OPEN THREAD: Tuesday’s groovy.

AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE, IT’S HITTING HARD HERE IN DOLLY COUNTRY:

An apt day to remember that Dolly Parton once recorded a cover of Stairway to Heaven – and, in defiance of every moral law in the universe, she absolutely owned it. pic.twitter.com/rpeIUuumaC

— Daniel Hannan (@DanielJHannan) August 25, 2026

Meanwhile, at my house:

This picture of Dolly is in my dining room. She makes us smile. RIP dolly. pic.twitter.com/X3hSAjcmPf

— Helen Smith (@HelenSmithPhD) August 25, 2026

Flashback: Dolly Parton on the Cas Walker show on local Knoxville TV 1967.

Plus, 14 year old Dolly Parton in Fountain City, Knoxville.

NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER SURRENDER: It’s been 20 years since Pluto lost planet status. Will it ever get its title back? The debate as to whether Pluto is a dwarf planet, or a fully fledged planet, continues to rage.

SUGAR ISN’T GOOD FOR YOU: These Babies Grew Up With Strict Sugar Limits. Decades Later, The Results Are Dramatic. “Compared with the babies who didn’t experience sugar rationing, the babies who were sugar-rationed for their first 1,000 days were 69 percent less likely to develop liver cancer in their adult lives. They also saw reduced incidence of prostate cancer (52 percent lower), lung cancer (41 percent lower), rectal cancer (40 percent lower), and breast cancer (36 percent lower). The sugar-rationed babies also tended to show longer telomeres – the caps at the ends of chromosomes that protect our genetic material, which are linked to longevity.”

THIS ARTICLE IS ILLUSTRATED WITH A PICTURE OF A HAMBURGER, THOSE AREN’T ULTRAPROCESSED: Ultra-Processed Foods Linked to 30% Higher Prostate Cancer Risk.

GLP NATION: The 4 best GLP-1-friendly meal delivery services in 2026, tested and reviewed by a dietitian.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Cruise experts reveal 10 foods you should never eat on board — and most passengers eat them anyway.

HMM: Revealed: 2028 Genesis GV90 Brings Coach Doors and Concept-Car Luxury to the Real World.

WHEN SECONDS COUNT, THE POLICE ARE ONLY MINUTES AWAY: Homeowner’s Gun Works When Restraining Order Doesn’t. “Police later confirmed the obvious: the dead man had an active protective order barring him from the very address he’d chosen to invade. Paper and ink meant nothing to a genius who thought ‘restraining order’ was just a polite suggestion. Then again, a restraining order doesn’t enforce itself. Armed self-defense proved harder to ignore.”

IT’S OBVIOUSLY GLOBAL WARMING: Why are there suddenly so many devastating earthquakes?

THE NEW SPACE RACE: ‘You’ll see lights on the moon’: Billionaire space executive predicts moon commutes in the 2030s. “Voyager Technologies founder and CEO Dylan Taylor says off-world jobs could emerge much sooner than many people expect. Taylor told Fortune that spaceflight is nearing a new stage, shifting away from brief missions and toward a reality wherein living and working off Earth is routine. In his view, the next milestone is a lunar outpost, which he expects could arrive in the early 2030s.”

IT ALSO HELPS IF YOU DON’T KILL THE KIDS THAT YOU HAVE:

LIBERAL BABY BUST: Leftists aren’t having kids over mental health, stress while conservatives keep forming families: IFS studyhttps://t.co/PzsCjCiwPI

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) August 24, 2026

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Do You Actually Need to Avoid NSAIDs if You Have Ulcerative Colitis?

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Semianalysis Shows SpaceX Has Everything for10 GW 2027 AI Data Center Build.

All the people opposing earthbound data centers are just doing marketing for Elon. I’m cool with that, though I’m not sure all of them are.

WHENEVER THEY GET BUSTED, THEY CRY RACISM: Facing inaccuracy claims, historian Kerri Greenidge points to bias against black female scholars.

DIVERSITY PROBLEM: A UC Board of Regents member suggested that universities are failing their students due to a lack of ideological diversity among their faculty.

IT’S NOT GREAT: What Young Men Face Today. “Society didn’t just passively abandon young men. It actively went out of its way to destroy them, and succeeded.”

ROGER SIMON: Catherine Herridge Keeps Reviving Journalism. “Just when you think journalism has gone down the drain forever into the performative sewer, someone revives it with, of all things, facts. That someone is often Catherine Herridge.”

#JOURNALISM: The New York Times Is Weaponizing Islamophobia: The FBI says there are 7 times as many anti-Jewish as anti-Muslim hate crimes. Yet the New York Times is stoking a panic.

THERE ARE SOME AMONG THE OFFICE STAFF, BUT THEY’RE SECRETLY TRUMP VOTERS: Are There ANY Working Class People in the DSA?

Related: Daddy, Where Do Communists Come From?

EVERY INSTITUTION: “Signs of AI Authorship in Federal Appellate Opinions:” “Dozens of published circuit opinions show signs of AI writing. If courts are using AI, that’s promising—and worth getting right.”

SO IT IS WRITTEN, SO IT MUST BE:

The Memphis mayor is black. The COO is black. 60 percent of the city council is black. The police chief is black. The vast majority of people in leadership positions at every level are black. So naturally if something goes wrong in Memphis, it’s the fault of white people. https://t.co/MLy38bekbd

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 24, 2026

JIM TREACHER: Dems Celebrate Political Violence, Again.

HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT MEN AREN’T OUT THERE TELLING WOMEN THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO AN OPINION ON THINGS? Yes, men are allowed to opine about Lindsay Clancy.

I generally take such claims as evidence that the women’s opinions in question can’t stand up to rational discussion. Of course, one advantage of the current crazy years is that you can retort with “How dare you assume my gender?”

IT’S AS IF FEMINISTS ARE HYSTERICAL AND DIVORCED FROM REALITY:

Crazier still: it WAS written about Islam. Atwood was disgusted by what the Muslims were doing to women during the Iranian revolution and she imagined that happening here. https://t.co/AMDA4cFcc3

— Gavin McInnes (@Gavin_McInnes) August 24, 2026

Related:

Can someone explain why a member of the audience was penalized and not the bratty, attention-seeking player who was more interested in chasing clout than points?
Maybe the WNBA should just get rid of all their female players and let the men play. The league obviously doesn't… https://t.co/UgmDJDGfde

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) August 24, 2026