GETTING DIRTY with Tamara Keel.

BUT… BUT… BUT… WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL THEY CLAIMED THOSE WOULD BE THE BEST YEARS OF MY LIFE!  Science proves that happiness begins at 50.

A PLACE IN THE WORLD:  I went from aspiring fashionista to the Israel Defense Force.

AWWWWW-KWARD!  French museum discovers more than half of its paintings are fake.

YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO IGNORE THEM:  Food fascists have demonized everything we eat.

BECAUSE GIRLS LIKE PRETTY DOLLS:  Why Barbie is still a hit in the age of female empowerment.

LIFE IS BETTER HERE:  Life Liberty And the Pursuit of Happiness.

OF COURSE THEY DID:  Democratic Donors Paid $50 million for New Anti-Trump Research.

THE LEFT’S IGNORANCE OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IS STAGGERING:  Ben Rhodes a laughingstock on Twitter over past North Korea tweets.

ABOUT TIME:  Candace Owens Tells the Truth About the NAACP.

YEAH, THE FACT THAT THEY MOSTLY TURN OUT ILLITERATES, THEREBY FAILING AT THEIR EXPLICIT FUNCTION IS THE REST OF IT:  Explicit Questions Just The “Tip” of School Problems.

HAVING A SAY  IS TOO GOOD FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE:  Steny Hoyer, Pelosi agree: We’re ok with tipping the scales in the primaries.

BORROW A FEW GENES AND DEFY GRAVITY:  Evolutionary novelty in gravity sensing through horizontal gene transfer and high-order protein assembly.

MUSSOLINI WAS SUMMARILY SHOT ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  Hitler committed suicide two days later.

SARAH HOYT: YOUR NEIGHBOR IS WATCHING YOU.

Big Brother is dead and in a freezer, but his frozen brain sends out spasmodic thought-orders through the network of Marxists in the nation.  Today they go after racistsexisthomophobes, tomorrow they extend that to “Islamophobes” and prevent, say, the outlawing of female genital mutilation.

Read the whole thing. As Ross Douthat of the New York Times and National Review tweeted last year when Time-Warner-CNN-HBO employee Lena Dunham admitted she was prepared to dox airline stewardesses if they displayed insufficient wokeness, “Every great idealist begins as a rebel, becomes a square, and eventually degenerates into a narc.”

OPEN THREAD: Because we care.

TIRED: TRUMP IS STARVING THE CDC TO DEATH. Wired: New C.D.C. Director’s $375,000 Salary Under Scrutiny.

Call me crazy, but when Patty Murray is complaining about spending, I suspect a motive other than frugality.

FROM CLAPPER TO TAPPER: How that might have been the act that got us the special counsel investigation.

(Headline via Power Line.)

(Bumped, by Glenn).

I WONDER IF THEY’RE SPLIT-SCREENING THIS WITH THE WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS’ DINNER: Crowd at Trump rally chants ‘Nobel’ over North Korea.

LET ME SHOW YOU MY SHOCKED FACE: “Watch: Roomful of Rich, White NYC Parents Get Big Mad at Plan to Diversify Neighborhood’s Schools.” The best part is this map. This is the area. Guess what the blue shading signifies. Go on, I’ll wait here.

POPEHAT’S KEN WHITE on anxiety and depression.

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BROKAW FALLOUT: #MeToo Morphs From “Believe the Accusers” to “Believe the Famous Women Trashing the Accusers.”

QUESTION ASKED: “We may not like the look and sound of new media, but democracy, like capitalism, destroys as well as creates. For every daily newspaper that has lately disappeared, dozens of alternative voices have emerged. The survival of the Denver Post would be nice, but is it necessary?”

SEEMS LIKE A GOOD START: Tucker Carlson Demands CNN, MSNBC Apologize ‘For the Entire Last Year’ on Trump-Russia Collusion.