TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Katy Perry Accused Of Sexual Misconduct By ‘Teenage Dream’ Video Co-Star: ‘The Most Assaulting Job’ Ever. ““Can you imagine how pathetic and embarrassed I felt? I just say this now because our culture is set on proving men of power are perverse. But females with power are just as disgusting.”

I’m so old, I can remember when Katy Perry was standing up for #MeToo. Now she’s become just another perp. That DJ lost his job for (allegedly) groping her ass. What will happen to Katy for (allegedly) pulling down a teenager’s pants to expose his penis to a group of her followers?

UPDATE: Oops, I confused Taylor Swift with Katy Perry on the DJ thing. Then again, who hasn’t mixed them up?

BLESS HIS HEART: Thick-skinned Resistance warrior Max Boot suggests National Review is ‘white supremacist’ for criticizing his piece shaming white people.

As Glenn asked a few months ago, “Has anyone fallen farther, faster, than Boot since November of 2016?”

HMMMM: FBI Raided Epstein’s Pedophile Island On Monday (Video).

TRADE WAR: ‘Brutal consequences’: Ansell warns China over exodus of manufacturers. A massacre in Hong Kong will only make that worse.

HEH: I’m embedding this tweet mainly because I’m fascinated by this picture of Elizabeth Warren.

“OLD DRINKS” — created from “cold drinks” with the placement of an “IF YOU LOSE YOUR MONEY” sign. That’s rich, and I’m going to credit the AP photographer, John Locher, with deliberately framing his photograph to catch text that is relevant, meaningful, and humorous: Yeah, she’s so happy to be striding in waving a big “Hi, I’m here with the old socialist idea of taking your money.”

Plus, a Liz Warren John Travolta homage.

SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC ’76: A Running List Of Joe Biden’s Best Slip-Ups.

(Classical allusion in headline.)

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Suzanne Venker: 6 Ways Men Can Become Emasculation-Proof.

GAVIN NEWSOM CAN NO LONGER SIT BACK AND ALLOW THE RED STATE MENACE TO SAP AND IMPURIFY ALL OF CALIFORNIA’S PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS: The Trump Obsession Comes for California’s Water.

Tomorrow, the Golden State’s Democrat-run, veto-proof legislature returns from its summer break and is expected to quickly take up S.B. 1, the “California Environmental, Public Health, and Workers Defense Act of 2019.” It has been proposed for one reason: Donald Trump is president. Under his administration, long-standing EPA regulations and analyses, and bureaucratic (state and federal) actions, related to water have been rethought, reviewed, and relaxed. Which comes to the progressive Left as a threat: All that water-denying is now at risk.

Hence the bill.

Its consequence will be to preempt any possible forthcoming federal regulations that would result in people and farms (instead of, seriously, the Pacific Ocean) getting more, already available water. That might even be its purpose: For years, California’s bureaucrats, who are even more radical than Obama-era natural-resources federal regulators were, have shown great determination to deny the flow of fresh water from mountain snowpacks, watersheds, and reservoirs to the famous the Central Valley, which, when supplied H2O, puts fruits and vegetables on the world’s tables.

As Jack Fowler adds at NRO, “Recommended reading: Two excellent pieces that explain just what’s going on are Victor Davis Hanson’s City Journal essay ‘California’s Water Wars,’ and Charlie Cooke’s NR report, subtitled ‘For the sake of a smelt, California farmlands lie fallow.’”

ALL THIS AND WORLD WAR II*: Europe Poised to Put Warning Labels on Jewish-Made Products.

* Or as the EU likes to call it, “the European Civil War.”

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How did the six-wheeled Tyrrell P34 Formula One car work? (Video.)

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Student Frustration With the Flawed Textbook Market Is Justified.

IRONY IS DELICIOUS: Sarah Silverman says she was fired from a movie for an old blackface sketch.

This was supposed to happen to other people — not to meeee!

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update for August 12, 2019. “Biden continues to lead the field despite his senior moments, witches boost Williamson, and Harris has become really unpopular…among black voters.”

SHOULDN’T THIS HAVE HAPPENED ALREADY, THOUGH? A dozen FBI agents raid Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Pedophile Island.’

OMELETS, EGGS: NY Times Fantasizes About El Paso Murders Reviving Beto’s Campaign.

TITANIA MCGRATH: Titania McGrath’s Edinburgh Fringe show is the most important live event since the Women’s March. “Apparently, it is frowned upon to write a review for your own show. I consider this yet another attempt to silence women’s voices by the forces of heteronormative patriarchy. Why should I, as a proud independent woman, not proclaim my own worth?”

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THE BIG LIE: 7 Times MSNBC Hosts Compared Trump to Hitler … in July.

It was Nazis who perfected “the big lie” technique. Just sayin’.

EVER HEAR OF THE “CHAPO TRAP HOUSE,” THE BIGGEST PODCAST OF ALL? Well, it preaches socialism of the Stalinist/Sanders variety and, according to Capital Research Center’s Dangerous Documentaries, it is “a million-dollar behemoth with over 100,000 listeners.” You need to watch this short videoumentary because these are bad dudes and they are coming for the Democratic Party and for your future.

BECAUSE THEY AREN’T RUN BY THEM? Why U.S. Schools Don’t Produce Adults.

YES: The US Navy says no to touchscreens—maybe automakers should, too.

The US Navy has had enough of touchscreens and is going back to physical controls for its destroyers, according to a report last week in USNI News. Starting next summer the Navy will refit its DDG-51 destroyer fleet with a physical throttle and helm control system. The effort is a response to feedback the Navy solicited in the wake of a pair of fatal crashes involving that class of ship during 2017.
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It’s a warning that the auto industry could do well to listen to. Touchscreens continue to proliferate into car infotainment systems, a trend fueled by the plaudits given to Tesla for its huge touchscreens as well as a general belief that CES-primed customers are asking for more and more consumer tech in their vehicles. But there’s mounting evidence that touch interfaces are an awful idea for a driver who is supposed to be—literally—focusing on the road ahead, not hunting for an icon or slider on a screen.

I still use an old-school iPod Classic for playing music in the car, because the clickwheel doesn’t require you to look. Touchscreens do.

THE HUNT: A Violent Movie Satirizing America’s Culture War Gets Cancelled by America’s Culture War.

LATEST BUDGET DEAL SHOWS MEMBERS OF CONGRESS ARE THE PROBLEM: Ever since the Gramm-Rudman Act of 1985 was promised to impound all spending above authorized limits, Congress and chief executives have relied on budget agreements that make token cuts in the year of passage, promise much bigger cuts in the “out years” and provides a “sequestration process” for enforcement.

But the out year reductions never come because succeeding congresses can’t resist boosting the spending caps. The R Street Institute’s James Wallner goes through the dreary succession since Reagan’s second term and concludes:

“All of which suggests procedural solutions alone are insufficient when lawmakers do not want to abide by them. If Congress wants to spend more than the law permits, it will.” That applies to members of both major political parties.

‘TIS A PITY THEY BOTH CAN’T LOSE — ACTUALLY, THEY CAN! Not Enough Room in Dem Primary for Sanders & Warren.