BUT I WAS ASSURED THE SCIENCE WAS SETTLED!  Melting Greenland glacier appears to be growing again.

OKAY, BUT WHY????  New scented ink turns body art into ‘visual fragrance’.

Sorry, but the permanence of the alteration makes it a no sale to me…

YOU MAY BE COOL. BUT YOU’LL NEVER BE Chuck Yeager celebrating the 71st anniversary of breaking the sound barrier cool.

MARK LEVIN: ‘Barack Obama’s government did all this.’ “”It is time to focus on the Democrats in the House. It is time to focus on the media, the Hillary campaign, the DNC, Barack Obama — this was Barack Obama’s government that did all this when the Russians were interfering in our election. hey put spies in [Trump’s] campaign, they abused the FISA court system. This country doesn’t belong to Adam Schiff, and [House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold] Nadler and [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi.”

YES, EVEN THE MSM UNDERSTANDS THIS IS WRONG:  Chicago Tribune editorializes against letting Jussie Smollett walk:  Indefensible.

IN MY OFFICE MAILBOX THIS MORNING, a copy of Julie Albright’s Left to Their Own Devices: How Digital Natives Are Reshaping the American Dream, which I blurbed. You can see my blurb at the link. It’s a very good book, much more sweeping than my own forthcoming social media book, but not inconsistent. (Bumped).

OPEN THREAD: Such a dull, boring week.

I THOUGHT THAT WAS ALL SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED: Proof that girls and boys are born to be different: Controversial study finds that brain differences between the sexes begin in the womb.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Senate Dems Refuse to Vote for Green New Deal.

Related: She Mad! So Very Mad! AOC throws a fit on Twitter because Sen. Mike Lee used hilarious posters to mock #GND (pics):

“Impostor syndrome?” Nice of AOC to confirm that Kevin Williamson’s “Sandy’s War” thesis was correct.

SPACE: Falcon Heavy’s first commercial launch to pave the way for reusable rockets in national security missions.

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Plus, deals on bestselling Video Games.

APPLE SEEKS TO INCREASE REVENUE WITH NEW SINGLE-USE LIGHTNING CABLES.

I’m so old, I can remember when the Babylon Bee was still satire…

WHAT DID OBAMA KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT? “It’s not surprising that Obama doesn’t want to talk about this subject, but I want to know about his role in getting the hoax rolling. Was he just a passive bystander? His party has a lot to account for. Where was his leadership?”

WELL, GOOD: Scientists Discover Signs of New Neurons Developing Even in Adult Brains as Old as 87.

OLD AND BUSTED: ‘We’re Like the World Is Going to End in 12 Years if We Don’t Address Climate Change.’

The New Hotness? Senate Democrats Refuse to Vote for the Green New Deal. “The final vote was 0-57. All 53 Republican senators voted ‘no’ on the measure, and they were joined by three Democrats: Doug Jones (Ala.), Joe Manchin (W.Va.), and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.), along with Independent senator Angus King (Maine), who caucuses with the Democrats.”

COCAINE MITCH TAKES OUT THE TRASH: AOC’s Green New Deal loses big in Senate. “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal withered in the heat of the Senate on Tuesday as Republicans delivered a decisive spanking to liberal activists’ plan to reshape American society. Not a single senator backed her bill during the vote, a 57-0 filibuster. Forty-three Democrats voted ‘present,’ refusing to take a stand.” Voting for it would be political suicide because it’s an incredibly stupid bill. Voting against it would be nearly as bad because AOC’s Red Guards would mob you in the primaries.

Tellingly, it won’t even get a vote in the House, which is controlled by Democrats.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Commentator Andrew Sullivan Jeered at Hollywood Inclusion Event.

Attendees at the morning panel included actresses Amy Landecker, Michaela Watkins and Sophia Bush, plus showrunners Sarah Gertrude Shapiro and Jenji Kohan.

At an event billed as ‘A Day of Unreasonable Conversation,’ it seemed only fitting that journalist and provocateur Andrew Sullivan provided the audience with its most uncomfortable moment.

During a Monday morning panel probing how Hollywood screenwriters and showrunners portray “the other side,” Sullivan criticized “Hollywood” for regularly painting non-coastal elites in unflattering terms, which has only exacerbated America’s cultural divide.

“These people who are already insecure about losing their job switch on the TV, look at the newspaper and hear that they are being described as bigots, racists,” said Sullivan, who was speaking to a packed audience of industry professionals, including some of the town’s biggest names, at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. “And they resent it, and the one thing I would urge you people who do this type of content is try and complete the idea of ‘the other’ being in the room because they can hear what you are saying.”

They sure can. Andrew’s othering of Sarah Palin in 2008 — and by extension her supporters — was a key mile marker on the road to Trump.

CLOWN NOSE OFF: Colbert Rushes To Defend AOC from … Herself.

I’m so old, I can remember when late night talk show hosts still made jokes about their fellow Democrats.

CREDENTIALED BUT NOT EDUCATED: Modern Art Critic Assumes 1939 Painting Is All About Homophobia. It’s About Murderous Union Thugs. “The critic in question is no slouch: Jerry Saltz, a Pulitzer Prize winner. The painting is Paul Cadmus’s Herrin Massacre, from 1939. It depicts an angry mob brutally murdering a group of men in a cemetery field. . . . But as Saltz briefly acknowledges, in a single sentence, the subject of Herrin Massacre is a real historical event: a mob attack that resulted in the deaths of 23 strikebreakers in Herrin, Illinois, in 1922. The Herrin massacre had nothing to do with homophobia; it was a labor dispute that ended with union workers massacring a bunch of people who had been hired to replace them.”

But that’s not an acceptable narrative. Homophobia, on the other hand, is a narrative so acceptable it’s basically mandatory. As we see.

TYLER O’NEIL: Chicago Prosecutor ‘Throwing Police Under the Bus’ on Jussie Smollett, Following Obama’s Lead.

KINSLEY GAFFE: Barbra Streisand makes a mistake and tells the truth.

When Streisand discovered that the general public has yet to attain her level of sophistication about child abuse, she issued a damage limitation article in the Washington Post. We know it was written by her, because her handlers would never have let the bad grammar pass. ‘The single most important role of being a parent is to protect their children.’ But then Streisand restated her original analysis:  ‘It’s clear that the parents of the two young men were also victimized and seduced by fame and fantasy.’  She followed up with a tweet stating she was ‘profoundly sorry’ for ‘not choosing my words more carefully’. She hadn’t meant to ‘dismiss the trauma these boys experienced in any way’ — or at least to get busted for it.

But she did. The damage is already done. She is accused of being ‘complicit’ with pedophilia in the entertainment industry. It’s not clear if complicity still counts as an offense, now Robert Mueller has filed. But people are also threatening to burn her albums, and boycott her concerts.

Streisand’s mistake was to tell us what she really thinks. In her thinking, and the group-think of Hollywood, celebrity culture might recklessly exploit and consume its players, but they’re lucky to get the chance to play at all. She understands fame, but not the sudden change in the media’s mood. The public has always disliked the abuse of power. It’s the media which has suddenly changed from simplicity and cover ups to crusades and #MeToo campaigns. Poor Barbra.

Read the whole thing.

SHE’LL THAW YOUR TUNDRA: Porn actress says ‘I’m with you’ and plans to run for governor in Russia.

FASTER, PLEASE: Trump-picked 9th Circuit judge clears last hurdle to confirmation, with more nominees in pipeline.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE. MOVE ALONG. No Crisis At the Border? – Mexican Cartels Using Grenade Launchers Near Texas Border.