WELL, GOOD: Bangladesh beat diarrhea by making latrines for the poorest and shamed the rest to make their own.

UNEXPECTEDLY: ‘March for Our Lives’ crowd smaller than expected.

Related: I Went to the March for Our Lives Protest. Here Are My 7 Takeaways.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Should we be doing more to expose paternity fraud? “Genetic counsellors are the professionals who advise on the results of tests for hereditary conditions, often after samples have been taken from foetuses in the womb as well as from the parents. Consequently they are often the first to know that the father isn’t the father. A study in America found that more than 95 per cent of them would not tell a man that the child wasn’t his. (Around 95 per cent of genetic counsellors are female, and you have to wonder if more men would be informed if more counsellors were male.)”

MARK STEYN ON DEATH WISH, THEN AND NOW.

I haven’t seen Bruce Willis’ remake yet, but I’m not sure if it can top this earlier Bronson revenge pic:

I also know that no film can top Bronson’s greatest role ever: Mandom pitchman.

I’M NOT SAYING THAT IT’S ALIENS. BUT IT’S ALIENS. NASA Couldn’t Explain What Made This Strange, Deep Hole on Mars.

UNREQUITED LOVE:  Libertarians love free immigration, but immigrants don’t love libertarianism.

THIS WEEK IN CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY: At the Mount Vernon Conference (March 21-28, 1785), George Washington hosted delegates from Virginia and Maryland to reach an agreement on developing the Potomac River.   It set a precedent for states acting together outside the framework of the Continental Congress. It also caused delegates to think seriously about the advantages of a stronger national government. Two years later, some of the same individuals met in Philadelphia for the Constitutional Convention.

CLAUDIA ROSETT ON JOHN BOLTON: ‘A Reagan Realist’ and a Brilliant Choice.

HOW ABOUT NO? Justice Dept. Revives Push to Mandate a Way to Unlock Phones.

ROGER KIMBALL: Why John Bolton Is No Warmonger.

FORMER AL GORE ADVISOR NAOMI WOLF BLOWS THE DOORS OFF THE CLIMATE CHANGE CONSPIRACY: Big Chocolate Controls the Weather!

Wait, when did the Rothschilds get out of the weather control business?

STEPHEN L. CARTER: Controlling the Web Is the Dream (and the Nightmare): Authoritarian governments regulate what their citizens can see online. The U.S. lets tech companies make similar decisions.

In the U.S., we like to pretend we’re better than all that. But of course we’re not. True, we don’t shut down the entire internet. We just restrict access to sites with the wrong politics — sort of like China. The only difference is that we leave the decision about what information should be available to private corporations rather than government bureaucrats. Internet companies are (on this issue anyway) liberal heroes. In contemporary entertainment, an entire genre — the New York Times memorably calls it “Yay, rich jerks!” — is devoted to the idea that billionaire techies really ought to be making behind-the-scenes decisions.

If we had genuine competition in search or social networking, this state of affairs might constitute an improvement. As a practical matter, however, ideologically driven choices by dominant internet corporations offer little improvement on ideologically driven choices by government agencies. That internet companies suffer no significant market costs for their decisions about whom to serve and whom not to suggests that the public nowadays has little taste for free speech. But that’s exactly when protecting speech assiduously is most important.

We need to break up these “data-opolies.”

LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT-CHECKERS AND EDITORS:

Fascinating to see a book that explores biblical archetypes as being dubbed “fascist,” though.

Related: Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos is still #1 most read at Amazon.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT EDITION: A Resident Advisor at the University of Pittsburgh recently put up a display warning students about “toxic masculinity” and the “social reproduction of patriarchy.” This sort of thing serves to marginalize and discourage male students, and encourage bullying and micro aggressions against them. I think the Department of Education should investigate.

HAPPY 104^TH BIRTHDAY, NORMAN BORLAUG: If you don’t know who Norman Borlaug was, it’s high time you learned. His claim to fame: Saving over a billion people from starvation. Yes, that’s a “b” for “billion,” but even if it were an “m” for “million,” it would be a staggering achievement. When others are teaching their children and grandchildren to act like a ruthless killer (“Be like Che”), teach yours to “Be like Norman.”   Make his memory eternal.

YOU SPELLED “HOPES” WRONG: Flashback: Fears grow that Trump could ignore Congress on spending: Lawmakers and activists see warning signs that Trump officials could cut budgets by leaving federal money unspent.

REMINDER: There Is No ‘Epidemic of Mass School Shootings.’