K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Married superintendents indicted in child rape case. “A married couple, both Ohio school superintendents, have been indicted on charges stemming from sexual assault allegations involving a girl under age 13.”

Why are public schools such cesspits of sexual abuse?

SEEMS… LEGIT: Labor Unions Are Now Filing Grievances Against Goats.

SOMEBODY NEEDS TO SIT UP LISTENING FOR BUMPS IN THE NIGHT: Evolution explains why you sleep worse as you get older.

FLAGELLATION IS EXTRA: A Christian woman’s secret life as a dominatrix.

SO CHARLIE MARTIN TROLLED ME WITH THIS ONE TWEET, AND I WROTE THIS POST: The alternative was to roam the house going “Sarah Smash.” What Happens When the Artist Chides His Audience? Where did this soapbox come from?

WHILE WE’RE ON CLIMATE: Monster Solar Minimum Approaching?

SOMEONE TELL THE AP THAT’S NOT HOW THIS WORKS; THAT’S NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS:Yet another climate fail.

THAT’S ABOUT RIGHT: Dadaist Science.

MY FRIEND GRAY RINEHART HAS A BOOK COMING OUT: Cary Resident Coming Out With Debut Science-Fiction Novel.

DISPATCHES FROM THE JAYVEE. ISIS to Jihadists: ‘Kidnap the Children’ of Western Non-Muslims.

A THUG AND A FAILURE: Preet Bharara’s victories keep melting away.

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HUH. WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS SORT OF THING COMING? The Alt-Right Is Using Crowdfunding to Take on Liberal Silicon Valley.

WHY IS ACADEMIA SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM, SEXISM, AND HATE? Feminist geographers encourage colleagues not to cite research of white men.

IT’S EVERYWHERE: Random Flare-Ups Of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

NOT ALL FEMINISTS ARE TERRIBLE MOTHERS, BUT THE ONES WHO WRITE ABOUT MOTHERING SEEM AWFUL: I’m Done Pretending Men Are Safe (Even My Sons). “One of my sons was hurt by my words, although he’s never told me so. He doesn’t understand why I lumped him and his brother together in my essay. He sees himself as the ‘good’ one, the one who is sensitive and thoughtful, and who listens instead of reacts. He doesn’t understand that even quiet misogyny is misogyny, and that not all sexists sound like Twitter trolls. He is angry at me now, although he won’t admit that either, and his anger led him to conservative websites and YouTube channels; places where he can surround himself with righteous indignation against feminists, and tell himself it’s ungrateful women like me who are the problem.”

He’s right. You are the problem. Plus: “As a single mother, I sometimes wonder whether the real problem is that my sons have no role models for the type of men I hope they become. But when I look around at the men I know, I’m not sure a male partner would fill that hole.” The quality men you want don’t want an angry feminist such as yourself, who’s disloyal even to her own sons. Why would they?

You think men are bad because you make bad decisions. You let yourself off the hook for those because “empowerment,” but you judge your sons with microscopic harshness. You lead a life that ensures your sons will have no close positive role models. Angry feminist single moms, I suspect, are disproportionately the mothers of the alt-right.

TWO CNNs IN ONE!

Shot: CNN’s Trump Hatred: Host [Alisyn Camerota] Says President Would Have Sold Uranium to Russia.

—NewsBusters, today.

Chaser:

On Thursday, The New York Times reported that Clinton’s State Department was “among the agencies” to eventually sign off on a deal that allowed a Russian energy company to buy the rights to one-fifth of the United States’ uranium deposits. Significant donors to the foundation, according to the Times, stood to benefit from the deal, which was eventually approved.

The piece also notes how donations from the Canadian company flowed to the Clinton Foundation around the time of the deal and how “shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.”

“Whether the donations played any role in the approval of the uranium deal is unknown,” the Times writes.

—“New ethics questions test Hillary Clinton’s campaign,” CNN.com, April 23, 2015.

THE RISE OF THE INTERNET’S ‘DIRTBAG LEFT’ — How a new strain of progressive leftism is using humour, irony, and diaper jokes to push back against the emerging alt-right:

What Michelle Obama—or Canadian writer Jonathan Kay, who recently issued a critique of social media boorishness in a National Post essay—miss in their clarion calls for civility is that, for many, politics isn’t just some academic discussion or reimagining of a collegiate debate club: It’s a battle. It’s about drastically opposed visions of society rubbing against each in open conflict. The reinvigorated left doesn’t want to debate; it wants to disgrace.

The fact is that there are many on the left who don’t want to be civil—who want to mock and joke and hurl ad hominem and be as baseless and vulgar as possible. And why? Well, for one thing, it’s productive (and fun!) to unnerve those in power, and to make them feel uncomfortable in their laziness and privilege. And if it’s acceptable for members of the utterly powerless online liberal #Resistance to tweet at Donald Trump calling him a “Cheeto” or a “carrot” as if he’ll miraculously resign when he’s read it for the 17-millionth time, why is it not also valid to needle more immediate villains with harsher, more pointed criticisms?

These tactics will likely present a problem for some. The valuing of vulgarity and snarky hostility (“so much for the tolerant left!”) may scan as cannibalization and in-fighting among those with loosely shared agendas (i.e. anti-Trumpism). The dirtbag left understands this. What they reject are progressive-leftists being neglected, despite the foundering of the liberal/Democratic institution. They’re tired of sitting, slouched and bored, elbows on the table, at the kids’ table. And unlike the purely anarchic alt-righters doing it “for the lulz,” the alt-left offers a coherent, practical, progressive political agenda. As Chapo co-founder Will Menaker put it on a recent episode of the show, addressing an imagined audience pragmatist liberals and centrists: “Yes, let’s come together. But get this through your f–king head: you must bend the knee to us. Not the other way around. You have been proven as failures, and your entire worldview has been discredited.”

As Marcus H. Johnson of the Huffington Post tweets, with a screen cap highlighting that last sentence, “Imagine being a wealthy white guy and telling this to poor minorities who vote for Democrats.”

It’s like there’s a fascistic side to liberalism, or something.

AND FOR NEWSWEEK, IT STILL IS:

● Shot: It’s Hillary Clinton’s Election to Lose.

—Headline, Newsweek, September 29, 2016.

● Chaser: Hillary Clinton Is President in an Alternate Universe, Where America Is Great Again.

—Headline, Newsweek, yesterday. (Link safe; goes to NewsBusters.)  

● Hangover: If Gore Had Won — An alternate oral history of the last decade.

—Headline, Newsweek, December, 2010. 

And of course, the ultimate leftwing fantasy moment from Newsweek immediately after the November election: “Madam President: how Newsweek reported a Clinton victory.”

(Buried lede: Newsweek somehow still exists as a magazine.)

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Why men won’t marry you.

WHY IS THE NEW YORK TIMES SO FULL OF HATE? “Does that excerpt from the NYT article have a homophobic whiff?”

CHARLOTTE ALLEN: More On The Outrage At Evergreen. “A picture emerges of an unholy alliance between some of the protesters and some professors and perhaps even more administrators looking to seize more power and wield it at the expense of the rest of the faculty and certainly the majority of the students.”

When roaming mobs intimidate dissenters, there’s always somebody behind them.

ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Donald Trump Jr.’s conduct likely covered by First Amendment.

DON SURBER: Media Seek Fear, Not Trust.

HEATHER MALLICK: Why I Abandoned The Left: The hardliners can be so exhausting. They have purges. They murder their darlings, they shun their own. They’re awful people. They’re often mentally ill, and acting out their problems through politics, which ensures that they lack all proportion. You’re better off without them.