THAT WILL… GROW THE TOURIST TRADE: VR porn could be coming to Europe’s hotel rooms.

A NEW SHORT STORY FROM AMANDA GREEN: Battle Wounds.

ACCORDING TO THE RECORDS WHEN SHE WAS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, GOOD OLD FASHIONED BOOZE BUT LOTS OF IT: No, really LOTS of it. A New AoSHQ Game: Guess The Drug Pelosi Is Taking!

THE RUSSIAN FANTASY IS REALLY GETTING TO ME: Guys, I write fiction for a living.  This one doesn’t pass the suspension of disbelief test! Open War On The President.

ALWAYS GOOD ADVICE: Think before speaking — or hitting the enter button

DON’T LET THE BLACK DOG BITE: Living With Demons on your Shoulder.

THEY DON’T KNOW IF SPOCK HAS A GOATEE IN THIS ONE, BUT IT’S DEFINITELY BERENSTAIN BEARS: Scientists think they found proof of a parallel universe.

IT’S BEEN A CRAZY DAY:Times Square maniac was allegedly attempting suicide-by-cop.
AND A DAY FOR CRAZIES: Three suspects charged with capital murder after 6-year-old found shot and killed in stolen car.

FAKE NEWS: ‘Stop making sh*t up.” Guy Benson posts Comey footage, throws wrench into Trump memo conspiracy.

PERHAPS HE NEEDS LESSONS: “I don’t know what you call this emotion, but it’s what people look like just before you stab them.”

NEWSPAPER JOURNALISTS BEST CLING TO THEIR PULITZERS WHEN SCANNING THESE SWEET JOBS AT WAFFLE HOUSE: As Iowahawk tweets, “there seems to be shock and horror when a member of the high castes discovers some of their social inferiors earn more money.” Read on as BuzzFeed’s Joel Anderson gets the vapors and smugly insults his business’s customers.

AS WE’VE KNOWN SINCE AT LEAST 1998, FEMINIST OUTRAGE IS SELECTIVE: ‘SNL’ Fat-Shames Sarah Huckabee, and Feminists Go Silent.

SO PREPARE THE COUNTERCOUP, I GUESS? Spengler: A coup attempt, not a Constitutional crisis. “A ranking Republican statesman this week told an off-the-record gathering that a ‘coup’ attempt was in progress against President Donald Trump, with collusion between the largely Democratic media and Trump’s numerous enemies in the Republican Party. The object of the coup, the Republican leader added, was not impeachment, but the recruitment of a critical mass of Republican senators and congressmen to the claim that Trump was ‘unfit’ for office and to force his resignation.”

BILL O’REILLY IN USA TODAY: Roger Ailes endured hatred ‘and it killed him. That is the truth.’

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Canadian Student Association Apologizes For Playing ‘Transphobic’ ‘Take a Walk on The Wild Side.’

Lou Reed, pissing off puritanical Comstocks — these days, even from the grave! — since 1966.

(Via SDA.)

BURN IT ALL TO THE GROUND: New ‘Social Justice’ Math Class Teaches Kids That Math Is Evil, Dehumanizing. “Mathematics… have been used to trick indigenous peoples out of land and property.”

BUT HOW DO WE PLUG THAT INTO A RANKINGS FORMULA? Law Students’ Character, Rather Than LSATs/UGPAs, Is Best Predictor For Success As Lawyer.

ALL YOU ZOMBIES: Microbes seen controlling action of host’s genes.

CARS: The 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE Will Cost $70,000: That’s less than the old Z/28. For a car that has nearly 150 more horsepower.

AT AMAZON, save big on bestselling Pet Supplies.

Plus, savings in Sports and Outdoors.

REMEMBERING ROGER AILES: “Ailes, who died Thursday, was a bard, a master storyteller. . . . What made Fox News so dominant for so long wasn’t just that Roger Ailes built a news network to tell just the right stories to gather a conservative audience, though he did make it a religion, but that his competitors in the news business had built theirs to drive that audience away.”

RIP ROGER AILES, AGE 77:  “The death of Roger Ailes takes from us one of the towering figures in American news — just when we needed him most:”

The truth is that — insofar as we encountered Ailes — he was just on fire about the news.

This, in our view, was the key to his astounding success at Fox — along with his ability to spot and inspire great talent, with which Fox was abundantly blessed under his leadership. We understand all the controversies about the populist tone of Fox (his broadsheet and network detractors, though, have plunged down the same path). We read, like everyone else, of his alleged misbehavior with staff (he maintained his innocence). Either way, historians are likely — net, net — to record him far less for any flaws than his achievements.

America could have used Ailes at the helm of a news network right now. It’s not that he understood, and was a friend, of Donald Trump (John Podhoretz has an illuminating discussion of that question at Commentary magazine’s latest podcast). It’s rather that Ailes understood and empathized with the plight of the people who elected Donald Trump president. He understood the scale of Hillary Clinton’s error with her remark about the basket of deplorables. When he was on his game he had few, if any, peers.

In 2013, I recorded a 20-minute podcast with veteran journalist Zev Chafets, who had recently completed a biography of Ailes, which you can listen to here.

Incidentally, over a decade before CNN imploded via jet planes into black holes, an annual New Year’s Eve dumpster fire, and Trump Derangement Syndrome, Ailes certainly had his competitor’s number:

“JUST 50% OF OUR MEAT,” THAT’S ALL: Switching Just 50% of Our Meat to Insects Can Seriously Reduce Land Use. Stop trying to make roach happen.