SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:31 P.M. ET: 

ONCE A GREAT COLLEGE – FROM CAMPUS REFORM:   Princeton University officials are encouraging male students to join a bi-weekly discussion group that aims to make them “tremendously vulnerable.”  Led by licensed psychologist Jean Semelfort, The Men’s Allied Voices for a Respectful & Inclusive Community (MAVRIC) Project recruits male-identified students to help them resist “traditional gender norms” and cultivate a more “healthy masculinity."  "We can’t dismantle the institutional privilege that men enjoy if we’re not willing to ask hard questions of ourselves about the privilege we’ve been granted in our own lives."  “We as men can unpack our own internalized ideas about what it means to be a man,” writes Carl Adair, the Princeton English professor who runs the blog for the MAVRIC Project.  Some of these sensitive souls should take a walk through Arlington National Cemetery, note the ages on most of the headstones, and ask themselves how much male privilege those young men had.

IMMIGRATION GETS A BAD NAME – FROM BREITBART:   The majority of white Americans and swing voters in 2018 swing districts say that change has made life “worse” in the U.S.  In the latest CBS News/YouGov poll, nearly 60 percent of white likely voters who see changes in their neighborhood from mass immigration said that immigration made their community “worse.” Only 15 percent of these voters said immigration has made American life “better.” These likely voters live in swing districts which could be swayed towards either the Republicans or Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections.  Likewise, the majority of swing voters in swing districts say immigration has been a detriment to their community, rather than a benefit, as immigration is often described by the political elite.  It's been said often that we are a nation of immigrants.  That's true, but immigration policies must be implemented carefully, and with respect for the population already here.  That hasn't been done in recent years, and the backlash is inevitable.

EVERYBODY'S GOTTA BE SOMEWHERE – FROM PAGE SIX:  Dennis Rodman — who Page Six reported this week has had an employee e-mailing online groups pitching Rodman as a start-up spokesperson leading up to his Singapore trip — has found a dope sponsor.  The former NBA star is going to Singapore during the President Trump-Kim Jong-un summit on the dime of marijuana cryptocurrency, Potcoin.  Rodman announced the news on Twitter Friday, saying, “I’ll give whatever support is needed to my friends, @realDonald Trump and Marshall [sic] Kim Jong Un.”  The image shows both world leaders pasted together with Rodman wearing sunglasses and a pink feather boa.  Aw, give the man a break.  At least he's being respectful, unlike the "celebrities" at the Tony Awards who cursed the president while he's on an overseas mission of peace.

June 10, 2018