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WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-MONOPOLY STATES SUCH CESSPITS?

● As waves of homeless descend onto trains, L.A. tries a new strategy: social workers on the subway.

 ● ‘Simply unacceptable’: Shocking footage of junkies taking over San Francisco BART station, and openly shooting up in front of commuters, sparks the mayor to take action

● 800,000 people are about to flee New York and California because of taxes, say economists.

Take it from someone who fled in 2016 — it’s not just the taxes. As Kate of Canada’s Small Dead Animals blog titles her recurring posts on California craziness, “O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas, Hear My Prayer.”

THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: From Klan Hunters to Multimillion-dollar Smear Machine.

As Glenn wrote last year, “Think of them as leftist propagandists and grifters and you won’t go far wrong.”

THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES, as explored by P.J. O’Rourke:

It had long been my opinion that the writers and editors of the New York Times and, by extension, their readers live on a different planet—the planet where a martini costs $20. But, upon perusal of the Sunday Review section, I see that I was wrong. They do not live on another planet. They live in another cosmos—a universe with different physics, different mathematics, different scientific constants, and different laws of nature.

The lead essay in the Sunday Review is by Amy Chozick, adapted from her new book Chasing Hillary. The headline is a quotation from Hillary Clinton: “They Were Never Going To Let Me Be President.”

The Hillary Clinton of Universe New York Times (U_NYT) is similar to the Hillary Clinton of the known universe (U₁) except that in U_NYT she was the rightful winner of the 2016 election.

Chozick’s subject is time travel—impossible in U₁ but commonplace in U_NYT . By means of technology unknown to the inhabitants of U₁, Chozick transports her U_NYT readers to an ancient period of fossilization that political paleontologists of U₁ have named “Who Cares?” There, she and her audience experience phenomena hardly imaginable to us. In U₁ we sometimes beat a dead horse, but in U_NYT they feed it and groom it and ride it around.

Order up a $20 Martini and read the whole thing.

HMM: CDC: Autism prevalence rises to 1 in 59 children. That’s quite a change. Are we moving into Darwin’s Radio territory?

AYN RAND DIDN’T WRITE THE RETURN OF THE PRIMITIVE AS A HOW-TO GUIDE: Parents Are Getting Tattoos of Their Kids’ Artwork.

As Mark Hemingway wrote last year, We All Need To Admit That America Has A Tattoo Problem.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Graphic 1916 Painting of Female Genitalia Appears on Giant NYC Street Ad.

KANYE WEST IS FORCING LIBERALS TO CHECK THEIR ARTISTIC PRIVILEGE: “It’s not just that the assumption that all your favorite artists are reflect your own values makes you entitled and intolerant. It’s that it dulls your critical faculties. The idea of objective criticism is non-starter when you assume that any art that doesn’t result in personal affirmation is somehow bad. And to the extent that art must be challenged in the instances where it does inject dangerous values into the cultural bloodstream, that’s hard to do when you think it might otherwise be advancing political goals that you agree with.”

I’m so old, I can remember when politics was secondary in the entertainment industry to actually entertaining audiences.

WHY FORD ISN’T CRAZY for killing off its sedans. “Almost exactly 10 years ago, in May of 2008, the seemingly unstoppable F-150 was outsold by not one but four fuel-efficient sedans: the Honda Civic and Accord, and Toyota Corolla and Camry. With high gas prices looking like they’re coming back, this seems like an inauspicious time for Ford to announce it’s giving up on cars. Haven’t they learned anything? Yes, they have. This time is different, and it’s different because the automakers learned how to build crossovers. . . . The company is simply packaging its cars as tall wagons, because that’s what people want right now.”

JOY REID’S BIRTHER DEFENSE:

Here’s where birtherism parallel comes in: To believe that version of events, you have to believe that some ten years ago an enemy of Joy Reid (a) Suspected that Reid would become a prominent media personality (she wasn’t when the posts were authored), (b) known that a left-wing gadfly would go trawling through her defunct website’s archives a decade later, and (c) that during the intervening years the conversation around gay rights would change so drastically that expressing opposition to gay marriage would become a career-ending transgression. (To reemphasize: During the period in question, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton also opposed gay marriage.)

Apparently Joy Reid has an enemy whose precog skills rival that of [Obama’s mother] Ann Dunham.

Between Reid, Brokaw, formerly beloved NBC superstar Bill Cosby, and the reports that “NBC faces doubts on harassment reforms,” the Comcast-owned network and its subsidiaries have had quite a week.

IT’S APPARENTLY DIY FRIDAY AT THE PJ LIFESTYLE BLOG: Sarah Hoyt on Finding A New Way To Sell Books — If you’re nimble and fast, you don’t need to share the fate of the dinosaurs.

“PARTS UNKNOWN” TRAVELING FOOD CRITIC VENTURES TO EXOTIC … WEST VIRGINIA: And for a liberal Anthony Bourdain sounds like not such a bad guy. He actually likes going to new places, meeting new people and getting to know them (even when they’re “only” his own countrymen). He says, “You know, the contempt with which we speak of West Virginia in the political circles that I’m inclined to vote with I think is sort of disgraceful and counterproductive and unlovely. A little understanding and a little empathy — the ability to walk in someone else’s shoes for a few minutes — has got to be a good thing.” With a few more like Bourdain, maybe the Republic will survive after all.

ROGER KIMBALL: Why Macron’s visit was a sterling example of the art of the deal.

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U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS DECLARES THAT “GOALS” ARE REALLY EVIL “QUOTAS”—But only when they apply to goals the Commissioners don’t like.  When they are applied to liberal goals, like racial balancing, they’re still golden.

HUD SECRETARY BEN CARSON NEEDS TO CRACK DOWN ON THIS OBVIOUS HOUSING DISCRIMINATION: How the Greenwashed Liberal Gentry Keep Out the Rabble.

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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE, BIG-YAWN EDITION: Temple Professor: The American Home Is an Oppressive Cisgender Space. The overwhelming majority of Americans are “cisgender.” They’re here, they’re not queer, get used to it.

Related: Study: Describing Breastfeeding as ‘Natural’ Is Unethical Because It Reinforces Gender Roles.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Amazon will now deliver packages to the trunk of your car.

How will they teach the trunk monkey to keep calm during a delivery?

HMM: Drinking baking soda could be an inexpensive, safe way to combat autoimmune disease: study.

If you’re one of those people who takes apple cider vinegar already, you probably don’t want to take these together, unless you want to make like a 3d grader’s volcano experiment. . . .

JUST DON’T NAME IT THE VANGUARD: Evolving Asteroid Starships project.

TIMESWOMAN DROPS THE MASK:

The parts of the book that I read reveal that [Amy] Chozick was a Hillary fan. She met Hillary when she was a high schooler in San Antonio and has been an admirer ever since.

She referred to Hillary as FWP (first woman president). Chozick and her fellow female reporters on the press bus were fully invested in the Hillary candidacy as a historic event for all women. They were of the same school as Madeleine Albright holding that it was a woman’s duty as a woman to vote for Madam Hillary. In her spiked victory story she wrote, “No one in modern politics, male or female, has had to withstand more indignities, setbacks and cynicism.” While Hillary deserved every bit of the little grief she got, how could Chozick write that line in light of what Donald Trump endured daily on the campaign trail? Two movies on one screen.

On the same page in which Chozik describes herself as having adopted her “role as a detached political reporter” she emotes how Hillary’s victory party “was ours.” This is what Trump’s Fake News is all about: media people claiming to be fair and neutral observers while overtly and covertly cheering cheering for one team in the press box.

Just think of the media as Democratic activists with bylines, and it all makes sense. Speaking of which, a CNN spokesman believes the American people are diseased:

As Peter. Hasson tweets in response, “If a group of people doesn’t trust you, calling them an ‘infection’ might not be the best way to win over their trust..”

UPDATE: Hack says what?! Brian Stelter calling Repubs who don’t trust media ‘an infection’ goes really really badly.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Emotional Support Animals Proliferate At Yale. “Emotional support animals require no training. They don’t even have to be dogs. Their purpose is to provide a therapeutic benefit through companionship. At Yale, there are emotional support dogs, emotional support cats and even an emotional support hedgehog.”