IRONICALLY, FACEBOOK WAS A CREATION OF THE IVY LEAGUE: This Fascinating New Ivy League Study Shows the ‘Clear Causal Link’ Between Facebook, Instagam and Snapchat and ‘Loneliness and Depression.’

Related: Social Media As Social Disease.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Woman, 50, facing jail after having sex with teenage foster son in her care.

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I’M MORALLY OPPOSED TO PEOPLE WHO DON’T WRITE FICTION LYING THIS MUCH:  The Lefty Lies About A World Without Borders.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY, YOU KNOW: It will soon be possible to send a satellite to repair another — coming, ready or not.

PROF. ROBERT GEORGE responds to Chief Justice Roberts’ absurd defense of the “nonpartisan” judiciary:

I CAN LAY IN BED WITH ONLY HIGHWAY AHEAD: The robotic hotel room on wheels — is this the future of travel? Self-driving suite can ferry guests from place to place — and drones deliver room service through the sunroof.

(Classical reference in headline.)

OUT ON A LIMB: Obama Still Hates Americans.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: ESPN Loses Two Million More Subscribers In Fiscal 2018: “Now the positive for ESPN is that the rate of subscriber decline seems to have slowed this year, but the negative is that since 2011 ESPN has now lost 15 million cable and satellite subscribers. Those 15 million lost subscribers equate to $1.44 billion a year in lost yearly revenue that ESPN will never be able to book.”

CHANGE: CDC: U.S. abortions have fallen by 24 percent since 2006.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Parishioner in Albuquerque Pepper-Sprayed on Church Property for Talking about Pedophile Priest.

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN:

● Shot: Dimming the sun: The answer to global warming?

—Headline, CNN today.

● Chaser:

This was something that John Holdren, Obama’s “Science” “Czar,” who in the 1970s, had a serious dalliance with radical eugenics, proposed in early 2009. Why couldn’t he convince the Obama administration to take him up on his risky environmental scheme, during a period when Democrats had control of all three branches of the federal government, and when James Hansen, NASA’s (since-retired) global warming guru was saying that Obama only had four years to save the earth?

—Your humble narrator, July 26, 2017.

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE NAVY MIDSHIPMAN WHO GAVE PRESIDENT BUSH A BEAR HUG? Discipline. Then redemption.

FASTER, PLEASE: Research being done in Houston to reverse aging process.

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I DID NOT KNOW THIS: Tender Sternum Can Be Sign Of Vitamin D Deficiency.

THEY MADE HER APOLOGIZE FOR THE SIN OF NOT LOOKING AWFUL: Sarah Michelle Gellar angers fans after sharing snaps of her toned figure on Instagram as a reminder ‘not to overeat’ on Thanksgiving in ‘dangerous’ and ‘damaging’ post.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Kimmel Scolds Celebs for Nonstop Trump Bashing.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Can Lip Balm Make Your Chapped Lips Worse?

I THINK CHINA WILL WIND UP BUILDING AN ORION: Russia Might Actually Build a Nuclear-Powered Rocket.

Thoughts on China and Orion here and here.

ROGER KIMBALL: An Outrage Meter For The Trump Era. “Someone should tweak the applause meter for the internet age, recalibrating it to record the chief entertainment of our day: the serial ginned-up outrage against things that President Trump says.”

IGNORING THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Gov. Murphy Fine Dines While Storm Wreaks Havoc on NJ Residents.