YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Democratic Presidential Clown Car Update for May 6, 2019.

THANKS, ASTEROIDS! Half the Earth’s oceans may have come from asteroids.

“SHUT UP,” THEY EXPLAINED: Facebook handled Alex Jones just right.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: As finals draw near, college kids’ diets worsen.

CHANGE: Admin Halts Disability Dues Scheme. “Regulation will no longer allow unions to take dues money from Medicaid checks.”

YES: ‘Deficit Hawks Have Become an Endangered Species,’ GOP Congressman Says.

GOOD: This Nightclub for the Elderly Is Fighting Loneliness with Tea Party Raves. “We’re the only club event in the world where someone was rushed to the hospital because they forgot to take their drugs.”

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: CNN Interviews Paul Ehrlich, Author of Debunked 1968 Population Doomsday Book.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. No, U.S. Sanctions Are Not Killing Venezuela. Maduro Is.

THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS:

James Lileks responds:

I can’t stand when people say “do better.” It’s often “we can do better,” which is a given, but it usually means YOU, because the person telling US to do better obviously already does better, and wants the rest of us to conform. It’s so school-marmy, complete with pursed lips and a lemony expression.

Anyway, he’s free to come by the house and culturally stigmatize me.

Read the whole thing.

(Classical reference in headline.)

HEH: Diners Eating Impossible Burgers Doused With Beet Juice By Protesting Meat-Rights Activists.

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO DO ANY OF THAT: Ex-teacher accused of sexting 2 students, having sex with 1 in Madison County.

SALENA ZITO: WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH VIRGINIA?

Clare Perry considers herself a Democrat. Grayson Pearce is a Republican. She’s from Richmond, and he’s from Virginia Beach. Despite holding opposing political values, they both have the same question: What is the matter with Virginia?

In particular, what’s wrong with its politics?

A few months ago, in a cascade of disgraces both Gov. Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring admitted to wearing blackface, then Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax was accused of sexual assault by two women.

Now the story has seemingly disappeared from the front pages, or any pages, of the local news outlets.

For both Perry, 20, and Pearce, 19, the fact that all three controversies were left drifting in the wind is mind-boggling.

“Honestly, I’m stunned, and I’m stunned it went away so quickly,” Perry explains. She’s more bothered that Fairfax has skated.

For Pearce, there’s a personal angle: He worked on the campaign of Northam’s opponent, Ed Gillespie. But it also stings, in part, because it reflects poorly on the state he loves: “It is heartbreaking. It sucks. There’s nothing about it that’s good. Especially not for Virginia.”

Both readily agree, if Gillespie had faced the same accusations any of the three men in power did months ago, he would be long gone.

Well:

GREAT MOMENTS IN GASLIGHTING, PART DEUX: MSNBC Chris Hayes conspiracy theory: Trump economy surging because businesses undermined Obama.

THOMAS LIFSON: Why Biden won’t get the Dem nomination.

Yes, he’s really, really old, thus removing the opportunity to attack President Trump on the basis of his age.

And yes, he says really stupid stuff — and they are usually incorrectly called “gaffes,” which Michael Kinsley correctly defined as a politician accidentally telling the truth. Biden’s mouth just runs faster than his brain (not much of a feat) and he utters nonsense. Often, mean-spirited nonsense like “They’ll put y’all back in chains.”

But the real reason why Biden won’t get the nomination is that he and his family are corrupt, enriching themselves courtesy of foreign governments. Normally, that would not be a problem for a Democrat because the dominant mainstream media is not interested in scandals affecting powerful Democrats. But with 22 Democrats running for president, some of them with MSM allies, and with grave doubts about Biden’s ability to defeat Trump (their overriding goal), these scandals will not be suppressed. Especially because they involve collusion with a foreign power.

Vanity Fair and the New York Times, which are nobody’s idea of right wing publications, are onto the story of Biden helping his son make a huge fortune via deals with China.

The question isn’t so much whether the other candidates will draw their long knives over Biden, Inc.’s shady dealings in China and Ukraine, but whether the Democratic primary electorate will care.

I THINK WE’RE GOING TO FIND THAT EVERYTHING WAS BEING RUN BY THE MARKETING PEOPLE: Boeing Believed a 737 Max Warning Light Was Standard. It Wasn’t.

EMBRACE THE HEALING POWER OF “AND.” Major Report Omission Shows Mueller Was Either Incompetent Or A Political Hack.

GREAT MOMENTS IN GASLIGHTING. Associated Press: Twitter Is Fair to All!

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: James Comey: Frightened and Unhinged.

GEORGE KORDA: Wrong battle? Bernie Sanders says violent felons should be able to vote in prison.

CHARMING: Pennsylvania’s First Openly Gay Representative Attacks Elderly Woman Praying in Front of Planned Parenthood.

WHY DO LIBERALS GET SO MUCH EXACTLY BACKWARDS? Retired American Baptist minister Oliver Thomas writes in USAToday that the Christian church will become extinct if it doesn’t immediately reject the traditional view that scripture is inspired by God, and then admit that the Bible is wrong on sex, especially homosexuality.

But Glenn Stanton looks at the data in The Federalist and observes: “Yes, many churches are hemorrhaging members, and have been since the early 1970s. But anyone who studies these things carefully will tell you this is happening almost exclusively in the more politically and theologically liberal mainline churches. These are the same churches that are doing exactly what Thomas calls for: rejecting the credibility and authority of Scripture.”

And here’s the kicker, according to Stanton: “Research conducted jointly at Columbia University and the University of California at Los Angeles by scholars who are not shy about supporting gay politics found that gay- and lesbian-identified people are 2.5 times more likely to attend churches that took a more conservative view on Christianity (including homosexuality) than the so-called “welcoming and affirming” congregations that celebrate it.”

Go here for the rest of Stanton’s comprehensive refutation of the conventional liberal wisdom about same-sex relationships and conservative Christians.

Reagan was so right: “Our liberal friends know so many things that just aren’t so.”

ROGER SIMON: Should Journalists Go to Jail for Spreading Russia Lies?

HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN: Check Out These Pathetic Prices For ‘An Evening With The Clintons.’