DINGY ENTERTAINMENT EVENTUALLY CONTAMINATES YOUR THOUGHTS AND WORLD VIEW:  Dingy.

IT KEEPS THE STRONG FROM PREYING ON THE WEAK:  The Gun is a Civilizational Technology in the Deepest Sense.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Even the left is now flagging the gross bias at America’s universities.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

SGT. FAUCI’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND:

NEW: On page 302 of the new personal records of Dr. Fauci released by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Fauci complains that in 2013, HHS didn't let him do a CNN television interview because of "pure jealousy", adding that it was because he's a "rockstar" who was "stealing their thunder." pic.twitter.com/Ue1JtefVph

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) July 27, 2026

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight.

META GLASSES BANNED BY COMIC-CON PROMOTER AFTER ‘SECRET FILMING:’

The promoter behind some of the biggest comic and entertainment conventions in the UK has banned Meta glasses from its events to stop “secret filming” of guests and attendees.

Monopoly Events said a number of guests had told the company they would be reluctant to appear at Comic-Con shows again after cases of recordings taking place without their knowledge.

The ban is applicable to Meta glasses and any other “wearable recording devices”.

Attendees caught using the devices will be asked to leave the convention, but some fans on social media warned the move could negatively affect disabled attendees.

Devices like Meta glasses feature an almost invisible camera in the frames, with small speakers in the arms.

Wearers can record video or take a photo by touching the frame – usually activating a light on the glasses in the process.

In a social media statement, Monopoly Events said: “After a consultation period we can no longer permit the wearing of any recording device at our events.

But how will the Kenyans who review the photos taken by Meta Glasses be able to virtually attend Comic-Con?  Meta Glasses Send Nude, Bathroom Photos Unknowingly to Kenyan Workers for Review.

VDH: Dr. Fauci and Mr. Science.

The Fauci files reveal not just a sociopathic narcissist, but also a pathological schizophrenic.

For years, Fauci was assuring the public of Covid narratives that he either knew were untrue, or knew little about.

He posed as a non-partisan, even as he collaborated with the leftwing cable news grandees and liberal columnists to hound his enemies and magnify his godhead.

From the virus’s origins and effects of the lockdowns, to the efficacy of the mRNA vaccinations to the always changing 0/1/2 masks wearing protocols, Fauci used his massive government agency, and sycophantic media, to promote his always fluid narratives by punishing enemies and rewarding friends—on the basis of their loyalty to Dr. “I represent science”.

He seemed to be obsessed with firing White House Covid advisor Scott Atlas, and demonizing Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta and Martin Kulldorff—for the crimes of questioning the Fauci party line. These critics were not radical “let it rip” herd immunologists as the Fauci camp caricatured them, but circumspect, cost-to-benefit doctors and savvy health policy analysts. Their views, if embraced, might have avoided a multibillion-dollar global shutdown that wrecked economies—especially derailing the booming 4th quarter 2019 Trump economy—increased the death toll, destroyed millions of livelihoods, harmed perhaps permanently the education of millions U.S. children, and was hardly based on the “science”.

But why wouldn’t Fauci have wanted a wrecked economy in an election year?

DAMN. In early 2020, Fauci recorded in his diary how much he was able to make the stock market drop with his lie that covid was 10x more deadly than the flu.

At the same time, in the same diary, he wrote that covid wasn't any more deadly than the seasonal flu.

While he was… pic.twitter.com/a049NU3TZ2

— Tara Servatius (@TaraServatius) July 27, 2026

Tweet concludes, “While he was going on TV saying the opposite to terrify the public into shutting down the economy. It was all a lie designed to take out Trump’s most formidable weapon for reelection: his booming economy.”

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY:The Odyssey Translator Emily Wilson Slams Christoper Nolan’s ‘Abysmal’ Screenplay: ‘I Would Be Ashamed to Have Written Any Part of This Script.’

Christopher Nolan cited Emily Wilson’s 2017 translation of “The Odyssey” as an influence on his own interpretation of Homer’s epic poem while on the press tour for his latest blockbuster. Wilson is not returning the favor. In a negative review of Nolan’s “The Odyssey” for the London Review of Books (via The Guardian), Wilson criticized Nolan’s adaptation for lacking “psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth.” The author, who is also a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, added that Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has “nothing convincing to say.”

“I had hoped that Nolan’s affinity with these Homeric themes might push him to new creative heights, and enable him to conjure more believable characters. But ‘The Odyssey’ features his usual combination of grandiosity and superficiality … the film’s vision is too confused, its characters too underdeveloped, to deliver what it half-promises in terms of big ideas – although it is very good at conveying big bangs and big giants,” Wilson’s scathing review reads.

She adds: “Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ lacks many of the elements that make the poem great. It has nothing convincing to say about time, memory, history, war, or about the relationship between one warrior’s glorious return and the lives of his family, adversaries, comrades, friends and neighbors. It lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth. Its narrative structure is gimmicky. The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.”

Exit questions:

It’s pretty funny to me that before The Odyssey came out, there were a bunch of people saying, “Nolan used the super woke Emily Wilson translation so you know it’s going to be woke trash!” and now you can play a really tough game of, “Was this said by Emily Wilson or Matt Walsh?”

— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) July 27, 2026

UGH: Drug-Resistant Bacteria May Be Jumping Between Pets And Humans, Scientists Warn.

I DON’T TRUST ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS: One Common Sweetener May Increase Stroke Risk by Damaging The Brain’s Protective Barrier.

THOSE THINGS HAVE MOSTLY BEEN OVERSOLD, I THINK, BUT OKAY: THC-CBD Treatment Dramatically Reduces Agitation in Dementia Trial.

FLASHBACK: Jane Austen’s Fight Club.

THINK OF IT AS EVOLUTION IN ACTION: The Benadryl Challenge Isn’t Going Away — Here’s How Public Health Officials Are Trying To Stop This Deadly Viral Trend.

GOOD: Trump Asks Supreme Court to Allow Order Restricting Mail Voting: The Trump administration asks justices to intervene after an appeals court blocked key parts of a mail-in voting executive order.

OUT: MUSCLE CAR. IN: MUSCLE TRUCK: 2026 Roush Nitemare First Test: The 705-HP Ford F-150 That Drives Like a Muscle Car.

COLOR ME DUBIOUS: Is Alpha School for real? “Alpha School claims that students can master academics in two AI-powered hours a day, equaling the achievement at elite schools, writes Robert Pondiscio. He wants it to be the ‘educational breakthrough’ we need. But he wonders: Is Alpha School for real?”

ICYMI: GENERATION IRON RICE BOWL: China’s Best and Brightest Bet on Beijing, Not Business.

BE SAFE: Prepared Hero Emergency Fire Blanket. #CommissionEarned

“COMMON SENSE GUN CONTROL” MEANS HITTING YOUR TARGET: Sorry, Gun-Grabbers, We’ve All Seen Where Those ‘Common Sense’ Proposals Lead.

ANTISOCIAL MEDIA: The Woman Who Wasn’t There. “Lots of women evidently like looking at middle-aged Instagram/TikTok/YouTube ‘influencers’ who have managed to stay young and trim. One influencer’s secret? Not existing.”

What really stood out is how Instagram chooses to deal with the problem of AI-generated influencers: “Every time their algorithm suggested some ‘popular influencer’ for my feed I merely blocked them. After a few weeks Instagram killed my account because it said I was ‘violating site rules’ or something.”

WHO’D’A THUNK IT? Bombshell Documents Point to China Blackmail Efforts Targeting Biden Family.

SCOTT PINSKER: The Great MAGA Reversal on Ukraine: How Helping Zelensky Became ‘America First.’

GET ENOUGH MAGNESIUM: BIOptimizers Magnesium Breakthrough Supplement with 500mg. #CommissionEarned

“YOU CHOSE … POORLY”: FIRED: Nurse Who Called Jews “Hooknose Hymies”, Said They Pray To “Satanic Star”.