TOO BIG TO JAIL:

Shot: FBI and other federal agents must now tape interviews with suspects. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. said: “Creating an electronic record will ensure that we have an objective account of key investigations and interactions with people who are held in federal custody.”

—The L.A. Times, May 22, 2014.

Chaser: Comey: Hillary’s FBI Testimony Wasn’t Under Oath Or Recorded, But It Would Still Be a Crime To Lie.

—Breitbart.com, today.

As Sean Davis of the Federalist asks, “I would very much like to know which political appointee in the FBI ordered agents to not record or transcribe their Hillary interview.”

Hangover: “Congress To Ask FBI To Investigate Hillary For Lying Under Oath.”

—The Daily Caller today.

Well, they can ask…

ASHE SCHOW: 11 takeaways from FBI Director James Comey’s testimony.

ROADSIDE DRUG TESTING: Faulty, Misunderstood, Antiquated, and as Popular as Ever.

Mostly it’s excellent source of revenue.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot: “As shocking as his remarks are, they shouldn’t come as a surprise. Chu has a long record of advocating for higher gas prices. In 2008, he stated [to the Wall Street Journal], ‘Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.’”

—[Obama’s Then Energy Secretary] “Chu to Congress: We’re not interested in lowering gas prices,” Hot Air, February 29, 2012.

Chaser: Déjà vu all over again: Obama falsely takes credit for low gas prices.

—Institute for Energy Research, today.

WELL, THAT SUCKS: Three new pieces of Mac-targeting malware access webcams, passwords, and more. I still wonder why makers don’t offer hardware-based on-off switches for microphones and webcams.

AT AMAZON, take an extra 25% off Men’s Suits and More.

Plus, the TIM3 MACHIN3, promised to revolutionize cooking.

CONGRATULATIONS TO MY UT LAW COLLEAGUE LUCY JEWEL AND THE STUDENTS SHE SUPERVISED for this big appellate win in the 6th Circuit.

UPDATE: Here’s a report on the win.

LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS: My latest Observer essay. World War II’s sobering rhyme “Loose Lips Sink Ships” reminded America that failure to protect national security secrets exacted a harsh price in blood. Even minimal negligence—much less the gross negligence exhibited by Hillary Clinton—could provide an enemy enough information to damage the U.S. and allied war effort and kill American servicemen and women.

This essay builds on Comey’s sellout.

NOW THERE’S A HEADLINE THAT INSPIRES CONFIDENCE IN A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. FBI Director: Clinton Not ‘Particularly Sophisticated’ About Classified Levels.

“But her IT guy who invoked the 5th Amendment [over 125] times was,” someone from the I Hate the Media blog tweets in response.

UPDATE: “Here’s Hillary directing her staff to strip identifying markers and send non-secure.”

GOOD: Global hunger will drop to its lowest levels ever this decade.

VIDEO: TREY GOWDY USES COMEY TO EXPOSE HILLARY’S CRIMINAL INTENT. “As the old saying goes: Better that 10 guilty men go free than that one guilty Hillary Clinton go to prison,” Allahpundit sardonically quips; don’t miss Gowdy’s grilling of Comey.

UPDATE: “FBI Dir Comey will not comment when asked if there’s an investigation into the Clinton Foundation & won’t say if it was part of this probe,” Bret Baier tweets.

PEAK GUARDIAN REACHED:

Sarah Marsh alerts Guardian readers to yet another workplace hazard, i.e., the dangers of cake:

It’s 10.30am on a Monday and already the smell of cakes is wafting towards your desk. The colleague, who usually does a spot of baking over the weekend, has been up all night making cupcakes and an email has just flown around about their latest goodies.

Yes, it’s a tale of horror.

Later in the day another email pings into your inbox, this time it’s an update – there’s still some cake left and also sweets have been purchased.

Sweets? A second email? Why, it’s practically harassment.

And it’s always the same people who bring in the treats (you know the ones I mean).

Those bitches, trying to make the day a little more fun by sharing baked fancies with their workmates.

No doubt, it won’t be easy for the Guardian to top this level of moral indignity, but if any publication can…

Update: Link corrected.

SUPERCAPACITOR CAPACITY: Supercapacitors Reach Into EV and IoT Applications: With growing capacitance figures, supercapacitors begin to break out on their own.

THE GAULT SITE: This archeological site near Florence, Texas, is a treasure trove of Clovis points. Researchers have also found evidence of pre-Clovis habitation.

The excavations at Gault from 1999-2002 were primarily to recover information about the Clovis culture. Scientists were dealing with a paradigm shift as the old hypothesis of the peopling of the Americas 13,500 years ago began crumbling. Sites like Monte Verde, Meadowcroft and Cactus Hill suggested that people had arrived earlier than previously thought but archaeology did not yet have a new generally accepted hypothesis describing the earlier culture. Our feeling was that if you want to understand the earlier culture (especially without a lot of technological data) you should start with the earliest you know and see that what can tell you. Recovery of over 600,000 lithic artifacts from Clovis context at Gault enabled us to do that. What we found was the signature of a highly sophisticated and knowledgeable generalized foraging culture. The people that utilized Clovis technology knew a great deal about their surroundings, were not nearly as mobile as previously thought and used nearly all of the available local resources to survive. This was not the signature of a pioneering culture but rather one of a group that was comfortable with and knowledgeable about their area.

The foundation supporting and conducting the research has a revamped website (gaultschool.org). It’s well worth perusing.

OH, THAT FERGUSON EFFECT: Baltimore After Freddie Gray: More Murders, Fewer Cops.

WILL CALIFORNIA EVER THRIVE AGAIN? “The wealthy elite escape the regulatory hell they’ve created for the underclass,” Victor Davis Hanson writes:

What caused the California paradise to squander its rich natural inheritance?

Excessive state regulations and expanding government, massive illegal immigration from impoverished nations, and the rise of unimaginable wealth in the tech industry and coastal retirement communities created two antithetical Californias.

One is an elite, out-of-touch caste along the fashionable Pacific Ocean corridor that runs the state and has the money to escape the real-life consequences of its own unworkable agendas.

The other is a huge underclass in central, rural and foothill California that cannot flee to the coast and suffers the bulk of the fallout from Byzantine state regulations, poor schools and the failure to assimilate recent immigrants from some of the poorest areas in the world.

The result is Connecticut and Alabama combined in one state. A house in Menlo Park may sell for more than $1,000 a square foot. In Madera, three hours away, the cost is about one-tenth of that.

In response, state government practices escapism, haggling over transgendered restroom issues and the aquatic environment of a 3-inch baitfish rather than dealing with a sinking state.

What could save California?

I guess the Enola Gay is off the table, huh?

STUPID RACIST COMPUTERS: The available evidence suggests that face matching systems don’t work equally well for different races.

AMERICA BECAME A BANANA REPUBLIC SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED. Comey: Hillary’s FBI Testimony Wasn’t Under Oath Or Recorded, But It Would Still Be a Crime To Lie.

UPDATE: As Iowahawk tweets today after Comey’s appearance before the House Oversight Committee, “Possibly the first FBI investigation in history where the FBI director had to testify under oath and the target didn’t.”

TWO OBAMAS IN ONE!

Shot: “Here at home, we’ve also seen a rise in attacks against Muslim Americans,” Obama added. “No one should ever feel afraid or unsafe in their place of worship.”

—Obama on Eid: U.S. Experiencing ‘Rise in Attacks Against Muslim Americans.’ Bridget Johnson, PJ Media.com.

Chaser: “A church in Des Moines has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to strike down as unconstitutional a portion of a 2007 Iowa law and a similar Des Moines city code section that could apply transgender bathroom rules to churches.”

— “Church Sues Iowa Over Transgender Bathroom Law,” AP.

Hangover: “President Obama is suddenly tired of being the nation’s permanent latrine orderly. He insists, against all the evidence, that he didn’t ask for the job and he doesn’t understand why everyone thinks he wants to monitor the soap and toilet paper in the nation’s toilets.”

— “News from the latrine orderly — Mr. Obama is puzzled that voters think he made co-ed toilets an issue,” the Washington Times, June 2nd, 2016.

30 MINUTES FROM STOCKHOLM TO HELSINKI via Hyperloop.

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Baltimore After Freddie Gray: More Murders, Fewer Cops.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE UPDATE: Video: President Obama Keeps Saying the War is Over. Over and Over and Over.

BETTER DEAD THAN RUDE: Hotel Clerk in Trouble After Calling 911 on Muslim Man Asking Odd Questions About Room Near RNC.

(Classical reference in headline.)

JACK DUNPHY ON HILLARY CLINTON: Too Connected to Jail.

But hey, we can dream, right?

VODKAPUNDIT: What Happened to Philando Castile? Let’s discuss this soberly…