Just because he’s traveling across America on a quest to meet someone from every state and occasionally drop in for dinner and a chat, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg isn’t running for president — it’s just a personal challenge he set for himself.
So there’s no reason to think Zuckerberg is planning a run in 2020 just because he’s hired as a consultant Democratic pollster Joel Benenson, who advised President Obama and was a chief strategist of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign…

As Twitchy reported, Senior White House Adviser Stephen Miller got into it with CNN’s Jim Acosta at today’s White House press briefing, with critics declaring Miller a Nazi and a white supremacist over his immigration policy, which would require prospective green card recipients to learn English.
For his part, Acosta paraphrased “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus as if it were U…

Even beginning runners tend to settle into the stride that is most efficient for them, a new study found.

New data suggests the rise of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases may be tied to a scarcity of traditional mouse predators.

Periodontal disease was associated with an increased risk of esophageal and gallbladder cancers, cancers of the breast and lung, and melanoma.

We’d suggest that in the future wars will be fought not on the battlefield but on social media, but it looks like it’s already happening. It was weird enough watching officials from Norway and Denmark squabble online over which country was the true homeland of trolls, but now Russia and Ukraine are getting into it.
As Twitchy reported, Russia’s official Twitter account responded to a new batch of sanctions signed into law by President Trump by issuing a sort of threat, accompanied by what looks like an ad for a Renaissance fair…

Where is the line between normal parental instinct — that natural drive to keep our children safe — and true mental disorder?

Researchers have found a way to reliably remove disease-causing mutations from human embryos, an achievement sure to renew concerns over so-called designer babies.

Dinesh D’Souza’s new book “The Big Lie” is now available, and Larry the Cable Guy gave it a rave review after reading it. Well, reading it in a way:

My buddy Dinesh wrote another book and I gotta say it's really an eye opener. I loved it. Ok my wife read it to me. https://t.co/hr1y0BhHwl
— Larry The Cable Guy (@GitRDoneLarry) August 2, 2017

Ha!
Plot twist:

Funny your wife reads your books and I write my husband's hahahaha
— Debbie D'Souza (@Debber66) August 2, 2017

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It’s a bit silly for anyone to ask in 2017 what your reaction would be if you were told [fill in the blank] was racist, because whatever it is, someone’s already declared it racist. The shock value and/or shame has long since worn off.
Case in point: a school district near Portland is dropping the name “Lynch” from three school buildings. Never mind that the land for the buildings was donated by a family named Lynch:

Oregon district to drop ‘Lynch’ from school names due to ‘racial implications’ https://t…