A LOT OF ADULTS IN THE SAME BOAT: Today’s tech-addicted kids are stuck in a world of distraction.

FROM J.M. NEY-GRIMM:Resonant Bronze.

INCITING HATE AND DIVISION FOR MONEY: Welcome to the One True Church of Victimology.

THE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT: Why this man decided to become a goat.  And it’s reading stuff like this that causes my desk to have a head-shaped dent.

FAST AND FURIOUS IS NOT DONE AND OVER WITH: The scandal in Washington no one is talking about.  Apparently scandal is what we now call facilitating the murder of hundreds to make people give up their second amendment rights.  How … civilized we’ve become.

FROM BEN ZWICKY: Nobility Among Us.

IT WON’T TAKE. SOCIALISTS ARE ALERGIC TO HISTORY: Bernie Sanders says “Cubans never rose against Castro”–here’s a quick history lesson.

NOT UNIQUE. EVERY SOCIALIST REGIME ENDS IN THIS. ONLY THE DETAILS DIFFER: Meltdown in Venezuela: the anatomy of a ‘monstrously unique’ economic basket case.

MORE INFORMATION: EgyptAir: ‘Smoke detected’ inside cabin before crash.

IT’S OKAY, IT WILL ALL BE FORGOTTEN AND DENIED WHEN THE GENERAL COMES
AROUND: In fact, between the easily manipulated systems of absentee vote and early vote, I think we don’t so much have a voting system, we have a fraud system with occasional unintentional glimmers of honesty.  Kentucky is Just One Of Several States Investigating Voter Fraud.

THE REASON YOU CAN’T BRING MANUFACTURING JOBS BACK: Same reason you can’t bring publishing jobs back, or journalism jobs back. Making Micro Stuff In Micro Factories.

YOU COULD SAY IT’S YUGE: Epic Solar Power Fail Gets Even More Epic-er.

MAKING HUMANITY DEPENDENT ON MORE THAN THE MOTHER’S SAY SO SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA TO ME: Humanizing Aborted Fetuses Through Burial.

IT WAS DESIGNED TO DIE: New York enters the ObamaCare death spiral.

AND I FIND MYSELF THINKING WE’RE GOING TO SPACE, EVEN IF WE MUST WALK THERE SEEMS EMINENTLY SENSIBLE: Dr. Jerry Pournelle 2016 NSS Heinlein Award Acceptance Speech.

THERE IS NO CAKE THE CAKE IS A LIE: And it’s highly unlikely there will be a Collapse as I’ve seen anticipated.  What we’re facing is both more dangerous and less violent.

SAFE-ROOM GENERATION: School Board Votes to Ban Having Valedictorians Because the ‘Competition’ is ‘Unhealthy’.

SHOULD WE BE GRATEFUL IT’S NOT HER SYRIA PLAYBOOK?Hillary plans to use Iran playbook on N. Korea.

THEY NEED LESSONS ON BEING VICTIMS, I GUESS: New poll finds 9 in 10 Native Americans aren’t offended by Redskins name.

A REAL GENIUS? OR A BHO MEDIA PROCLAIMED SUPERGENIUS? How to make decisions like a genius.  Also, I’ve seen geniuses make decisions.  They dither a lot then forge forward arbitrarily, often with a frozen chicken under their arm.

AND THERE IT IS: A Tale of Two Plane Disasters.

BY NOW EVERYBODY EXPECTS THE ACADEMIC INQUISITION: Academic Mob Chases ‘Climate Change Contrarian’ Bjorn Lomborg Off Campus.

YES, INDEED, WHAT WE HAVE IS A SHORTAGE OF PEOPLE BEING FORCED TO WORK FOR FREE: Sotomayor Urges Mandatory Pro Bono for All Lawyers.

ER…  Jeeves and a Man called The Donald.  What next?  Black Adder, The Donald, and a Turnip?

THE ESCHEWING OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE IS RECENT AND LOCALIZED: The “Educational Beatdown”.