THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT WORKING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Car shows, yoga classes, reggae-themed potluck dinners. As trends shift, Colorado funerals, cemeteries put fun into deaths, celebrations of life. “QR codes on the deceased’s nameplates enabling passers-by to snap a photo and pull up pictures, video and more of the life passed on. And a green burial option in which people’s ashes are planted to sprout into trees.”

FLASHBACK: Kirsten Gillibrand’s own sons have no place in her ‘future.’ “If the future is female, what happens to our boys? And what message are we sending our present-day girls?”

EVERGREEN HEADLINE: Do You Understand that Democrats will Destroy America?

21ST CENTURY MEDICINE: This college dropout was bedridden for 11 years. Then he invented a surgery and cured himself.

CONGRATS TO THE FILMMAKERS AT CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER: “No Safe Spaces,” directed by Justin Folk and produced by Mark Joseph, won the Grand Prize at the Anthem Film Festival in Las Vegas. The event is held in conjunction with FreedomFest.

The film is one of the growing list of high-quality productions from Capital Research Center’s (CRC) Dangerous Documentaries, led by Joseph Klein. The CRC has an ambitious agenda for its filmmaking group, but then what’s the point of not doing so if the preservation of liberty is the aim?

TOO GOOD TO CHECK: “Speaker Pelosi weighs in on poverty in West Baltimore….from a 5 star, rooftop restaurant in Venice, Italy.”

Downside: This isn’t going to help Pelosi’s appearance as Marie Antoinette in the modern left’s efforts to reenact the French Revolution.

Upside: At least we know that unlike AOC, Pelosi isn’t calling for a ban on air travel any time soon.

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: In older adults, some drugs may produce symptoms that imitate dementia.

QUESTION ASKED: “CNN will broadcast the next two Democratic debates Tuesday and Wednesday night. At 8 p.m. Eastern each night, the ten candidates will be introduced, followed by a performance of the national anthem. One interesting wrinkle: The campaign of Jay Inslee specifically asked whether the National Anthem would be played. The Washington Republican party is wondering if Inslee plans on taking a knee during the National Anthem. Would any candidate be bold, crazy, reckless, or desperate enough to do this?”

Or simply do this:

AVOID DEMOCRAT-RUN CITIES? 6 Ways to Protect Yourself From Unsafe Drinking Water.

KRUISER: Joe Biden Is Nothing More Than Hillary With Hair Plugs.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) Tells Jake Tapper, Israel “exists” to the “detriment” of Palestinians.

It’s an “unexpectedly” popular sentiment of CNN staffers as well.

WAY BACK IN 2018, WHEN PBS WAS RACIST: ‘Rat Film’ documentary about Baltimore’s rodent fight to air on PBS tonight.

Related: Baltimore Ambush: Trump forces Democrats to defend the indefensible, again. “What it shows is Trump not only means to ‘win’ against his opponents, he intends to annihilate them. His election game is on and he’s not playing beanbag. He using the same powerful tactics he was able use on Pelosi and her bickering ‘squad’ which had the effect of forcing Pelosi to defend the indefensible and making Rep. Ilhan Omar the face of the Democratic Party. Now he’s making urban decay the second face of the Democratic Party. His poll numbers went up after the first one. Count on them going up again after this.”

MAUREEN DOWD, ALWAYS THE LAST TO KNOW: “Progressives Are The Modern Puritans:”

After I interviewed Nancy Pelosi a few weeks ago, The HuffPost huffed that we were Dreaded Elites because we were eating chocolates and — horror of horrors — the speaker had on some good pumps.

Then this week, lefty Twitter erected a digital guillotine because I had a book party for my friend Carl Hulse, The Times’s authority on Capitol Hill for decades, attended by family, journalists, Hill denizens and a smattering of lawmakers, including Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Susan Collins.

I, the daughter of a D.C. cop, and Carl, the son of an Illinois plumber, were hilariously painted as decadent aristocrats reveling like Marie Antoinette when we should have been knitting like Madame Defarge.

Yo, proletariat: If the Democratic Party is going to be against chocolate, high heels, parties and fun, you’ve lost me. And I’ve got some bad news for you about 2020.

The progressives are the modern Puritans. The Massachusetts Bay Colony is alive and well on the Potomac and Twitter.

All the best people pointed out to me on their sandwich boards that the world is coming to an end in 14 months. As doomsday approaches, there’s no room for heretics to the revolution, let alone chocolate, high heels, parties, or heck, even plastic straws.

(As H.L. Mencken wrote in 1949, “Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” But why did it take this long for Maureen to discover that her fellow leftists were the new puritans?)

Earlier: Howard Fineman: Why does it make people so mad to see political elites and media elites hobnobbing at a Georgetown cocktail party?

JOHN HINDERAKER: “This is a good example of a ‘fact check’ that isn’t really a fact check at all, but rather a parroting of Democratic Party talking points. Kessler rewrites Omar’s words, as seen in the video, to make them less offensive.”

Think of Glenn Kessler as a Democratic Party operative with a fact-checker position and everything makes sense.

THE DEMAND FOR HATE IN AMERICA FAR EXCEEDS THE SUPPLY: Facebook friends each reported nooses at different colleges. One was a damaged power cable.

ORKIN REPORTS: Baltimore Among Most Rat-Infested Cities In U.S.

WELL, THEY COULD CERTAINLY USE INSTRUCTION ON THE LAST POINT: Middlebury College offers courses on zombies, misogyny, masculinity. But I doubt they’re teaching anything positive.

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COUNTER-TERRORISM: Guantanamo all over again.

Europe is now facing the same situation the United States confronted in 2002 when hundreds of Islamic terrorists were captured in Afghanistan and it was unclear what could be done with them. By 2009 that was still an unresolved problem and ten years later the Americans are not the only ones forced to deal with it. European nations, after accepting millions of illegal Moslem migrants who refused to adapt to their new homeland, found that thousands of their Moslem residents went off after 2014 to join the “Islamic State” in Syria. Most of those European Moslems were killed, captured or, for the moment, are untraceable.

Many of these Islamic State zealots were known to have committed crimes, often gruesome ones that they made videos of the posted on the Internet. Most of those captured in Syria and Iraq want to return to Europe and Europe does not know how to handle those requests coming from those accused of serious crimes, The U.S. faced the same situation in 2002 after capturing over a thousand known or suspected Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan. The American solution was Guantanamo Bay prison. Europeans were highly critical of the Guantanamo solution, which kept Islamic terrorists in custody without a trial because there was not enough evidence to assure conviction in a Western court.

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HOWITZER LIFT AND DELIVERY: An Ohio Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook lifts a M777 howitzer during a sling load exercise held May 20, 2019.

DRAINING THE SWAMP: Interior eyes moving more staff and agencies out of DC to ‘the front lines.’

Flashback: Make DC A Swamp Again.

THAT’S DIFFERENT SOMEHOW, I’M SURE: Bernie Sanders likens West Baltimore to ‘Third World’ country.