – and yet he allowed his administration to be absolutely pummeled by the media — to the point where a massive attack of fake news on Katrina may very well have cost the GOP the 2006 midterms.

But knowing how shabbily he was treated throughout his administration, Bush is now willing to undermine Trump’s ongoing pushback. Sad!