THE END STAGE OF THE BLUE MODEL: No more worlds to conquer and still out of money.

IN AMERICA THAT BLOOD AND SOIL THING IS MOSTLY ANOTHER FORM OF MAGIC DIRT: White Nationalists Take DNA Tests to Prove Their Racial Purity. The Results Are HILARIOUS.

THIS HAS BEEN A REALLY LONG DAY: [Developing] Multiple Shootings in Cambrils Near Barcelona.

IT ALSO DOESN’T MAKE YOU MORAL OR SPECIAL:Having power over others doesn’t necessarily make you feel powerful.

THIS IS MOST CERTAINLY FAKE BUT IT MADE ME LAUGH: Officials In South Carolina Are Warning Citizens Of Possible Lizard Man Sightings During The Eclipse. And honestly?  Not much laughing going on just now.

OH, GREAT, ONE MORE THING TO WORRY ABOUT: Warning: Fake Eclipse Glasses Aren’t The Only Hazard Out There.

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DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ’S EX-IT AIDE IMRAN AWAN INDICTED ON FOUR COUNTS INCLUDING BANK FRAUD AND MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS. Indictment also includes his wife Hina Alvi.

DEVELOPING: Multiple Shootings in Cambrils near Barcelona.

THIS BIT FROM ROBERT SHIBLEY’S PIECE ON CHARLOTTESVILLE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT FAILURE IS WORTH BREAKING OUT:

This must stop. Freedom of expression is what gives us the ability to hash out societal issues through argument instead of physical conflict, but it is only meaningful when people are reasonably confident that they will be physically safe while they speak and listen. When the authorities simply stand by and let political violence occur, even in the hope of the conflict somehow “de-escalating” itself, they send the message that both sides have a free hand to violently attack their opponents. This makes a mockery of the First Amendment rights to free speech and assembly.

After the riot that successfully prevented Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking at the University of California, Berkeley, in February, many reported on the conspicuous lack of police involvement despite the injuries and destruction. I personally spoke to a woman who had come to see the speech. Having been pepper-sprayed and nearly blinded by a violent protester, she told me she crawled over three layers of crowd barriers to reach a building with dozens of police inside. Yet when she reached the door, the police refused her entry.

Likewise, CNN reported that in Charlottesville, “both sides agree that one group didn’t do enough to prevent the violence as the crowds grew and tensions flared: the police.” The organizer of the “Unite the Right” rally complained that “police purposefully created the catastrophe that led to a melee in the streets of Charlottesville,” while a Black Lives Matter leader attending the counter-protest remarked, “It’s almost as if they wanted us to fight each other.”

It’s hard to think of a more thankless task than riot policing. But when authorities fail at the basic task of preventing mob violence, both political and policy questions need to be asked. When the Huffington Post reports that “Several times, a group of assault-rifle-toting militia members from New York State … played a more active role in breaking up fights” than the police, law enforcement’s response needs serious rethinking.

There is one group of people who have so far consistently benefitted when political violence has been allowed to take place: the politicians who lead our localities and the de facto politicians who run our campuses. They avoid the political fallout from images of police confronting violent protesters (who may also be their supporters), they get to blame whichever side they like less for causing the violence, and get to pretend to fulfill their responsibility to keep people “safe” by making it harder for controversial viewpoints to be expressed.

And they allow people to be injured — or in this case killed — by their opportunism. As I’ve said, the DOJ should closely investigate the timeline here.

SPENGLER:

We fought the Civil War to preserve the Union, including a South that was only sorry that it lost. In the interests of unity we tolerated (and even promoted) the myth of Southern gallantry, the Lost Cause, and all the other baloney that went into D.W. Griffiths’ “The Birth of a Nation” and GWTW. We allowed the defeated South to console itself with the myth that it fought for “states’ rights” or whatever rather than to preserve a vile system of economic (and sometimes sexual) exploitation. Meanwhile the freed slaves had a very bad century between Appomattox and the Civil Rights Act of 1965. Don’t expect them to look with understanding on the supposed symbols of “Southern heritage.”

Well, yes. But there’s also this: “Don’t overthink this, because it’s quite simple, really. When Democrats’ national position depended on unwavering support from ‘the Solid South,’ we got lots of pro-Southern propaganda: the Lost Cause, Gone With The Wind, Disneyfied Uncle Remus, etc. As a vital Democrat constituency group, southerners, even practical neo-Confederates, were absolved of all sins as long as they stayed in line.” If the south were still a vital constituency today, Democrats would sound like Bill Clinton did in the 1990s.

THEY’VE ACHIEVED THIS BY ABORTING THEM: Iceland Close To Becoming First Country Where No Down’s Syndrome Children Are Born.

LEFTIST POLITICS: The Threat Of The Mob. “Lincoln prescribed the inculcation of reverence for the Constitution and the laws to counter the lawlessness of the mob. While not the answer to our present discontents, we cannot find the answer without it. To resist the spirit of the mob we yearn for leadership to advocate and insist on adherence to the Constitution and the laws.”

Related: Statue Of Lincoln Defaced In Chicago.

WE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO GENERAL JACK D. RIPPER: Sperm Count in Western Men Has Dropped Over 50 Percent Since 1973, Paper Finds.

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LIZ SHELD ON WOLF BLITZER’S MEMORY PROBLEM: “I really can’t think of anything to say about this. Just speechless.”

Nobody ever called Liz “speechless” before.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Study: Long-term testosterone therapy improves urinary, sexual function and quality of life.

Researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Public Health (BUSPH) collaborated with a group of urologists in Germany to investigate the effects of long-term testosterone replacement therapy on urinary health and sexual function as well as quality of life in men with diagnosed, symptomatic testosterone deficiency. More than 650 men in their 50s and 60s enrolled in the study, some with unexplained testosterone deficiency and others with known genetic and auto-immune causes for their hypogonadism.

“It is thought that testosterone treatment in men may increase prostate size and worsen lower urinary tract symptoms,” said Abdulmaged Traish, PhD, professor of urology at BUSM.

However, he and Gheorghe Doros, PhD, professor of biostatistics at BUSPH, discovered that despite increased prostate size in the group that received testosterone therapy, there were fewer urinary symptoms such as frequent urination, incomplete bladder emptying, weak urinary stream and waking up at night to urinate.

In addition to these subjective improvements, the researchers conducted objective testing that showed that those men treated with testosterone emptied their bladders more fully. Finally, testosterone treatment also increased the scores patients received on assessments of their erectile/sexual health and general quality of life.

Well, good.

SCIENCE: A Drink a Day to Keep the Doctor Away? Light drinking may be healthier than abstaining: new study. Note that a “drink” and a “bottle” are not necessarily the same thing.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Hippos, Anthrax And Hunger Make A Deadly Mix.

NOBODY MENTION THE WAR. Bruce Bawer on old media and Barcelona: Let’s Not Talk about Islam.

YIKES: 7 Wonders of the Horror Movie World.

There are some gems here for genre fans, but I’m still suspect of any horror collection which doesn’t include at least one Ingrid Pitt film.

FOUR OPTIONS FOR GETTING OUT OF OBAMA’S IRAN DEAL: From National Review. One option mentioned is actually submitting it to the Senate as a treaty — and the Senate would never pass it. The deal is a very bad deal America and the world.

NOBODY TELL BERNIE SANDERS: Knob Creek’s 25th anniversary bourbon comes in 300 versions.

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SAVE THE WORLD — ORDER A RIBEYE: A Global Fish War is Coming.