SUE ME, SUE YOU BLUES. Backwards Day: Trump sues California for a change.

(Classical reference in headline.)

I CERTAINLY HOPE NOT: Have we reached peak bourbon? “You can now literally make your own from start to finish.”

Now you can literally make your very own bourbon — guided by experts — from start to finish.

And by start to finish, I mean you literally develop your mash bill (grain recipe), ferment and distill the product, raise and fill your barrel, hammer the bung in, fill your own bottles, and label them.

All for the low, low price of $18,750.

OK, bear with me. That’s not as preposterous as it sounds.

It’s the My Craft Distillery program from Moonshine University at the Distilled Spirits Epicenter we’re talking about and the price is based on a group of four (extreme!) bourbon enthusiasts going in together. The cost includes two rooms at The Brown Hotel, 335 W. Broadway; daily lunches for all plus a dinner with the Moonshine University team; and VIP tours and experiences, not to mention an intensive education. Participants will become a Stave & Thief Society Executive Bourbon Steward along the way.

And, of course, the bourbon. Oh, and even the empty barrel.

How much bourbon are we talking? Only time will tell how much remains of the 53 gallon barrel after aging and angel’s share, but a rule of thumb, it’s about 215 bottles at barrel proof (not cut down with water) after four years, said Colin Blake, director of spirits education.

So you’re looking at a little less than $90 a bottle – a price that seems downright reasonable compared to what some limited edition bourbons go for on the secondary market, or for that matter, what many top shelf bourbons sell for retail.

It sounds like fun, but I think I’ll stick to buying a bottle or two at a time.

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: As yellow fever spreads toward big cities, Brazil struggles to vaccinate millions.

AT AMAZON, deals on Dishwashers.

Plus, save on Drinkware

JOHN HAWKINS: Are You a Good Person? Take Our 16-Question Quiz and Find Out!

Can we grade on a curve?

WE NEED PAPER BALLOTS: US senator grills CEO over the myth of the hacker-proof voting machine: Nation’s biggest voting machine maker reportedly relies on remote-access software.

GO FIGURE: Non-Celebrity Sexual Harassment Victim Wins Millions Against Big Company, and No One Seems To Care.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Measles Vaccination Saves You From More Than Measles. “Reducing measles incidence appears to cause a drop in deaths from other infectious diseases due to indirect effects of measles infection on the human immune system.”

MICHELLE MALKIN: Give VA Secretary David Shulkin the boot. “This Obama holdover needs to hear the famous words: ‘You’re fired!'”

Staffing remains an issue for this Administration.

DEEP-STATE LOGIC AT WORK: In one of the most insane arguments ever made by government lawyers, the CIA is claiming that even though they leaked complete documents to favored reporters, those documents are still not subject to disclosure to the public at large under FOIA. According to Techdirt:

“[T]he CIA would like to be able to selectively leak classified information while retaining the privilege of denying every other member of the public access to these leaks. If the selected journalists choose to publish classified info handed to them by the CIA, only then does it enter the public domain, according to the the CIA. Otherwise, the CIA will decide what’s classified and withholdable, not judges or logic or common sense.”

The intelligence community hates leakers, unless it’s the agencies themselves doing the leaking.

THIS MAKES EVOLUTIONARY SENSE: Study: Babies who look like dad likely to get more attention, be healthier.

TRIGGERED: Va. Dems ‘Emotionally Shaken’ after Hardcore Pro-Second Amendment State House Speech.

GANGSTER GOVERNMENT (UPDATE): The long, terrifying history of Russian dissidents being poisoned abroad.

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S INSANE SCHOOL-DISCIPLINE POLICIES LED TO THE PARKLAND SHOOTING. Now there’s this paper by Gail Heriot and Alison Somin: The Department of Education’s Obama-Era Initiative on Racial Disparities in School Discipline: Wrong For Students and Teachers, Wrong on the Law.

MICHAEL WALSH: California’s Defiance Exposes a House (and Senate) Divided.

As we learned in 1861-65, state nullification of federal laws is not compatible with a federal system; “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” as Abraham Lincoln put it in his famous speech accepting the Republican nomination for Senate from Illinois in 1858. Although he lost to Stephen Douglas that year, and while he was talking about slavery, the principle still holds true today as applied to similarly divisive issues.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. [Emphasis mine]

Don’t think for a moment that the Left doesn’t fully understand Lincoln’s warning in the boldface words. In fact, they’re counting on it, just as the old South was counting on it when the Confederate states undertook secession. And for many of the same reasons.

Read the whole thing.

TWO MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT CREEPER: ‘Doomsday Clock’ professor put on leave amid allegations of sexual misconduct.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Your Tool Collection Isn’t Complete Without an Electronics Repair Kit.

BEFORE LONG WE’LL NEED A SPECIAL COUNSEL CZAR: Gowdy and Goodlatte Pen Letter to Attorney General Calling for Appointment of Second Special Counsel.

HERE’S YET ANOTHER NOTICE of my The Judiciary’s Class War.

DEAR ANNOYING PARKLAND KIDS: We Gave You A Pretty Awesome World, Try Not To Mess It Up.

EURABIA: ‘Hair-Raising’: Sharia Law Makes Its Debut in Swedish Court.

In a landmark case, the Solna District Court has acquitted an Iraqi man suspected of abusing wife by pushing her against furniture, pulling her hair and hitting her face with a shoe. The court called the credibility of the woman’s testimony into question, stressing her “lowly” parentage, the daily newspaper Aftonbladet reported.

In addition to stressing that the man “came from a good family,” unlike the woman, the court ruled that the fact that the woman turned to the police instead of the husband’s family “further” undermined her credibility. According to the court, “the normal thing” to do “in these circles” would be to try and resolve the conflict within the family.

The ruling, adopted by a divided court, triggered an immediate response from Sweden’s legal circles.

“This is one of the most prejudiced and strange judgments I have read. Not completely unexpectedly dictated by two lay judges. Still no one in charge who wants to do something about the lay judge system?” former Swedish Bar Association president Bengt Ivarsson tweeted.

​Prosecutor Josefine Dahlqvist appealed the ruling straight away, claiming that the ruling violated the foundations of Sweden’s legal system.

Of course it did — that was the entire point.

And I still think we need a word for cultural self-genocide.

BUT REMEMBER, IF DEMOCRATS LOSE THEY’LL BLAME RUSSIAN MEDDLING: Despite improved Dem showing, Texas GOP sets midterm record.

JULIETTE OCHIENG: A Sensible Partitioning Of California.

CDC REPORT: Emergency department visits for opioid overdoses rise by 30 percent in a year.

UNEXPECTEDLY. New York Times: If GOP Wins Midterms, Democrats Will Rage at Russian Meddling.

I miss the good old days, when the Democrats simply blamed “right wing media bias” for their midterm losses.