NEWS YOU CAN USE: Protect yourself against Zika and Lyme disease this summer. If only there were some way to kill dangerous insects in large numbers.

SPACE: Juno spacecraft set for fifth Jupiter flyby. “Juno spacecraft will make its fifth flyby over Jupiter’s mysterious cloud tops on Monday, March 27, at 1:52 a.m. PDT (4:52 a.m. EDT, 8:52 UTC). At the time of closest approach (called perijove), Juno will be about 2,700 miles (4,400 kilometers) above the planet’s cloud tops, traveling at a speed of about 129,000 miles per hour (57.8 kilometers per second) relative to the gas-giant planet. All of Juno’s eight science instruments will be on and collecting data during the flyby.”

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON: Clothes that Fit Now a “Cis Privilege.” “According to articles the University of Oregon suggests students should read, clothes that fit are an example of ‘cis privilege’ and, to ‘dismantle’ whiteness and ‘cis privilege,’ capitalism should be ‘disrupted.'”

I THOUGHT THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED: An Unexpected New Lung Function Has Been Found – They Make Blood. “In experiments involving mice, the team found that they produce more than 10 million platelets (tiny blood cells) per hour, equating to the majority of platelets in the animals’ circulation. This goes against the decades-long assumption that bone marrow produces all of our blood components. Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco also discovered a previously unknown pool of blood stem cells that makes this happen inside the lung tissue – cells that were incorrectly assumed to mainly reside in bone marrow.”

BLOG SWEEPS WEEK: This Dog Really Wanted His Owner’s Bikini Top.

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DISPATCHES FROM THE HOUSE OF STEPHANOPOULOS. ABC Targets Trump Supporters After Weekend Rallies Turn Violent:

“In Huntington Beach, California a protester allegedly pepper-sprayed one of the organizers,” [ABC’s David Wright] said sounding doubtful, “Witnesses say a group of flag-waving Trump supporters tackled him and proceeded to beat him up.”

For Wright, it may only have “allegedly” happened, but according to Reuters, it did occur. “Four counter-protesters were arrested, three for illegal use of pepper spray and one for assault and battery, Kevin Pearsall, a spokesman for the California State Parks Police said on Saturday evening,” they reported on Sunday.

Read the whole thing. Just think of ABC News as Democrat operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.

YOU DON’T SAY: A Replica Of The Successful 2015 Obamacare Repeal Is Languishing In Committee.

FROM RAND PAUL, a victory lap.

AS LONG AS HE HOLDS ON TO THEM, HE’S GOOD: Forget the approval ratings. Trump’s voters still love him.

AND ANOTHER ONE DOWN: US drone strike kills man behind Marriott Hotel bombing, Pentagon says.

Qari Yasin was killed in a drone strike in Paktika Province on March 19, the Pentagon said late Saturday.

The September 2008 suicide truck bombing at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad killed more than 50 people, including two US service members. It sparked a fire that charred the hotel, which is near the diplomatic section of Islamabad.

Yasin is responsible for other carnage, including an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team, which was visiting Lahore, Pakistan, in March 2009. In that incident, gunmen sprayed the team’s tour bus with bullets as it neared the stadium, killing eight people — six police officers and two civilians — and leaving several visiting players wounded.

Faster, please.

ROGER SIMON: We Need an Independent Investigation of the Trump Leaks Mystery Now.

Who unmasked Michael Flynn and — so it seems now — others and why did he, she or they do it? Who later leaked (selectively) President Trump’s conversations with the leaders of Australia and Mexico? Is this the same person or are there several?

More importantly, who is watching the watchers and why was their work — this raw data that supposedly is never seen except on the most extreme “need to know” basis — apparently so widely distributed? Who inspired this? And who ordered what is known as a “tasking” to enable this to happen in the first place?

These questions are as or more important than healthcare, immigration, taxes or even how long ISIS will survive because they speak to the very nature of our society and the values for which we stand. Are we still a democratic republic or have we drifted so far into a high-tech Orwellian nightmare that we will never emerge from it again?

Read the whole thing.

BLACK BLOC TYPES ATTACK A TRUMP RALLY, things go badly for them. “The protesters wore masks and some were tackled, punched and kicked. One man who was beaten ended up jumping over a fence and running toward officers in an effort to get away from the crowd. One protester, who wore his mask on camera, said it was a dangerous situation for them to be in.”

It started when they pepper-sprayed the Trump supporters. That’s a tactic they’ve used before, but like most of the Black Bloc stuff, it’s a tactic designed for people who won’t fight back. I predict such people will become scarcer. Lots of photos here.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: “Yale is becoming a kind of jail which hands out professional credentials to those hardy enough to serve out their term.”

Plus: “The Chinese Cultural Revolution is now forgotten history. Yet important thing about the ‘Red Guard’ movement was how artificial it was. It was astroturf all the way. Behind the youthful Chinese faces was the aged figure of Mao Tse Tung and his political cabal. Like some malevolent spirit he projected his voice through a million gullible dummies carefully nurtured on propaganda and paranoia.”

RETURN OF GREXIT?

Everything old is new again: with bailout talks stalled, desperate Greeks are making a run on the banks in what Business Insider identifies as an eerie echo of past Greek crises. . . .

At this stage, the Greek debt crisis seems stuck in a cycle of eternal return, with Greeks and Germans alike perpetually clinging to their own comforting delusions to avoid uncomfortable truths: Greece will never be able to pay off its unsustainable debt load, and it cannot last in the Eurozone in the long term. The current chaos is just the latest manifestation of the refusal to cope with these realities, and prospects for Grexit now look more likely than they have since the summer of 2015.

The negotiators remain at loggerheads over fundamental issues: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is battling the IMF over labor reforms and pension cuts, while the establishment in Brussels and Berlin refuses to accept the IMF’s insistence on Greek debt relief. If nothing gives, the IMF could decide not to participate in the bailout, effectively dooming it and raising the possibility that Greece would be forced out of the eurozone.

You can kick the can down the road, but not forever.

MICHAEL LEDEEN: Does Trump Have a Strategy to Win the Global War?

Read the whole thing.

FASTER, PLEASE: Molecule kills elderly cells, reduces signs of aging in mice.

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MY LATEST NEW YORK OBSERVER COLUMN: Art of War meets art of the deal. Tillerson pulls a Trump card on North Korea. (bumped)

IF YOU’RE LIVING THE LIFE YOU WANT, IT’S NOT MEDIOCRE: What If All I Want Is A Mediocre Life?

NEWS YOU CAN USE: How To Thrive And Survive In A World of AI Disruption.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: “Shaming, scapegoating, and periodic ritual exorcisms are a prime feature of campus life.”

THE PERPETUAL TODDLERS DON’T LIKE CHILDREN, ANYWAY: The Left is Now Attacking Trump’s Unborn Grandchildren .

WHO’S BEEN CULTURALLY APPROPRIATING? Nike’s Problematic Relationship with the Hijab.

I ENDORSE THIS DISSENT.  DURING EARTH HOUR EVERYONE IN THE CITY SHOULD BE ABLE TO TELL WHERE I LIVE.  HECK, THEY CAN SEE MY HOUSE FROM SPACE, I’M SURE: Earth Hour: A Dissent.