SOROS’ D.A.s REALLY DELIVERING THE GOODS IN CALIFORNIA:

• After death of baby, S.F. domestic violence victim advocates ask whether Chesa Boudin is doing enough.

• L.A. County D.A. Gascón Dismantles Hardcore Gang Unit For New ‘Public Health Approach.’

SELF-BECLOWNING: This sorority accused a sister of racism after she anonymously criticized its woke agenda. Then they learned she’s not white.

SEGREGATION NOW, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER: SUNY Geneseo announces new dorm ‘for Students of Color.’

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Rutgers students provided with ‘trigger’ warnings in Classics and history courses.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Vaccine against malaria could be first real breakthrough.

But if only there was some way to kill mosquitoes in large numbers as well, to paraphrase an Insta-phrase.

WHERE LIFE IS NORMAL:

Mainstream and left-wing media journalists often express horror at the freedom being displayed in places like Florida and Texas as if they are foreign lands, even though there have been no accompanying spikes in COVID-related deaths. If only they knew that the same indifference to draconian lockdowns and mask mandates was occurring less than 50 miles outside their front door.

The DNC-MSM is “unexpectedly” incurious about many things.

ROGER KIMBALL: The Slow-Motion Suicide of the West. “Some people thought James Burnham’s identification of liberalism with civilization’s suicide was hyperbolic. In light of American institutions’ embrace of anti-Americanism, what would they say now?”

Plus: “While there are, as a matter of historical fact, plenty of civilizations that succumb to invasion, occupation, and subjugation, there are also many that wither from within from a failure of self-confidence, of (for the Bergsonians out there) élan vital, of what your philosophy graduate student likes to call thumos: spirit, gumption, ‘heart,’ manliness. The fact that no one can even speak of ‘manliness’ today without looking over his shoulder these days is an index that thumos is on the endangered species list (along, as it happens, with sperm counts in the Western world).”

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Worrying new clues about the origins of Covid: How scientists at Wuhan lab helped Chinese army in secret project to find animal viruses.

JIM WRIGHT COULD NOT BE REACHED FOR COMMENT: Report: ‘Border Czar’ Kamala Harris’s Book Is Purchased With ‘U.S. Taxpayer Dollars’ and Given to Illegal Aliens.

Related:

UPDATE (4/28): NY Post Reporter Resigns After Retraction Of Kamala Harris Book Story. “The NY Post was forced to edit its article and issue an editor’s note noting that ‘the original version of this article said migrant kids were getting Harris’ book in a welcome kit, but has been updated to note that only one known copy of the book was given to a child.’”

ANALYSIS: TRUE: White House Report Card: ‘Blame America First’ in full view.

GOOD:

DISPATCHES FROM PORTLANDIA: After a Year of Riots, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Vows to ‘Take Our City Back from Antifa.’ Color Us Skeptical.

Wheeler certainly isn’t rushing into anything: Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler moving to avoid rioters targeting his home.

—The New York Post, September 2nd.

FREE BEACON INVESTIGATES: Why Don’t Democrats Want Asians to Succeed?

QUESTION ASKED AND ANSWERED:

Shot: Woke and Weak CEOs: They’re denouncing Georgia’s election law, but have they read it?

–The Wall Street Journal, April 1st.

Chaser: Woke Levi Strauss CEO Condemns GA Voter ID Law — Can’t Explain Why It’s Racist.

—The Lid, yesterday.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: Alabama Governor Makes History, Signs Transgender Sports Bill Into Law.

EUGENE VOLOKH: Race And Violent Crime:

An article by a criminal law professor Thursday in the Columbus Dispatch included this assertion:

“The reality is that Black-on-Black crime is a myth, and that Black and white people routinely commit crimes at similar rates, but Black people are overwhelmingly targeted for arrest.”

Yet I think this is not the reality, at least as to violent crimes of the sort that are usually labeled “black-on-black” when committed by black criminals against black victims. (Blacks and whites do seem to commit drug possession and drug distribution crimes at relatively similar rates, but in this post I focus on violent crimes.) As best we can tell, blacks appear to commit violent crimes at a substantially higher rate per capita than do whites; there seems to be little aggregate disparity between the rate at which blacks commit violent crimes (especially when one focuses on crimes where the victims say they reported the crimes to the police) and the rate at which blacks are arrested for crimes; and the black-on-black crime rate is especially high.

Of course, it’s always hard to measure what the actual crime rate is for any group (whether for purposes of claiming that the rates are similar or that they are different). Still, the most reliable data, to my knowledge, is generally the National Crime Victimization Survey, and the U.S. Justice Department Bureau of Justice Statistics reports that are based on that survey. Indeed, the link in the quoted sentence from the article goes to a source that relies on such data.

Figures don’t lie. Trust the science.

DON SURBER: Tucker Carlson is saving journalism.

I should not have to write this, but journalists should accept criticism. Largely they don’t. And lately they are upset because Tucker Carlson is taking them to task on his nightly Fox show.

Speaking from personal experience, your critics do you a valuable service. His criticism is golden because Carlson grew up in journalism. . . .

Carlson is taking some heat from CNN for saying, “Maybe it’s because there’s no incentive to go into journalism anymore. I think that’s part of it. It doesn’t pay anything. If you want to get rich, if you’re smart, you go into private equity or leave the country and move to Barbados. Maybe the smart people don’t want to do journalism anymore.”

But his is a salient point. If they are not in it for the money, what are they in it for?

Vincent Damon Furnier once said the reason he got into rock was for the chicks and free beer. So he donned a dress and became Alice Cooper. His motivation was honorable and to be admired.

If not money, what is the motive to become a journalist?

I sense a motivation that is less than honorable.

Same.

MOSTLY I JUST HIT MY FINGERS A LOT AND HANG EVERYTHING CROOKED:  DAILY ART FIX: Mastering the Art of Hanging Art, Artistically.

WEIRD. I DON’T REMEMBER A SUPER HERO CALLED WHORISH MCCLOWNLAUGH:  Migrant Kids Get Kamala Superhero Book While She Visits New Hampshire,

UPDATE: Story retracted.

BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY DO:  Media Plays Games With Body Cam Video.

NOT NEARLY AS BAD AS EPIDEMIC OF BRAINLESS LEFTISTS IN THIS COUNTRY:  Salon Strikes Again: Gun Violence An Epidemic In This Country.

THIS WOULD BE EASIER TO DO IF SOME IDIOT HADN’T SHUT DOWN THE GOOD JOBS BY EXECUTIVE FIAT:   Biden: Fossil fuel workers should get new jobs ‘where they live’.

HE MIGHT WANT TO ADD A TALK ABOUT SELF-AWARENESS:  Biden to talk climate change awareness at very non-green ‘drive-in rally’.

NYAH – THAT SORT OF THING IS ONLY MALICIOUS WHEN CONSERVATIVES DO IT:   Joy Behar’s Caitlyn Jenner pronoun mixup was not malicious.