SORRY, I WANT MY FLYING CAR, NOT SOME SOY-BOY LEFTY WISHLIST: We Don’t Need a Jetsons Future, Just a Sustainable One: “Cozy futurism” reimagines tech for the greater good. “What if, instead of self-driving cars, digital assistants whispering in our ears, and virtual-reality glasses, we viewed a technologically advanced society as one where everyone had sustainable housing? Where we could manage and then reduce the amount of carbon in our atmosphere?”

Imagine a future without annoying lefties. I wonder if you can.

I HOPE WE’RE NOT TOO MESSIANIC, OR A TRIFLE TOO TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE: President Biden: ‘I Don’t Care if You Think I’m Satan Reincarnated.’

I’M NOT ONE OF THEM, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE SCARED OF NEEDLES: Making the case for intranasal COVID-19 vaccines.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Florida’s First 3D-Printed Home Under Construction Amid Housing Affordability Crisis.

ILYA SOMIN: Thoughts on the Sixth Circuit Ruling Against the CDC Eviction Moratorium. “The ruling is unsurprising. But it does further strengthen the case against the moratorium, and increases the odds the issue might eventually make it to the Supreme Court.”

MARK JUDGE: The Drop: Surfing, Addiction and God.

JOURNALISTS ARE “CENTERING” THEIR “TRAUMA” BECAUSE IT ENABLES THEM TO ACQUIRE POWER:

The state of the media industry is such that journalists are now incentivized to be as effusive as possible in professing how emotionally unstable they are. Why? Because it’s a surefire way to bolster their pleas for a redress of various workplace or personal grievances. No longer are these psychological issues thought to be best dealt with in the privacy of a therapist’s office, or among trusted confidants. Instead, these journalists create a public spectacle, beckoning colleagues to flood their tweet threads and affirm unstinting support. When Taylor Lorenz of the New York Times recounted her own emotional turmoil stemming from allegedly “violent” online criticism, the International Women’s Media Foundation, an NGO devoted to “[recognizing] badass female journalists and photographers whose courage sets them apart,” issued a rousing statement in her defense.

Subsequently, these journalists’ union representation will rush to amplify their grievances by echoing the therapeutic trauma jargon, such as stating matter-of-factly that the workplace policy decisions at the Washington Post are not just ill-advised, poorly-conceived, or even unfair — but “harmful.” Obviously, this harm cannot be externally adjudicated because one’s harm must never be subject to contestation or (god forbid) falsification. So the logic goes, every person has the right to say they are harmed without ever having the legitimacy of that harm questioned, because to question the harm compounds the harm. The New York Times appears to be completely on board with this new harassment/harm framework. With results like these, it’s only rational that more and more journalists are employing therapeutic trauma jargon to advance their professional and social self-interest.

Read the whole thing. When the Times’ crybully staffers melted down over Tom Cotton’s op-ed last year, claiming en masse that “Running this puts Black @NYTimes staff in danger,” I wonder if any long-serving Timesmen who reported from, oh, say, Fallujah or Kabul thought about such melodramatic rhetoric.

HOW LONG UNTIL THEY FIND SOME THAT ORIGINATED ON EARTH? Scientists unveil European Mars rover’s meteorite-hunting instruments. After all, we find Martian meteorites on Earth regularly.

HMMM: Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott says his vaccination status is not important: ‘I think that’s HIPAA.’

RIP CLEVELAND INDIANS: Brave New Name Will Honor Traffic Pillars on a Crumbling Bridge.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Blowout Edition.

BUT OF COURSE: Michael Barone: Democrats condemn Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ but keep telling worse ones themselves.

WILL BARNETTE: There is No Conservative Case for Class Actions. Not sure I agree with that.

AT HELEN’S PAGE: You can get signed copies of Kurt Schlichter’s new book The Split.

BIDEN DOJ DROPS CIVIL RIGHTS PROBE OF GOV. CUOMO OVER NURSING HOMES AND COVID-19.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University debuts nation’s first bachelor’s degree in diversity, equity and inclusion.

THE 21st CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Life Expectancy Saw Biggest Drop Since World War II in 2020–And Not Just Due to COVID.

Related: The coming collapse of the developing world.

THE PROPER RESPONSE: “DO THE LETTERS F.O. MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU?” ‘You may have oppressed somebody:’ Prof to White student who said he left his house that day.

Note: Not from the Babylon Bee.

SCOTT JOHNSON: GAINING DEPTH ON GAIN OF FUNCTION: FAUCI FLOPS. “On the question of gain-of-function research, I find the evasiveness of Fauci’s response and the appeal to the character of everyone involved telling, but you be the judge.”

Related: Behind the big debate: Clarity on gain-of-function research. “As Doug McKelway found out in this interview with Stanford researcher Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, it appears that Fauci may have some explaining to do.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. America’s silent majority must fight liberals killing freedom of speech.

TRUNALIMUNUMAPRZURE! Joe Biden Pops off About Sucking Blood From Kids in Incredibly Odd Exchange.

A BLOW AGAINST RACISM AT AND FROM HARVARD: Harvard Scuttles Affiliation With BIPOC-Only Music Program After Professor Files Federal Civil Rights Complaint. “The Ivy League powerhouse has reportedly dropped any connection it had to a special music-industry seminar that excluded white students, according to the conservative website Campus Reform. That came after Mark Perry, a conservative professor at the University of Michigan-Flint, filed a complaint last month with the U.S. Department of Education.”

Good for him. There’s no place for this kind of racism in education.

DUH:  More Voters Want Congress to Probe BLM Riots Than Jan. 6.

JIM TREACHER: I Wore My Mask and I Got My Shots and Now You Will Leave Me Alone.

If I’m vaccinated, I’m not going to get sick. That’s the whole point of getting vaccinated.

THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT OF GETTING VACCINATED.

If someone else is unvaccinated and gets sick, how is that my problem? They should’ve gotten vaccinated. Why should I have to participate in an “honor system” or be subject to some sort of mask mandate, just because somebody else took a risk and is now facing the consequences? I didn’t do anything wrong.

I’m vaccinated. If you want my opinion, you should get vaccinated. And if you don’t want my opinion, you should get vaccinated.

That’s it. That’s all I or anyone else can do. If you choose not to get vaccinated, that’s your right as an American. You’re gambling with your life, but it’s your body and your choice. The government cannot force you to put something into your system against your will.

And, also, in addition to that: If your employer says you have to get vaccinated and/or wear a mask, and you don’t do it, he has every right to fire you. You can go and be an individual American at home or some other place of business.

These are all individual decisions. The state cannot mandate them. That’s not the role of the United States government.

One year ago, Ted Cruz famously predicted:

“If it ends up that Biden wins in November…I guarantee you, the week after the election suddenly all those Democratic governors, all those Democratic mayors, will say, ‘Everything is magically better. Go back to work, go back to school.’ Suddenly, the problems are solved,” Cruz said in the July 22 clip.

Cruz should have known better how leftists whose ideology is built around the moral equivalent of war and “never let a crisis go to waste”* would want to hang on to the pandemic as a way to control and manipulate citizens. Or as environmentalist Anna Tompset at Sweden’s Stockholm University said in March, “We’ve seen through the pandemic that we can make radical changes that seemed unthinkable before,” not realizing (or caring?) how much she sounded like a Bond supervillain.

* QED: Valerie Jarrett : I’m ‘all for’ vaccine mandates.

BIGGEST VOTE-GETTER EVER SOMEHOW LESS POPULAR THAN HIS TWO PREDECESSORS, INCLUDING ONE HE DEFEATED: Sorry, Joe: Voters like Obama and Trump more.