THE LOW-TESTOSTERONE EPIDEMIC CLAIMS ANOTHER VICTIM: Politico journo admitting Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s workout ‘nearly broke him’ funniest damn thread on Twitter.

‘SOCIAL-JUSTICE’ MOB SHUTS DOWN CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED PLAY IN MONTREAL:

Betty Bonifassi has spent 18 years researching, reworking and performing slave songs. In “SLĀV,” the hit new play on the same topic, she is the lead singer—or was. The Montreal International Jazz Festival canceled “SLĀV” on Wednesday: “We would like to apologize to those who were hurt.” Why the pain? Because Ms. Bonifassi and director Robert Lepage are white. Two of the seven cast members were black, but they won’t be performing either.

“SLĀV” sold out its first five shows and was booked for 11 more at Montreal’s Théâtre du Nouveau Monde. It also received glowing reviews in the Quebecois press….

Some 100 people showed up to protest the play before one of its performances. They complained that Ms. Bonifassi was “not allowing us to tell our own stories” and “profiting from our pain.” One speaker called the show “a blatant act of neocolonialism.” An American singer, Moses Sumney, canceled a performance at the Jazz Festival, calling “SLĀV”—which he didn’t trouble himself to see—“hegemonic, appropriative, and neo-imperialistic” in a letter to the festival’s organizers.

If SJWs are shutting down white performers playing black music, the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton are in big trouble.

I HEARD RUSH LIMBAUGH PUSHING THIS PIECE AND IT MADE ME WONDER IF BARRETT IS THE PICK: New Harvard Research Says U.S. Christianity Is Not Shrinking, But Growing Stronger: Is churchgoing and religious adherence really in ‘widespread decline’ so much so that conservative believers should suffer ‘growing anxiety’? Absolutely not.

NO SE AJUSTA A LA NARRATIVA: Univision, Telemundo Ignore Lowest Ever Hispanic Unemployment.

ITS ORIGIN AND PURPOSE, STILL A TOTAL MYSTERY: Former ISIS Fighter Arrested in Sweden in Double Murder Case.

SNUBNOSE REVOLVERS: Tried And true For Concealed Carry Use.

I’m thinking a Super Redhawk Alaska in .480 Ruger. Because they won’t be expecting an earth-shattering kaboom.

AT AMAZON, save on Condiments and Salad Dressings.

Plus, deals on Air Tools.

TYLER O’NEIL: At Least One Democrat Senator Says He’s ‘Open to Voting Yes’ For Trump’s Supreme Court Pick. “Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) suggested that he is ‘open to voting yes’ to confirm President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, setting him apart from the Democrats who rushed to announce their opposition to any Kennedy replacement.”

Jones is up for election this fall in a very Red state.

CLEAN YOUR GRILL WITH CARE: Wire grill brushes can be risky to your health.

LET’S GET FRACKING: There Are Fears About an Oil Spike Above $150.

Companies have been compelled to focus on boosting returns and shareholder distributions at the expense of capital expenditures aimed at finding new supplies, analysts including Neil Beveridge wrote in a note Friday. That’s causing reserves at major producers to fall and the industry’s reinvestment ratio to plunge to the lowest in a generation, paving the way for oil prices to surpass records reached last decade, according to Bernstein.

“Investors who had egged on management teams to reign in capex and return cash will lament the underinvestment in the industry,” the analysts wrote. “Any shortfall in supply will result in a super-spike in prices, potentially much larger than the $150 a barrel spike witnessed in 2008.”

The investment shortfall comes at the same time frackers have encountered unexpected technical hurdles in the way of expanding production — which is about the worst timing possible.

UNEXPECTEDLY: More dogs being poisoned by marijuana, vets say.

UZAY BULUT: European Turks Vote for Erdogan Back Home, and for Leftists in Europe.

THEY ALL KNEW: ‘Parks and Rec’ Producer Mike Schur Says Kevin Spacey Was ‘The Most Open Secret That’s Ever Existed.’

Schur first became aware of his behavior while he was writing for “Saturday Night Live.” “I remember very distinctly being like, he’s hitting on the pages and he’s hitting on the young men in the talent department,” he said. “You talk about open secret, it’s the most open secret that’s ever existed. I didn’t know maybe the extent to which the behavior was predatory.”

Problems stem from the fact that “we just don’t talk about this stuff,” he continued. “Women and men to whom the behavior is being done, who it’s affecting, are scared, they don’t know who to talk to.

If only there had been some in-the-know producer they could have gone to for help.

WEIRD HOW OFTEN GREEN POLICIES DISPROPORTIONATELY HURT THE POOR: World’s poorest shoulder cost of tropical conservation.

IT STARTED WITH “PUNCH NAZIS!” BUT NOW: ‘Unreal’ Hate: St. Jude Family Attacked Online After Thanking Eric Trump for Support.

BREXIT BLUES: With Her Cabinet In Crisis, Here’s How Theresa May May Be Ousted.

What needs to happen for there to be a leadership contest?

A leadership challenge can be triggered if 15 percent of members of parliament in May’s Conservative Party write a letter to the chairman of the party’s so-called “1922 committee”.

The Conservatives currently have 316 members of parliament (MPs) so 48 of them would need to write such letters to challenge May.

Once that threshold has been reached, the chairman will announce the start of the contest and invite nominations.

Could this happen to May?

The chairman of the 1922 committee is the only person who will know exactly how many members of parliament have submitted letters of no confidence.

But some eurosceptic members of parliament have started submitting letters to the committee chairman in protest over her Brexit negotiating strategy.

What will happen during a no confidence vote?

If a no confidence vote is called then all serving Conservative members of parliament will be able to cast a vote for or against the serving leader.

If May wins any confidence vote she remains in office. If she loses, she is obliged to resign and barred from standing in the leadership election that follows.

As noted elsewhere, May’s loss of six cabinet ministers in eight months is unprecedented.

SPACE: China reveals details for super-heavy-lift Long March 9 and reusable Long March 8 rockets.

BUT OF COURSE: Amazon ‘Hate’ Report Lumps Christian Literature in with KKK, Neo-Nazi Products.

ALLAHPUNDIT HAS A HUNCH: It’ll Be Barrett For SCOTUS.

As for why Barrett over Kavanaugh or Kethledge, Trump’s instinct when told that he can’t do something is to do it. And Barrett is the one pick more than any other about whom he’s being told “You can’t do that!” She’s too pro-life! Collins and Murkowski will walk! Official Washington much prefers Kavanaugh or Kethledge! I think Trump processes advice like that in terms of “You don’t have the balls to do this.” It’s like waving a red cape in front of a bull. More than that, though, Barrett is very clearly the choice that’ll make his base happiest and galvanize them for a big chair-throwing culture-war brawl with the left. Kethledge is getting knocked by the right for his immigration votes, Kavanaugh is getting bashed for being a Bushie, but Barrett seems to be viewed as some sort of conquering white knight of social conservatism. I think that’s foolhardy: She’s far less of a known quantity as a judge than Kavanaugh or Kethledge are and might well disappoint conservatives in all sorts of ways over the next 40 years on the Court. (Although, crucially, probably not on abortion.) It’d be wiser to give her five years on the bench and then see where things stand.

But Republicans don’t necessarily have five years to play with. By far the stupidest argument in support of passing over Barrett this time is that Trump can save her for the eventual Ginsburg vacancy. Trump may be out of office in as little as two and a half years, though. There’s every reason to think Ginsburg can hang on until then. And if she does, it might plausibly be another full decade before a Republican president gets to fill a Court seat.

We’ll know soon enough.

ME ON THE SUPREME COURT: ‘Front Row Kids’ and values have taken over our courts.

Plus, Make the Supreme Court lots bigger. It’s not a priesthood, it should represent America.

Also: Antonin Scalia Left Us Wisdom In Dissent.

FASTER, PLEASE: Eight of the 12 boys have now been brought out of flooded cave in Thailand.

HMM: China’s Polar Strategy: An Emerging Gray Zone?

While Chinese moves to gain influence and counter American dominance in the South China Sea, Indian Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean have drawn widespread attention, less attention has been paid to Beijing’s polar strategy. According to the Wilson Center’s Anne-Marie Brady, China seeks to become a “polar great power,” exploiting the polar regions along its pathway to reshaping the global balance of power. By 2050, U.S. strategists may confront a radically different situation, with the Arctic ice-free (during summer) and Antarctica potentially the site of great power contestation — and China the dominant power in both regions. Such an outcome would mark a remarkable reversal of the historical polar status quo, characterized by U.S.-Russia balance of power.

Beijing pursues its polar strategy across multiple domains: political, economic, scientific, and military. In 2013, China was granted observer status at the Arctic Council, the highest-level intergovernmental forum in the region. Earlier this year, China finally issued a Arctic white paper, and in January, President Xi’s Belt and Road Initiative was formally expanded to include the Arctic via a “Polar Silk Road.”

At the tactical level, Beijing is expanding its presence and reach into the harsh polar regions — it recently opened bidding for a nuclear-powered icebreaker, which would represent a remarkable step forward in its development of polar capabilities. Although described as advancing Chinese polar research capabilities, this platform is widely perceived as laying the groundwork for Chinese nuclear aircraft carriers.

Not just carriers, but a potential railgun ship.

WHY ARE LEFTY-DOMINATED INDUSTRIES SUCH FONTS OF INEQUALITY? How Silicon Valley Fuels an Informal Caste System. “Mobility among the castes seems minimal. An Outer Party member could reach the Inner Party by chancing into an early job at a lottery-ticket company (such as a Facebook or Google) or by becoming a successful entrepreneur. But that’s rare; most of the Outer Party prefers working for the Inner Party, gradually accumulating equity through stock grants and appreciating real estate. The Service Class will likely never be able to drive/shop/handyman enough to rise to the Outer Party, at least not without additional training or skills. They’re mostly avoiding the descent to Untouchable status.”