“FRIENDS OF THE WORKERS” ARE ALWAYS DICKS TO ACTUAL WORKERS: ‘Cranky’ Bernie Sanders blasted by restaurant owner for being ‘rude to his staff and refusing to take pictures or shake their hands and not leaving a tip’ during campaign stop in San Francisco.

UPDATE: Compare Bernie with Donald Trump: “The 70-year-old Republican nominee took his time walking from the green room toward the stage. He stopped to chat with the waiters, service workers, police officers, and other convention staffers facilitating the event. There were no selfies, no glad-handing for votes, no trailing television cameras. Out of view of the press, Trump warmly greets everyone he sees, asks how they are, and, when he can, asks for their names and what they do. ‘I am blown away!’ said one worker, an African American man who asked for anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak to the press. ‘The man I just saw there talking to people is nothing like what I’ve seen, day in and day out, in the news.'”

WELL, AMONG OTHER THINGS THERE’S THAT WHOLE STONING-FOR-ADULTERY THING, WHICH WOULD MAKE IT RISKY: You Can’t Go Home Again, Ilhan Omar.

THINGS THAT DON’T SUCK: So I bought this rather heavy-duty air compressor / jump-starter back in 2016, and I just used it to top up my tires and was reflecting on how handy it is. There are much cheaper models, and if you just want a jump-starter you can get high-tech models that damn near fit in a pocket, but this one has given excellent service and looks and runs like new. It takes a few hours to charge, but it holds a charge for a long time, and through multiple uses.

I WONDER IF THEY’LL STONE HER WHEN SHE GETS BACK TO HER DISTRICT? Ilhan Omar campaign paid $21,547 in travel expenses to company run by her alleged lover.

IT’S A COOKBOOK! Dairy Queen forced to clarify its burgers aren’t made with ‘human meat.’

VIRGINIA CLOWN SHOW CONTINUES: Report: Gov. Northam’s new appointee made derogatory tweets on Catholics.

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DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Professor Forced to Resign for Supporting Antifa.

NOT A CULT: My Bauhaus childhood, when molding was a crime.

My Bauhaus-educated parents had a hand in this transformation, though my younger self struggled to understand their passionate opinions about design.

I remember back in 1983 when my architect father traveled all the way from New York City to Columbus, Ohio to visit my first apartment. The ratty brick house cost less to rent than my parents’ parking spot. My father stepped into my beige-carpeted room and said, “These old places sure do have a lot of molding.”

I commented, “It’s kind of sweet, isn’t it?”

He turned pale. “If you like molding, you are a fool and a failure.” The profound disappointment in his voice made the charge sting even more. He had dedicated his life to Bauhaus values, and he had evidently raised a daughter who, tragically, didn’t seem to share them.

* * * * * * * *

It has taken me most of my life to figure out what is “good,” design-wise, from the amalgam of my parents’ tastes. I remember asking myself as a kid, over and over inside my head. “Am I supposed to like this?” I still ponder that question when I find an object that pushes the crafty boundaries of art. My parents’ opinions are sometimes surprising. They loved Shaker furniture. They disliked Andy Warhol. They loved “The Yellow Submarine.” They hated black velvet paintings. They loved laboratory glassware. Designer clothes were stupid. It was all so hard to figure out!

In the second half of my life I’ve worked to communicate their fine-tuned aesthetic to my children and now my wife, Peggy, who asked, while we were first dating, “Who is this Mr. Bauhaus?”

You really won’t like what you see, if you look too closely at the answer.

WHAT SIGNAL are you sending?

MAKING AN OFFER THEY JUST CAN’T ACCEPT: Brazilian president demands apology from French President Emmanuel Macron before accepting $20M to help fight Amazon fires.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Tuesday that he will accept the offer of international aid to help fight the fires raging across the Amazon rainforest, but that French President Emmanuel Macron must first apologize to him.

Bolsonaro appeared offended by Macron’s comments related to his handling of the unfolding crisis in the Amazon, and wanted them retracted.

“And then we can speak,” he said, according to The Associated Press.

The Brazilian leader’s demand for an apology follows Macron lashing out after a Bolsonaro supporter mocked Macron’s wife, Brigitte, in a Facebook post, comparing her to Bolsonaro’s wife, Michelle, and suggesting Macron was jealous.

Related: “Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro‘s chief of staff, Onyx Lorenzoni, also told Globo news website in response to the offer: ‘Thanks, but maybe those resources are more relevant to reforest Europe,’ according to Politico.”

SPACE: SpaceX’s Starhopper Successfully Completes Final Test Flight.

CNN APOLOGIZES TO STALIN, MAO AFTER COMPARING THEM TO TRUMP.

I’m so old, I can remember when the Babylon Bee was still satire, before becoming America’s paper of record.

AN INTERVIEW WITH THE MAN WHOSE BEDBUG JOKE MADE BRET STEPHENS LOSE HIS MIND:

“If he’d sent that just to me, I would probably send him a reply explaining, ‘Look, it’s a joke, you’re a public intellectual and that means people get to make silly jokes about you, good day sir,’” Karpf told Splinter. “But he CCed my provost, which is an offensive power move. So I felt the most appropriate thing to do was to share on Twitter, ‘Look, a thin-skinned writer at the New York Times didn’t like a tweet that I wrote that got 0 retweets and 9 likes, and he CCed the provost, and now here we are.’”

How did the provost respond? Just. Keeps. Getting. Better!’ GWU provost responds to Bret Stephens’ attempt to get professor in trouble over ‘bedbugs’ comment:

“What gets lost here, and maybe not to Bret Stephens, is that the prof and the pile on was from the left,” Lutheran preacher Mark Brown tweets. “Begging to be liked by the left gets you to the place of Bret Stephens. Please don’t compare me to a bedbug, come meet the wife.”

Or as they say at Small Dead Animals, “Pleasing your enemies doe not turn them into friends.”

Related: “One might say that Stephens is a tad oversensitive. But hypocritical is another description. Appearing on MSNBC, Tuesday, to defend his actions, Stephens huffed, ‘Using dehumanizing rhetoric like bedbugs or analogizing people to insects is always wrong…. We can do better. We should be the people on social media that we are in real life.’ What type of person is Stephens in real life? Let’s find out.”

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TO BE FAIR, NOBODY’S WANTED TO SINCE THE REAGAN ERA: Elizabeth Warren: Nobody Will Do A ‘Handsy Thing’ With Me On A Debate Stage.

BARBARA KAY: Don’t ever question mass immigration or you’ll be instantly racist. Meh. Everybody’s racist for 15 minutes now.

9MM RESURGENCE: Why the FBI & Police Went Back. “The reality is there is such a minute difference in the terminal performance between the 9mm, .40 S&W and .45 ACP, that the interface between the shooter and the handgun, ammunition capacity and shot placement (accuracy) matter more. It would seem it has taken bullet engineers about 30 years to level the playing field between these cartridges, and it has taken the FBI about the same amount of time to realize the obvious.”

Well, the FBI.

HEH: Scientists: Climate Change Killed Us Years Ago And The Trump Presidency Is Some Sort Of ‘Lost’ Final Season Situation.

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: How The Media Enables Destructive Climate Change Hysteria. Reporters have a responsibility to challenge the assumptions and exaggerations of activists.

If journalists did their jobs, they would contest some of the assumptions and exaggerations that have now congealed as “crisis” in their newsrooms. Not necessarily the science, but the predictive abilities of scientists or the hyperbolic statements of politicians. But how can any reporter be skeptical of anyone when news organizations have already conceded that what they’re covering is a “crisis?” It would be an apostasy. Chuck Todd won’t give any airtime to “deniers,” but he’ll open his show any Chicken Little who can get elected.

Not long ago, candidates and mainstream media outlets like CNN were acting as if floods in the Midwest were an unprecedented environmental disaster. In reality, deaths from extreme weather have dropped somewhere around 99.9 percent since the 1920s. Tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, and extreme temperatures can still be killers, but thanks to increasingly affordable fossil-fueled heating and air-conditioning systems, safer buildings, and better warning systems—among other technological advances—the vast majority of Americans will never have to fear weather in any genuine way.

Put it this way: Since 1980, death caused by all natural disasters and heat and cold is well under 0.5 percent of the total.

Yet, never, to my recollection, has a mainstream reporter asked an environmental activist why, if the world is headed towards Armageddon, humans are better off now than they were 50 years ago, or 20 years ago or 10 years ago? Climate change is supposedly in full swing, yet fewer people are hungry, fewer people are displaced, and we have to fight fewer wars over resources. Extreme poverty has steeply dropped over the past 30 years. There is no evidence that this trajectory is about to change.

Worse, instead of conveying this good news, the media keeps cherrypicking problems without any context. They’ve convinced large swaths of young Americans that everything is getting worse, when the opposite is true.

Just think of the media as Democratic Party activists with bylines, and their lack of pushback makes total sense.

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THIS SEEMS TO BE THE CONSENSUS. CAN’T WAIT TO SEE IT. Dave Chappelle’s Netflix Special Is the PC Culture’s Worst Nightmare.

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