WHAT I DON’T UNDERSTAND IS WHY ANYONE TRIES TO APPEASE THESE ABUSERS: “Spider-man: Homecoming” Not Woke Enough For SJW Critics. You know they’re just going to hit you and tell you that you brought it on yourself.  Stop it.  Keep your self-respect.

BEFORE OR AFTER 4CHAN IS DONE KEKING HIM? Will Shia LaBoeuf’s Trump Hate Save His Career?

NOBODY THOUGHT MARLENE DIETRICH WAS “GENDER FLUID”: Sorry Vogue, wearing your boyfriend’s jacket doesn’t make you ‘gender-fluid’.

EH:Say It Ain’t So, Joe: Legendary Vanity-Rock Sensation Joe Scarborough Quits the GOP on Steven Colbert, After Admitting He Buys Into Liberal Progressive Line 100%.

THE ENTIRE COUNTRY DOES: I Need a Vacation.

VICTIMS OF FEMINISM: Those poor kids.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: What it’s really like to get struck by lightning.

CHIP YOUR CATS: A cat helped this homeless man find companionship — until he learned the truth.

AS KURT SCHLICHTER SAYS, THEY’RE REALLY STARTING TO HATE THE NEW RULES: New York Times: No One Cares About Russia in the World Breitbart Made.

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LEARNING OPPORTUNITY: One Small North Dakota Town Taught Mark Zuckerberg Exactly Why Donald Trump Is President.

WHEN DOCTORS PUBLICIZE THEIR FITNESS: “We found that participants who were overweight believed that the fit doctors would disapprove of patients with unhealthy habits, and as a result overweight participants preferred physicians who did not advertise their fitness. Interestingly, in our studies, doctors who emphasized their healthy habits were no more appealing to patients who were not overweight. So health care practitioners showing off a healthy lifestyle didn’t seem to draw in patients as might have been expected, and even drove away some.”

Well, depending on your compensation model, driving away overweight patients might be worth it even if it doesn’t attract more fit patients. Simply by making fat, unfit people more likely to go elsewhere, you wind up with a pool of patients that, on average, is probably healthier and less expensive.

IT BEGINS: “We will put an algorithm into a combat zone before the end of this calendar year.”

SARAH HOYT: Teach Your Children Well, Part 2. “The obvious solution is to teach your children yourself.”

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Plus, bargains in Beauty Supplies.

THE BENEFITS OF STARTING A NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH.

Here are a couple of examples, from the disastrous 1977 New York Blackout:

There’s a police precinct, the 83rd precinct, that is literally half a block away from Broadway, right at the core of it, very close to where Gates and Broadway intersect, and yet there really wasn’t a cop to be seen. There was that whole issue that the word went out to just go to where you live.

I don’t know what police coverage might have done — it might have just inflamed the situation. But the fact of the matter was it was total chaos. . . .

I lived on Decatur and Knickerbocker. We had a good block association, so the first thing that happened was the men on the block blocked the street off with their cars and stood on the corners to protect the stores. I know quite a few of them were armed. No incidents happened on our block, although Broadway was a disaster.

Likewise: “The blocks that got themselves organized, those were the blocks that survived, as opposed to being burned down. . . . I was ten years old, and I remember my father was the only smart one that put his car on the sidewalk and put on his headlights. Then everyone went into formation, and that’s how they protected our block.”

WAIT, WHAT? The Chemicals in Your Mac and Cheese. “The chemicals, called phthalates, can disrupt male hormones like testosterone and have been linked to genital birth defects in infant boys and learning and behavior problems in older children. The chemicals migrate into food from packaging and equipment used in manufacturing and may pose special risks to pregnant women and young children.”

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JEFF BEZOS DOESN’T JUST SELL MARK RIPPETOE’S BOOK, he’s also looking as if he’s read it.

STABBING AT COPTIC CHURCH IN ALEXANDRIA AS ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANS IN EGYPT ESCALATES.

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: British Newspaper: Acid attack first aid: What you need to do immediately to help victims.

KEVIN DRUM ON RESEARCH ABOUT THE HOMELESS: “This does not seem strange to me at all. Most people don’t like being accosted by panhandlers and don’t like their park benches being taken over by potentially dangerous vagrants. At the same time, most people aren’t heartless bastards and understand that the homeless need somewhere to live and sleep. Both of these are perfectly understandable reactions.”

THEODORE DALRYMPLE ON “EVERYDAY SNOWFLAKES:”

The demand for recognition and nonrecognition at the same time is surely one of the reasons for the outbreak of mass self-mutilation in the Western world in an age of celebrity. A person who treats his face and body like an ironmongery store can hardly desire or expect that you fail to notice it, but at the same time demands that you make no comment about it, draw no conclusions from it, express no aversion toward it, and treat him no differently because of it. You must accept him as he is, however he is, because he has an inalienable right to such acceptance. As a professional burglar once asked me, how could I expect him to give up burgling when he was a burglar and burglary was what he did?

I think the same dynamic (if I may call it such) is at work in the current vogue for transsexualism: “You must recognize me and not recognize me at the same time.” In this way, people can simultaneously enjoy the fruits of being normal and very different. To be merely the same as others is a wound to the ego in an age of celebrity, and yet we are herd animals who do not want to wander too far from the herd. And in an age of powerlessness we want to exert power.

What will be the next attempted reconciliation of our incompatible desires?

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(Via Kathy Shaidle.)

DAVID BROOKS ENDORSES CORRUPTION OF THE BLOOD. Well, where Republicans are concerned, anyway.

IT’S COME A LONG WAY FROM THE ORIGINAL MODEL: 2018 Honda Accord: Major Changes for the 10th-Generation Best Seller.