I SAY, WE SAY, YOU SAY: A bunch of folks watching the Billboard Awards show had a lot to say about Lauren Daigle’s cross-over hit single, “You Say.” Maybe there’s hope for popular culture yet.

HMM: First-time marathon training may ‘reverse’ blood vessel aging. I thought marathons damaged the circulatory system. Of course, these are first-timers, not repeat runners.

HERE’S THE REAL REASON STEPHEN MOORE WON’T BE ON THE FEDERAL RESERVE: Thomas McCardle, writing at Issues & Insights, explains: “The Federal Reserve is adept at using the complexity of money and banking to defend itself from attack and reform.

“It’s a quintessential example of elite Washington bureaucracy maintaining power by convincing the people that taking it away from the experts would mean the end of the world.” McCardle has much more to say and it’s worth reading it all here.

Full Disclosure: I know Stephen Moore. Stephen Moore is a friend of mine. I stick by my friends.

IT’S COME TO THIS: It’s Getting Difficult To Tell The Difference Between The New York Times And Al Jazeera.

PRIONS ARE NASTY: Study finds Alzheimer’s is a double-prion disorder.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A SMALLER BLOG: Nine Things That Are Now More Popular than Pitiful CNN.

PROGRESS: Tesla fundraising push blows past $2 billion target.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Did Bill Clinton Use That Tarmac Meeting with Loretta Lynch to Sabotage Hillary?

BIOPIC: ‘Tolkien’: A Life Where Fantasy Met Reality. “Tolkien begins with the tragedy of the Somme Offensive, but weaves in elements of the author’s childhood and adolescence.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE COLD HYBRID WAR: Richard Fernandez on how the Stealth Conflict in Venezuela Pits Russian ‘Democratic Fraud’ against American ‘Hybrid War.’

It’s Richard Fernandez, so read the whole thing.

BAD NEWS FOR LIBERALS? ABC Can Barely Speak of 50-Year Low in Unemployment.

As Jim Treacher would say:

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Close Down the Barr Edition.

RILEY HOWELL WAS A HERO:  The UNC Charlotte ROTC student will be buried with full military honors.

IT GETS WORSE: Asians Harassed in D.C. for Wearing MAGA Hats Were North Korean Defectors.

Attacked by people who view North Korea as a how-to guide for good government.

21st CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Tinder swipers get matching tattoos before first date.

I’M SO OLD, I REMEMBER “SAFE, LEGAL, AND RARE.” Planned Parenthood supporters mock Students for Life display by chanting about how great abortion is.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Why Do We Still Use QWERTY Keyboards?

FASCISM ON THE LEFT: Students say administrators shut down free speech petition table.

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SEEN ON FACEBOOK: “Barr is investigating Democrats. Democrats call for Barr to resign. According to Nadler, that’s obstruction of justice!”

“BURNING MAN” EVENT MIGHT BE SNUFFED OUT BY PERMITTING RULES: As Leslie Eastman writes at Legal Insurrection, “Given how many of the attendees are green justice activists, it is fascinating to see arguments related to pollution control be used for the new rules…I also find it highly amusing than the attendees, many of whom normally love Democrats and the Deep State, are now bitterly clinging to the US Constitution.”

Or as the classic ad for the Libertarian Party put it at the height of Occupy Wall Street:

A WARRIOR CLASS OF THEIR OWN:

The Army recruiter thought the well-dressed young man was lying. After all, the yarn this man spun, after walking into the recruiting office in Baltimore, sounded like pure nonsense. All kinds of honors at Swarthmore College. Top of his class at Columbia Medical School, and now into his fourth year of the elite, seven-year residency program at Johns Hopkins in neurosurgery. He claimed to speak both English and Korean fluently.

Yeah, sure.

This young man wanted to be a Green Beret? An enlisted man in the U.S. Army? Bringing home a base pay of $32,000 a year? The recruiter was polite; they always are. But he insisted the recruit come back with his diplomas to prove he was who he said he was. When proof was provided, the recruiter tried to convince the aspiring brain surgeon to join the U.S. Army Medical Corps as a physician.

No dice. He had a different adventure in mind.

Today, that young man is a sergeant. He is a Green Beret in the U.S. Army, the absolute crème de la crème of the 1% who chose to serve in the military. He carries an M4 assault rifle to work, can jump out of a C-130 cargo plane, fast-rope off a Black Hawk helicopter, and is an expert on small unit tactics. He can avoid capture, resist interrogation, and train a guerrilla force behind enemy lines.

There’s more. He can conduct reconnaissance in hostile environments and, when necessary, neutralize the bad guys. Sabotage or demolitions operations? No problem.

The path from Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon to Special Forces warrior took about two years. He entered the Green Beret world through a unique, if poorly advertised, Army program that allows qualified young men and women to leave their civilian jobs and try out to become part of our nation’s most elite and highly trained warrior class.

Read the whole thing.

JUST NBC THE LAYERS AND LAYERS OF FACT-CHECKERS AND EDITORS: OMFG: The Today Show deletes article on vegan lasagna after getting punked by ‘Dick Chmeller’ [screenshots].