THIS LOOKS LIKE VAPORWARE TO ME, BUT I’D LOVE IT TO WORK: Is this the future of private jets? The world’s first electric vertical take-off and landing plane that you can fly out of your back garden. The “electric jet” engines aren’t jets at all but ducted fans.

THE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON:

SOCIALISM USUALLY WORKS BEST FOR THE NOMENKLATURA: Who would benefit most from Bernie’s free college plans? Rich kids.

OCEANIA HAS NEVER BEEN AT WAR WITH MONICA LEWINSKY: MSNBC whitewashes Clinton sex scandals as ‘allegations.’

Related: NBC Scrapped Story About Bill Clinton Rape Accuser Because She Didn’t Have ‘Anything New’ To Say.

More: Rap Sheet: The Women Who Claim to Be Victims of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

SERVERS TRASH CUSTOMERS IN PRIVATE NOTE ON CHECK — THEN FORGET TO DELETE IT:

At the bottom of check were two comments, each obviously typed into the system from the restaurant’s point-of-sale, or POS, system. The first: “im a plad a——.” The other: “i have a small penis.”

The former comment, despite misspelling “plaid,” was clearly a shot at the diner’s attire. The second, a cheap shot, period. The diners were not amused and immediately summoned a manager. The manager, in turn, summoned the server and another server who had apparently typed the comments into the system. The manager apologized and explained the servers were just joking with one another via the POS system. They meant to delete the comments before presenting the check.

The servers didn’t strike the offended diners as contrite. “I would say they seemed slightly embarrassed,” Matt said. “It wasn’t like, ‘We’re so sorry. This is unprofessional. We mean to treat our customers better.’ It was more like, sorry-this-is-embarrassing-it-was-a-joke sorry.”

The restaurant is Peter Chang’s in Arlington, VA. Make your dining plans accordingly.

See also: The Streisand Effect.

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PALIN DECLARES PAUL RYAN’S POLITICAL CAREER ‘OVER’ FOR NOT BACKING TRUMP YET.

THE TENNESSEE BUREAUCRACY STANDS UNIQUELY READY TO FIGHT AMERICA’S UNREGULATED SHAMPOOER MENACE, Glenn Reynolds writes in his latest USA Today column:

The single best anti-poverty program is a job. So why does government at all levels make it so hard to get one?

In my home state of Tennessee, for example, it takes 300 hours of training to be licensed to shampoo hair. That’s right: 300 hours. That training covers things like applying shampoo, rinsing and conditioning and answering the phone and taking appointments. Shampoo hair without a license, and you can get six months in jail.

Read the whole thing.

IT’S THE 21ST CENTURY. By now, you’d have thought everyone would have an atomic heart.

THE ART OF THE DEAL: Donald Trump Walks Back Tax Plan, Saying ‘It’s Going to Be Negotiated’

“By the time it gets negotiated, it’s going to be a different plan,” Trump told George Stephanopoulos on ABC News’ “This Week.”

In Trump’s tax plan, the wealthiest individuals would get a tax break, with the top tax rate dropping from 39.6 percent to 25 percent. But when pressed if he wants taxes on the wealthy to go up or down, he predicted that the top rate would be higher than the plan says.

“On my plan they’re going down. But by the time it’s negotiated, they’ll go up,” Trump said. “Look, when I’m negotiating with the Democrats, I’m putting in a plan. I’m putting in my optimum plan. It’s going to be negotiated, George. It’s not going to stay there. They’re not going to say, ‘There’s your plan, let’s approve it.’ They’re going to say, ‘Let’s see what we can do.'”

Does this mean that the presumptive Republican candidate has written off any chance of keeping the Senate in GOP hands?

UBER SHRUGS: Uber, Lyft halt Austin service after losing vote: “In a dispute that could play out in other cities, Uber and Lyft say new rules required on them in the Austin area, including fingerprinting of drivers, makes its hard for them to continue to follow their business models. The pullback becomes a de facto victory for the taxicab industry, which has seen ride-sharing services turn their business on its ear around the country.”

And yet Austin is frequently described as the “Progressive” corner of Texas.

As Brian Doherty warns at Reason, Austin’s “desire to fingerprint all drivers will drive the e-hailing companies out of the city.”\

UPDATE: Nobody covers all the bases like Austin! Council passes ordinance to delay criminal background checks.

Does Franz Kafka like BBQ? Oh wait, Austin regulates against that, too!

TO BE FAIR, YOU DON’T WANT TO EXTEND YOUR LIFE FIVE PERCENT BY SPENDING TEN PERCENT OF IT ON FITNESS: The Average Person Spends Less Than One Percent of Life on Fitness, According to Survey.

THIS JUST IN: HEBERT HOOVER WAS A “PROGRESSIVE:” Leftist Thomas Piketty, Another Economist Who Gets Historical Facts Wrong. President Herbert Hoover Raised Top Rate to 63% in 1932 Which Keynesian Economist Gets Wrong Hurting His Argument.

Related: Herbert Hoover Increased Government Spending 67%, Making Him the Founder of the New Deal.

In 1932, FDR didn’t run on scaling up government even further. Instead, as Jesse Walker of Reason wrote in 2008, Roosevelt “accused Herbert Hoover of ‘reckless and extravagant spending,’ and he further denounced the Republican incumbent for believing ‘we ought to center control of everything in Washington as rapidly as possible.’ Even when he called for interventions in the economy, he generally couched his words in the old liberals’ language of equal treatment rather than the new liberals’ vision of enlightened central planning.”

As Walker noted, the Democratic platform of 1932 “is a remarkable document, considering the way the party’s candidate went on to govern. It isn’t a libertarian manifesto—it endorses several subsidies and regulations—but it hardly embraces the enormous expansion in federal power that FDR would achieve.”

Which would prolong the Depression by seven years, UCLA economists calculated a decade ago.

LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: ‘Uber for Tractors’ Lets You Rent Farm Equipment From Actual Farmers.

WELL, THERE YOU GO AGAIN: Obama: ‘You CAN’T Build’ That, ‘You Didn’t Build That,’ ‘You Were Lucky.’

Is this hope, change, or “Yes we can?”

BECAUSE THEY’RE SOUR, NASTY PEOPLE: Why Feminists Are So Down On Sex.

WHAT ALL THE BEST PEOPLE WANT FOR AMERICA: “In Iceland, some 67 percent of babies are born to parents who are not married. A combination of generous social programs and a secular society have all but made nuptials obsolete—while giving rise to a unique culture of independent motherhood.”

EVER GET THE FEELING YOU’VE BEEN CHEATED? Obama Admits He Didn’t Create a Post-Racial Society.

Related: Jon Gabriel’s tweet of the decade:

FLAMEOUT: Bill Whittle’s Afterburner Finale.

This is the last Afterburner for PJTV, but the “common sense resistance” lives on at BillWhittle.com.

ANDREW KLAVAN: We Conservatives Should Take Some Blame Too.

FORMER FACEBOOK WORKERS: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News.

Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers prevented stories about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics from appearing in the highly-influential section, even though they were organically trending among the site’s users.

Several former Facebook “news curators,” as they were known internally, also told Gizmodo that they were instructed to artificially “inject” selected stories into the trending news module, even if they weren’t popular enough to warrant inclusion—or in some cases weren’t trending at all. The former curators, all of whom worked as contractors, also said they were directed not to include news about Facebook itself in the trending module.

Stalin is supposed to have said, “Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” That power is shifting to those who aggregate the news.

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Indonesian Villagers Thought Sex Doll That Washed Up on Beach Was an Angel.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Meet Mizzou Protestor Jonathan Butler: Stealing, Misogyny, Crack Songs.

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