IT’S SETTLED SCIENCE, DUDE. RESPECT THE AUTHORITY OF SCIENCE! WHAT, EXACTLY, IS FEMINIST GEOGRAPHY?

OH: Haiti Official Who Exposed The Clinton Foundation Is Found Dead.

The circumstances surrounding [Klaus] Eberwein’s death are also nothing less than unpalatable. According to Miami-Dade’s medical examiner records supervisor, the official cause of death is “gunshot to the head.“ Eberwein’s death has been registered as “suicide” by the government. But not long before his death, he acknowledged that his life was in danger because he was outspoken on the criminal activities of the Clinton Foundation.

Eberwein was a fierce critic of the Clinton Foundation’s activities in the Caribbean island, where he served as director general of the government’s economic development agency, Fonds d’assistance économique et social, for three years. “The Clinton Foundation, they are criminals, they are thieves, they are liars, they are a disgrace,” Eberwein said at a protest outside the Clinton Foundation headquarters in Manhattan last year. Eberwein was due to appear on Tuesday before the Haitian Senate Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission where he was widely expected to testify that the Clinton Foundation misappropriated Haiti earthquake donations from international donors. But this “suicide” gets even more disturbing…

Eberwein was only 50-years-old and reportedly told acquaintances he feared for his life because of his fierce criticism of the Clinton Foundation. His close friends and business partners were taken aback by the idea he may have committed suicide. “It’s really shocking,” said friend Gilbert Bailly. “We grew up together; he was like family.”

Given his connections, his former position, and the whistle he was blowing, Eberwein’s death seems like a big enough story that you’d find it somewhere other than alt-news sites, but as I’m writing this post, the major news outlets have yet to touch it.

LEFTIES: “Tone policing” is a form of oppression.

Ann Althouse: “The most tone-policed person in the world is Donald Trump.”

All together now: That’s different because shut up.

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATRED AND RACISM? Pomona College was aware of anti-white, anti-heterosexual tweets before hiring LGBT director.

INDEED: The One Sentence That Explains Washington Dysfunction.

WHEN WE GET TO SPACE, THIS IS ALL WE’LL FIND: The last survivors on Earth.

SERIOUSLY, WAIT WHAT? Moonbeam Brown Unhinged: ‘Existence of humanity rests on extending California’s cap and tax law’.

IN THE EMAIL FROM STEPHANIE OSBORN: Division One: A Very UnCONventional Christmas.

WHAT THEY NEED IS A LANDING AND RETURN MODULE, AND IT AIN’T MONEY KEEPING THEM FROM THAT: NASA admits it’s too broke to go to Mars.

WAIT, HOW MUCH FOR A 12OZ CANDLE? Not unless it sings, dances and types my books. These hippie candles are blessed with tarot cards and crystals.

A RARE FIND: Mass. Historical Society acquires sword of Robert Gould Shaw.

OKAY, CAN WE JUST DECLARE THEM LEGALLY INSANE? Feminist Magazine Explains Why You Must Not Gender Your Pets.

MORE RED THAN AMERICAN: American Reds, Soviet Stooges.

ACTOR MARTIN LANDAU, STAR OF MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, DIES AT 89.

Landau’s career took a bad turn after (or arguably, when he agreed to star in) Space: 1999, reaching a nadir in an anything-for-a-buck role in 1981’s The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island. But by the late ‘80s, he reemerged as a seasoned character actor in Tucker, Francis Ford Coppola’s ode to small business and the entrepreneurial spirit. He was alternately sophisticated and chilling as the wealthy married optometrist who coolly has his mistress killed (by co-star Jerry Orbach, a few years before joining the side of Law & Order) in Crimes and Misdemeanors, one of Woody Allen’s most brilliant films, in which the Woodman revealed his Nietzschean nihilism perhaps a bit too clearly, foreshadowing his own fall from grace just a few years later.

SHUT UP AND SING! U2 Concerts Would Be Better If the Band Preached Less and Sang More:

For much of the show, the band projected an earnest slideshow of Native Americans and other immigrants onto the screen. Those pictured were unsmiling, trudging down roads and living in shacks. This is U2’s version of what the immigrant experience looks like in America, and it’s all pretty bleak. But the message was muddled and totally unclear.

The album’s greatest songs—“Running to Stand Still” and “Red Hill Mining Town”—are about, respectively, heroin abuse and the death of a mining town. America is experiencing an explosive surge in opioid deaths, and the death of the steel and car industry has decimated cities like Pittsburgh and Detroit. It’s hard to understand how the relentless stream of grim portraits of immigrants connected to the songs themselves.

Last year, Bono declared Trump “potentially the worst idea that ever happened to America” and reportedly “sought favorable access to Hillary through [the] Clinton Foundation.”  In January, as Spin reported, “Obama Walked Out to U2’s ‘City of Blinding Lights’ for His Farewell Address,” and had lunch with Bono in March. So it’s rather odd for U2 to resurrect a song lamenting the death of a mining town, when Obama vowed to bankrupt the coal industry, and last year, Hillary chortled at the prospect that “we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.”

(Classical reference in headline.)