OH, CANADA! Drunk Canadian Men Arrested for Riding Couch Towed Behind ATV Through McDonalds Drive-Thru.

They were wearing helmets.

DID NORTH KOREA JUST LAUNCH a Chinese Missile?

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Four Ways SJWs Would Tear ‘Major League’ Apart Today.

My three favorite baseball movies probably couldn’t get made today. Bull Durham for showing a sex-positive feminist’s appreciation for a masculine sport and the men who play it. The Bad News Bears (original) for dealing honestly with kids and their issues. And Major League for the reasons Christian has listed.

MISTAKES? NONSENSE. JUST POSTMODERN CHAFF THAT HELPS ADVANCE THE DNC-MSM NARRATIVE: Is the Media Too Comfortable with Its Own Mistakes?

I’M SO OLD I REMEMBER WHEN THE NEW REPUBLIC WASN’T PATHETIC:

In an essay that makes Meryl Streep look like an astute political commentator, The New Republic’s social media editor, Sarah Jones, claims “Trump Has Turned the GOP Into the Party of Eugenics.” Well, not literally, Jones concedes in the sixth paragraph. Or at all, it turns out, once you’ve waded through all 2,300 words of increasingly desperate argumentation. . . .

Jones omits a major target of anti-Republican rants: the GOP’s pro-life stance, which is inconvenient for her argument because it entails rejecting tools favored by coercive eugenicists: abortion, euthanasia, and sterilization. She also conspicuously ignores the intimate relationship between eugenics and progressivism. It was progressive icon Oliver Wendell Holmes, after all, who declared that “three generations of imbeciles are enough” in Buck v. Bell, the 1927 Supreme Court decision upholding Virginia’s forced sterilization of “mental defectives” (a decision that was joined by progressive luminary Louis Brandeis). Jones quotes a book about that case in her second paragraph but shows no interest in the ideological roots of the policy Holmes endorsed. She is so intent on exposing metaphorical eugenicists that she overlooks the political philosophy of actual eugenicists.

Jones’s article is an excellent example for progressives who want to alienate allies while discrediting criticism of Trump. She manages to exaggerate the odiousness of the president’s views even while conflating them with those of mainstream Republicans, turning what should be a discussion of Trumpism’s peculiar dangers into a familiar attack on cruel privatizers and budget cutters. If this is what the anti-Trump movement is all about, you can count me out.

Well, it pretty much is. A cynic might conclude that if they had good arguments against Trump, they’d be using them, instead of these. But then again, it is The New Republic.

21ST CENTURY CONFESSIONS: “So I committed the sin of eating a slice of pizza with a spork.”

CHUTZPAH ALERT: Atlantic VP Hayley Romer on fake news and living in a media bubble:

“Let’s say for a second I understood what your political views were and I were to only send you things that validate that view, or I say, ‘I understand that you believe in this, I’m just gonna keep sending you things that validate your opinion.’ Is that a good thing? I’m not sure,” she said. “I think that assumption is one that sort of lies on the edge of something worth debating, hence the nature of this conversations. Let’s take a step back and look at the news. It used to be that every night in order to get the news, you had one trusted voice come into your home. You’d turn on your TV, you’d sit down at the end of the day, and somebody would show up and tell you everything that you needed to know, and you believed what they said.”

“Once cable news came around, you had choices, you had more ways to gain access to information, you didn’t necessarily have to listen to things so broadly, and you had the opportunity at that point through cable news to gain access to different opinions, different perspectives, different sets of news information, if you will,” she continued.

“But then came the Internet where everyone had a voice, and the thing about the Internet was that it was going to be the total democratization of all humanity,” Romer stated. “We would create a global free open exchange of ideas. Everyone had access to everything, and this was going to be the ultimate dream because you no longer had to wait for someone to come into your home at a certain time of day.”

“But reality, as we know, is much more complicated than that,” she said. “Everyone flocked to the Internet a lot faster than we could have predicted, which left us saying, ‘What do we do now, how do we figure this out?’ Pretty soon we were overwhelmed with information of course.”

In 2007, in the worst trade since the Boston Red Sox offloaded Babe Ruth, desperate for Andrew Sullivan’s blog traffic, the Atlantic swapped out Mark Steyn for Sullivan. The Excitable One then proceeded – under the Atlantic’s once-proud imprimatur — to first compare President Bush to Paul von Hindenburg, and then go off in search of Sarah Palin’s uterus. Publisher, heal thy self.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Our So-Called ‘Tolerant’ Society Is Actually Very Dogmatic.

BUT ALL THE SMART PEOPLE TOLD ME THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: Fake Science Gets Smoked—and What It Means for Climate Change.

Related: “Trump’s Climate Plans Just Made the Media’s Heads Explode.”

Exit quote: “Welcome to the suck, guys. It’s only just beginning…”

(Via SDA.)

BUT WHAT ABOUT ITS CARBON FOOTPRINT? Woolly mammoth on the verge of resurrection, scientists say.

And if we want to prevent them from going extinct a second time, open a chain of MammothBurger fast casual restaurants.

SIGN OF THE END TIMES: “Former Ohio U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich agreed with President Trump’s assessment yesterday that intelligence leaks to the media are more worrisome than the sudden resignation of now former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.”

FALSE CONCIOUSNESS: Boeing workers in South Carolina vote against union.

After years of bitter campaigning, the International Association of Machinists failed to sway the factory’s 3,000 workers to organize in a state profoundly hostile to organized labor. Of the approximately 2,800 workers who voted, 74 percent chose not to unionize.

“We are disheartened they will have to continue to work under a system that suppresses wages, fosters inconsistency and awards only a chosen few,” the machinists’ organizer, Mike Evans, said of workers at the plant in a statement announcing the defeat.

I’m having a hard time reconciling “chosen few” with “74 percent.”

GAIA IS THE WORST POLLUTER OF ALL: A massive lake of molten carbon the size of Mexico is discovered under the US, and it could cause climate CHAOS.

Known as the upper mantle, this section of the Earth’s interior is known for by its high temperatures where solid carbonates melt, creating distinctive seismic patterns.

What they found was a vast buried deposit of molten carbon, which produces carbon dioxide and other gases, situated under the Western US, 217 miles (350km) beneath the Earth’s surface.

As a result of this study, published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, scientists now believe the amount of CO2 in the Earth’s upper mantle may be up to 100 trillion metric tons.

In comparison, the US Environmental Protection Agency estimates the global carbon emission in 2011 was nearly 10 billion metric tons – a tiny amount in comparison.

Unless I dropped a zero somewhere along the way, that’s 10,000 to 1.

OH, THAT’S DEPLORABLE: Donald Trump is freezing out the mainstream media. That should terrify you.

Quoted by Ace of Spades, who also has plenty of thoughts on the above headline, that’s from Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post, an institution that used to allow its employees to wear buttons that said “Yeah, I’m In The Media. Screw You,” so you’ll pardon me if I feel less than terrified. But perhaps therapy is in order for the DNC-MSM, now that the folie à deux is over.

INCENTIVES MATTER: Google’s self-driving unit lost execs by overpaying them. I wish somebody would lose me that way.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Adjunct Serfs: Trump Should Target Worker Exploitation at American Universities. “After all, Trump has spoken out on behalf of American workers victimized by outsourcing and abusive H1B ‘guest worker’ visas. Universities’ move to replace full-time faculty jobs with poorly paid part-timers is something similar, and offers an opportunity for Trump to stand up on behalf of exploited workers in this important sector of the American economy. . . . It needs to be done. In the name of economic fairness!”

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Single iPhone Users Don’t Want To Date An Android User.

SPORTS: Sensors embedded in sports equipment could provide real-time analytics to your smartphone.

SO SHE’S SAYING… I HAVE A CHANCE? Scarlett Johansson to Playboy: ‘I Don’t Think It’s Natural to be Monogamous’

AN AUTONOMOUS PASSENGER DRONE SOUNDS LIKE A TERRIBLE IDEA: “As far as I know, there is no way of surviving a total (or perhaps even partial) motor or software failure on a drone like this. With an airplane or a helicopter, even if absolutely everything dies on you, you still have a reasonable chance (if you know what you’re doing) of landing the aircraft so that you’ll live, and maybe even walk away. With this drone, there’s simply nothing you could do—even if you were an experienced drone pilot, which most passengers won’t be.”

WELL, YES:

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Jim VanDeHei & Mike Allen: The Media Is The Opposition Party. Likewise, they were the Obama Support Party for the previous eight years. Any efforts to defend their role now must also take that into account.

But it’s just more evidence that if you want checks and balances, you need a white, male Republican in the White House.

UPDATE: From the comments: “I thought, given the wailing I have heard the last few days, that some brilliant questions were going to be asked of Trump by the ‘real’ journalists. Where were they hiding?”

YOUR I.R.S. AT . . . WORK? IRS Agent Calls Howard Stern Show From Work, Takes Call From Taxpayer While On Hold, Stern Broadcasts Agent’s Conversation With Taxpayer, Who Sues Stern, IRS.

IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN THEY DO IT: Dear Bad Upper East Side Moms Who Targeted President Trump’s 4-Year-Old Grandson.