YOU CAN’T GROW BY SUBTRACTING: Twitter Can Only Lose When It Polices Abuse.

THIS ALMOST MAKES A VOTE FOR TRUMP PALATABLE. IF I BELIEVED SHARPTON: Al Sharpton might ‘get out of here’ if Trump wins.

NEW YORK VALUES: The city’s war on small business slams ‘cat cafes’.

UNTIL THE CULTURE WAR IS WON ALL YOU’LL GET IN POLITICS IS DUPED: (Yes, if Trump turns out to a) win b) be even a passable president I’ll admit it.  And I hope I’m wrong.  But I doubt it.  You must win the culture first, or you’ll be disappointed again and again.) Wot ab’at the werkers?

SAY, DIDN’T HE DEFEND BILLY BOY? Joe Biden is denouncing rape to an Academy of rape-enablers.

IT’S NOT EVEN THE END OF THE BEGINNING: Yes, chances are very high Trump will be awful (No, don’t want to hear about his magical unicorn riding abilities.  Are you guys actually recycling obamabot eructations now?) but he’d have to work very hard to be more awful than Woodrow Wilson and we survived that.  Even if we’re still living with his legacy.  This will just make it harder to escape it.  But we will.  Eventually. This Is Not The End.

YES, THAT POOR NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON, ENDURING ALL THAT LIONIZATION: How US academia steers black students out of science.

THE LITTLE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE: GOP Debate Drunkblog: The Wrap.

THAT WORD DOESN’T MEAN WHAT THE LEFT THINKS IT MEANS: What Is “Science”?

BUT OF COURSE: You can’t buy or sell guns in Facebook…unless you are Al-Qaeda.

IT’S A PITY THE TITLE ‘CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY’ IS USED UP: But this being Liberty Zone’s own Nicki that would be far more colorful and profane, anyway.  And in this case, her ah… colorful language (you have been WARNED.  Don’t like the language, don’t read it) is completely justified. Dear Establishment – I blame you!

OF COURSE HE DOES.  THESE ARE THE PEOPLE HE WAS TAUGHT TO REVERE.  WHAT ELSE DOES RED-DIAPER BABY MEAN TO YOU? Does Obama want to give Gitmo to the Castros?

ONLY BECAUSE THOSE OXYGEN TANKS ARE HARD TO PULL AND THE MOBILITY SCOOTERS DON’T TAKE WELL TO THE ROUGH STREETS. IN OTHER WORDS, “PROGRESSIVISM” IS AN IDEOLOGY OF OLD PEOPLE AND CHILDREN TOO YOUNG TO KNOW BETTER: Bernie Sanders’ revolution is missing revolutionaries.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE: The Paris climate deal won’t even dent global warming.

FUN WITH STATISTICS: How academia whitewashes Muslim honor killings.

CLASSICAL MUSIC ALSO GOT COOLER: Physicists Prove Classical Music Inhabits Separate Realm, Inaccessible To Humans.

THE FELON WHO RUNS: Federal Court Ruling Could Pave Way for Clinton Subpoena in Email Case.

ART JUST BECAME COOLER:  The unexpected math behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How Not to Get Killed by a Cow.

POSITIONAL GOOD: Taking offense is a kind of conspicuous consumption.

NEVER TRUST A GOVERNMENT WITH AESTHETICS: $4 billion buys the world’s ugliest commuter-rail stop.

STRANGELY, THIS IS AN IMPROVEMENT: Obama’s foreign policy now boils down to ‘let’s pretend’.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How to Bake Ancient Roman Bread Dating Back to 79 AD: A Video Primer

THEY HAVE TO HAVE SOMETHING IN STATES WHERE UNLIKE COLORADO THEY DON’T HAVE VOTE BY MAIL TO HELP FUDGE THINGS: The Obama Administration Wants to Make Sure Non-Citizens Vote in the Upcoming Election.

PERHAPS THERE IS HOPE FOR SMOD 2016! Largest fireball since Chelyabinsk falls into the ocean: Nasa reports huge explosion of seven meter space rock over the Atlantic.