TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Teacher Accused of Sex With Student on 8th Grade Trip to DC. “Jacqueline Nicole Muller, 26, was charged with first-degree child sexual abuse after she had sex with a male student at a hotel in D.C. on May 9, charging documents say. Investigators say they found extensive text messages between Muller and the teenage boy. Muller is accused of having sex with the teen at the Hyatt Place Washington DC on E Street SW, blocks south of the National Mall. She was his teacher at Salem Lutheran School in Glendale, California, court documents say.”

Maybe we should get rid of the teacher-celibacy rule.

ANOTHER #METOO TORPEDO CIRCLES AROUND: “Tom Frieden, who was New York City’s Health Commissioner before tapped by Barack Obama to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been arrested and charged with sexual assault.”

THIS JUST IN: BRIGHTLY COLORED ROAD SURFACES COLLECT SKID MARKS, EVEN IN CANADA. Are black tire marks on Hamilton’s rainbow crosswalk vandalism?

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO . . . WHATEVER THE HELL YOU CALL THIS: Mother charged with sex trafficking daughter who is disabled. “Court records say the girl is diagnosed with cerebral palsy and autism, is partially deaf, uses corrective leg braces and has the mental capacity of a 2- to 3-year-old child.”

PRIVATIZING OPERATION CHOKEPOINT: Visa, Mastercard Block Donations To ‘David Horowitz Freedom Center’ After SPLC Labels Them A Hate Group.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Northeastern Prof Warns: Male Military Veterans ‘Reinforce Hegemonic Masculinity,’ Sexism.

NOT INTERESTED UNLESS IT INCLUDES A WORKING COPY OF “SPACE CADET” PINBALL: Windows 95 is now an app you can download and install on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

BLUE CITY BLUES: Under Progressive Mayor Kenney, Philadelphia Has a Stabbing Problem.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Here’s What Actually Happens If You Drive Over a Bunch of Banana Peels.

AT AMAZON, save on Appliances.

Plus, summer savings in Home and Garden.

THE OTHER NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL:” Who Is Julia Salazar?

Salazar’s response to the above-linked Tablet article? “Race science:”

COME BACK MILLI VANILLI, ALL IS FORGIVEN: Sony Admits Posthumous Michael Jackson Songs Were Actually Sung by Michael Jackson Impersonator.

UPDATE (By Charlie): The URL is the same but the headline now is “Sony Says It Did Not Concede Posthumous Michael Jackson Songs Were Sung by Jackson Impersonator.”

SPENGLER: Art Laffer’s Chinese Curve Ball.

If you want to compare the debt position of the United States and China, consider that the United States has run up $21 trillion in government debt, and has nothing to show for it but future obligations to pay entitlements. China has run up a similar amount of debt, but has used it to build infrastructure. It now has dozens of brand new cities designed for self-driving cars, 30,000 kilometers of high-speed trains, excellent roads, and brand new airports. The US has collapsing infrastructure, a rail system that is a national humiliation, and airports look like Third World leftovers

I’ve been saying for a while now that if the broad American public ever catches on to just how badly Washington has ripped us off and for how long, that the reckoning will be ugly.

And do read the whole thing.

SPACE: US Astronauts Could Fly to Moon-Orbiting Station by 2024, Pence Tells NASA.

WE MAY ACTUALLY BE APPROACHING PEAK PORTLANDIA: ‘Portlandia’ Feminist Bookstore Taken Over by Prison Abolitionists.

POOR ECONOMICS: The left is trying to muddy the waters on global poverty (free registration may be required). Apparently capitalism lifting billions out of poverty is incompatible with their narrative, so it can’t have happened.

I THINK I’M GONNA BE OKAY: New research suggests evolution might favor ‘survival of the laziest.’

PATRICK POOLE: USAID Food Support Went to Syrian Al-Qaeda.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: My latest Creators Syndicate column. Defending NATO’s Eastern Rim.

ANN ALTHOUSE: “What constitutional crisis? It seems to me the Constitution is in place, working as usual. There are some legal issues in play, but what’s constitutional other than that some of the various actors in the drama have positions defined in the Constitution and obtained by normal constitutional procedures? It was assumed that I would excitedly spring into action because of this assumed ‘constitutional crisis,’ but my response was that I felt distanced from all the ugly divisions, though I thought some good might ultimately come from the crumbling of the 2 political parties.” Indeed.

SO OLD-TIMEY DOCTORS’ CONCERNS ABOUT “NOXIOUS MIASMA” MAY HAVE HAD SOME BASIS: Microbes hitch a ride inland on coastal fog.

INSIDE THE WELL DECK: Cool photo of Marines and their assault amphibious vehicles in the well deck of an assault ship. It’s also an informative photo. You get a feel for the size of an assault ship and how much equipment you can cram into them.

AND MY HEAVEN WILL BE A BIG HEAVEN, AND I WILL WALK THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR: Robin Leach, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Host, Dies at 76.

(Classical reference in headline.)

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: There’s a Disturbing Link Between Women Posting Sexy Selfies And Income Inequality. I agree. Posting sexy selfies is empowering. More please! For equality!