A SWEET MUSIC VIDEO FROM KNOXVILLE: “Half My Hometown.”

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DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Bears scavenge trash cans at Gatlinburg gas station.

To be fair, they probably came looking for gas and then just decided to try to salvage the trip.

YES. Have We Reached A Covid-19 Tipping Point? “Before a population can reach herd immunity, an inflection point has to occur — the point where there’s enough immunity, through vaccination and previous infection, that cases begin to decline consistently. Experts suspect the United States hit an inflection point in late April.”

IT’S PERFECTLY NORMAL TO DELETE DATABASES BEFORE AN AUDIT, JUST ASK HILLARY: Dominion, Maricopa County Rebuff Arizona Senate’s Attempt to Get Election Machine Passwords: Auditors found an entire database from a machine deleted, raising concerns.

And they’re certainly acting like honest people with nothing to hide.

HOW COLLEGES SUPPRESS CURIOSITY: Effects like this are probably worse, long-term, than the political indoctrination. The political dimension is so obvious and in-your-face (especially now) that you can at least be aware of it — and people can always change their views. I’m not so sure you can restore curiosity once it’s been beaten out of a young person.

CHANGE: Ruger-57 Pistol Safety Retrofit.

THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING: Testing software so it’s reliable enough for space.

It’s very possible that SpaceX and StarLink write more code to test their software than the software they’re testing.

VICTORIA TAFT: Lefty Rag Goes After Reporters Who Covered BLM/Antifa Riots for Committing Acts of Journalism. And For Another, More Dangerous Reason.

YES, BUT THEY’RE UP-TO-DATE ON DIVERSITY AND SENSITIVITY TRAINING: Despite Promises, USS Ford Heads To Shock Trials With 4 Broken Elevators. “U.S. Navy leaders have repeatedly assured Congress and the public that the USS Ford would be ready before the forthcoming shock trials. But with four of the USS Ford’s seven critical lower-stage weapons elevators still unready for service, naval credibility is at stake. If the shock trials go forward, testing an incomplete ship, the Navy stands to miss a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fully validate the battle-hardiness of America’s future carrier fleet in real-world conditions.”

DO TELL: Fauci Urges Fully Vaccinated Americans To ‘Make That Transition’ And Stop Wearing Masks Outside.

YES: Letter in Prestigious Scientific Journal Calls for New Investigation Into COVID-19’s Origins.

WELL, GOOD: Study finds lasofoxifene a promising treatment for resistant breast cancer.

HAVING CHILDREN IS A VOTE OF CONFIDENCE FOR THE FUTURE: Denver’s elementary enrollment is falling. “Denver Public Schools was once the fastest-growing urban school district in the country. But several years ago, enrollment began to plateau. While middle and high school enrollment held steady or even grew, elementary enrollment began to fall. District officials pointed to declining birth rates and rising housing prices pushing families out of the city. Neighboring school districts including Aurora and Jeffco face similar challenges.”

MADDOW MELTDOWN: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on new CDC guidelines: Need to ‘rewire’ myself to not see unmasked people as ‘a threat.’

GOOD NEWS FOR ORTHODONTIA: As Masks Come Off, People Try to Get Their Teeth Straight.

DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF THE NEWSPEAK DICTIONARY AND THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Penn State Faculty Move to Erase the Terms ‘Junior’ and ‘Senior’, Calling Them ‘Male-Centric.’

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR DAILY INSANITY WRAP: Literally Everything Is Going to Hell… Who Wants a Drink?

Insanity Wrap needs to know: We have at least 44 more months of either Biden or Harris — is that more day-drinking than the human liver can endure?

Answer: Let’s find out.

Before we get to the sordid details, a quick preview of today’s Wrap.

• Biden calls for at least some missile attack on Israel (really)
• NBC’s Kassie Hunt follows the lemmings, not the science
• More moral equivilance than a Karen can wag a finger at

Bonus Sanity: You wouldn’t believe what had to pass for sanity today.

And so much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

I’M POSTING THIS VIA MY NEW SPACEX STARLINK INTERNET SERVICE, which I just installed a few minutes ago. Installation was pretty simple; mounting the dish on my roof was the hardest part. After that it was just a matter of plugging it in, letting it find the satellites (which took about 2 minutes) and then naming the network. A speed test showed 262 mbps down and 16 mbps up. My only complaint is that the proprietary cable that comes with it has kind of a thick head, which required drilling a bigger hole than the actual cable needed. Also, I’m not big on proprietary cables, but it does have to carry power to the dish as well as signal back.

Still, so far quite impressive. I didn’t do the installation myself; I used At Home Audio Video, and they did a great, fast job. The installers seemed excited to be able to install a Starlink, since this is apparently the first one in Knoxville.

UPDATE: People are asking for more info so here’s the speedtest/ping time I just got:

THESE ARE THE FOLKS WHO DECIDE IF YOU’RE NUTS: My friend, Duke emeritus professor John E. R. Staddon, has been banned from an American Psychological Association email listserv for violating its circa-2019 “Code of Conduct,” which I am 100% sure was totally adopted based on SCIENCE and not as a transparent attempt to enforce ideological conformity. In true SCIENCE fashion, these SCIENCE-oriented people failed to point to what exactly got him banned, because specific evidence is totally unnecessary for SCIENCE, leaving him to guess it was the following shocking and intemperate remark: “Hmm… Binary view of sex false? What is the evidence? Is there a Z chromosome?” (Staddon, an Englishman, is one of the politest people I know.)

But then, I am just some lawyer and not an important SCIENCE man like Jonathon Crystal, Mark Krause, and Tony Puente, the “Presidential Trio” who announced Staddon’s ban. Now, if you will excuse me, I have to go not wear a mask because it will make things worse wear a mask even if I can’t breathe or else I will die wear at least two masks unless I am outside, because you gotta defer to the SCIENCE.

LIDBLOG: Why Liz Cheney Had to Go. “It Is Clear That Cheney Cares More About Earning Praise From Nancy Pelosi And The Corporate Press More Than She Cares About Fighting To Save Our Country From The Democrat’s Socialist Agenda.”

It’s a very simple thing that people seem to go to Washington to forget: If you’re going to take a party leadership position, then the party comes before your personal ambitions.

PAULA BOLYARD REPORTS FROM OHIO: DeWine Has Lost His COVID-Loving Mind: Will Bribe Ohioans to Get Vaccine With Million-Dollar Lottery Prizes, Scholarships for Children.

BOBBY! SHOULD I TAKE ‘EM TO THE BRIDGE? Nearly 800 Barges Stuck In Lower Mississippi River From Bridge Crack.

SOME MEN ASK, “WHY?” I ASK, WHY NOT? How to turn your cigarette lighter into a DeLorean (video):