LIKE ALL POPULAR LEFTY “SOLUTIONS,” IT MAKES THE PROBLEM WORSE: Expect Ban on Menthol Cigarettes to Worsen Inequities in Criminal Justice.

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. Biden Struggles: Disastrous Jobs Report Shows America Is On The ‘Right Track.’

YEAH, THAT’S A REAL POSER: AS THE PANDEMIC ENDS, WHY AREN’T MORE PEOPLE GOING BACK TO WORK? “Government interventions have changed the elasticity of wages, making it harder for firms to hire workers.”

FROM CELIA HAYES AND JEANNE HAYDEN:  The Luna City Compendium #1.

Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas! Population … well, that varies, depending on the time of year. Luna City; whose Town Square is the architectural jewel of South Texas.

Where the high school football team is called the Mighty Fighting Moths and their yearly Homecoming game is under some strange and irregular curse.

Once meant to be a stop on the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad, but derailed by True Love …

Where there might be a fortune in gold hidden somewhere for the last hundred years ….

Where half the townsfolk has the surname of Gonzalez or Gonzales, they’re all related and descended from the holder of the original Spanish land grant but no one has ever been able to figure out whether his name ended in an ‘s’ or a ‘z’, due to illegible handwriting on the original paperwork! A historic marker on Town Square marks the spot where a local bootlegger was nearly hung in 1926 for (among a long list of offenses against the laws of God and Man) impersonating a nun!

Luna City, where eccentricity is just a part of every-day life. Drop in for a visit – you might never want to leave.

THE AMAZING THING, WHEN I WAS LEARNING ART WAS SEEING BEAUTY IN EVERY HUMAN:  Art and the Mind’s Eye: How Drawing Trains You to See the World More Clearly and to Live with a Deeper Sense of Presence.

Oh, other things too. I just prefer drawing portraits.

ONLY BECAUSE THEIR EXPERTS ARE RELIGIOUS BELIEVERS IN SOCIALISM:  The economy surprises the “experts” – again.

IT’S OKAY. WE’RE NOT DEALING WITH TRUE BELIEVERS:  Types of Tyranny.

I TOO AM LOYAL TO THE DREAM:  Inspiration from a Comic Book: A Blast from the Past.

I bleed red white and blue. To the last drop if needed.

AGAIN, SURE, THEY’RE TOTALLY CONVINCING US THEY’RE NOT USURPERS:  GOP Chairwoman Gives Update on Maricopa County Ballot Audit and Details of Push-back By Arizona State Senate Against DOJ Intervention,

OF COURSE:  Biden Insists April’s Dismal Jobs Report Shows U.S. Economy is on the ‘Right Track’.

The big lie is their last hope.

MORE OF THIS, PLEASE:  Oklahoma Gov. Stitt Signs Bill Banning Critical Race Theory From Public Schools.

YEAH. THEY’RE TOTALLY NOT FASCISTS:  Maryland A.G. To Appoint Panel To Audit Record of Chauvin Expert Witness Dr. David Fowler.

Totally.  Has anyone seen my shocked face? Looks appropriate here.

GUYS? BUY POPCORN:  Black Hammer Group “Liberates” Colorado Land For CHOP Commune.

These guys are at a higher altitude than Vail. Good luck growing anything. Even if any of them were capable of working, and there were more than one woman, and their leader didn’t look like a reject of community college theater class and sound like someone who consumes way too much soy, they’d be doomed. This way? They’ll be doomed in interesting ways. Their story will become a legend of these mountains, and the site of their hilarious and horrible demise another touristic site in Colorado.

They should name it the Alferd Packer Memorial Camp and cut through the chase.

IT WAS NEVER ANYTHING TO BE THAT SCARED OF:  Don’t buy the fearmongering: The COVID-19 threat is waning.

Now they’re trying really hard to make “climate crisis” a thing, apparently forgetting that those of us who aren’t autistic Swedes were already over that bs before they ran the virus scare.

THE SOCIALISTS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES HAVE LONG SINCE STOPPED BEING ABOUT THE WORKING CLASS:  The real question Labour can’t answer.

Of course, since Marx, it never was. The imagined proletariat was never real working people. It was the febrile dreams of radical losers who imagined this creature, capable of the violence they themselves feared, being the instrument of their vengeance on the world.  Let’s face it, a lot of pain could have been saved by giving Marx thorazine.

YOU DON’T KNOW IF SOMEONE HAS FAILED UNTIL YOU KNOW WHAT THEY’RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE: The Gospel of Failure: Our ruling classes just keep insisting on the same bad ideas.

THE ENEMY WITHIN: Final nail in Liz’s coffin? Cheney ‘secretly orchestrated Washington Post op-ed by all ten living former Defense Secretaries – including her father – warning against Trump’s efforts to politicize the military’, new report claims.

HAHA:

OPEN THREAD: Time to open up your window and let in better weather.

SPACE: Virgin Orbit schedules next LauncherOne mission for June.