AND THE ANSWER IS NONE. NONE MORE WOKE: Smithsonian’s Anti-White Propaganda. “Did David Duke write this stuff? It’s crazy! If a white man said that black people are lazy, can’t keep to a schedule, have no respect for authority, can’t think straight, are rude, etc. — he would be rightly criticized as racist. But there it is, at the taxpayer-funded National Museum of African American History and Culture. Why? Why do we pay for this racist propaganda? The museum itself looks fantastic, but this is disgusting.”

 More at the Washington Examiner: African American History Museum’s website says being on time is a marker of ‘whiteness.’

THAT’S ENTERTAINMENT?

“BIPOC” is “Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.”

I imagine the ideological spectrum won’t be nearly so diverse.

FASTER, PLEASE: Hebrew U. scientist: Drug could eradicate COVID-19 from lungs in days. The drug, Tricor, is cheap and already FDA-approved. So it’s got that going against it.

CAVEAT EMPTOR: This ‘secure’ chat app spies on its users — what you need to know. “It appears the Welcome Chat messaging app isn’t secure at all.”

NOW OUT FROM JIM BUTCHER: Peace Talks (Dresden Files Book 16).

THEY WON’T: Media Should Do A Mea Culpa as French Analysis Offers a Stunning Observation About Hydroxychloroquine Use.

HARSHING THE NARRATIVE: CDC chief says Northerners heading South for vacation may be to blame for surge in coronavirus cases, not state reopenings.

CTRL-F not found: “Protest.”

WELL, THAT WAS FAST: Kanye West Drops Out of 2020 Race. “In a year that grows more insane by the day, Kanye’s lunacy is like an oasis. But alas, it was just a mirage.”

EARMARKS WERE BANNED IN 2011. CONGRESS SETS NEW EARMARK RECORD IN 2020: Yes, you read that correctly. Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) publishes the 28th edition of its Congressional Pigbook.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: ‘Ask No Questions’ – The Documentary Actors (and LeBron James) Must Watch. “The haunting film showcases repressive Chinese policies … and much worse.”

WELL, UM, GOOD: Doctors remove live worm from woman’s tonsil.

BILL CLINTON? Ghislaine Maxwell is secretly MARRIED but refuses to reveal the identity of her mystery spouse, prosecutors say.

I’LL START MAKING MY VEAL PICCATA ONCE A WEEK, JUST TO BE SAFE: Proteins Required for Brain and Heart Function Activated by Pickled Capers.

A few too many capers is just the right amount.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: What To Read Instead Of White Fragility.

Related: The Orwellian Dystopia of Robin DiAngelo’s PhD Dissertation.

NICE: Israeli defense companies team up with UAE firm to develop breakthrough coronavirus technology.

ROGER SIMON: Bari Weiss’ Brilliant Farewell to the New York Times Doesn’t Go Far Enough.

My only question for Bari Weiss after reading her otherwise eloquent (and evidently much discussed) letter of resignation to the New York Times is what took you so long?

A corollary question might be: why did you join in the first place?

I’m assuming Ms. Weiss, an intelligent woman with a degree from Columbia and a stint as an editor at the estimable Tablet, was well aware of the Times’ devoutly leftwing Weltanschauung that dates back at least to Walter Duranty’s epochal whitewash of Stalin in the Thirties (“You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs”) and continued through the back page treatment of the Holocaust (Auschwitz was not big news) to Herbert Matthews’ mawkish fawning over Fidel Castro.

And then we have the embarrassing era of Jayson Blair (2003) who lied undetected on the front page of the paper—made up stories out of whole cloth—no less than seven times. The Times itself declared Blair’s journalistic misdeeds “unprecedented.”

It’s hard to believe, looking back at the Howling Howell Raines/Jayson Blair era, how much crazier the Times would eventually become. Or as Ben Shapiro tweets, “Congratulations to the New York Times’ replacement hire for Bari Weiss, Nick Cannon.” Don’t give Sulzberger and Baquet any ideas, Ben!

HMM: Why Sweden Succeeded in “Flattening the Curve” and New York Failed.

WELL, IF THE EXPERTS HADN’T BEEN REPEATEDLY DISHONEST AND WRONG, MAYBE THE PUBLIC WOULDN’T HAVE TUNED THEM OUT: Public’s disconnect from COVID-19 reality worries experts. It’s not good that people are acting this way, but it’s not surprising either, and at this point it’s mostly the experts’ own fault. The mask lie alone was deadly to their credibility, and the protest double-standard doubly so.

Related: Anthony Fauci has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on: Peter Navarro.

Also: Carefree Mis-Reporting of Virus Deaths From Alarmist Media.

UPDATE: Yep:

TODAY’S INSANITY WRAP: Welcome to the Light Side, Jake Tapper. “What Jake Tapper conveniently failed to mention was his own employer’s role in setting Cuomo up to run his victory lap over the bodies of thousands of needlessly dead nursing home residents.”

A MODEST SWAMP DRAINING PROPOSAL: From John Hinderaker at Powerline, a quick look at Great Britain’s emerging plans to disperse “some government offices Northward and away from London.” He mentions a law partner of his once “wrote an op-ed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, arguing that we should disperse federal agencies around the country rather than centralizing them in Washington.” The post is well worth reading. John doesn’t say how many years ago his friend wrote the essay, but the moving the headquarters of federal agencies from Washington, DC to cities in “fly over” country has been around quite awhile. I first heard it mentioned in the late 1960s. If I recall correctly, the advocate said Kansas was an ideal place for the Department of Agriculture.

CHARMING: Mask Shamer Crashes Into Man’s Shopping Cart and Spits In His Face – And Claims She Has COVID.

MORE EVIDENCE TRIAL LAWYERS VIEW COVID AS A LITIGATION BONANZA: Covid-related workplace lawsuits doubled between April and June. The actual numbers may seem small — 60 cases in April to 122 in June — but check out the parallel increase in advertising. It’s part of a familiar gameplan, according to the Institute for Legal Reform’s Oriana Senator.

BLUE CITY BLUES: One of Chicago’s best views is for sale: Cité, the 70th-floor restaurant atop Lake Point Tower, plans to sell its space and shut down.

COLLUSION: Former Ohio State professor arrested trying to flee to China with stolen laptops, USB drives. “‘Yet again, we are faced with a professor at a U.S. University, who is a member of a Chinese Talent Plan, allegedly and deliberately failing to disclose his relationship with a Chinese university and receipt of funds from the Chinese Government in order to obtain millions of dollars in U.S. grant money designed to benefit the health and well-being of the people of the United States — not to be hijacked to supplement the research goals of the Chinese Communist Party,’ said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers in a statement following the arrest.”