THE BABSON STORY JUST GETS WORSE: Babson College falsely claims faculty member fired over Iran Facebook post was not a faculty member. “As Phansey notes to The New York Times, he taught at Babson from 2009 to 2012. More importantly, if Babson had not terminated him, Phansey would have been teaching a class on Sustainable Marketing during the spring semester, which began on Tuesday. In fact, he would have been teaching yesterday, the same day Babson was telling The New York Times he was not a faculty member. . . . Babson itself described Phansey as a faculty member — until it began scrubbing its website to delete mentions of his name. Unfortunately for Babson, Google’s cache kept copies of the pages it was deleting.”

Babson’s supposed to focus on educating future business leaders. Plus, FIRE’s concluding statement: “If Babson is so opposed to jokes, perhaps it should stop acting like one.”

WELL, MOSTLY JUST IF YOU’RE STUPID WITH THEM: Over-the-counter steroid creams may pose health risk.

HMM: As sea level rise reshapes U.S. coast, residents will be pushed inland.

It’s obviously time to tax the Blue Zones!

I HOPE THIS MEANS THE NEXT USS ENTERPRISE WON’T BE ANOTHER NAVAL VESSEL:

STAR TREK: PICARD HAS FINALLY BEAMED DOWN. DOES IT DELIVER THE GOODS? Some thoughts and an episode recap, over at Ed Driscoll.com.

(Bumped.)

TYLER O’NEIL IS ALL OVER THE MARCH FOR LIFE: Trump Defends the Unborn at March for Life: Every Life ‘Is in the Image of Almighty God.’

ALSO: David Daleiden Exposes Planned Parenthood’s ‘Coordinated Attack on the Civil Liberties of Pro-Life Americans.’

IF THERE’S ANYTHING WE NEED, IT’S A NEW AMMUNITION CALIBER: SHOT Show 2020 Video: SIG Sauer .277 SIG Fury Ammunition.

WHY CAN’T THEY BOTH LOSE: Google v. Oracle to SCOTUS: What Are They Arguing About?

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SUGGESTED? NO. FLAT-OUT SAID IT? YES. Biden Still in Denial, Says ‘No One Has Suggested My Son Did Anything Wrong.’

EVER NOTICE OUR BETTERS ARE ANYTHING BUT? Vox offers us plebs a glimpse inside the private celebrity Resistance Twitter club known as — we kid you not — ‘the Decency Collective.’

BRING BACK THE THREE-MARTINI LUNCH, AND BOILERMAKERS AFTER WORK: Most Americans Are Lonely, And Our Workplace Culture May Not Be Helping.

MAYBE SACRAMENTO SHOULD PASS A LAW AGAINST UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES:

Or maybe in this case the consequences were fully intended.

I BLAME THE IMPACT OF HATRED FROM THE POLITICAL/MEDIA CLASS: US suicide rate rises 40% over 17 years, with blue-collar workers at highest risk, CDC finds.

REP. JIM JORDAN: ‘7 Important Things’ Schiff ‘Had Exactly Wrong’ – and ‘We’re Supposed to Believe Him?’

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Florida Man Friday: Caution! Falling Iguana Zone. “Florida’s cold snap is so severe, that the nightclubs on Key West have gone from closing out last call with ‘It’s Raining Men’ to ‘It’s Raining Semi-Frozen Kinda-Hibernating Iguanas’.”

LEFTISTS HATE THE WORKING CLASS, NOWADAYS: “Let Them Eat Whole Foods”: The Appalling Elitism of Dollar Store Bans. What’s really driving dollar-store bans? Could it be a simple lack of empathy?

HE KNOWS WHAT’S GOOD FOR HIM: Accused Rapist Harvey Weinstein Distances Himself From Bill Clinton at Trial.

WONDER DRUG: Low-dose aspirin may reduce risk for pre-term birth in first-time mothers. Though an 11% risk reduction isn’t exactly staggering.

RUSSIAN HACKERS SMILE: Seattle-Area Voters To Vote By Smartphone In 1st For U.S. Elections.

FLASHBACK: ‘Tolerant’ educators exile Trump voters from campus.

MATTHEW CONTINETTI: Nadler’s Folly. “A Republican senator told me before the trial began that the conduct of the House managers would play a major role in forming senators’ judgments. Nadler’s eruption proved the point. The contemptuous attitude of Democrats toward Republicans, and the pass-the-buck mentality that drove the House to impeach Trump before the evidence was in and inter-branch disputes settled by the courts, give GOP senators every reason to vote on the charges sooner rather than later. “

SPOILER: IT WON’T BE.