'Shocker: alumni donations drop when colleges reinvent themselves as Orwellian daycare centers...'

Lolz.

That's Iowahawk on Twitter, snarking about this piece:

.@Instapundit College Students Protest, Alumni’s Fondness Fades and Checks Shrink. @PatriarchTree #SJWs https://t.co/oP6XC1AVXF

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) August 5, 2016

It's good.

Bill Only Got a Blowjob ... I'm Gonna F*ck the Whole Country...

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Samantha Hoopes Summer of Swim Beach Body Workout (VIDEO)

She's a cool chick.

Watch, at Sports Illustrated, "SI Swimsuit bombshell Samantha Hoopes teaches us that it's never too late to get a rocking Summer of Swim beach body."

BONUS: At the Blemish, "Samantha Hoopes — Breasts So Big They Don’t Fit Into This Pic." And on Twitter, "Samantha Hoopes topless see through Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2016."

You Can Rip My Cargo Shorts Off My Cold Dead Booty!

I don't care about freakin' fashion trends. I've got about five pairs of cargo shorts and they're not going anywhere. My wife loves 'em. I've got a big black booty that doesn't look good in skinny-dude Bermuda shorts.

That's just not gonna fly.

And now here comes a "debate" on the fashion-ability of the genre? Get out of here!

From Nicole Hong, at WSJ, "What Happened After I Wrote That Cargo Shorts Story."

Here's the earlier piece that kicked off the debate, "Nice Cargo Shorts! You’re Sleeping on the Sofa."

More, at Galore, "WHAT TO DO IF YOUR BOYFRIEND STILL WEARS CARGO SHORTS."

Even PC political scientist Dan Drezner weighs in, "A Very Important Post about … cargo shorts."

Vote Trump: Finally a Candidate with Some Balls!

In case you missed it, vulgar t-shirts at the video from yesterday, "WATCH: New York Times 'Uncensored' Video of 'Voices' from Donald Trump's Rallies."

All of a sudden things got real and raw in American politics, and the leftist media's gone nuts.

I do like that slogan though, heh.

Finally Someone with Balls‼️👍👏 pic.twitter.com/8qGK2GCRgo

— Villi Wilson (@Conservative_VW) March 15, 2016

Cara Delevingne for Esquire

Kurt Loder slammed Cara Delevingne as "out of her depth" in "Suicide Squad," but the young lady is still fine as an icon of the fashion runways.

At Esquire, "CHANGELING: The chameleonic Cara Delevingne is more than just a series of pretty faces."

And at London's Daily Mail, "Cara Delevingne poses naked for stunning magazine shoot.

#ThirdWorldGames

Heh, I gotta get #ThirdWorldGames trending.

Olympic beach water includes high levels of bacteria found in sewage, tests show. https://t.co/8Exi63ZQ9Z pic.twitter.com/UJs4YZujKg

— ABC News (@ABC) August 4, 2016

And tell me why again we're having a world-class athletic competition in that literal shit hole? #Rio2016 https://t.co/8qn7ccPbTU

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) August 4, 2016

Australian coach complains of 'soupy' pool water at #Olympics. https://t.co/MsTd4ZXmzc #Rio2016 #ThirdWorldGames

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) August 5, 2016

Great Piece from the Globe and Mail's Mark MacKinnon

Just click through and read it all at the link. It's quite perceptive, with a nice personal touch.

Brexit. Trump. Baton Rouge. Nice. Turkey. Syria. It's all connected. https://t.co/oDQVlFVCNq pic.twitter.com/TgFduqxGni

— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) July 29, 2016

Here's That Sarah Kendzior Piece Mentioned the Other Day

Louise Mensch was riffing about how we need to stop the Trump movement once and for all (just like the Democrats), so I tweeted Sarah Kendzior's piece to her.

Trump's campaign has mainstreamed extremism. This will remain even if he loses. https://t.co/TqqzoBIbkS pic.twitter.com/XRS9GnyoLk

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) August 3, 2016

Kendzior is wrong about a couple of things --- Corey Lewandowski did not "assault" Michelle Fields, for one thing --- but it's otherwise an interesting essay.

'Why the fuck does ESPN think men are tuning in to hear their priests-with-no-gods sermonizing? ...'

Heh.

A great piece, from Ace at AoSHQ, "Hardcore Social Justice Warrior Advocacy Channel With Occasional Highlight Reels of Home Runs Hemmorhaging Subscribers, For Some Reason."

Also, at Instapundit, "ESPN BECAME AIR AMERICA GRADUALLY, BUT PEOPLE HAVE NOTICED: ESPN Loses 4 Million Subscribers In Past Year."

New York Yankees Throw in the Towel Mid-Season

That's fine with me. I hate the Yankees.

But see the Wall Street Journal, "A New Yankees Tradition: Being Totally OK With Losing":

Eric Morris picked up his allegiance to the New York Yankees in the 1990s when the team began throttling the rest of baseball, winning four World Series titles in five seasons. He remembers the roar of the crowd, the champagne showers, the ticker-tape parades.

This season, Mr. Morris says he has fallen in love with the Yankees all over again, but for an entirely different reason—because they decided to trade away all of their best players and give up.

“I’ve been rooting for this for a few years now,” he said.

The imperial Yankees, the team that has come to define the aggressive, relentless pursuit of excellence in American sports, have finally looked down the barrel of a mediocre season and chosen to surrender.

On Sunday, the team announced it was trading pitcher Andrew Miller to the Cleveland Indians for a quartet of anonymous young prospects. The following day, it sent Carlos Beltran to the Texas Rangers. Those moves followed a July 25 trade that sent star pitcher Aroldis Chapman to the Chicago Cubs.

The Yankees aren’t the first proud, old American business, or even the first baseball team, to bow to the chorus of actuarial nagging. Baseball’s modern conventional wisdom teaches that the best way to build a winner is to take advantage of the lean years by trading your best players to contending teams in exchange for promising young talent.

But for years, the Yankees resisted that idea. The team’s brass found the idea of capitulation abhorrent. They preferred to stand pat, or to open their checkbooks to sign expensive stars who might help them stay competitive. Though they have only won the World Series once since 2001, they haven’t posted a losing record since 1992...

Meh.

I think it was the 1990s when I really began to loathe the Yankees, heh.

I'd rather watch the Mets.

And thank goodness the Angels didn't throw in the towel. There was talk of trading Mike Trout for a platoon of prospects, but that didn't happen. Phew.

Still more.

In the Mail: Karen Greenberg, Rogue Justice [BUMPED]

I was on campus yesterday, starting my syllabus prep for the fall semester, and I picked this up from my mailbox.

At Amazon, Karen J. Greenberg, Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State.

Aly Raisman

This young lady's looking good.

Practice makes perfect.

See @Aly_Raisman nail her landing at today’s podium training.

→ https://t.co/tLFht4oaW9 https://t.co/uQWW01Zoi8

— NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) August 4, 2016

Amy Walter at Cook Political Report: Election 2016? It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over

As I mentioned this morning, I'm bearish on the Trump campaign at this point. And just as much as anyone else, I know that it's a long season and lots can happen between now and November. And I also know that there's a lot of unknown variables that make predicting outcomes extremely risky, especially those based on current polling trends. What's mostly gotten to me is the leftist media's relentless attack strategy, which is so one-sided it's literally sickening. No, it's not Trump's fault, with his gaffes or whatever, that the press isn't covering Hillary and the administration's massive failures, scandals, and cover-ups. It's just what they do, and I'm reminding myself of how hard Andrew Breitbart used to hit the "Democrat Media Complex" for its corruption. Indeed, I was almost shocked at the practically extreme and brutal tirade he launched at the press corps during Sarah Palin's campaign rally in Anaheim in 2010. I wrote at the time, "Breitbart brought the crowd to cheering roars when he went straight at the press corps on top of the media stand beyond the crowd..."

So, I'm extremely skeptical of Donald Trump's chances right now and I'm almost given over to throwing in the towel. This morning I was just making light of all the polls on Twitter, engaging Louise Mensch, who's now trying to get me to retract my support for the Manhattan mogul. (And see, from earlier, "Donald Trump '24-Hours of Disaster' Screencap.")

But I'm not there yet.

Meanwhile, here's Amy Walter, at the Cook Political Report, "The 2016 Race Is Not Over."

Walter's a leftist, but she's an empirical numbers lady. I've always thought she was pretty fair overall. She apparently loathes Trump (if her Twitter feed is any evidence), but she's not ready to join the collective beat down announcing the Trump implosion.

Why it's too early to predict epic collapse for Trump
1) lots of unknowns, terrorism, wiki leaks to CGF to change focus from Trump to HRC

— amy walter (@amyewalter) August 3, 2016

3 reasons this race isn’t over: 1) unknown events; 2) 2 deeply disliked candidates; 3) voters not as plugged in as u https://t.co/IUgYQ8QaUd

— amy walter (@amyewalter) August 3, 2016

I have zero time/sympathy for Trump enablers who are 'shocked' & dismayed by his lack of discipline. Should come as NO surprise

— amy walter (@amyewalter) August 4, 2016

I'll have more, as always.

WATCH: New York Times 'Uncensored' Video of 'Voices' from Donald Trump's Rallies

I saw this at the NYT homepage at least a week ago, and rolled my eyes.

And according to Truth Revolt, for good reason.

See, "New York Times Edits Video of Trump Supporters Only Being ‘Angry, Provocative’."

NYT should make a video of anti-Trump voices and see how that turns out. Costa Mesa alone was enough to shock the nation. And then you had Sacramento, which was in some ways even more vicious.

FWIW, here's the video on YouTube, "Unfiltered Voices From Donald Trump's Crowds - The New York Times."

Britney Spears Flaunts Bikini Body in Hawaii

She's keeping in good shape.

At London's Daily Mail, "Beach bum! Britney Spears shows off her enviable figure in a red bikini as she enjoys bonding day with family."

Israel Charges World Vision's Gaza Director of Funneling Cash to Hamas

Shoot, we might as well open up Western banks for terrorists and their state-sponsor to walk in and clean house.

We're talking millions of dollars funneled to Hamas through so-called "humanitarian" NGOs.

I'd say it's a bloody joke, but it's much too deadly serious. It's Murder Inc.

At London's Daily Mail, "Israel alleges Gaza World Vision head sent millions to Hamas."

And at the Times of Israel, "Israel charges senior Gaza aid worker with funneling tens of millions to Hamas: Muhammad Halabi indicted in Israeli court."

Israel accuses manager of Christian aid charity of siphoning off $50m to Hamas militants https://t.co/eIBECL6B5Q pic.twitter.com/CjcYcNp3WH

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) August 4, 2016

Letter to my counterparts in world foreign ministries re #WorldVision revelations. #Hamas exploiting aid for terror. pic.twitter.com/wnXJ28aKDQ

— Dr. Dore Gold (@DoreGoldMFA) August 4, 2016

Zakaria Bulhan: London Somali Attack Suspect Identified as 19-Year-Old Who Was 'Bullied at School...'

Saw this just now, at London's Daily Mail. It always takes them forever to release the name of the suspect when it's a Islamic jihad attack.

See, "Somali Russell Square knifeman, 19, was 'a quiet shy pupil who was bullied at his London secondary school'..."

Also, at the Mirror U.K., "Teenage Russell Square attack suspect named after American killed and five others stabbed."

PREVIOUSLY: "'Mentally Ill Norwegian-Somalian' Somehow Creates 'Knife Bloodbath' in London's Russell Square," and "Yovel Levkowski, Beautiful Young Israeli, Stabbed by 'Norwegian-Somalian' in London Russell Square Attack."

Australian Cartoonist Bill Leak Accused of Racism

Heh.

I think it's a funny cartoon.

You needed a WHITE cop to be really racist, lol.

The drawing ran at the Australian, which is Murdoch-owned, hence the outrage.

At the Guardian U.K., "Bill Leak accused of racism in 'insulting' cartoon on Indigenous parenting."

this Bill Leak effort is basically a clean sweep for every racist stereotype you can cram into one cartoon pic.twitter.com/vIsdsE5LsY

— Josh Butler (@JoshButler) August 3, 2016

The Australian has defended *that* Bill Leak cartoon, calling his work "confronting and insightful" pic.twitter.com/6lp7dLcRRW

— Josh Butler (@JoshButler) August 4, 2016

Donald Trump '24-Hours of Disaster' Screencap

"24-hours"?

"48-hours"?

I don't think NBC's got an exact hour-count of Donald Trump's so-called "disaster," although Louise Mensch is getting a kick out of it.

At Heat Street, "Donald Trump – Quit, Or Trade The Apprentice For America’s Biggest Loser."

The Apprentice made the Donald’s career. He looked richer and tougher and smarter than he was. And he loved it. This pathological narcissist had all the attention he could eat, and ratings were through the roof.

They used to say that politics was ‘showbiz for ugly people’. But the Trump candidacy has made politics ‘ugly for showbiz people’.

Trump’s fight with the grief-stricken mother of a dead Muslim hero was only the last in a long line of failures, so long that NBC had to screen-cap them into 24 hours of disaster...

More at the link.

Louise is predicting a landslide defeat for the Trump campaign.

Okay.

Fox News is out with another national poll showing a double-digit lead for Clinton, so I'm convinced now that Trump's collapse is no fluke.

I'll be blogging some of those polls today, but flashback to yesterday at this time, "Reince Priebus and Newt Gingrich Reportly Planning 'Trump Intervention' After 'Disastrous 48 Hours'."

Maybe there's to be no "intervention" after all. See Politico, "Giuliani blames Gingrich for Trump 'intervention' reports." Also, "Trump campaign spins a brutal week: This is fine - There's plenty of time to make up ground, campaign chairman Paul Manafort says."

Yeah, well.

We'll see.