Here's the first surprising fact about this year's Emmy Awards: Comedy Central won more Emmys than the four major networks combined. And here's a second fact, this one made less surprising once you've heard the first: Last night's Emmys drew its smallest audience on record. The Emmys also undid one ongoing surprise; the long history of defeats for Jon Hamm who finally took home his first Emmy win last night. (It was the least we could do for a guy who played the most iconic character of an era.)

+ Quartz calls Jon Hamm's overdue Emmy a case study on how to overcome career failure. (Step one: Be remarkably good looking.)

+ "The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity." On a night that celebrated diversity, Best Actress Viola Davis gave the speech of the night. And Jeffrey Tambor dedicated his award to to the transgender community. "Thank you for your courage. Thank you for your stories. Thank you for your inspiration." (I love Jeffrey Tambor, but Donald Trump deserved best actor in a comedy series.)

+ "Only recently I've started to feel like myself again, which means that a whole lot of y'all women are going to get pregnant at the after-party." Tracy Morgan returns a year after a brutal car crash with a line that (for those not familiar with his comedy) translates roughly as, my brain is feeling a lot better.

+ For those scoring at home, it was HBO's night, led by a record haul for Game of Thrones, and several trophies for Veep and the must-see Olive Kitteridge. Here's a list of all the winners.

Let's start with this caveat: "Researchers acknowledged the possibility of an overstated victimization rate, as there was evidence that hundreds of thousands of students who ignored the electronic questionnaire were less likely to have suffered an assault." With that out of the way, let's move on to the disturbing numbers in a huge survey that found that about one out of every five female undergrads at top schools have suffered a sexual assault.

"At night we can hear them screaming, but we're not allowed to do anything about it." From the NYT's Joseph Goldstein: U.S. soldiers told to ignore sexual abuse of boys by Afghan allies.

+ "After the sixth suicide in his old battalion, Manny Bojorquez sank onto his bed. With a half-empty bottle of Jim Beam beside him and a pistol in his hand, he began to cry." Also in the NYT, Dave Phillipps takes a hard look at a Marine battallion devastated by suicides. If I were an investigative reporter looking into the rise of suicides among military vets, I'd follow the trail of prescription psychopharmaceutical drugs. Other wars have been terrible, but today's suicide rates are going through the roof. What's changed?

Volkswagen has taken a hit in the press and a bigger hit in the stock market as the company admits to "fitting some of its U.S. diesel vehicles with software that turns on full pollution controls only when the car is undergoing official emissions testing." Maybe they can blame the software glitch on a VW Bug.

At long last I'm finally able to link to the the definitive guide to the meaning of the rise of Donald Trump -- and (spoiler alert) a look at the exact location where the story will end. (Sidenote: I wrote this article.)

"Hello, my name is Brad Pearson. In March 2006, you were one of three people who kidnapped me in West Philadelphia." In Philly Mag, a reporter reaches out to those who once kidnapped him and gets some responses. What happened after my kidnapping?

"The United States enjoyed unmatched technological superiority on the battlefield. That advantage, though, is now dissipating. China and Russia have invested heavily in new systems. ISIS is using hobby-style drones for reconnaissance. Rebels in Syria are using iPads to aim mortars. Equipment like this was once prohibitively expensive. Now you can get a lot of what you need off the shelf." So the military is looking for a new technological edge. And if you're looking for that, you head for Silicon Valley. California Sunday Magazine on the new front. Can the Pentagon do business with Silicon Valley?

+ TechRepublic: How trolls, hackers and spies are rewriting the rules of conflict.

Last week I suggested that abortion would be the key front in in the political culture wars in 2015 (of course that was before the scourge of teenage clock-making reared it's ugly head). But here's the thing about the abortion debate. Americans' opinions rarely change.

I'm from the Bay Area and I've been investing for years, so I've seen my fair share of pitches. But I've never been pitched to invest in a 119 member girl group. Apparently, the West Coast doesn't dominate in all areas of venture capital. From Bloomberg's Alexandra Ho: China VCs Are Going Crazy for Girl Groups. (If your group has 119 members, at least that answers a favorite Silicon Vallley VC concern: Will it scale?)

+ THR: "A Tokyo court found the 17-year-old to be in breach of the celibacy clause common in the contracts of so-called idol groups in Japan."

TechCrunch reports that Snoop Dogg is launching a pot information and lifestyle site called Merry Jane, which will be "will serve as an information hub for everyone interested in pot, whether it be the noob or the seasoned smoker." (Let me save you a visit to this or any such pot information site with a simple tip: Light one side, suck from the other, and STFU.)

+ Researchers found that giraffes are spending their evenings humming to one another at a sound frequency too low for humans to hear. (Some nights, I wish my kids spoke giraffe.)

+ If you live in Japan, there's a new service that allows you to rent out a person to come over and cry with you and wipe away your tears. (That was basically my experience with Kozmo bike messengers during the Internet bust.)