STILL TRUE: Vladimir Putin endorses 2020 Democrats energy policy.

TOM BROKAW SLAMS (SOCIAL) MEDIA AS ENABLING A NO-CONTEXT ’24/7 RAGE.’

Why, it’s like it’s a virus of the mind, or something.

LIFE IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF NEW ZEALAND: My House Was Raided Over A .22LR Lever Action Rifle. “I’ve been vocal about the amnesty being a disaster, and the police were rather open about the failure of the whole process. Maybe if they stopped raiding innocent people’s houses there might have been some more good will? They implied that they’d keep having to raid the houses of people I knew until the firearm turned up. This is for an A-Category firearm, which I have no reason to believe is fitted with a prohibited magazine! Are these the kind of intimidation tactics now the norm in New Zealand? Are we going to accept this in a first-world democracy?” Maybe you’re not a first-world democracy anymore.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Live on Almost Nothing and Have Plenty.

JUST BECAUSE WE HAVEN’T BLOWN UP IRAN’S OIL REFINERIES DOESN’T MEAN BRITAIN CAN’T. British ambassador Robert Macaire arrested in Iran accused of inciting protests. This is basically an act of war; you can’t arrest ambassadors, only expel them. Say, maybe Trump backed down to let Britain handle this one, so that Boris Johnson can have a win. . . .

USING CANCEL CULTURE AS A PR VEHICLE: Terry Gilliam knew exactly what he was doing when he gave that incendiary interview.

WILL COLLIER: RIP Neil Peart, 1952–2020: Rush Drummer Was One-of-a-Kind Musician, Lyricist. “He leaves behind a widow, a young daughter, seven non-fiction books, a novel, 20 studio albums, and a musical legacy that will endure for as long as young (and not-so-young) people seek brains, heart, and hard-won skill to go along with the primal call of bass, guitar, and drums. RIP.”

WARMER, PLEASE: Global warming made me take my clothes off: Female porn-site models sending nude photos to men who donate to Australian fire relief.

I HOPE WE’RE MOVING CLOSER TO MULLAHS DANGLING FROM LAMPPOSTS: Protesters in Tehran clash with riot police as they demand the Ayatollah RESIGNS and call for regime change after Iran finally admits to shooting down jet and killing 176 people.

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Robots out of work as automated businesses close in Bay Area.

THE CORBYNIZATION OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES APACE: NJ School Board Member Who Sympathized With Kosher Market Shooters Hailed as a Modern ‘Rosa Parks.’

Even as: NJ Schools Test New Mandatory LGBT Curriculum for Math, History, Grammar.

NOT A CULT: I campaign for the extinction of the human race.

Also not a cult: ‘A disgrace’: Greta Thunberg slams ‘older generations’ for inaction on climate change.

Flashback: Environmentalists make good movie villains because they want to make your real life worse.

YOU PAYS YOUR MONEY AND YOU TAKES YOUR CHOICE: Defensive Revolvers: Is it a Trend or Just a Fad?

Or you can carry a Diablo. You only get two shots, but . . .

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WHAT RESISTANCE LOOKS LIKE: Taiwan’s president re-elected as voters back tough China stance.

Related: In Blow to Beijing, Taiwan Re-elects Tsai Ing-wen as President: The victory was a remarkable comeback for Ms. Tsai and suggested that Beijing’s pressure campaign had backfired.

FRIDAY’S TWITTER DISPUTE: Did the US kill Muammar Gaddafi?

Exit quote: “We came. We saw. He died.”

UGH: Scientists examine how a gut infection may produce chronic symptoms.

REDNECK NATION: The woke supremacists come for interracial sex.

(Classical reference in headline.)

CHINA SYNDROME: More popular heartburn medications recalled due to impurity.

IT’S COME TO THIS: ‘Family Feud’ contestant gives hilariously wrong answer, her reaction is priceless.

When host Gerry Dee posed the question, “Name Popeye’s favorite food,” Dubois, intensely sure of herself, buzzed in before Dee had even finished the question and emphatically answered, “chicken!”

Impressed by her quick response and charm, Dubois broke into her own happy dance. Much to her dismay, the question was in reference to the legendary cartoon character Popeye, not the increasingly popular Southern-style restaurant chain.

The other family immediately buzzed in with the correct response, spinach, while Dubois was left basking in her own confusion at her TV gaffe – which she played off quite well. “I thought you meant Popeye’s Chicken,” she quipped before flipping her hair.

Within minutes, a GIF was created, memorializing Dubois as an internet meme forever.

“Millennial vs Boomer in microcosm,” Iowahawk deadpans in response.

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: Losing ‘tongue fat’ could ease sleep apnea.

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH PIERS MORGAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY: Piers Morgan rips former employer CNN over ‘disgraceful race-baiting’ coverage of Meghan Markle.

More from Morgan:

IS “PETTY CRIME” GETTING WORSE IN CALIFORNIA?: It seems that way to me. And it’s not just San Franciscans pooping on sidewalks. The guys helping me fix up my bathroom had the tools stolen from out of their truck recently. And the internet bulletin board for my neighborhood is full of posts about smash-and-grab crimes and the like. Many of them say, “I didn’t tell the police. These days they don’t do anything.” It makes me wonder how much FBI crime statistics on this sort of thing are worth.

The Commission on Civil Rights did a report a little while ago that was critical of an array of “police practices.” My colleagues viewed police efforts to prevent crime as anti-black.  This was my response.