I GET A FEELING SHE’S REALLY UPSET ABOUT LIBERAL HYPOCRISY.  YOU?  The Hypocrisy of Liberalism.

AND THERE’S THIS THING:  Hypocrisy and Double Standards.

I SUPPOSE SOMEONE HAD TO DO IT:  Fisking the New Yorker in Defense of Delicious Chicken.

WITH DNC IN MIND, CITY BANS CARRYING URINE, FECES: “Clean up San Francisco’s streets, tourist industry pleads,” reports the San Francisco Chronicle, astoundingly enough.

San Francisco’s last Republican mayor left office a month before the Beatles landed at JFK.

(Classical reference in headline.)

MATT WELCH: The Deep-State Liars of the #Resistance: Democrats are rehabilitating the deservedly poor reputations of surveillance-state officials who were caught lying to the American people. Hey, whatever the Narrative demands at the moment.

SARAH HOYT ON the Mau-Mauing of John Ringo. Well, I guess we can write off ConCarolinas, which seems to have become a skinsuit for idiots.

If you want to support John Ringo, buy his books.

SO CAPTAIN TAMMIE JO SHULTS IS DEFINITELY A BADASS, but, you know, she’s not the only one on that flight:

THE ONION IS ON A ROLL: Impoverished Kenyan Bean Picker Can’t Wait To See What Starbucks Has To Say About Racial Sensitivity.

Ya get that son? Onion? Roll? I made a funny!

THE ETERNAL LEFTY STORY: “There’s something incredibly seductive about living that simply — if it was actually that simple. Instead, all that spiritual work is just an illusion in service to a crazy megalomaniac.”

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“ART BELL. DANG:” “Perhaps it’s because I grew up waiting for the scary / sci-fi movie after the news on Saturday night — the interesting stuff was either rationed or marginalized. The occasional monster movie, comics for dorks,” James Lileks writes. “Once a year a big sci-fi movie with Chuck Heston. You felt underrepresented in the culture, but don’t most of us in adolescence? Art Bell addressed that audience: the people who believed none of it and the people who believed all of it and everyone in between…At some point we were going to get the pieces that made the picture come into focus, and helped to answer this weird mood in society that had been thrumming along since the early 90s. As I said on Twitter, it was all post-Cold-War end-of-history Y2K anxiety plus anti-government suspicion.”

Fascinating that America’s timeout between the end of the Cold War and 9/11 could be so ripe for paranoia. But then, what era isn’t?

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IT WAS A SCAM FROM DAY ONE, OF COURSE: “Former presidential candidate Evan McMullin owes his former campaign staff members tens of thousands of dollars and most believe he has no intention of ever paying them, a former campaign worker tells The Daily Caller News Foundation.” “‘To me, Evan didn’t really seem to understand or care that there were families that this debt really hurt,’ the former staffer said. ‘He doesn’t want to make good on any of this.’ . . . Following the campaign, he claims many of McMullin’s former presidential campaign employees became disillusioned with a man who they initially viewed as a principled conservative and ethical alternative to a Republic Party that they believe had been corrupted by Trump.”

Related: Evan McMullin Potentially In Violation Of Campaign Finance Laws, Records Show. When will the feds break down his lawyer’s door?

UH-OH, THIS COULD BE THE END OF THE DEMS’ IMPEACHMENT PLANS: New Marist Poll finds more people will vote against a congressional candidate who promises to vote for impeachment than the reverse.

RATS ON THE WEST SIDE, BEDBUGS UPTOWN: New York City mice carry life-threatening superbugs, viruses, study finds.

IT’S CLEAR NOW: COLIN KAEPERNICK WILL NOT BE SIGNED.

I knew that last year’s player/owner solidarity in response to the President’s remarks, with vivid images of owners kneeling and locking arms with players, would never last. The owners’ personal and business interests—and the braying they heard from fans, sponsors and networks—would soon lead to a push for players to “stick to sports,” evoking a tension that still lingers upon the mention of Kaepernick’s name. The Seahawks episode crystallizes what teams are thinking, in so many words: We will only employ you to be a football player if we know we are not employing you to be an activist.

Does Kaepernick actually want to be signed? Unless he delivers Johnny Unitas-level talent to whoever he plays for, actually suiting up and riding the pine each week as a backup, or a return to his mediocre performance during the 49ers’ 2-14 season in 2016 would be anti-climactic. Kaepernick has become the athletic equivalent of Michael Moore’s deception in his first movie, Roger & Me. Then-General Motors CEO Roger Smith had met with Moore — reportedly twice — during the shooting of his agitpropumentary, but Moore wouldn’t have a movie if he actually included that footage. Similarly, Kaepernick needs to remain permanently off the gridiron, to keep his uber-woke SJW pose alive.

If NFL owners are understandably reluctant to sign up for the Kaepernick sideline circus, it’s curious that the left, which loves nothing more these days than to deplatform and blacklist conservatives, seems rather antsy when their new rules are applied to one of their own. Back in 2014, Randall Munroe, who draws the popular online cartoon “xkcd,” created this image, thus wiping out the morality behind 50 years of Hollywood blacklist movies:

As Kurt Schlichter likes to say, the left are going to hate living up to their own rules.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): I don’t quite agree with this. Theres protection under the First Amendment, which applies against government, and then there’s the broader societal idea of “free speech,” which comes into play regardless of legalities. It used to be considered uncool to go after someone’s job for their opinions, and uncouth for an employer to give in to such demands. I wish we lived in that world today, but I agree that we don’t.

IF YOU DON’T LIKE BIG MONEY IN POLITICS THEN YOU SHOULD OPPOSE BIG GOVERNMENT IN OUR LIVES: Judge James Ho of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a Trump appointee:

To be sure, many Americans of good faith bemoan the amount of money spent on campaign contributions and political speech. But if you don’t like big money in politics, then you should oppose big government in our lives. Because the former is a necessary consequence of the latter. When government grows larger, when regulators pick more and more economic winners and losers, participation in the political process ceases to be merely a citizen’s prerogative—it becomes a human necessity. This is the inevitable result of a government that would be unrecognizable to our Founders. See, e.g., NFIB v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519 (2012).

So if there is too much money in politics, it’s because there’s too much government. The size and scope of government makes such spending essential. See, e.g., EMILY’s List v. FEC, 581 F.3d 1, 33 (D.C. Cir. 2009) (Brown, J., concurring) (“The more power is at stake, the more money will be used to shield, deflect, or co-opt it. So long as the government can take and redistribute a man’s livelihood, there will always be money in politics.”).

But whatever size government we choose, the Constitution requires that it comply with our cherished First Amendment right to speak and to participate in our own governance. If we’re going to ask taxpayers to devote a substantial percentage of their hard-earned income to fund the innumerable activities of federal, state, and local government, we should at the very least allow citizens to spend a fraction of that amount to speak out about how the government should spend their money.

H/T Josh Blackman via Twitter

IS THE CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATIC PARTY THE NEXT STARBUCKS?: “Police handcuff black woman at San Diego Democratic Party meeting, which ends in disarray.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Here’s why you need to start asking your doctor to check your blood pressure twice. “Patients who had their blood pressure (BP) checked a second time at their primary care doctor’s office often have a lower number, according to a study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association this week. The truest blood pressure reading is taken after sitting quietly for at least five minutes, and that rarely happens in a doctor’s office. Usually, a blood pressure reading is the first thing done, along with a heart rate reading.”

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SURPRISE! STUDENTS WHO MISBEHAVE A LOT GET DISCIPLINED MORE OFTEN THAN OTHER STUDENTS: It’s really stunning when one hears of school districts getting in trouble because they discipline disabled students at higher rates than non-disabled students. The problem is that we DEFINE students who chronically misbehave as “disabled.” So, of course, they get disciplined more often than non-disabled students. How could they not? Teachers have to maintain order in the classroom if any learning is to take place.  The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights held a briefing on this and other discipline-related topics recently. It had a certain Alice-in-Wonderland feel to it.

For my law review article of the racial aspects of the topic, read The Department of Education’s Obama-Era Initiative on Racial Disparities in School Discipline: Wrong for Students and Teachers, Wrong on the Law.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: The Changes That Made California Become a Liberal Fiasco.

SOME DARE CALL IT A “SHITHOLE:” Clean up San Francisco’s streets, tourist industry pleads.

Sure, San Francisco has great facets worthy of postcards and travel books, but it also has a worsening underbelly that D’Alessandro says he can no longer gloss over.

People injecting themselves with drugs in broad daylight, their dirty needles and other garbage strewn on the sidewalks. Tent camps. Human feces. The threatening behavior of some people who appear either mentally ill or high. Petty theft.

“The streets are filthy. There’s trash everywhere. It’s disgusting,” D’Alessandro said, adding he’s traveled the world, and San Francisco stands out for the wrong reasons. “I’ve never seen any other city like this — the homelessness, dirty streets, drug use on the streets, smash-and-grabs.

“How can it be?” he continued. “How can it have gotten to this point?”

Remember, this is the man whose job is to glorify San Francisco, which tells you something about how far the city has sunk.

What happened? Government by virtue-signalling SJWs, that’s what happened.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Study: Coffee safe for many with abnormal heart rhythms. “Many doctors advise patients with abnormal heart rhythms (‘arrhythmias’) to avoid caffeine. But, for most heart patients, coffee and tea are safe and may sometimes reduce the frequency of arrhythmias, the researchers said.”

BET THEY MISS THIS PART: G̶l̶o̶b̶a̶l̶ ̶w̶a̶r̶m̶e̶n̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ Educators who treat Earth Day like The Holiest Day Of All probably leave out this fun part:

On September 9, 1977, Ira Einhorn, one of Earth Day’s co-founders, lured his ex (the ‘ex’ portion occurring pre-brutal murder) girlfriend, Holly Maddux, to his apartment and killed her in a heartbroken rage. Though, he did choose to dispose of the body by composting her. So at least he’s consistent.