YOU SHOULD READ THIS:  I know you may be sick of hearing about the Covington affair, but please read what VDH has to say about it.

IT DESERVES A RANT:  The Old Man Who Fell At Walmart – Rant Alert!

NAUSEATING SHEEP:  American stooges for Venezuela’s dictator.

I’M 99% SURE THAT OCCASIONAL CORTEX IS IMPERVIOUS TO ANY TEACHING:  What science could teach Ocasio-Cortez about climate change.

WHICH TYPE OF CANCER? BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT ALL THE SAME THING, NOR DO THEY ALL REACT TO THE SAME THINGS:  We’ll have a cure for cancer within a year, scientists claim.

DEAR PRINCE CHARMING:  Please leave Sleeping Beauty alone.  You’re nothing but a rapist. Or so says a Chapman University group.

OH PLEASE. IF IT’S IN LISBON IT’S NOT ONE OF PORTUGAL’S BEST RESTAURANTS.  AS FOR ROMAN CEMETERIES, YOU CAN’T DIG A FOUNDATION WITHOUT CUTTING INTO ONE. SMART HOMEOWNERS DO THE EQUIVALENT OF SHOOT SHOVEL AND SHUT UP, (OMITTING THE SHOOTING, UNLESS WHAT YOU FOUND IS HISTORICAL ZOMBIES.)  PORTUGAL IS MOSTLY BUILT ON PORTUGAL. YOU CAN’T MOVE FOR DEAD PEOPLE:  Roman cemetery found next to one of Portugal’s best restaurants.

IT’S EASY: DON’T BE TRENDY:  Here’s how to stop fitness trends from ruining your body.

#JOURNALISM: Washington Post reporter calls Trump supporters ‘rubes’ on podcast. They don’t take sides, remember.

Also, really embarrassing mustache in the accompanying photo.

UPDATE (From Ed): “Rubes” is among the more polite words that Dave Weigel has used to describe Republicans.

HEMISPHERIC WINTER IN ONE, HEMISPHERIC SUMMER IN THE OTHER? THAT’S CRAZY TALK! Australia Is Baking And Chicago Is Freezing – What Is Going On?

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ACCOUNTABILITY: Google May Face RICO, Defamation Lawsuits Due to SPLC Partnership, Lawyers Say.

KURT SCHLICHTER: What Will It Take To Make You Understand And Accept That They Hate You? “If they’ll ice a kid for not having the right grin, they’ll waste you or me in a heartbeat. Murder is, after all, how leftists roll. The USSR, Red China, Cambodia, North Korea, Cuba – that cadaver-strewn litany teaches what’s lurking at the bottom of the slope we’re sliding down. The Dems are spooning with socialism, and the goal of socialism is written in blood on the pages of history. The unapproved must be liquidated, and they are making no secret that you are unapproved. Understand that and accept it.”

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JOURNALISM:

THE RISE OF THE UNCHIVALROUS CHRISTIAN. “From the very beginning chivalry’s teaching on men and women was a parody of Christianity.”

BULLY PULPIT: Nato members increase defence spending by $100 billion after Donald Trump called them ‘delinquents.’

OPEN THREAD: Happy Monday.

NOT FROM THE ONION: Footage Of Shirtless Bernie Sanders Drunkenly Singing With Soviets In ‘88 Surfaces. Who posted it? A Beto 2020 fan! “Travis Justin, a Navy veteran and leader of ‘Draft Beto 2020,’ a group that is urging Texas representative Beto O’Rourke to seek presidential election, apparently first posted the video to Twitter.”

The 2020 primaries are gonna be lit. Related, from Facebook:

THESE SPACE COMPANIES SEEM TO LIKE RED STATES LATELY: Blue Origin Breaks Ground for BE-4 Rocket Engine Factory in Alabama.

ROGER SIMON: Can ‘Liberal’ Dems Face Their Outrageous Anti-Semitism Problem?

(Bumped.)

FASTER, PLEASE: A cure for cancer? Israeli scientists say they think they found one.

KYLE SMITH: Michael Jackson, Child Molester.

To some extent, we as a society have set aside the many horrific and entirely credible claims against Jackson simply because we want them not to be true; for the same reason, Bill Cosby got a pass for a surprisingly long time. Jackson’s unfortunate early demise, his apparent closeted homosexuality, and his wounded, childlike nature have made fans fiercely protective of him, with the media largely sidestepping the issue since he died in 2009. What punishment can be visited upon him posthumously? Should he be erased from the culture the way Cosby has been? Should radio stations and deejays stop playing his many great records the way broadcasters have stopped airing The Cosby Show? I’m not sure they should. But the label of serial child molester must be forever attached to Michael Jackson’s name. It should be reiterated constantly like an anti-honorific, the way we take care to refer to President Carter or General MacArthur.

Whatever their myriad faults, Carter and MacArthur don’t deserve to be compared to Jackson. But read the whole thing, nonetheless.

CHANGE: Chinese companies OneSpace and iSpace are preparing for first orbital launches.

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