AND I’VE HAD IT WITH THIS CONFUSION:  Borrowed Victimhood Is Not Heroism.

HAVE I MENTIONED MY SHOCKED FACE? The Liberal Media Narrative Is Immune to Facts.

THE ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SELF IDENTIFY:  L.A. Antifa Group Calls for ‘Revolutionary Violence Against the Enemies of the People’.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  USAID Food Support Went to Syrian Al-Qaeda.

SOME NEEDED COLD WATER:  On the Cohen plea.

THE STORM THAT SAVED WASHINGTON:  On this day in 1814, it rained like hell in Washington, D.C.  Some historians say it was probably a hurricane.  Whatever it was, it saved the day.  Maybe.

In the midst of the War of 1812, the British had invaded Washington, D.C. setting the Capitol, the White House, the Treasury Building, the War Department, and other buildings afire.  (Yes, this was the time Dolley Madison saved Gilbert Stuart’s 8-foot portrait of George Washington as she fled the White House.)

The storm, which spawned at least one killer tornado, dispatched the Brits. They got out of Washington as fast as they could.  And the rain put out the fires.  It was providence …

Or else it didn’t quite happen that way.  The counter-narrative is that the British hadn’t intended to stay anyway.  They just came to burn the city.  And the storm actually damaged buildings that the British hadn’t burned.  I won’t try to resolve the controversy.  I don’t want to run the risk of spoiling everything.

WHAT IS IT WITH CYCLOTRONS?  Notices from the Federal Register: FCC Application Freeze. NASA Cyclotron Released.

WHEN DID “A STUDY” BECOME A DIRTY WORD?  Correlation causes cancer! YES IT DOES! YOU HAVE TO TRUST MEEEEEE!!!!!!   Oh , I know.  When “research” became irreproducible. And also crazy.

OR AS ERIC SCHEIE CALLED IT “A WAR ON THINGS THAT WORK”:  My Beautiful Fridge, His Not So Pretty Laundrette.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  James Comey Lied: Majority Of Hillary Clinton Emails On Weiner Laptop Were Never Examined.  Next you’ll tell me his lips were moving at the time!

REPUBLICANS BUY SNEAKERS TOO:  How the Left is Ruining Sports with Politics.

NOT A GOOD SIGN:  Netherlands prosecuting a man for insulting Turkish President Erdogan.

THEY NEVER MEANT TO STOP AT ALEX JONES: The Left Won’t Stop At Alex Jones. The Slippery Slope Is Real, And We’re On It.

AT AMAZON, Most Wished-For Deals in Video Games.

PROF. BRAD SMITH: Legal scrutiny of the National Enquirer risks free speech rights: Do we want the government second-guessing decisions to publish or not to publish?

AT AMAZON, Hot New Releases – Updated Every Hour.

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THINK OF IT AS EVOLUTION IN ACTION: Couple Trying To Conceive For 4 Years Were Mistakenly Having Anal Sex.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Tarboro child punished for calling teacher ‘ma’am.’

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend!

GOOD GRIEF: Max Boot Cites Cromwell’s Military Coup In Call To Oust Trump.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): On the one hand, it’s been evident for a while that Boot’s gone more or less literally crazy with Trump Derangement. On the other hand, more publicity for my paper on military coups in America. Maybe this’ll get it past 10,000 downloads!

ANOTHER UPDATE (FROM GLENN:) Only 67 to go to make the 10,000 mark!

MORE (FROM GLENN): Success!

FASTER, PLEASE: Intervening on mtDNA in Mice Reverses Skin Wrinkling and Hair Loss. “In what appears to be a world first, scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have reversed two of the most common visual signs of aging—skin wrinkles and hair loss—in mice by turning off a gene responsible for mitochondrial dysfunction.”

WELL, THAT’S NOT GOOD: HPV-related cancer rises, despite higher vaccination rates. No suggestion as to why in this article.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Vermont Law School Is the Tip Of The Spear. “The legal Academy must “do more with less.” Vermont Law School—and others—must face the reality that their model of ever-escalating tuition, fancy new buildings, arcane new courses that fascinate their instructors but don’t add much value to students, and a faculty wholly unfamiliar with the marketplace are over. The sad story of Vermont Law School is not new and no doubt will be reprised by others. It’s time to face the numbers and take some painful steps to reduce the cost of tuition and to provide students with the tools required to succeed in today’s marketplace. That’s the lens that matters.”

SHOULDN’T THERE BE SEVEN? Christian Toto: Four Reasons We Still Need James Bond Movies.

Related: License to Killjoy: James Bond faces off against his most dangerous foes yet: clueless millennials waging an all-out culture war.

SARAH HOYT: Borrowed Victimhood Is Not Heroism