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Dem convention transforms women's restrooms into 'all gender' ones

Dems build wall around [convention] podium

Charges to be dropped against remaining officers in Freddie Gray case

FACEBOOK fails to show up for 7th IRS tax audit

Massive Great White swimming in Cape Cod shallow waters

CIA Official: Foreign gov'ts have contents of Clinton server

Would-be Reagan assassin to be freed after 35 years

Obama expanding refugee program for Central Americans

[Black] Democrat Congressman compares Jews to termites

Soviet Flags, Palestinian Flag, no U.S. Flags [at Democrat Convention]

Commuters 'scared' by growing homeless encampments at NYC Penn Station ...

Normandy: Jihadist Mosque next door to beheaded priest's church

Modern Dance

The octogenarian U.S. veterans who attended the D-Day memorial service on Sword Beach in Normandy, France today could not figure it all out … nor can I … particularly the slow-motion modern dancers' miming soldiers falling in combat. See the whole sorry show here: C-Span Video (it's a little long).  Even our gum-chewing President seemed bemused.

Interpretative dance has always left me gelid. As a young man, I saw the last ballet personally danced by a creaky old Martha Graham and I could hardly believe what I was seeing. The artsy-fartsy audience was in awe and I was in awful. And I got exactly this same feeling during this dreadful attempt at remembering all the untold sacrifices of D-Day. To me, solemn occasions cannot be prettified. (I think Abraham Lincoln felt the same way.)

Perhaps Japan might next remember Hiroshima with a rock concert?