21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Gay exec for Coach parent company Tapestry relentlessly sexually harassed straight VP: lawsuit.

SURPRISED? LIBERALS SEE EVIL MOTIVE BEHIND TRUMP D’SOUZA PARDON: No, of course you’re not surprised. Except perhaps by the utter illogic expressed when they explain why.

NOBODY TELL ANN ALTHOUSE: Confident LeBron James Arrives at NBA Finals Rocking Suit Shorts.

(Classical reference in headline.)

VOTE FOR THE BARONESS FOR CONGRESS: Hey, Baron von Steuben worked out pretty well. But then, he wasn’t really a Baron ….

ANDREW MCCARTHY: A Worthy Pardon For Dinesh D’Souza. “The selective, politicized prosecution of conservative author, producer and activist Dinesh D’Souza was an exercise in gratuitous severity. President Trump’s pardon of D’Souza, announced today, is the remedy the Framers had in mind.”

HELEN PUT IT UP AS “IN THE MAIL” EARLIER, BUT LET ME ADD MY PLUG TO WARD FARNSWORTH’S The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User’s Manual. As the introduction notes, the Stoics are seen as unemotional, but what they were really expert in was managing all the emotions that humans have in ways that help us to live happier, better lives. It seems to me that this should be getting as much attention as, say, Jordan Peterson’s work.

From the preface:

This is a book about human nature and its management. The wisest students of that subject in ancient times, and perhaps of all time, were known as the Stoics. Their recommendations about how to think and live do not resemble the grim lack of feeling we associate with the word “Stoic” in English today. The original Stoics were philosophers and psychologists of the most ingenious kind, and also highly practical; they offered solutions to the problems of everyday life and advice about how to overcome our irrationalities, that are still relevant and helpful now.

Yes. (Bumped).

CHANGE: Samantha Bee Loses Sponsors Over Ivanka Trump “Feckless Cunt” Comment. AutoTrader and State Farm have dropped her. Discover is sticking with her.

Meanwhile, TBS has scrubbed the episode from the Web already.

“RAPE GANGS” IS A MORE ACCURATE TERM: Tommy Robinson Drew Attention to ‘Grooming Gangs.’ Britain Has Persecuted Him.

Ten years ago, when the EDL was founded, the U.K. was even less willing than it is now to confront the issue of what are euphemistically described as “Asian grooming gangs” (euphemistic because no Chinese or Koreans are involved and what is happening is not grooming but mass rape). At the time, only a couple of such cases had been recognized. Ten years on, every month brings news of another town in which gangs of men (almost always of Pakistani origin) have been found to have raped young, often underage, white girls. The facts of this reality — which, it cannot be denied, sounds like something from the fantasies of the most lurid racist — have now been confirmed multiple times by judges during sentencing and also by the most mainstream investigative journalists in the country.

But the whole subject is so ugly and uncomfortable that very few people care to linger over it. Robinson is an exception. For him — as he said in a 2011 interview with the BBC’s Jeremy Paxman — the “grooming gangs” issue isn’t something that afflicts some far-off towns but people in the working-class communities that he knows. And while there are journalists (notably the Times’ Andrew Norfolk) who have spent considerable time and energy bringing this appalling phenomenon to light, most of British society has turned away in a combination of embarrassment, disgust, and uncertainty about how to even talk about this. Anyone who thinks Britain is much further along with dealing with the taboo of “grooming gangs” should remember that only last year the Labour MP for Rotherham, Sarah Champion, had to leave the shadow cabinet because she accurately identified the phenomenon.

Which brings me to last Friday. That was when Robinson was filming outside Leeds Crown Court, where the latest grooming-gang case was going on. I have to be slightly careful here, because although National Review is based in the U.S., I am not, and there are reporting restrictions on the ongoing case. Anyhow, Robinson was outside the court and appeared (from the full livestream) to be filming the accused and accosting them with questions on their way in. He also appeared to exercise some caution, trying to ensure he was not on court property.

Read the whole thing. The British authorities have behaved contemptibly here. Their behavior is what one might expect from an occupation government under a foreign conqueror.

GENTLEMEN, YOU CAN’T VIDEOTAPE IN HERE, THIS IS A TELEVISION AWARDS SHOW! Television Academy Blocks Media From Tonight’s Honors Ceremony Featuring Samantha Bee.

WEIRD HOW JUST YESTERDAY MEDIA FOLKS WERE LECTURING US ABOUT DECENCY: Meghan McCain Responds To MSNBC’s Joy Reid Photoshopping John McCain’s Face Onto A Mass Shooter.

OPEN THREAD: Just do it.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Zipline’s Drones Are Saving Lives: U.S. startup Zipline has teamed up with the Rwandan government to deliver blood supplies by drone.

NO. NEXT QUESTION? Does Colin Kaepernick Have the Guts to Experience What Cops Do?

HMM: A ‘breakthrough’ depression drug inspired by ketamine is attracting more attention from big pharma.

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ADVENTURES IN TOXIC MEMES: For ‘Columbiners,’ School Shootings Have a Deadly Allure.

He wore a T-shirt with the phrase “Born to Kill” on it in bold, similar in design to those worn by the Columbine attackers, which read “Wrath” and “Natural Selection.”

His crude arsenal included canisters of carbon-dioxide gas and Molotov cocktails, two types of explosives used by the Columbine gunmen.

The picture he had posted of his trench coat on Facebook showed a small red-star medallion with the Communist hammer-and-sickle on the collar, the same type of button a Columbine gunman attached to his boot.

It was not the first time a high school suddenly engulfed in gunfire and death found itself looking for clues in the random symbology of a nearly 20-year-old mass shooting that has become, it seems, the standard by which youthful gunmen across America have come to measure themselves.

The 20-year-old attacker who killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in 2012 had compiled an enormous mass-murder spreadsheet and materials on the Columbine attackers on his computer, including what appeared to be a complete copy of the official Columbine investigation.

In his manifesto, the 23-year-old student who shot and killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in 2007 had called the Columbine gunmen by their first names and described them as “we martyrs.”

The May 18 mass shooting at Santa Fe provides the latest evidence of a phenomenon that researchers have in recent years come to recognize, but are still unable to explain: The mass shootings that are now occurring with disturbing regularity at the nation’s schools are shocking, disturbing, tragic — and seemingly contagious. . . . The role of the media in turning school gunmen into household names and perpetuating “the infamous legacy they desire” can be shown to have inspired additional attacks, researchers at Western New Mexico University reported recently. . . .

Ms. Klebold, the mother of one of the Columbine attackers, said she was shocked by the number of letters she receives from people who relate to her son: “The girls who say, ‘I wish I could have his baby’”; others who say that her son, to them, is “heroic.” Even seeing images of the Santa Fe gunman’s Communist hammer-and-sickle medallion — just like the one that her son wore, a gift from a friend’s parent who went to Russia — was painful to her.

Plus: “It worries me that even now, kids who were not even born during Columbine High School are still making reference to Columbine.”

Related: Inoculating Ourselves Against The School Shooting Infection.

Flashback: NRA spokeswoman accuses media of ‘creating’ mass shooters with extensive coverage.

HMM: Widely used antibacterial tied to colon woes in mice. “Exposure to triclosan — a chemical in some shampoos and toothpastes — might raise the risk for colon inflammation and colon cancer, at least in mice, researchers say.”

TRANSGENDER BATHROOM CASE HEADED BACK UP ON APPEAL?: Last week, Federal District Court Judge Arenda Wright Allen ruled in Grimm v. Gloucester County School Board that Title IX requires schools to permit an anatomical female who identifies as male to use the boys’ room (and presumably vice versa).

To understand why Judge Allen is wrong, you could do worse than reading the Amicus Curiae Brief filed by Peter Kirsanow and me back when this case was last in the Supreme Court. As you may recall, the Supreme Court remanded the case to the lower courts in light of the Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw the Obama-Era “Dear Colleague Letter” that had instructed schools that they must allow transgender students to use the showers, locker rooms and toilets of the sex they identify with rather than the sex that corresponds to their anatomy.

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED BY JIM TREACHER: When Is It Okay to Drop the C-Bomb on a Woman? When her dad is a POTUS from the wrong party.

Note to our friends on the other side of the aisle: Sorry to indulge the cliché yet again, but this really is how you got Trump. You claim to be righteous. You claim to be above the fray. But then the minute things don’t go your way, you leap right into the mud and start slinging. Then you make all the excuses in the world for a member of your own tribe. The benefit of the doubt is for insiders only.

I can’t judge Ms. Bee too harshly, though. This is a tough time for her. She got passed over for The Daily Show, and now she has to watch helplessly as a younger, #woker comedienne hosts the WHCD and gets a buzzworthy Netflix show and hogs all the press. That’s supposed to be her up there, saying awful things about women who work in the White House. She’s supposed to be America’s Trump-Hatin’ Sweetheart. So, if calling another woman a really bad word on TV is what Ms. Bee needs to do to get noticed again, that’s how it goes.

I won’t call for TBS to fire her. I also won’t shed a tear if they do.

Fire her? Heck, as Stephen Miller tweets, “If you’re a Trump supporter you should want her on TV every week leading into 2020.”

By then, Trump’s reelection video producers will have accumulated hundreds of hours of footage for campaign ads that will consist solely of material by Bee and others in the Hollywood-DNC-MSM-industrial complex. Just add a tag at the end along the lines of, “Remember, this is what they think of you, too. Vote accordingly. I’m Donald Trump, and I approve this message,” upload the spots to YouTube and the servers for local TV stations, and it’s off to the races.

THE END OF AN ERA: Canon shutters 80-year history of film cameras.

For what it’s worth, Nikon still lists its F6 and FM10 film SLR bodies — but both show up as “temporarily out of inventory.” Who knows if they’ll come back.

A SEARCH ENGINE’S CURRENCY IS TRUST: Google listed “Nazism” as the ideology of the California Republican Party.

“MARRY AT HASTE, REPENT AT LEISURE,” BUT STILL: Put a Ring on It? Millennial Couples Are in No Hurry.

STEPHEN KRUISER: Ohio Cops Lure Addicts to Treatment by Offering to Test Meth for Zika Virus.

SHARKS GOTTA SWIM, BATS GOTTA FLY: Stormy’s lawyer was told to choose between his job and TV appearances. He chose TV.