OPEN THREAD: TGIF.

NAH, I’M SURE T-BONE STILL BELIEVES THAT CORY IS SPARTACUS: None of You Idiots Are Spartacus.

AN YOU THOUGHT FALLEN ANGELS WAS JUST A SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL: We were heading for an Ice Age — until humans started warming the globe. “A study published in the journal Scientific Reports provides new evidence that ancient farming practices led to a rise in the atmospheric emission of the heat-trapping gases carbon dioxide and methane—a rise that has continued since, unlike the trend at any other time in Earth’s geologic history. It also shows that without this human influence, by the start of the Industrial Revolution, the planet would have likely been headed for another ice age.”

YES, THIS MAKES IT NOT A MEDIA OPERATION AT ALL: “Mr. Jones likes to portray his digital channel, Infowars, as a media outlet, and he is quick to wrap himself in the First Amendment. But in business terms, it is more accurate to describe Infowars as an online store that uses Mr. Jones’s commentary to move merchandise. Its revenue comes primarily from the sale of a grab-bag of health-enhancement and survivalist products that Mr. Jones hawks constantly.”

I wonder how many other media outlets would fail this test? What if it’s a magazine that makes most of its money from cruises?

And as for peddling “conspiracy theories,” well. . .

TREVOR NOAH: MAYBE AMERICA COMMITTED GENOCIDE ON THE ‘NATIVE MOON PEOPLE.’

The moon landing was very much an American thing. And to be honest, as someone from the rest of the world, we don’t want credit for America’s moon landing, right, because I don’t know what happened up there. We saw the astronauts come down, they planted the flag, and then the video cuts off, right? For all we know, as soon as that clip ended, they did a genocide of all the native moon people, buried them in a mass grave somewhere on the dark side of the moon, and then someday, the moon people are going to come down to Earth and be like, “You guys did that to us.” And we’re going to be like, “No, we didn’t do that. The Americans did it. Did you see the flag? The flag? That wasn’t us.

To be fair, at least Noah is admitting that the moon landings actually happened, which puts him one up on some lefties.

SPACEMAN SPLIFF: Elon Musk smokes weed and drinks whiskey during podcast.

The Tesla CEO took a break from accusing people of raping children to light up a spliff and drink some whiskey while doing an interview. Musk appeared on comedian Joe Rogan’s podcast where he talked about everything from AI to electric planes. Oh, and he also broke out and used one of his flame throwers.

That was Thursday night. Today, “Tesla stock closes down 6% after top executives resign and Elon Musk smokes weed on video… It extends a painful week for the automaker. As of Friday’s close, the stock lost more than 11 percent on the week. Friday’s plunge puts Tesla stock more than 30 percent off its all-time intraday high of $389.61.”

(Classical allusion in headline.)

HE CHOSE…POORLY: Lefty claims Obama killed Bin Laden, gets all tough with Navy Seal Robert O’Neill (guess what happens next).

THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION IS HERE: Another frightening story of how an academic paper that even hints at a politically incorrect conclusion can be derailed by a howling mob.

RIP, BANDIT: Burt Reynolds’ Six Best Performances.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: THE MARRIED COUPLE MAKING THE WORLD’S FINEST SEX DOLLS.

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KAMALA HARRIS MORPHED INTO PIERS MORGAN SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED: Kamala Harris Dismisses Kavanaugh’s Pocket Constitution: ‘That Book You Carry.’

(Classical reference in headline.)

IT’S POSSIBLE TO BE A SOCIALIST WITHOUT BEING A LYING GRIFTER. IT JUST DOESN’T HAPPEN THAT OFTEN. Private school, a waterside home, luxury boats, a jet-ski for four and a maid – Democratic Socialist Julia Salazar’s brother reveals truth about the childhood she called ‘hardscrabble.’

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: 2018 NFL Kickoff Ratings Lower Than 2017’s (Which Were Lower than 2016’s) (Which Were Lower Than 2015’s) (Which Were Lower Than 2014’s).

Related: “And, by the way, the wildest thing about all of this is if you point out all of these ratings declines and say your hypothesis is it’s related to Kap’s politics, far left wingers lose their minds and refuse to accept it as a possibility at all. Maybe it’s all just a coincidence that ratings are down nearly 25% since Kaepernick started his protest, but doesn’t that seem incredibly coincidental?”

CHANGE: The Quantity And Quality Of Law School Applicants: 2018 Edition.

OK, I ADMIT IT: I’m in love.

I, too, am a senior Trump administration official. I proudly serve in this administration, and I enthusiastically support most of its decisions and the direction it is taking the country. But I don’t agree with the president on everything. When there is disagreement, there is a right way and a wrong way to address it. I pick up the phone and call him or meet with him in person.

To quote Rick Springfield, “where can I find a woman like that?”

2001: A KABBALAH ODYSSEY: Over at Ed Driscoll.com on the PJ mothership, I have a lengthy review of film scholar Nathan Abrams’ new book, Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual.

ENDORSED:

The hearings are a relatively recent innovation and add nothing. Well, except for an appreciation of just how dumb many Senators actually are.

SPACE: Watch SpaceX’s Dragon Bid Farewell to Space Station in This Incredible 4K Video.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: OCR Investigating ‘Financial Discrimination’ Against Men at Tulane.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Can music change the taste of wine?

A group of foodies gathered on a hot summer evening to learn how music affects the taste of wine under the guidance of Eyal Franco from the Galil Mountain Winery. Using headphones, we tasted four cups of Galil Mountain Wines, and the findings were surprising!

Each one of us found four glasses of wines, numbered 1 to 4, placed on a placemat with a ranking table and a fancy headset of House of Marley. The choice of headphones was not random, since this company is environment friendly and so is the Galil Mountain Winery.

We were asked to taste each wine and rate it, which is a common blind wine tasting activity, but here’s the catch — we were asked to simultaneously listen to a specific playlist of the winery.

Hardly scientific, but any excuse to get together and eat and drink and listen to music in a gorgeous setting will do.

I LOVE THE SNORKEL AIR INTAKE: The Chevy Colorado ZR2 Bison Is Factory-Modded by AEV.

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NIKKI HALEY: ‘Clarity and Undeniability’ Of UK Investigation Pinpointing Russian Poisoners ‘Amazing.’ “‘Every one of us in this room and listening around the world should be chilled to the bone with the findings of this investigation,’ says UN ambassador.”