NO, BUT THEY’RE COUNTING ON BURYING THE TRUTH:  Can Comey Miniseries ‘A Higher Loyalty’ Survive the Truth?

REVOLTING:  Your Guide To The Obama Administration’s Hit On Michael Flynn.

THERE IS AN INEXORABLE LOGIC TO SECRET SERVICES, THAT UNLESS TIGHTLY CONTROLLED ENDS UP DICTATING FORM AND FUNCTION:  In Dealing with Flynn, Comey’s FBI Acted Like the KGB.

BURNING STRAW FIGURES OF YOUR GOVERNOR MIGHT BE DANGEROUS, THOUGH, IN THE MORE ARID STATES, AT LEAST:  Remember, Remember This Shit, Come November.

VITAMIN D IS GOOD FOR YOU. GET OUT THERE, GET SOME SUN:  COVID19 update, May 5, 2020 edition: protective effect of MMR vaccination? strokes, vitamin D; ACE inhibitors and ARBs.

ABOUT TIME:  Trump administration drafting new space agreement to supersede Outer Space Treaty.

AND MORE ON THAT:  The President’s Space Resources Executive Order and the Moon Agreement.

OR, WHO KNOWS, RED AMERICA MIGHT PAINT ITSELF BLUE AND BURST OUT OF THE DOOR SCREAMING “FREEDOM” IF THE LOCKDOWN BS DOESN’T END SOON.  I KNOW WHICH I’M BETTING ON:  WaPo Op-Ed: “Red America” May Vote Dem If Coronavirus Grows.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  Texas Nursing Home: Media Ignores Good News.

ALL THE GREAT AWARDS AND PRIZES HAVE LONG SINCE — AS IN MOST OF MY ADULT LIFE — BEEN SKINSUITED. THEY NOW REWARD ONLY POLITICALLY-CORRECT-THINKING. OBJECTIVITY IS PUNISHED:  The greatest Pulitzer since Duranty: the 1619 Project.

WHAT? THE WAY THE FEMINISTS TREATED BILL CLINTON DIDN’T GIVE YOU FOREWARNING?  The mask of objectivity is torn off and the naked bias revealed.

BUT THAT WAS JUST BECAUSE CORN POP TOLD HIM TO!  In 1991 Biden Opposed Creation of Senate Office to Handle Sexual Harassment Complaints.  (Before he was senile, he was just venal.)

SANITY:  VIDEO – Wisconsin Sup. Ct. Justice: Isn’t state’s lockdown order “the very definition of tyranny?”

MASKS IN JANUARY MADE SOME SENSE, CONSIDERING WHAT WE KNEW THEN. CONSIDERING WHAT WE KNOW NOW? MASK WEARING IS DOOM-LARPING:  Your Mask Is Making You Meaner, Dumber, More Afraid & Less Safe.

AT AMAZON, Yamaha A-S1100SL 2 Channel Integrated Amplifier (Silver).

TEXAS JUDGE MAKES A MARTYR:

A judge told Shelley Luther, the salon owner who opened her business in defiance of the governor's orders, that she had the option to avoid jail time if she admitted to the government she was "wrong" and "selfish" for opening.

Here is her response:pic.twitter.com/s5SM2XKYSq

— Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) May 5, 2020

The judge is Eric Moye, a 1979 graduate of Harvard Law School. More here.

THE PUBLIC NEVER DEMANDED OPEN BORDERS AND GLOBALIZATION. QUITE THE CONTRARY. Who Invited The World To Infect America?

THE OBESITY CONNECTION: Fat could be helping coronavirus to infiltrate cells. “Fat cells produce large amounts of a protein used by the coronavirus to infiltrate human cells, researchers have warned, pointing to a potential explanation for why obese people are more severely affected. Certain types of drugs used in diabetes might be repurposed to fight Covid-19 as a result of the findings, the scientists said. ‘Weight loss per se’ could also be useful.”

It’s amazing how many asymptomatic cases we’re seeing in prisons and meatpacking plants. Could this be part of it? Or is it something else?

BEN WEINGARTEN: Tom Cotton Is Right About Restricting Chinese Student Visas.

THERE SHOULD BE AT LEAST ONE MORE ZERO ON THIS, BUT GOOD: Weed Warriors Who Mistook Tea for Marijuana Will Pay Their Victims $150,000: After seven years of litigation, a Kansas couple finally obtains some compensation for a comically inept drug raid.

The settlement should also involve the erection of billboards with the officers’ pictures and names, and the caption “Can’t tell marijuana from Earl Grey.”

THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY’S LOOMING STRATEGIC DEFEAT: Read the whole thing.

CANADIAN POLICE, WITH WEAPONS DRAWN, CUFF GIRL DRESSED AS STAR WARS STORMTROOPER FOR  “MAY THE FOURTH” DAY (Video): “Let’s salute our first responders who heroically disarmed what looks to be a hundred-pound girl in an obvious costume. A little blood was spilled but after they took away her plastic phaser; you never know if she could use her 100lbs to overpower all the cops there.”

As James Lileks wrote late last month about “small-minded public officials: ‘I don’t make the laws, sir, I just enforce them with a great deal of enthusiasm.’”

OPEN THREAD: It’s everything they say. The end of a perfect day.

OLD AND BUSTED: #believeallwomen.

The New Hotness? ‘I don’t want justice:’ Politico and Hill co-founder says he doesn’t want investigation allegations against Biden.

Martin Tolchin responded to a New York Times editorial board piece from Friday that urged the Democratic National Committee to investigate the allegations that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee sexually assaulted a former Senate aide, Tara Reade, in 1993.

The New York Times’s editorial board called on the DNC to “investigate the matter swiftly and thoroughly.” And noted, “As is so often the case in such situations, it is all but impossible to be certain of the truth. But the stakes are too high to let the matter fester — or leave it to be investigated by and adjudicated in the media. Mr. Biden is seeking the nation’s highest office.”

Tolchin, who also worked for the New York Times for 40 years, issued a letter to the outlet published Monday that said an investigation into Reade’s allegations would only hurt Biden’s chances of beating Trump in November.

“I totally disagree with this editorial. I don’t want an investigation. I want a coronation of Joe Biden,” Tolchin, 91, wrote. “I don’t want justice, whatever that may be. I want a win, the removal of Donald Trump from office, and Mr. Biden is our best chance.”

“At least he’s honest in his demand that journalists shouldn’t do their jobs,” Curtis Houck of NewsBusters adds.

If this was what a classic D.C. elite journalist was willing to publicly opine about Biden and Reade, imagine what his former colleagues still in the news business think. If it’s anything close to the hardened, willful corruption, then perhaps our media are irreparably broken.

Don’t worry though — I’m sure Tolchin was totally objective and non-biased back when he was at his desk as a journalist.

THIS JUST IN: 2020 IS NOT MESSING AROUND. Breaking: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘Hospitalized With Infection,’ Supreme Court Says.

PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT AGENTS RAID HAIRCUTTING SPEAKEASY.

Note the Dallas dateline on the above article at America’s Newspaper of Record, presumably based on this story: GOP lawmakers get illegal haircuts while calling on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to reopen salons.

And he has! Gov. Greg Abbott to allow Texas hair salons and pools to reopen Friday and gyms to open May 18.