BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS:  Homelessness isn’t the real problem … it’s feral humans.

THE UK IS NOT NOW A FREE COUNTRY:  Why UK crime victims’ families always sound so similar talking to the media.

WHAT AN EXCELLENT IDEA:  Imagine Doing Legislative Trials Like We Do Drug Trials.

PROBABLY GOOD:  Trump administration pushes tougher English rules for Mexican train crews crossing into the US.

INTERESTING:  Liberal court stuns with ruling that hands Trump major immigration win.

MY HUSBAND GOT TIRED OF WATCHING ME UPLOAD MEMES ONE BY ONE LIKE A DIGITAL JUAN VALDEZ:  A giant Leap For Memes.

OPEN THREAD: Do that comment voodoo that you do so well.

STACY MCCAIN: “Family Demands Answers.” “Say hello to Bryan Axel Ramirez Gomez and, while you’re at it, go ahead and say good-bye, because young Mr. Gomez shuffled off this mortal coil in February, after deciding to start a shootout with police in Elkhart, Indiana, which lasted only three seconds. . . . In this case, despite Gomez having the tactical advantage of firing the first shot, the two cops between them fired 10 shots in three seconds, and scored three hits. The officers were justified, and as for the ‘family demands answer,’ well, they got their answer — not the one they wanted. There won’t be any wrongful death lawsuit. Ben Crump won’t be showing up.”

Plus: “Superior marksmanship by cops may seem like an unfair advantage to criminals who lose shootouts, but it’s not brutality.”

SAME: Bill Maher Ends Anti-Communist Rant by Saying He’d Vote for Sarah Palin Over DSA-Aligned Dems.

JOHN SEXTON: A Reflecting Pool Postscript.

VIDEO: SpaceX’s Starship seen in space by next-gen Starlink satellite (video).

WHY IS HE GOING WOBBLY?

I’m pretty sure that’s not what we voted for. . . https://t.co/SiwE6kuzRz

— Ned Ryun (@nedryun) August 1, 2026

UPDATE:

The head of DHS should be a bloodthirsty savage who’s so passionate about removing foreigners that the president has to hold him back and tell him to tone it down.

Instead we’re stuck with this loser. https://t.co/j0OSimzfZJ

— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) August 1, 2026

THEY’RE REALLY ANNOYING: There’s One Creature of The Deep That Can Scare Even Orcas Away. “Just the hint of a squeal from a pod of long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) can send orcas packing. And the best part is that nobody really knows why.”

You hear that squeal and they’ll be up in your grill trying to sell you a time-share before you know it.

DON SURBER: Heaven and Hell.

KILL YOUR TELEVISION: Scientists Link Heavy TV Watching to Brain Changes Decades Later.

WHEN THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE MEETS THE RELIGION OF PEACE:

I really don't think "You're lucky we've got paid security to prevent you being murdered by Islamists for speaking at the world's oldest and most prestigious bastion of free expression" is quite the pro-immigration flex you think it is, love. https://t.co/Kg1wuq1Hgj

— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) August 1, 2026

Evergreen:

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TOO MUCH PROTEIN? WORDS NOT MAKE SENSE. Eating Too Much Protein? It Could Age You Faster If You’re Sedentary.

DISPATCHES FROM THE HARRIS ADMINISTRATION:

Oh forgot one.

3. And the sudden rise of Sophie Cunningham.

— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) August 1, 2026

REVIEW: Toyota 4Runner Vs. Jeep Grand Cherokee Vs. Ford Bronco: Which One Is The Most Off-Road Ready? There’s One Clear Winner.

TRIGGERNOMETRY INTERVIEWS THE CRITICAL DRINKER: “I define [Christopher Nolan’s] Odyssey as a hero’s journey with no hero.”

At about 7:30 into the interview, co-host Francis Foster says, “I’m just going to pick a movie year at random something like 1996 would [The Odyssey] even have been talked about as much would it have been hyped as much, would everybody be as energized or would it just simply be seen as just another big budget Hollywood movie which is all right but let’s be honest nothing special. Maxim would have given it three out of five stars.”

Funny you said 1996, because yesterday, Clifton Duncan tweeted this collage of absolutely terrific movies from the previous year:

These all came out in 1995.

A big reason people are nostalgic for this era is that even if you only saw one movie a month, you could still see 12 bangers per year.

And it made our lives infinitely better. pic.twitter.com/eGT4q1kQR7

— Clifton Duncan (@cliftonaduncan) July 31, 2026

It wasn’t the studio system of the 1940s, but I miss the reliability of assembly-line Hollywood of the 1980s and ‘90s. If only there was a way to recreate either system.

TO BE FAIR, THE POPE IS A MAN AND HE’S NO BETTER:

It should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that the first female Archbishop of Canterbury is the one to commit the Church of England to a £100 million reparations fund for slavery. https://t.co/NQ9AZh8p6e

— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) August 1, 2026

Also, Cape Coast Castle is where slaves were sold. Shouldn’t Ghana be paying reparations for that?

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MARK JUDGE: Emily Wilson’s Odyssey Review and the Snowflake Entertainment Press.

Christopher Nolan‘s new film The Odyssey is a box-office hit. But University of Pennsylvania classics scholar Emily Wilson, who published her own translation of Homer’s epic in 2017, says Nolan’s script is poorly written and lacking in emotional depth and character development. And, she adds, there are no sex scenes — and all the food looks horrible.

“We need to have a protagonist with detailed, believable motivation,” Wilson says. “[But] these desires seem stripped from Odysseus. He doesn’t seem to want food. He doesn’t seem to want sex. What does he want?”

“He’s clever … and smart and therefore a fascinating character,” Wilson says. But, she adds, “the movie gives us a version of Matt Damon as Odysseus, who is not required to be smart, instead he’s just constantly troubled by anxiety about his role in the Trojan Horse and the Trojan War. … That’s a shame.”

Nolan wrote the script for The Odyssey himself, which Wilson feels may have been a mistake: “I do think that it would have been better if Nolan had hired a scriptwriter, because that would have solved a lot of the issues.”

It’s a good film and well worth seeing on the biggest screen near you – but it could have been so much more.

I AGREE: Crossing a State Line Shouldn’t Cancel Your Second Amendment Rights.

We need a federal law saying that anyone who is entitled to possess a firearm under federal law can be fined, at most, $100 (willing to go as low as $50) as the sole penalty for violating any state firearms law.