I DON’T CARE FOR THE NEW STYLES IN DOOR HANDLES: NHTSA Is Looking Into New Regulations Around Door Handle Safety: After several crashes where doors couldn’t be opened, U.S. regulators are assessing whether further rules are needed. I want mechanical door handles, not something at the mercy of a single fuse.
July 28, 2026
I WAS IN FAIRBANKS THIS TIME OF YEAR AND IT WAS IN THE 80s: Winter Weather Warning Issued as Up to 6 Inches of Snow, 11-Degree Wind Chills Hit in July.
I CAN IMAGINE QUITE A BIT… BUT NOT THAT MUCH: Imagine Thinking More Gun Control is the Answer to California’s Crime Problem.
Tragically, a murderer opened fire at a Fourth of July weekend block party in Compton, California earlier this month, killing 37-year-old Eric Washington and 19-year-old Meah Bordenave-Jenkins and wounding three others. The victims and their loved ones deserve justice. Police arrested one suspect, 54 year-old Antoine Jones, two weeks later and charged him with murder in Bordenave-Jenkins’ death. He deserves prosecution and punishment to the fullest extent of the law. The suspect in Washington’s death is still at large.
California state Democratic Assemblymember Mike Gipson, however, quickly used this latest tragedy to call for…stronger state and federal gun control laws. He cited background checks, age restrictions and so-called “red flag” laws as “basics” that would reduce criminal violence.
The problem with Assemblyman Gipson’s demands, though, is that California already has all three.
Yes, but the next law, fee, tax, restriction, or requirement will work for sure.
DISPATCHES FROM THE OCCUPIED ZONES:
Last week, my mom got a "pied-a-terre" tax notice. She has lived full-time in her townhouse FOR 30 YEARS (she and my dad bought it for under $1 million). She has no other residence.
Is NYC not bothering with basic checking of its own tax lists?
She's 81 and has three weeks to… pic.twitter.com/aS9Nam5Htf
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 27, 2026
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Plagiarism or jealousy? Youngest black professor in Cambridge history set to publish extraordinary life story — including how he couldn’t speak, read or write during childhood — as he’s now accused of copying others’ work.
Academia managed to rid itself of Claudine Gay but Arday was already on the rise.
The individual cases and names don’t really matter — the production of the proverbial, eternal Arday is the true reason for which the rest of it exists.
What did y’all think “inclusive… https://t.co/MM7Y72n4F9
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) July 28, 2026
Spy magazine used to call this “Logrolling in Our Time” back in the late ‘80s.
THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING AT BANE GROCERS: Begun, the Class War Has.
KEEP YOUR CLOTHES FRESH: Dr. Killigan’s Premium Clothing Moth Traps with Pheromones. #CommissionEarned
NEW MICHAEL CRICHTON NOVEL JUST DROPPED:
I had a dream last night that Michael Crichton was still alive and he wrote a book called “Two Weeks to Stop the Spread.”
The book’s main character was a megalomaniacal, narcissistic senior US health official who was using NIH funds to work with China to engineer a virus…
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) July 28, 2026
ISRAELI DEATHS THEY DIDN’T TELL YOU ABOUT: Few Americans have any idea of what it means to live in a place where the possibility of violent death is a daily reality. But that’s what it’s like living in Israel. Consider this graf from Richard Pollock’s latest column, “the ignored history of Palestinian terrorist attacks against unarmed Israelis” just during the present year:
“The sadness among Israeli families has been deep and ongoing. In 2026 alone, there were 59,583 bereaved Israeli family members: 8,420 bereaved parents, 4,872 widows, 14,430 orphans, and 31,814 siblings, according to the Jewish Virtual Library.”
OH FER CRYIN’ OUT LOUD: Women do more water chores due to ‘neocolonial gender blind spot,’ UCLA study says.
Society isn’t paying enough attention to how American women are disproportionately burdened by home tap water use, according to a new study from the UCLA Streisand Center’s Gender and Water research hub.
That’s when I thought I’d accidentally stumbled into a Babylon Bee article, but no:
Even though women in the study claimed not to be unfairly burdened, anthropology Professor Jessica Cattelino and her research team made the case that they still are.
The study “Gender and residential water use in Los Angeles: Ingrained, untapped, and porous,” was published in June in the journal Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. It followed 36 families in the Los Angeles area for several years, tracking their residential water use through interviews and water diary entries.
Related: Unintentional fatal injuries arising from unpaid work at home.
Unpaid work in and around the home is a common and potentially high risk activity, yet there is limited information about the circumstances surrounding resulting injuries. This study aimed to describe circumstances surrounding fatal injuries resulting from home duties activities, in order to identify and prioritise areas for prevention. Coroners’ reports on all unintentional deaths in Australia from 1989-92 inclusive were inspected to identify deaths of interest. Rates were calculated using population data and incorporating measures of time engaged in particular home duties activities. There were 296 home duties deaths over the four year period. Most (83%) deaths were of males, and males had 10 times the risk of fatal injury compared with females.
Care to trade, ladies?
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:
Academia managed to rid itself of Claudine Gay but Arday was already on the rise.
The individual cases and names don’t really matter — the production of the proverbial, eternal Arday is the true reason for which the rest of it exists.
What did y’all think “inclusive… https://t.co/MM7Y72n4F9
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) July 28, 2026
RABBI MICHAEL BARCLAY’S IRAN UPDATE: Back to the Negotiating Table?
WHEN WORDS BECOME VIOLENCE, CENSORSHIP STARTS LOOKING LIKE SELF-DEFENSE. A FIRE survey found 65% of Americans accept that idea at least slightly. That is how a free-speech culture starts talking itself into silence. I explain why
READER FAVORITE: Shark Clean & Empty Cordless Stick Vacuum. #CommissionEarned
21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: Tech Giants Voltron Up Against AI Safety Threats. “Nvidia and a host of tech giants on Monday launched a new artificial intelligence safety initiative focused on open models, as the fallout from a cyberattack committed by rogue OpenAI models continues.”
More:
A pretty extensive list of (mostly) American tech giants (NAVER and SK Telecom are South Korean companies, and SAP and Siemens are German). Hell, I’ve even worked for three companies on that list.
Notable omissions? OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, all of whom used closed rather than open AI models. Plus Apple, which made the conscious decision not to be a player in the AI space.
That’s an awful lot of collective brainpower to address the problem, but I wonder if the very size will make it unwieldy.
Also, I’m not sure how much I trust any of these guys — but there isn’t much choice.
HEH:
New Yorkers vacationing in Florida next year https://t.co/xoj2usF76C pic.twitter.com/ooKy2e3f09
— The Drunk Republican (@DrunkRepub) July 27, 2026
I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT AGAINST JOURNALISTIC ETHICS TO MAKE PROMISES IN ADVANCE ABOUT HOW YOU WILL COVER A STORY: Then again, this is the 2026 New York Times.
A PREHISTORIC SAUSAGE FEST? Toothy human ancestor may have traveled in all-male packs.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Could a Multivitamin Help You Age Better? Study Suggests Yes.
WOEING: Boeing posts wider loss than expected as Air Force One costs weigh on results. “Boeing took a $280 million loss on the program to deliver two 747s that will serve as the next-generation Air Force One aircraft to the U.S. government as it said it ramped up investment for that plane. It said it still expects the first delivery in 2028.”
The order was formalized eight years ago this month — following a 2017 handshake deal — with delivery of the first aircraft due in 2024.
BEGUN, THE BUTLERIAN JIHAD HAS: School District Pauses Plans to Deploy Humanoid Robots in Class After Outcry.
“BRITISH” DOES AN AWFUL LOT OF WORK IN THIS POST:
British Islamic scholar Abu Ibraheem says:
“A woman must not show herself. Even full niqab is not enough if her eyes can be seen. A man will see them and get turned on. Allah made men this way. It takes a certain type of woman to go and put her picture online.”
Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/6lxWKwibes
— Shunya (@Shunyaa00) July 27, 2026
THANK YOU FOR SHOPPING AT BANE’S GROCERY: NYC: Begun, the Class War Has.
