HOW FLORIDA MAN HAS BREAKFAST:Florida man ate pancakes in middle of busy street, is facing charges, cops say.

QUIT YOUR BELLYACHING: This simple trick will help you hate your job less.

THE DOWNFALL OF CIVILIZATION CONTINUES: This unicorn trend has got to go.

THEY SPELL IT “INTELLECTUAL” BUT I THINK THEY MEAN DELUSIONAL:The ‘Postmodern’ Intellectual Roots of Today’s Campus Mobs. These people who never read or understood the tragedies that attempts at changing history with stories have brought about, from the various Chinese book burning frenzies, to the pseudo-mythology of Wagner, to the Cultural revolution, would consider themselves our intellectual superiors, because they know in which choir to sing and they’ve memorized every word.  This is not going to end well.

TRUE: The GOP Is Better Locally Than Nationally.

At the state level, the GOP has been remarkably effective at ushering in reform over the last seven years; at the federal level, by contrast, it has been able only to hold the line. This, of course, is partly because the GOP has only just got full control of the federal government, whereas it has been running most of the states for half a decade now.

But one can’t help but notice the difference in ambition. At the state level, Republicans have ruthlessly passed right to work legislation, even in unlikely places such as Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin; they have expanded charter schools; they have done yeoman’s work restoring the Second Amendment; they have cut taxes and regulation; and they have enacted as many pro-life measures as the courts have allowed. They have, in other words, lived up to their billing.

At the federal level, meanwhile, they have narrowed their intentions from the get-go.

Yes, state level GOP folks are outperforming expectations, while national ones are underperforming. Which is no small feat given how low the expectations are. . . .

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Larry Solum’s succinct and careful testimony in favor of originalism.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Documentary on Yale Reveals How Scary U.S. Campuses Have Become. “These are moves of power, not of reason.”

AT AMAZON, bestselling Game Downloads.

Plus, deals on Digital Music.

LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT CHECKERS AND EDITORS: All 27 things wrong with today’s London Daily Mail front cover.

On the other hand: Forget it, Jake — it’s Fleet Street.

RACHEL DOLEZAL TELLS HER STORY:

Dolezal has penned a memoir in which she compares her travails to slavery and describes her harrowing childhood as a pale, blond girl growing up poor on the side of a Montana mountain.

As she toiled in the garden for her strict, Evangelical parents, she’d dream of freeing her inner blackness, Dolezal writes in “In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World.”

See, she’d read her grandmother’s National Geographic magazines. So she knew about blackness.

“I’d stir the water from the hose into the earth … and make thin, soupy mud, which I would then rub on my hands, arms, feet, and legs,” Dolezal writes.

“I would pretend to be a dark-skinned princess in the Sahara Desert or one of the Bantu women living in the Congo … imagining I was a different person living in a different place was one of the few ways … that I could escape the oppressive environment I was raised in.”

So, basically, she’s guilty of cultural appropriation.

INTERNET OUTRAGE POLICE unhappy with Christina El Moussa’s bikini pic with daughter. “It’s about the fact that she’s pretending this is about a dog while she’s broadcasting a 7 y.o.’s body all over IG when that child can’t give informed consent.”

Informed consent is a medical term. This is a swimsuit picture. Parents consent for their kids, because parents are in charge.

Welcome to the family!! @cashiethefrenchbulldog ? Click link in my bio!! ??

A post shared by Christina El Moussa (@christinaelmoussa) on Mar 23, 2017 at 12:01pm PDT

WELL, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY, YOU KNOW: This Drip-Proof Wine Bottle May Be the Greatest Scientific Breakthrough of Our Time.

NO. NEXT QUESTION? Will Those Who Accused Trump of Abetting Anti-Semitism Over JCC Threats Offer A Mea Culpa?

PROTEST PUSHBACK: Republican lawmakers in at least 18 states have proposed a spate of bills, including ones to make blocking streets a felony in North Carolina, to allow businesses to sue people protesting them in Michigan, and to force Minnesota protesters pay the costs of policing.

BUT OF COURSE HE DID. Mayor De Blasio Connects Racist Murder to Trump, ‘Atmosphere Of Hate:’ “At some point, it would be nice if the media would notice that the left constantly uses this climate-of-hate argument to indict the right every chance it gets but denies any such climate exists when the target is a conservative or a police officer.”

Just think of the media as Democrat operatives with bylines, and you’ll understand why they never will.

YES, BUT ANYTHING MORE WOULD REQUIRE THE LEFT TO RETHINK THEIR WORLDVIEW SO….Against Jihad, a Quantum of Solace Is Not Enough.

INDIA TEST FIRES NEW MISSILE FROM ITS AIRCRAFT CARRIER: China’s drive to build a credible aircraft carrier force gets a lot of attention — and it should. India is trying to get its only carrier to work.

India’s navy announced Friday it successfully fired its first surface-to-air missile from its aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya.

The test firing, conducted in the Arabian Sea on Wednesday, was part of the Operational Readiness Inspection program and marks a major milestone in the country’s defense capabilities. The missile was fired at a live low-flying, high-speed target, officials said.

“The target was successfully engaged and destroyed,” the navy said. “The missile marks a significant milestone in providing air interception and defence capabilities, thus enhancing operational capabilities of the navy’s aircraft carrier and the fleet.”

INS Vikramaditya is the country’s sole aircraft carrier and was retrofitted with a Barak missile system. The Kiev-class vessel was built in 1987 and served the Soviet navy and was originally named Baku. It was later renamed Admiral Gorshkov under the Russian navy. The Indian navy purchased the vessel in 2004.

The UPI report is correct. The INS Viraat (an aircraft carrier) was decommissioned on March 6. The INS Vikramaditya has had a lot of problems.

SCOTT ADAMS THINKS THAT THE HEALTHCARE DEBACLE ISN’T AS BAD FOR TRUMP AS IT SEEMS: “With the failure of the Ryan healthcare bill, the illusion of Trump-is-Hitler has been fully replaced with Trump-is-incompetent meme.”

When I first saw this, I thought he was trying too hard to make lemonade when we had lemons, but no sugar. But then I saw this from a friend on Facebook: “I’ve never liked Trump, but I’ve never thought he’s a potential fascist dictator. Those who have thought otherwise might note that he can’t even get a health care reform bill through a Republican-dominated House.”

Anyway, as is his wont, Adams has made a falsifiable prediction:

Look for the new meme to dominate the news, probably through the summer. By year end, you will see a second turn, from incompetent to “Competent, but we don’t like it.”

I have been predicting this story arc for some time now. So far, we’re ahead of schedule.

In the 2D world, where everything is just the way it looks, and people are rational, Trump and Ryan failed to improve healthcare. But in the 3D world of persuasion, Trump just had one of the best days any president ever had: He got promoted from Hitler to incompetent. And that promotion effectively defused the Hitler-hallucination bomb that was engineered by the Clinton campaign.

In all seriousness, the Trump-is-Hitler illusion was the biggest problem in the country, and maybe the world. It was scaring people to the point of bad health. It made any kind of political conversation impossible. It turned neighbors and friends against each other in a way we have never before seen. It was inviting violence, political instability, and worse.

In my opinion, the Trump-is-Hitler hallucination was the biggest short-term problem facing the country. Congress just solved for it, albeit unintentionally. Watch the opposition news abandon the Trump-is-scary concept to get all over the “incompetent” theme.

So let’s see if he’s right. His track record is good.

ANOTHER ESCAPE TUNNEL FOUND BENEATH A MEXICAN PRISON: Looks like it was dug to help Los Zetas cartel gunmen.

Mexican authorities said Friday they found a long escape tunnel beneath a prison in Tamaulipas that likely took many months to dig.

Prison officials in the northern Mexican state said more than two dozen inmates escaped through the underground passageway.. Twelve of the 29 escaped prisoners have been recaptured.

One of the escapees killed a person in a carjacking attempt in the state capital, Ciudad Victoria, where officials say the Zetas drug cartel operates.

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Women Talk About What It’s Like to Take a Grown Man’s Virginity. “It was never someone you’d look at and think, He’s a certifiable 30-year-old virgin.”

IT DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH ENHANCEMENT YOU ALLOW: Strength Records Continue to Fall, But How Much Stronger Can Humans Get?

AT AMAZON, deals on Herbs, Spices and Seasonings.

Plus, Mowers and Outdoor Power Tools.

FASTER, PLEASE: A Norfolk doctor found a treatment for sepsis. Now he’s trying to get the ICU world to listen.

Valerie Hobbs, 53, was in the throes of sepsis – an infection coursing through her veins that was causing her blood pressure to tank, her organs to fail and her breathing to flag.

“When you have a person that young who’s going to die, you start thinking, ‘What else can we pull out of the bag?’ ” said Dr. Paul Marik, who was on duty that day in the intensive care unit of Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

In this case, he reached for Vitamin C.

Marik, chief of pulmonary and critical care at Eastern Virginia Medical School, had recently read medical journal articles involving the vitamin, and decided to order IV infusions of it, along with hydrocortisone, a steroid, to reduce inflammation.

Then, he went home.

The next morning, Hobbs had improved so much she was removed from four different medications used to boost her blood pressure. Her kidney function was better. Her breathing eased.

Three days later, she left the ICU.

That was in January 2016. Today, Hobbs is back at her home in Norfolk.

“At first we thought it was a coincidence, that maybe the stars aligned just right and she got lucky,” Marik said.

Ten days later, another patient, a paraplegic, arrived in the ICU with sepsis, and Marik prescribed the same thing. That patient improved as well.

A third patient, a man so sick with pneumonia he was on a ventilator, also received the treatment. The results were the same.

Faster, please. But there’s a catch:

He wants there to be a comprehensive study, and he said that Stanford University has expressed some interest. But he said it will be difficult to fund because it uses drugs that have been on the market for decades: “We are curing it for $60. No one will make any money off it.”

Studies take money, and that money often comes from pharmaceutical companies.

Somebody should fund it. A friend on Facebook suggests that health insurance companies should fund it, since it could save them a bundle.

BUILDING A DEDICATED MUSIC PROJECT STUDIO CONTROL ROOM AND ISOLATION BOOTH, PART TWO OF TWO: Welcome to “This Old Studio:” Into the actual construction of my project studio, with plenty of in-progress photos. (Part One online here.)

Incidentally, this weekend is the one-year anniversary of our reverse Grapes of Wrath saga, fleeing California to Texas.

JOGGING WON’T HELP THAT: Two-Thirds of Cancer Mutations Are Random and Unavoidable, Scientists Claim. “Almost two-thirds of cancer mutations are caused by random DNA-copying errors during cell division and are impossible for us to avoid, regardless of lifestyle and the genes we inherit from our parents, according to new research. . . . If the findings end up being accepted by other cancer researchers, the idea that randomness – in other words, bad luck – is more significant in causing cancer than other contributing factors could amount to what Tomasetti calls ‘a complete paradigm shift in how we think about cancer and what causes cancer’.”