ANSWER: YES. Watch: Leftist Student Protesters at Anti-Ben Shapiro Rally Go Silent as Minority YAF Members Ask If They’re Racist.

THE BEATLES’ WHITE ALBUM AT 50: WHEN THEY WAS FAB.

In 1963, recording their first album in a day, the Beatles had nailed “Twist and Shout” in one take. Six years later, they recorded 102 takes of George Harrison’s “Not Guilty,” only to leave it off The White Album. Meanwhile, as the embellishment and overdubbing grew more complicated, the band spread out into two studios, with George Martin’s aides Geoff Emerick and Chris Thomas at the controls. The result was the polarization of the Lennon-McCartney collaboration into parallel tracks. Instead of complementing each other by refining each other’s compositions, they now wrote antagonistically. The harsher Lennon became, the more sweetly McCartney responded. The result was the kaleidoscopic disorder and variable quality of The White Album.

Apparently, “Not Guilty” didn’t make the cut because of its jibes at the family business, which is too bad, as it might just be the best song ever left off a major pop/rock album.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

● Shot: Snowstorm causes havoc in NYC – what went wrong?

—CBS News, today.

● Chaser: And That’s the Way It Was: In 1972, CBS’s Walter Cronkite Warned of ‘New Ice Age.’

—NewsBusters, March 5, 2015.

And if you missed Glenn’s link earlier, A mini ice age could be on the way and it’s going to get very, very cold.

Of course, to more seriously answer CBS’s question today, what went wrong was electing Bill de Blasio.

Update: “If only there were some… external factor that could account for the variations in global temperature. Such a hypothetical external factor would have to be very large, though — on the order of magnitude of our own Sun.”

INCONCEIVABLE: William Goldman, writer of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, dies at 87.

Related: Four Essential William Goldman Screenplays.

Only four? You’re gonna need a bigger blog.

(Classical reference in headline.)

OPEN THREAD: Chat responsibly.

JONAH GOLDBERG: Basta La Vista, Baby!

IF YOUR SCHADENFREUDE LASTS MORE THAN FOUR HOURS, SAVOR IT: Michael Avenatti’s law practice evicted from offices.

ANN ALTHOUSE: How Trump Won The Acosta Lawsuit:

The judge framed it as a matter of process, which justifies Trump issuing a set of rules of decorum. I assume the rules will include a requirement that a reporter who has received a response (whether it’s to his liking or not) must relinquish the microphone, that there can be no physical interference with a staff member who reaches out to take the microphone, and that one much stop talking once the President (or press secretary) has moved on to the next questioner.

Any complaints about these rules and the prescribed consequences of violating them can be met with pieties about adhering to the judge’s ruling. Things must be done in an orderly way — in the press room and in a system of due process. Any complaints premised on freedom of the press will be met with statements like “We want total freedom of the press” and we want perfect due process. So here you are, here’s notice of our rules of decorum. And that should be the end of the kind of questioning Acosta has become famous for. Trump wins.

The process will be the punishment.

THE DEMOCRATS ARE HAVING QUITE A WEEK:

TRUMP, ACOSTA AND THE PRESS: My interview on the “Lawyer 2 Lawyer” podcast, where I predicted that the matter would turn on “due process.”

You know, that thing CNN et als didn’t apply to Kavanaugh.

NASHVILLE LYNCHBURG SKYLINE: About to embark on the (really fascinating) tour of the Jack Daniel’s Distillery in Lynchburg, TN. Tour responsibly!™

DEMOCRATS: After threatening to nuke Americans who refuse to give up their guns, Rep. Eric Swalwell laments lack of progress on gun debate.

QUESTION ASKED:

Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.™

WHY ARE BLUE-STATE POLITICS SO VICIOUS? Christopher Rufo ends campaign for city council after harassment, threats. ““I was prepared to take the heat, but unfortunately, they have focused their hatred on my wife and children. . . . They’ve made vile racist attacks against my wife, attempted to get her fired from Microsoft, and threatened sexual violence. They’ve even posted hateful comments on our 8-year-old son’s school Facebook page. I know that as the race progresses, the activists will ratchet up their hate-machine and these attacks will intensify significantly.”

Related: “Basically, the activists have won. The worst elements of Seattle — those who want to bully and oppress anyone who disagrees with them — win by making sure that people will not have actual choices in the campaign.”

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FAKE NEWS: ABC Makes Patently False Claim About New Title IX Rules: The new standard does not require victims to show that they can’t return to school. It doesn’t even require them to leave school in the first place.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: The White House Should Give Jim Acosta What He Wants. And More. That’s How to Beat Him.

Plus a quote from Jon Gabriel of Ricochet: “Only call on Acosta until the rest of the reporters demand his press pass is seized.”

Much like Helen Thomas and earlier Republican press secretaries, Acosta exists for Sarah Sanders to dunk on. As Jim writes, turning White House pressers into The Jim Acosta Show would quickly empower the rest of the DNC-MSM White House press corps into a Full Metal Jacket-style blanket party for Acosta.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: UC Administrators: ‘Masculinity Is Not Attached to a Gender.’

But I thought gender was a social construct. Foucault, coordinate! Foucault, coordinate!

IT’S CERTAINLY FELT LIKE IT: A mini ice age could be on the way and it’s going to get very, very cold.

Two words: Wool socks.

HE’S LUCKY PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT AREN’T AS VIOLENT AS HE SAYS THEY ARE: Dem Rep. Eric Swalwell: If we confiscate your guns and you fight back, we will nuke you.

MASCULINITY GURU: Stop Being So Nice To Women.

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AP: Democrat Stacey Abrams says she can’t win Georgia governor race, effectively ends challenge to Republican Brian Kemp.

A SIMPLE PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

CHRIS QUEEN: The 10 Most Interesting One-Hit Wonders in Pop Music History.

A good blend of songs you love and love to hate.