DEMOCRATS IN DISARRAY: Sanders supporters revolt against superdelegates. Remember, Hillary had the superdelegates sewn up in 2008, too, until she didn’t anymore.
But isn’t it funny to see Sanders fans so upset that the delegates he worked so hard to win are being . . . redistributed to someone else?
GOVERNMENT’S JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR THE THINGS WE CHOOSE TO DO TOGETHER (CONT’D): Examining the EPA’s Role in #FlintWaterCrisis and #AnimasRiverSpill: An ugly picture of “Rule by Bureaucracy.”
EU AND THE BREXIT: The Quiet Rebellion Of Conservative England: Among the early daffodils and neatly trimmed hedges of the Tory heartlands, grassroots party members are growing angry at David Cameron over Europe. “We are paying too much into the EU and we are not getting enough back.”
FLASHBACK: Robert Zubrin: The Truth About DDT and Silent Spring. Probably of new relevance in the Zika era.
Excerpted from his book, Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism.
THE NEW YORK TIMES’ BRENT STAPLES POSTS A LOW, DISGRACEFUL TWEET:
My response:
His reply, which is exactly what I expected:
Truly a disgrace, particularly for someone who purports to be a first-rank journalist.
UPDATE: And this remains evergreen, alas:
You know, no one has done more to make Obama a failure at his big selling-point than black journalists like Staples.
ANOTHER UPDATE: 2009 Flashback: First President in US History to Have Voted to Filibuster a Supreme Court Nominee Now Hopes for Clean Process. “President Obama’s expressed hope today in his weekly address ‘that we can avoid the political posturing and ideological brinksmanship that has bogged down this (Supreme Court nomination) process, and Congress, in the past’ runs against another historical first for the 44th president: his unique role in history as the first US President to have ever voted to filibuster a Supreme Court nominee. So while there is little indication Republicans intend to filibuster President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, the GOP will likely invoke the President’s unique history whenever he calls their tactics into question.”
ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Does Yoga Need Its Own Athleisure Line?
WE NEED MORE INNOVATION, NOT LESS: The Politically-Motivated Assault On Medical Innovation.
LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: Milo Yiannopoulos: ‘Outright Terrifying’ That Facebook Teamed Up with Government to Censor Users.
It’s not just Facebook we’re talking about. They own WhatsApp and they own Instagram. And WhatsApp and Instagram are two of the companies that are winning the short messaging war–that are winning the war for Millennial attention and for Millennial users. Twitter lost that war. Twitter only really appeals to media people: people like you and people like me. We want to kind of keep in touch with our peers. And then some of our fans who are, like, really really keen might sign up for a Twitter account just to see our witty sayings or whatever clever lines we toss off on the way to the train station in the morning. But primarily, Twitter has lost that war. Snapchat, Instagram, WhatsApp–these are the networks that have billions of users. These are the networks that are getting young users, and Facebook owns two of those three.
The other thing to bear in mind is that Facebook so far has a really really bad track record when it comes to free speech. And not just a bad track record censoring different political opinions like Twitter does. Facebook’s moves are even more sinister, in a way. Facebook has teamed up with governments to censor certain political opinions that the incumbent party doesn’t like. In Germany, for instance, Facebook has teamed up with Angela Merkel to censor reasonable, respectable, mainstream concern about mass Muslim immigration–or just about mass immigration in general–and has started removing this stuff and classifying it as “hate speech.” It is effectively slandering its own users saying that their perfectly reasonable points of view constitute “hate speech” and that they’re not going to be allowed on Facebook, and Facebook has promised the German government that this stuff will be removed within 24 hours. That is outright Orwellian. That is outright terrifying.
They don’t even pretend not to be evil.
THIS ISN’T A BAD LIST, but it leaves off some of my faves, like Long’s Drug Store. And if you’re talking steamed sandwiches, how can you ignore Sam & Andy’s? Sure the one in Farragut doesn’t quite match the old one on the Strip, but still. The Best Classic Eats Around Knoxville.
“ONE OF THE WEIRDER ENGINE SWAPS WE’VE SEEN:” A Skyline-Powered Triumph TR6 is an Excellent Sleeper.
DONALD TRUMP IS SO DUMB HE DOESN’T KNOW WMD WERE FOUND IN IRAQ.
Read the whole thing.
Related: The Ego Has Landed: Why Trump Damaged Himself Last Night.
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Related thoughts from Seth Barrett Tillman.
SHOCKER: Guess Who is Pro-Gun? Survey of College Professors Shows Surprising Views on Gun Ownership.
This is what winning a cultural war looks like. But don’t get cocky!
SHOCKINGLY, IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE FROM THE WORLD’S GREATEST COMMUNICATOR: ‘Moonshot’ Metaphor on Cancer Is a Failure to Communicate.
