DRIVING THE 2018 Honda Accord. You can still get it with a 6-speed stick.

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WAR ON WOMEN UPDATE: Decades of Sexual Harassment Accusations Against Harvey Weinstein.

Two decades ago, the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein invited Ashley Judd to the Peninsula Beverly Hills hotel for what the young actress expected to be a business breakfast meeting. Instead, he had her sent up to his room, where he appeared in a bathrobe and asked if he could give her a massage or she could watch him shower, she recalled in an interview.

“How do I get out of the room as fast as possible without alienating Harvey Weinstein?” Ms. Judd said she remembers thinking.

Related: Harvey Weinstein hosting star-studded fundraiser for Hillary.

Why are Democrat-monopoly institutions such cesspits of sexual predation?

UPDATE: Weinstein (likely via his damage control team) issues hilariously self-serving statement to the New York Times, which begins with “I came of age in the 60’s and 70’s, when all the rules about behavior and workplaces were different. That was the culture then,” before concluding, “I am going to need a place to channel that anger so I’ve decided that I’m going to give the NRA my full attention. I hope Wayne LaPierre will enjoy his retirement party.”

Or as Sonny Bunch writes at the Washington Free Beacon, “Shorter Harvey Weinstein: ‘I’m a Liberal, Maybe Gimme a Pass?’”

“Should be interesting to which Hollywood stars who rightly criticized Bill O’Reilly + Fox suddenly go silent on Harvey Weinstein,” one Twitter user writes in response.

Twitchy notes however that “Weinstein can’t technically give the NRA his full attention … because he’s also gotta sue the New York Times.”

Pass the popcorn.

I BELIEVE THESE TWO EVENTS ARE CONNECTED: Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam Announces He Will Not Run for Bob Corker’s Seat. “While I have loved being a mayor and a governor, I don’t feel the same call to run for Senate at this point.” I was talking about this today with a friend who, like me, knows Haslam and we both agreed that he probably wouldn’t like the Senate.

U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) Announces Run for Bob Corker’s Senate Seat. And she’s announcing that she’s running against the existing GOP Senate leadership, which is smart.

WELL, NORTH KOREA GOT NUKES, SO WHY NOT TAIWAN? Report: China Has Secret Plans to Invade Taiwan by 2020. Or Poland.

SPYING: FOIA’ed Documents Show NSA Abuse Of Pen Register Statutes To Collect Content.

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INTERESTING CHOICE OF DOMAIN NAME: The Hill‘s Joe Concha reporting that:

A new media company aimed at millennials and featuring multiple former members of the Obama administration — including Jon Favreau, Tommy Vietor, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer and Ben Rhodes, along with former New Republic senior editor Brian Beutler — is expanding.

Check out the domain name they chose in second graf. I guess “JuiceBoxMafia.com” was already taken. Heh.

GOOGLE TRANSLATE IN AN EARBUD. Very cool, but it would be cooler if I didn’t have to worry that Google might be listening in on the conversations.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Glass House of the NFL.

Multimillionaire young players, mostly in their 20s, often cannot quite explain why they have become so furious at emblems of the country in which they are doing so well.

Their gripes at best seem episodic and are often without supporting data. Are they mad at supposedly inordinate police brutality toward black citizens, or racial disparity caused by bias, or the perceived vulgarity of President Donald Trump?

The result, fairly or not, is that a lot of viewers do not understand why so many young, rich players show such disrespect for their country — and, by extension, insult their far poorer fans, whose loyal support has helped pay their salaries.

ESPN talking heads and network TV analysts do not help. They often pose as social-justice warriors, but they are ill-equipped to offer sermons to fans on their ethical shortcomings that have nothing to do with football.

In truth, the NFL’s hard-core fan base is not composed of bicoastal hipsters. Rather, the league’s fan base is formed mostly by red-state Americans — and many of them are becoming increasingly turned off by the culture of professional football.

Indeed. When purveyors of popular entertainment take stands unpopular with their fans, the result is professional suicide.

STEPHEN L. CARTER: Football’s Spotlight Needs to Be on Players’ Deaths.

HMM: Was the Las Vegas Gunman’s Homicidal Rage Politically Motivated? “Why was there an uptick in gun purchases in the fall of 2016?”

It does seem strange that we’ve heard next-to-nothing about his motive, but that could just be because nobody yet knows.

JAMES LILEKS FISKS AN ARTICLE ON THE EXISTENTIAL DREAD OF MEAL KITS SUCH AS BLUE APRON and concludes: “All these paralyzed, damaged people, convinced of the righteousness of rejecting The Horrible Previous Way, unsure what should replace it, and perversely drawn to the old tropes because something in their heart tugs them in the ‘wrong’ direction.”

Read the whole thing.

WELL, YES: CIA Official Says China Can Do More to Pressure North Korea.

Michael Collins, the deputy assistant director of the CIA’s East Asia Mission Center, said China by all public accounts is enforcing international sanctions against North Korea, but noted Beijing’s tact in excluding key exports from their sanctions list and agreeing to limits on trade rather than an all-out ban.

“It’s clear the Chinese want to maintain influence with this regime and are probably worried about undercutting that if they pull all of their support away from North Korea,” Collins said at an intelligence conference organized by the CIA at George Washington University. “Their challenge, in my view, is to … assess the extent of support they provide to North Korea and to what extent that encourages North Korean behavior.”

Beijing accounts for 90 percent of Pyongyang’s trade, making its cooperation critical to enforcing U.S.-backed sanctions aimed at curbing the regime’s nuclear activities.

Though China last month began limiting energy supplies to the North under new United Nations sanctions, the restrictions do not apply to crude oil, which accounts for the largest share of energy exports to Pyongyang. North Korea imports all of its oil, primarily from China, providing Beijing with substantial leverage to cutoff a lifeline to the regime.

China will continue to support North Korea for at least as long as the cost of doing so (which is relatively cheap) is less than the benefit (causing major headaches for the US, Japan, and South Korea). But since nuclear nonproliferation is dead in Northeast Asia and Chinese support for North Korea helped to kill it, maybe it’s time we talked publicly to Japan and South Korea about developing their own nuclear arsenals.

It sounds extreme, but it might be the only way left short of war to change Beijing’s calculus.

BRIAN DOHERTY EXPLAINS HOW: How Could Anyone Deny the Need for Tougher and More Stringently Enforced Gun Laws in the Wake of the Vegas Slaughter?

It’s easier to deny it when Democrats are saying they want to kill us.

GET ‘EM WHILE THEY’RE YOUNG: Another Thing Amazon Is Disrupting: Business-School Recruiting.

The Seattle-based retail giant is now the top recruiter at the business schools of Carnegie Mellon University, Duke University and University of California, Berkeley. It is the biggest internship destination for first-year M.B.A.s at the University of Michigan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College and Duke. Amazon took in more interns from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business than either Bain & Co. or McKinsey & Co., which were until recently among the school’s top hirers of interns, according to Madhav Rajan, Booth’s dean.

All told, Amazon has hired some 1,000 M.B.A.s in the past year, according to Miriam Park, Amazon’s director of university programs—a drop in the bucket for a company that plans to add 50,000 software developers in the next year. But Amazon’s flood-the-zone approach to recruiting and hiring future M.B.A.s—in some cases before they have taken a single business-school course—is feeding the career frenzy on campus and rankling some rival recruiters.

The talent wars begin even before classes do. This past June, Amazon sponsored an event at its Seattle headquarters for 650 soon-to-be first-year and returning women M.B.A. students, some of whom left the event with internship offers for summer 2018.

Scott DeRue, dean of the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, urges Amazon and other avid hirers to refrain from recruiting activities until at least the end of the first week of classes. “It’s nearly impossible,” Mr. DeRue said. “You say an academic building is off limits, and they’re at restaurants and coffee shops across the street.”

It feels like someday we’ll all work for Amazon — and judging by my monthly statement, maybe I already do.

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Cops: Wisconsin Duo Refused To Cease Car Sex.

Read the whole thing – the quotes from the couple are just awesome, the textual equivalent of NSFW (which is why I’m not quoting them here). Also, a potential motive emerges: “You’re a man. You should understand. It’s Oktoberfest weekend.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Democrats Have No Idea How To Prevent Mass Shootings.

FASTER, PLEASE: Time for Trump to Decertify the Iran Deal, Roger Simon writes.

TONI AIRAKSINEN: Why Conservative College Kids Should Be a Protected Class.

TO BE FAIR, THAT’S PRETTY MUCH ALL THEY’VE GOT: After Las Vegas, Democrats Send In The Clowns. “Gun control is not as much about guns as it is about control. Even anti-gun leftists are coming to this conclusion.” Yes, the goal is to humiliate the deplorables and show them who’s boss. It’s not about safety, it’s about cultural warfare.

Related: Hate From The Left.

WHY IS HOLLYWOOD SUCH A CESSPIT OF ABUSE AND MISOGYNY? Harvey Weinstein Lawyers Battling N.Y. Times, New Yorker Over Potentially Explosive Stories. “In addition to his usual attorney David Boies, Weinstein also has engaged Lisa Bloom, a Woodland Hills, California-based lawyer and television personality specializing in sexual harassment cases (and the daughter of Gloria Allred), as well as Charles Harder, the Beverly Hills-based litigator who represented Hulk Hogan in the invasion of privacy trial that brought down the Gawker website.” So that’s a pretty good clue of what’s involved.

MCCONNELL AND RYAN HAVE NOW LOST EVEN THE DONORS: Angry GOP donors close their wallets: ‘I’m sick and tired of nothing happening,’ one contributor says of the party’s legislative failures.