DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Student Faces Expulsion After Saying a Math Symbol Looks Like a Gun.

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BETTER DEAD THAN RUDE: Trump Shouldn’t Call Psychopathic School Shooter a “Sicko” Because It’s “Stigmatizing” to Psychopathic School Shooters, says CNN.

(Classical reference in headline.)

JOHNNY WALKER IS A HELLUVA DRUG: Former Freemason, 51, found drunk and naked inside a huge pipe organ with a toy gun and remote-controlled police car says he got lost while trying to hand out cheeseburgers to the homeless.

(Via Terry Teachout.)

HOW ABOUT THAT? Trump More Popular Than Obama Was At Same Point In Presidency:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 50% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.

This is the president’s highest job approval rating since mid-June of last year. President Obama earned 45% approval on this date in the second year of his presidency.

Weird, though, I seem to remember the press acting like everyone loved Obama in early 2010, and they don’t seem to be acting that way where Trump is concerned.

WHEN BROWARD COUNTY SHERIFF SCOTT ISRAEL WAS ACCUSED OF CORRUPTION, HE RESPONDED: ‘LIONS DON’T CARE ABOUT THE OPINIONS OF SHEEP.’ “Asked about the allegations, Israel responded, ‘What have I done differently than Don Shula or Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King, Ghandi?’…Given the appalling failures that took place at Israel’s office, the ‘sheep’ might like to ask the ‘lion’ some questions. Perhaps he could answer them in a less condescending and authoritarian fashion.”

ABOUT TIME: We Might Finally Know Why The Blood of Young People Can Rejuvenate Old Brains.

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JAMES DAMORE: GOOGLE LEFTISTS ‘DIG THROUGH A PRIVATE CONSERVATIVE MAILING LIST’ TO GET PEOPLE FIRED.

SO WHERE IS EVERYBODY? Interstellar travel and biosphere reboots means there are a lot of aliens in the galaxy.

DANA LOESCH AT CPAC: Why Doesn’t the MSM Hold Town Halls for Black-on-Black Murders? (Video.)

21ST CENTURY PROBLEMS: It doesn’t matter how many legs the new lobster emoji has.

PATTERICO: The Story of the Deputy Who Stood Outside the School Shooting Keeps Getting Worse.

It’s fascinating to watch him being defended by the DNC-MSM, despite their being heavily invested in the narrative of error-free big government.

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UNDERSTATEMENT ALERT: Assimilating Grief-Stricken Florida Students Into the Mob Is Harmful.

AUTONOMY: The Cadillac CT6 review: Super Cruise is a game-changer. “Called Super Cruise, Cadillac’s new tech represents the best semi-autonomous system on the market. In fact, Super Cruise is so good, I think General Motors needs to do everything it can to add it to the company’s entire model range, post-haste.” Sounds a bit bossy to me.

ISRAEL’S NEXT WAR WITH HEZBOLLAH:

Another war between Israel and Hezbollah is almost inevitable. Although neither side wants a conflict now, the shifting balance of power in the Levant and shrinking areas of contestation are indicators of a looming showdown. The real questions are how and where—not if—the impending conflagration will occur.

MORE:

Since 2006, Israeli officials have repeatedly warned that in future conflicts they will follow the Dahiya Doctrine, named for Hezbollah’s stronghold in the southern Beirut suburbs near Beirut–Rafik Hariri International Airport, which was devastated by Israeli bombing in the last war. According to Gadi Eizenkot, the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, in the next conflict the IDF will follow these same rules of engagement but across a broader landscape.

It’s on The Brookings Institution’s blog. Good read.

PRIME MINISTER ZOOLANDER TAKES ROAD TRIP: Justin Trudeau’s Laughable, Disastrous Trip to India.

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FRIDAY’S HOT MIC IS LIVE BLOGGING TRUMP AT CPAC.

THERE’S AN IMMIGRATION POINT HERE: You Can’t Have Denmark Without The Danes. “Danish social cohesion works great for Danes. It’s not so great, though, at doing another thing modern advanced economies need: Absorbing outsiders.”

Plus: “Lots of countries with generous welfare systems aren’t particularly trusting, for example, and those systems produce all the dire effects American conservatives warn about. And as Bjornskov suggests, low corruption distinguished Scandanavian societies centuries ago. That’s a trait that may go all the way back to the Vikings.”

Also: “If you’re used to reporting on U.S. business and government, it’s eerie to hear people talk like that. The only other time I’ve had a similar experience was when I talked to people in Utah.”

IT’S SAD WHAT’S HAPPENED TO CHEVY CHASE.

WHERE’S MY FLYING CAR, DAMMIT?: Uber appears to be taking the lead in *actually making this happen* with Uber Elevate.