RACHEL DOLEZAL WAS A TRAILBLAZER: White Women Trying To Look Black.

ROGER KIMBALL: Just Brexit! The UK’s Future Is With the Anglosphere.

#VANLIFE, the Bohemian Social Media Movement. “Scroll through the images tagged #vanlife on Instagram and you’ll see plenty of photos that don’t have much to do with vehicles: starry skies, campfires, women in leggings doing yoga by the ocean. Like the best marketing terms, ‘vanlife’ is both highly specific and expansive. It’s a one-word life-style signifier that has come to evoke a number of contemporary trends: a renewed interest in the American road trip, a culture of hippie-inflected outdoorsiness, and a life free from the tyranny of a nine-to-five office job. Vanlife is an aesthetic and a mentality and, people kept telling me, a ‘movement.'”

Plus: “With every mechanical breakdown, Smith became more confident handling repairs. He also developed a repertoire of meals suited to the van’s two-burner kitchen. His specialty was a dish he called huevos vancheros: eggs fried in coconut oil, seasoned with turmeric, served over buckwheat with salsa and sauerkraut. The couple bought things to make the van homier and more comfortable: a fruit basket, a travel bidet.”

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IT LOOMS LIKE A SHADOW OVER EVERYTHING WE’VE BUILT HERE: Can a Man Be Too Handsome?

TURKEY TIPS: 5 food safety tips to remember before you start cooking.

BRAVELY TACKLING THE IMPORTANT ISSUES: DC Bans Churches From Handing Out Straws With Free Coffee.

IS THERE ANYTHING IT CAN’T DO? Can Protein Keep You Healthier Longer? “Over five years of follow-up, the participants who ate more protein at the study’s start were less likely to become disabled than those who ate less protein, the study found.”

HOT OFF THE PRESS:  The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights just released a report entitled “Police Use of Force:  An Examination of Modern Policing Practices.”  My individual Commissioner Statement is here.

My main point:  In the Jim Crow South, the biggest problem was that many in law enforcement didn’t take crime in African American neighborhoods seriously.  We’ve come a long way since then.  But if modern reformers aren’t careful, their actions will end up encouraging police officers to offer less protection to African Americans.

READY MONEY: Most ATMs vulnerable to hackers.

NEW TITLE IX/SEXUAL HARASSMENT REGULATIONS INTRODUCED: And they look pretty good, from FIRE’s perspective. Kudos to the Department of Education for moving to the Supreme Court standard for sexual harassment instead of using one that “just happens” to silence a lot of protected, but unpopular, speech.

TO ASK THE QUESTION IS TO ANSWER IT: Why Is Media Ignoring Two ‘Hezbollah in the U.S.’ Indictments?

HMM: Love of coffee may be genetic, study says.

IT’S COMPLICATED: To ease Turkish pressure on Saudis over killing, White House weighs expelling Erdogan foe.

YOU REALLY HAVE TO BOOK BUSINESS CLASS FOR THIS ONE: Odysseus, the Solar-Powered Aircraft That Can Fly for Months.

FAILED STATE: ELN Now Present in Half of Venezuela. “Recent ELN attacks against the Venezuela military in the state of Amazonas and civilian miners in the state of Bolívar reflect the Colombian guerrilla group’s growing power and add to a series of events during 2018 that demonstrate its presence in at least half of the country.”

SHOCKER: Pentagon fails first-ever audit.

“We never thought we were going to pass an audit, everyone was betting against us that we wouldn’t even do the audit,” he added.

But Shanahan also made it clear the agency intended to take the audit seriously, saying he was concerned about the effect on future Pentagon funding if the agency was unable to resolve the issues identified.

“If I’m a taxpayer what I want to see is, ‘that’s great, you did the audit and you have all these findings – how long is it going to take for you to fix those?’ ” Shanahan said.

“And then show me next year that it takes less to audit and you have fewer findings. That’s what I’d want to see.”

This should have been done decades ago.

CHANGE: Key N.J. senator, once opposed to legalizing marijuana, is ‘leaning yes.’

Political insiders have said the “adult use” marijuana legislation has enough support in the 80-member Assembly to pass, but the reluctance of a handful of Democratic senators has stalled negotiations all year.

Sen. Joseph Vitale, D-Middlesex and a prime sponsor of a companion bill to expand the state’s medicinal marijuana program, said he is likely to vote yes to legalizing weed for people 21 and older.

“In the end, the pros will outweigh the cons,” Vitale told NJ Advance Media.

I still prefer cocktails.

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST:

● Shot: Exhausted commuters point fingers after crippling snowstorm.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The first snowfall of the season lingered Friday in the Northeast as thousands of exhausted commuters pointed their fingers at politicians and meteorologists for leaving them creeping along highways or stuck in mass transit hubs because of a storm that left seven dead as it moved through the Midwest and South.

Some students in West Orange, New Jersey, were forced to sleep at their schools after their buses turned back, while others were taken to a diner to eat because snow-covered roads were clogged with traffic Thursday.

—The Associated Press, today.

● Chaser: U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked.

A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.

Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of “eco- refugees,” threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.

He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.

—The Associated Press, June 29, 1989.

(Classical reference in headline.)

GOOD: Haley Announces Flip from Longstanding U.S. Abstention on Golan Heights Resolution to ‘No.’ “UN ambassador says ‘the resolution is plainly biased against Israel’ and ‘the atrocities the Syrian regime continues to commit prove its lack of fitness to govern anyone’.”

That should cause all the right heads to explode. Again.

VIDEO: Kamala Harris Grills ICE Nominee About Parallels Between ICE and KKK. “Are you aware that there’s a perception?”

BOOK REVIEW: The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire. Yes, the Habsburgs had one. For several centuries the Austrian Habsburgs managed to create “a great European power out of a rather inchoate conglomeration of states and statelets.” A short review of an interesting book.