INSERT “BALL-HANDLING” JOKE HERE: Florida man tells cops playing basketball naked ‘enhances’ skills.

THAT’S THE CHICAGO WAY: Chicago Alderman Who Attempted to Block Chick-Fil-A is Arrested By Chicago Police for Filing False Police Report.

DIDN’T FREUD ASK SOMETHING LIKE THIS QUESTION? What Women Want in Guns & Firearm Training.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Prostitutes Explain Why Their Job Is Better Than Watching CNN.

It’s satire, but is it really?

JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Media Suddenly Silent On Importance Of Free Press As Warren Declares War On Fox News.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is Nancy Pelosi Endorsing Polygamy and Pedophilia?

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Actor Stephen Fry Accused of White Supremacy for Making OK Gesture.

To borrow the advice of a legendary community organizer, Fry is punching back twice as hard:

As Treacher writes:

Exactly. Racists don’t own that gesture. Some pranksters decided to associate a harmless hand sign with racism to prove how gullible some people are, and some people proved them right.

See, the trick is to be smarter than the racists. By badgering well-meaning people, you’re doing exactly what the trolls want you to do. The best way to counter them is to think for yourself.

On the Internet? Good luck with that. “No wonder this keeps happening,” he concludes.

AERIAL FIREFIGHTERS TRAIN FOR FIRE SEASON: Air National Guardsmen with the 152nd Airlift Wing from Reno, Nevada, drop water during the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System training and recertification week at Grand Canyon Hills, Colorado. Photo taken May 6, 2019.

DOUBLE (x85) STANDARDS AT WILLIAMS COLLEGE: Williams College’s student government has recognized around 170 student groups. But in a blatant example of viewpoint discrimination, it has refused to recognize the Williams Initiative for Israel. (Student for Justice in Palestine is recognized, along with many other interest-based clubs.) President Maud Mandel has ensured the club can  meet on campus, but has stopped short of ensuring they are actually treated equally in terms of funding, etc. Today, you can join FIRE in calling on President Mandel to step up and put an end to this separate but unequal treatment.

UPDATE: We’re hearing that Williams may have found a way around the student government. That was quick!

NOBODY TELL STEPHEN GREEN: The Rise Of The Sober Bar: A pub without alcohol is something of an oxymoron – but they’re growing in popularity. Is it time to sober up?

AT AMAZON, Spring Savings in Automotive.

Plus, deals in Cutlery and Knife Accessories.

VIDEO: Terror at 800 Feet. “Two window washers went on the ride of their lives near the top of the 844-foot-tall Devon Energy Center, as the lift they were on went wildly out of control.”

BOOKWORM ROOM: Harvard Law School has abandoned one of the core principles of American jurisprudence — a citizen’s right to counsel when standing alone before the state. To be fair, Rakesh Khurana is the Dean of Harvard College. The Law School itself hasn’t done anything wrong.

AND THIS TIME THEY MEAN IT! Huawei willing to sign ‘no-spy’ pacts with governments.

INNER SPACE: Texas explorer completes deepest ocean dive in history.

A Dallas-based explorer has set a record for the deepest dive ever made in a submersible — in the world’s deepest ocean trench, his organization announced Monday.

Victor Vescovo reached a depth of 35,853 feet on April 28 during a dive to the bottom of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest known point on earth. The dive was 52 feet deeper than any previous manned dive, Vescovo’s Five Deeps Expedition said.

The last visit to Challenger Deep also set a depth record at 35,787 feet. That journey was made by filmmaker James Cameron in 2012.

During the April 28-May 5 expedition to the Mariana Trench, the team also completed a dive to the bottom of Sirena Deep, about 128 miles away from Challenger Deep. The team spent hours at the bottom of the ocean at these locations, collecting samples, including the deepest piece of mantle rock ever collected.

Cool.

UGH: We Have 3 Years Before The National Debt Death Spiral. “According to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Debt Management, the U.S. government is just five years away from the point of no return. With the national debt spiraling quickly out of control, there are only a few years left before every single dollar the government borrows will go toward funding interest payments on the national debt.”

AT AMAZON, Shop Amazon Warehouse Deals – Deep Discounts on Open-box and Used Sports Equipment.

RUN ALL THE CANDIDATES! Mark Cuban Still Might Run for President Because None of the Democrats Can Beat Trump.

DRUGS: Study: Tramadol carries higher risk for prolonged use than other opioids.

ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER: 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard tweets, “Trump says he doesn’t want war with Iran, but that’s exactly what he wants, because that’s exactly what Saudi Arabia, Netanyahu, al-Qaeda, Bolton, Haley, and other NeoCons/NeoLibs want. That’s what he put first–not America.”

Bloomberg’s Eli Lake notes that she’s on to something…

Heh, indeed.™

CONRAD BLACK: Democrats Start To Perceive Debacle They Face.

The Democrats have, evidently, no idea how to deal with this president, and their moral crusade against him is about to be swamped by the unmasking of the skullduggery and chicanery of the Clinton and Obama Democrats in 2016.

The last fact that the Democrats have not begun to deal with in the effort to unseat the president is his extraordinary success. The economic performance is phenomenal, and the pathetic attempts of President Obama to claim credit for the economic recovery, like his fatuities about “the magic wand,” will be mocked with vicious hilarity. The success of this president in proclaiming a border emergency and doing something about it will be noted.

Do yourself a favor and read the whole thing.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Ryan D’Agostino: How To Get Started In Flying.

Most flight schools and small aviation companies will charge you no more than a couple hundred dollars for a taste—usually an hour ride, with an instructor. You get to grab the controls for part of the time, zip around, maybe fly over your house. It’s usually called a discovery flight.

When you fly in a small aircraft at a low altitude, the sensation is not so much that the world below gets smaller. The overwhelming sensation is that the sky gets bigger. Bigger than you’ve ever seen it, even from some endless beach, or from out in the desert, or from out the multilayered polycarbonate window of a commercial airliner. The sky pulls you up and surrounds you—it feels as if all the blue is keeping you aloft. You feel it in a way you don’t on an oversold 10:45 from Chicago to Dallas.

I had the opportunity to go up in a Cirrus SR22 with my 11-year-old son and a pilot named Ivy McIver. Ivy has been with Cirrus most of her career, selling planes, flying them, evangelizing the very idea of personal flight. She is laid-back and cool, and before we left the ground—before we even climbed into the four-­person cabin—she demonstrated the entire irresistible attraction of learning to fly yourself in an airplane. Here is how she demonstrated that:

I said, “Where are we going today?” (We were starting out from Westchester County Airport, about 35 miles north of New York City.)

She said, “I thought we would go to an air show in Rhode Island first.” I said, “Great!”

She said, “After that, I don’t know . . . we could go to Maine?”

I’d like to fly, but I need another expensive hobby like a hole in the head.

BLUE STATES TURNED INTO POLICE STATES SO GRADUALLY THAT — OH WHO AM I KIDDING? WE ALL NOTICED. Police Raid on Journalist’s Home Has Grave First Amendment Implications. It also appears to violate California’s journalist shield law, and strongly suggests that the San Francisco political apparat has something to hide.

WHY DOES ELIZABETH WARREN HATE EQUALITY? Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Will Aggravate Global Inequality.