If you thought Pizzagate was absurd, just wait til you hear about QAnon. It’s everywhere. It’s nonsense. The short summary is that people think that almost everyone except Trump is a pedophile. They seem to be divided on whether Mueller is in league with the pedos, or actually working with Trump to use the Russia investigation as a cover to prove that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are actually trafficking child sex slaves in collaboration with Chrissy Teigen. I’m not linking to any of it, but Roseanne Barr is a serious believer in the meshugas.
Political correctness is out of control
Texas: High schools violate law, deny students opportunity to register to vote
New York: County clerk refuses wedding license to gay couple
Louisiana: Man asks police to show warrant, so they choke him to death.
Mississippi: People keep shooting the Emmett Till memorial.
Massachusetts: Police called on a Smith College student for eating lunch while black.
Virginia: Senate candidate Corey Stewart is a white nationalist. The New York Times won’t say it.
California: Sikh man beaten by racist attackers… while posting a campaign sign for a Republican.
National: Turns out leftists get fired for their opinions more than right-wingers.
… The “campus free speech” crisis is somewhat manufactured. Conservative student groups invite speakers famous for offensive and racially charged speech — all of the above speakers fit that bill — in a deliberate attempt to provoke the campus left. In other words, they’re trolling. When students react by protesting or disrupting the event, the conservatives use it as proof that there’s real intolerance for conservative ideas.
Much-delayed hatchet jobs
It’s been a while since I insulted David Brooks in this newsletter, so let’s reminisce about the time that America’s greatest diagnostician of moral decay left his wife for his much-younger assistant. And their wedding registry was public. And they asked for very, very, very expensive designer tableware.
I have spent the last eight months at a special sanitarium for people who read too many bad Op-Eds. There were mountains, a lake. It was peaceful there.
— Ralph Douthat (@ralphdouthat) August 3, 2018
Cultivating joy
Roughly 100 goats escaped from a goat-rental service and went to frolic in suburban yards. (Also, you can rent goats. Mostly for weed control, but also because they’re hilarious.)
These cats.
This dad.
Also:
Lemurs self-medicate by rubbing toxic millipedes over their bottoms https://t.co/UDmJzliy9n pic.twitter.com/eX1o2SMtiW
— New Scientist (@newscientist) August 2, 2018
Secretly Ironic 