Blog Heap of Links for the day 26 August 2016

A man got lost while he was hiking in the mountains in Gimmelwald, Switzerland. A cat came up to him and showed him the way.…

I’m on the road bringing the Little Bookworm to college, but that doesn’t mean things stop here. Hotels have wifi and I have my friends Caped Crusader and Erich K to send me wonderful political posters. I’m not organizing them — that’s too hard with an iPad — but you’ll find they run the gamut from political to funny (and sometimes both at the same time). To the extent any of them purport to quote someone, I am not vouching for the veracity of the quotation.…

Doctors Sue Obama Administration for Forcing Them to Perform Gender Transition Procedures…
Organic Farms Yield 20% Fewer Crops than Conventional Farms…
University of Chicago to freshmen: We don’t do ‘safe spaces’…

An explosion at a sports center in Belgium leveled half the building and buried five people in the rubble. At least one person is thought to have died in the blast. The authorities don’t yet know the cause of the explosion, but they are certain there is no connection to terrorism. As of this writing, there’s no word on whether anyone shouted “Allahu Akhbar”, had a history of mental problems, or was bullied in school. Stay tuned.

In other news, during German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to Prague, an armed man driving a Mercedes tried to push his way into her motorcade, in a presumed assassination attempt. The man was arrested and is now in police custody.…

Fighters and residents leave besieged Damascus suburb Daraya…
North Korea claims it’s now able to nuke U.S. mainland…
Top French court rules Burkini bans violate basic freedoms…

Ithaca students want profs to teach diversity in every class…
Lies over “Allahu Akbar” Stabbing in Australia…
‘Intercultural’ campus event to offer safe-space nametags: Green means go, red means stranger danger…

The Nanny State, when will it end?…
Economy stumbling along…
Growing old sucks…

…On this day in 1346 the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armored knights was established at the Battle of Crécy. Modern historians are disputing this however and saying the deciding factor was not the longbow, but it was the mud.…

…Are you married to a man with a “Make America Great Again” hat? Do you live in terror that he’s just moments away from burning a cross on someone’s front yard?

You need the Hillary Clinton Racism Decoder Whistle!

This handy device can translate any innocuous statement into a frothing, Neo-Nazi clarion call.…

Much has been made about a supposed 'flip flop ' on amnesty for illegal aliens by Donald Trump.

This is sheer horse manure for the #nevertrumpers to wallow in, like they were actually going to vote for him anyway. Trump isn't remotely selling 'amnesty.' Far from it.…