WE HAVE NOT YET REACHED PEAK STUPID FOR 2020; WE HAVEN’T EVEN REACHED PEAK STUPID FOR JULY: Today’s Insanity Wrap: Racism Comes to Reddit, CAREN Comes for 911 Callers.

Plus: “Upward-thrusting buildings ejaculating into the sky – do cities have to be so sexist?”

You can’t make this stuff up, and in 2020 you don’t have to.

SEVENTH FORMER EBAY STAFFER CHARGED IN CYBERSTALKING CAMPAIGN AGAINST EDITOR OF NEWSLETTER: “A seventh former eBay Inc. employee has been charged with participating in a campaign to terrorize the editor and publisher of an online newsletter because eBay executives were upset about coverage of the company, authorities said Tuesday. Philip Cooke, 55, who was a supervisor of security operations at eBay’s European and Asian offices, is charged with conspiracy to commit cyberstalking and conspiracy to tamper with witnesses, prosecutors said.”

THE MOMENT OF CONFRONTING THE PROSPECT OF DEATH BY COVID: Worth pondering, my friends.

WITH REASON: Survey Finds Americans Skeptical of Contact Tracing Apps.

HOLLYWOOD, INTERRUPTED: It’s Okay For Halle Berry To Play An X-Man, But It Is Bad If She Even Considers Playing An Ex-Woman.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Conservatives Must Support Cancel Culture to Kill It. “No, conservatives must swallow hard, ‘support’ Cancel Culture by applying it consistently (sorry, ‘Hamilton’) and show how it will bite the Left… hard, just as it’s doing to the Right right now. It’s why many on the right dragged the media, kicking and screaming, into covering Jimmy Kimmel’s blackface past.”

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Shock-dissipating fractal cubes could forge high-tech armor.

ISWYDT: It’s Okay For Halle Berry To Play An X-Man, But It Is Bad If She Even Considers Playing An Ex-Woman.

JASON WHITLOCK: Black National Anthem Will Be The NFL’s “Jump The Shark Moment,” Black Lives Matters Is Marxist.

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1984 WAS NOT AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL: Teacher Blames ‘Western Imperialism,’ ‘Colonization’ for Concept of 2+2=4.

FLASHBACK: How States Turned Nursing Homes Into ‘Slaughter Houses’ By Forcing Them to Admit Discharged COVID-19 Patients.

KNOWING THAT BIDEN CAN’T COMPLETE A SENTENCE, Thomas Friedman tries to provide cover for Democrats to duck debates.

FORMER NFL RB LARRY JOHNSON DEFENDS EAGLES RB DESEAN JACKSON WITH A DIFFERENT FAKE ANTI-SEMITIC QUOTE:

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: City University of New York lays off 2,800 adjuncts in wave of austerity.

Wow, this is serious. Soon they may lay off an administrator.

If only they’d had some sort of warning.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Back to School? “No Thanks” Say Millions of New Homeschooling Parents. “According to a recent USA Today/Ipsos poll, 60 percent of parents surveyed said they will likely choose at-home learning this fall rather than send their children to school even if the schools reopen for in-person learning.”

All is proceeding as I have foreseen, only with a big boost from Covid-19.

INSTANT KARMA: BLM Protester Punches a Trump Supporter Right In Front of Cops, It Doesn’t End Well.

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Part of Lassen Volcanic National Park closed after angry otter bites swimmer.

PROGRESSIVES READY TO REBEL AGAINST BIDEN IF HE ‘COMPROMISES’ WITH THE GOP: “This is yet another example of the hole that Joe Biden dug for himself during the primary. He’s embraced nearly every far-left fantasy of the progressive movement in an effort to win over Sanders’ supporters and try to build some enthusiasm among those who supported Elizabeth Warren and the rest of the socialist crowd. But now the general election is gearing up and he needs to not only generate some excitement with minority voters, but also win back the persuadable moderates who migrated over to Trump’s camp in 2016.”

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: An environmentalist’s apology: ‘I was guilty of alarmism.’

(Classical reference in headline.)