NO IT ISN’T. Forget craft beer. The next craze is non-alcoholic brews.

TAKIN’ IT TO THE STREETS FOR TAKIN’ IT OFF: Bourbon Street Strippers Are Fighting Intrusive Regulations.

WE LIVE IN A GOLDEN AGE OF MUSCLE, BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS: A 1000-HP Toyota MR2 Is Too Much Car, Even for the Track.

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GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Olympics viewership is down, even as NBC pays more for the rights to air it.

MICHAEL WALSH: Who Loves a Parade? “We don’t want to be the Soviet Union. But neither do we want to be France.”

ION MIHAI PACEPA: I Should Know: Dems’ Intel Abuse Is Reminiscent of My Work for Ceausescu.

Wow. Read the whole thing.

CHANGE: What was impossible in Space will become easy with SpaceX BFR.

BUT THEY ARE THE ARBITERS OF BLUE CHECKMARKS AND SHADOW-BANS: Twitter executive on fake news: ‘We are not the arbiters of truth.’

SPACE: NASA confirms: Its undead satellite is operational: Next up: Trying to figure out which of the science instruments still works.

OH: Princeton University to Host ‘Fat Positive’ Dinner.

LATE-STAGE SOCIALISM: Mad Max violence stalks Venezuela’s lawless roads.

In one video apparently showing a looting and uploaded to social media, people are seen gleefully dragging live chickens from a stranded truck.

The looters use tree trunks and rocks to stop vehicles, and are particularly fond of “miguelitos” – pieces of metal with long spikes – to burst tires and halt vehicles.

A ring-road round the central town of Barquisimeto, with shanty-towns next to it, is notorious among truckers, who nickname it “The Guillotine” due to the regular attacks.

In some cases, crowds simply swarm at trucks when they stop for a break or repairs. Soldiers or policemen seldom help, according to interviews with two dozen drivers.

Yone Escalante, 43, who also takes vegetables from the Andes on a 2,800-km (1,700-mile) round-trip to eastern Venezuela, shudders when he recalls how a vehicle of his was ransacked in the remote plains of Guarico state last year.

“Social media” is as close as this Reuters report gets to the words “socialism” or “socialist.”

Related: Colombia and Brazil clamp down on borders as Venezuela crisis spurs exodus.

Isn’t border control racist?

CHANGE: The Legendary Browning ‘Hi Power’ Pistol Ends Production.

“COULD?” Turkey’s New Constitutional Crisis Could End the Rule of Law.

ANGLOSPHERE UPDATE: Indo-Anglians: The newest and fastest-growing caste in India.

This was predicted in Jim Bennett’s The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century, a book that has held up much better than most such works.

HEH: Local Man Takes Advantage Of 3-Hour DMV Wait To Pen Blog Post Arguing For Government-Run Healthcare.

STEPHEN KRUISER: Paul Holds Up Budget Vote and Bette Midler ‘Jokes’ About Finding His Neighbor. “It’s OK to assault wrong-thinkers.”

OLYMPIC SPIRIT: African-American Olympian boycotts opening ceremonies because he wasn’t chosen to carry flag.

It came down to a coin toss.

SECDEF MATTIS: ‘DREAMers’ In The Military Won’t Be Deported.

JUST RELEASE EVERYTHING BUT THE LAUNCH CODES AND THE NOC LIST: A second memo is on the horizon as Nunes gears up to launch the next strike in his investigation into the FBI.

NICHOLAS BALLASY: L.A. Mayor ‘Not Scared At All’ of Being Arrested for Sanctuary City Status.

ROGER SIMON: Democrats Are Headed for a World of (Deserved) Hurt.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? John Podesta’s Cure for Climate Change: A Government in Charge of Your ‘Family Planning.’