THE FBI IS A CESSPIT OF CORRUPTION AND SHOULD BE ABOLISHED.
Alternatively, such horrific examples could be made of the offenders here that the Bureau will be scared straight for a generation. But I think that’s even less likely than abolishing the Bureau.
UPDATE: Yep.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Maybe there’s a lesson there?
PATENT OFFICE: AIs Can’t Count As Inventors. I thought I’d posted this yesterday, but it looks like I didn’t.
HE CHOSE . . . POORLY. Dr. Fauci Backed Controversial Wuhan Lab with Millions of U.S. Dollars for Risky Coronavirus Research. “Many scientists have criticized gain of function research, which involves manipulating viruses in the lab to explore their potential for infecting humans, because it creates a risk of starting a pandemic from accidental release. SARS-CoV-2 , the virus now causing a global pandemic, is believed to have originated in bats. U.S. intelligence, after originally asserting that the coronavirus had occurred naturally, conceded last month that the pandemic may have originated in a leak from the Wuhan lab. (At this point most scientists say it’s possible—but not likely—that the pandemic virus was engineered or manipulated.)”
We’ve heard little from the “Gain of Function” research community, and it’s not because they expect the public to be supportive of what they do.
SPEAKING AS A LIBERTARIAN, ONE THING I LIKE ABOUT THIS PANDEMIC IS THE WAY IT HAS MADE PEOPLE IN AUTHORITY LOOK RIDICULOUS:
UPDATE: “Newsom seems to be out of step with even the worst governors of other states. Even New York City, the most hard hit area, isn’t trying to close down Central Park completely. Moreover, you can pick up signs that elite opinion—that is, the superstructure of the decisions of followers like Gov. Cuomo—is starting to shift ever so perceptibly to opening the country back. There’s no better sign of this than NY Times columnist Tom Friedman, who wondered in his Tuesday column whether Sweden’s much more permissive quarantine is a better idea than what we’ve done.”
Meanwhile, Elon Musk is not amused.
QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:
— Mike LaChance, Legal Insurrection, today.
● Chaser:
Biden is a notorious flapjaw. His vanity deludes him into believing that every word that drops from his mouth is minted in the golden currency of Pericles. Vanity is the most conspicuous characteristic of US Senators en bloc, nourished by deferential acolytes and often expressed in loutish sexual advances to staffers, interns and the like. On more than one occasion CounterPunch’s editors have listened to vivid accounts by the recipient of just such advances, this staffer of another senator being accosted by Biden in the well of the senate in the week immediately following his first wife’s fatal car accident.
—Alexander Cockburn, CounterPunch, August 23, 2008.
As Iowahawk tweets, “Gotta say these 2nd Edition revisions of ‘Principles of Sexual Harrassment’ are a real doozy.”
THE FBI IS A CESSPIT OF CORRUPTION. Strzok stopped FBI from ending Flynn probe despite lack of ‘derogatory’ evidence, unsealed documents reveal.
HE SHOULD BE FUMING. U.S. Officials Crafting Retaliatory Actions Against China As Trump Fumes. But of course the WaPo wants to act like that’s a bad thing because WaPo.
THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE PERSUASIVE IF IT HADN’T COME OUT AFTER CHINA BOMBARDED AUSTRALIA WITH THREATS FOR INVESTIGATING THE QUESTION: Australian intelligence officials have no evidence of Wuhan lab link to coronavirus.
THAT SHOULD BE EASY TO MAKE: It Is Time For a Libertarian Case Against China. “I’ll simply note that it is silly for Drezner to claim that the flaws in the old model were not apparent until we got to the point where a million Uyghurs had been thrown in concentration camps and the NBA was held hostage for not parroting Communist line. The truth is that the interests, ideology, and goals of the Communist Party of China of 2019 were not so different from those of the Party of 2009, and it was around 2009, not 2017 or 2018, that the Party began a clear, decisive shift against the growing liberalism in their own country and the ‘threats’ posed by liberal ideas and orders abroad. What was happening was undeniable by the time of the Scarborough Shoal standoff in 2012; that America’s political class only started taking the problem seriously in the last three years is evidence of just how difficult it can be to dislodge settled minds from their errors.”
Well, and of how many in the political class are, one way or another, on the take.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Map of Distilleries Making Hand Sanitizer.
FROM MY COLLEAGUE BRADLEY AREHEART: The Top 100 Law Reviews: A Reference Guide Based on Historical USNWR Data.
IF YOU CAN’T FIND A CRIME, CREATE ONE: Much of the FBI’s Treatment of Mike Flynn Was Business as Usual, and That’s the Scandal. This sleazy tactic needs to be outlawed.
SINCE GLENN HAS BEEN ON A BIG STEELY DAN KICK RECENTLY: Donald Fagen is Keeping His Sense of Humor in Isolation.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: RealClearInvestigatons: ‘Where the Federal Corona Bucks Are’: Spring Break for Iffy Schools.
