MARLON WAYANS ON CANCEL CULTURE: “It’s sad that society is in this place where we can’t laugh anymore. I ain’t listening to this damn generation. I ain’t listening to these folks. These scared-ass people, these scared executives. Y’all do what you want to do? Great. I’m still gonna tell my jokes the way I tell them. And if you want to make some money, jump on board.”

COVID IS OVER: TB back to being world’s deadliest killer.

SEMI-SOFT LANDING: Why NASA is trying to crash land on Mars. “Rather than slow a spacecraft’s high-speed descent, an experimental lander design called SHIELD (Simplified High Impact Energy Landing Device) would use an accordion-like, collapsible base that acts like the crumple zone of a car and absorbs the energy of a hard impact. The new design could drastically reduce the cost of landing on Mars by simplifying the harrowing entry, descent, and landing process and expanding options for possible landing sites.”

WATCH: Trump Supporters Smoothly Turn Tables on MSNBC ‘Reporter’ After ‘Gotcha’ Questions on Capitol Riot.

Here are Pittsburgh area Trump voters correcting an MSNBC reporter’s errors on January 6th. Watch this. They are way better informed on the facts than she is: pic.twitter.com/KLGmq9x7x4

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 24, 2022

JULIETTE OCHIENG: The Illegal and/or Unconstitutional Actions of President Barack Obama, Part 1.

I believe there’s no paywall on this one.

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? How One Children’s Hospital Is Confronting a ‘Sick Season’ Surge — Doctors at CHOP say kids probably missed out on building immunity due to the pandemic.

ZODIAC 1, LEFTIST HARPIES Ø: Wild: Audience members on The View try to shout down Ted Cruz, Whoopi Goldberg kicks them out.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Ted Cruz gets the last laugh at Yankees Stadium. “The Astros knocked off the Yankees in four games and will face the Phillies in the World Series. The first game is Friday. Yes, I fully expect to see Cruz in the stands at Minute Maid Park cheering on the Astros. Houston loves the Astros and they have had a spectacular season and post-season. Too bad, so sad, Yankees. Not really. The senator did a little poking at the New York fans by wearing an Astros orange shirt. . . . New York hasn’t had a World Series appearance in 13 years.”

UPDATE (From Ed): The screeching gals from The View inadvertently memed themselves:

I REMEMBER THE CONSENSUS AMONG “EXPERTS” — EXCEPT THE INSTA-WIFE, WHO APPEARED ON FOX NEWS AND MSNBC DEMURRING — WAS THAT IT WAS AN “ANGRY WHITE MALE.” On This Day: Suspects in D.C. sniper attacks arrested.

LIFE COMES AT YOU FAST: Russian Pilot’s Ejection From An Su-25 Seen In Incredible Headcam Video.

BAD COURTROOM NEWS FOR BOEING: “In sum, but for Boeing’s criminal conspiracy to defraud the FAA, 346 people would not have lost their lives in the crashes.” “Judge Reed O’Connor of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that families whose relatives were killed in two Boeing 737 MAX crashes represented “crime victims” under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA). And because the Justice Department never conferred with the families before reaching the secret deferred prosecution deal with Boeing, the Department violated the CVRA. Judge O’Connor ordered further proceedings on the appropriate remedy for the Department’s violations of law.”

UPDATE: From the comments: “I’m betting the judgement will be less than that against Alex Jones.”

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Math Scores Fell in Nearly Every State, and Reading Dipped on National Exam.

U.S. students in most states and across almost all demographic groups have experienced troubling setbacks in both math and reading, according to an authoritative national exam released on Monday, offering the most definitive indictment yet of the pandemic’s impact on millions of schoolchildren.

In math, the results were especially devastating, representing the steepest declines ever recorded on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the nation’s report card, which tests a broad sampling of fourth and eighth graders and dates to the early 1990s.

In the test’s first results since the pandemic began, math scores for eighth graders fell in nearly every state. A meager 26 percent of eighth graders were proficient, down from 34 percent in 2019.

Faced with these results, the Gray Lady is terrified of Republicans pouncing and seizing:

The test results could be seized as political fodder — just before the midterms — to re-litigate the debate over how long schools should have stayed closed, an issue that galvanized many parents and teachers.

Evergreen:

ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION: Climate Lunatics Throw Mashed Potatoes on Monet Masterpiece, and It’s Going to Get Worse.

READER FAVORITE: Marino’s Men Genuine Leather Dress Belt. #CommissionEarned

DON’T GET COCKY: With memories of embarrassments still fresh, election pollsters face big tests in 2022 midterm elections.

GOOD: As the Election Nears and With Bruen Now the Law, Reality Begins to Dawn on the Gun Control Community.

Related: Gun Control and Decarceration: Two Failed Experiments That Cost Innocent Lives, This Time Two in a Dallas Hospital.

GREAT FOR PARENTS OF SMALL KIDS WHO PUT UP A FUSS WHEN IT’S TIME TO SPRAY ON THE DEET: Scientists create the first-ever printable, wearable insect repellent.

HE’S TOO SENESCENT TO CONVINCINGLY DENY HE’S SENESCENT: Biden Addresses the Issue of His Age, Fumbles It Feebly.

READER FAVORITE: Kitchen Mama Electric Can Opener. #CommissionEarned

WHEN THEY TELL YOU WHAT THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM: Fetterman To Campaign With Socialists in Philly.

SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB: School board candidate says white people who quote MLK are ‘trying to uphold white supremacy.’

ACTIVATE THE INNIES: Navigating when GPS goes dark.

We need to work on these, and also on celestial navigation, since the next major war will probably take down GPS, one way or another.

MICHAEL WALSH: ‘What an Artist Dies in Me!’

Art, like the Christ figure, has conquered death. This is its power, which cannot be reset. This is why religious and secular authorities fear it, seek to diminish it, try to co-opt it, reduce it to a grubby economic transaction, send it to a prison camp, hang it. Like Boccaccio’s Decameronians, holed up in a fashionable villa to avoid the Black Death but with absolutely no storytelling ability, they await and encourage the collapse of contemporary civilization so that they might improve it, along with their own fortunes. That artists subscribe, consciously or not, to the Nietzschean doctrine of eternal recurrence never seems to occur to them; even if they’ve never read Cloud Atlas, perhaps they should harken to the sextet by Vyvyan Ayrs.

Artists neither mourn nor celebrate their subjects; rather, they exhibit their own power to resurrect the dead or summon the nonexistent to squalling life, whether their characters are sacred or profane. Profoundly indifferent to morality, yet completely human, art exists on its own terms, open to all to inspect, embrace, imitate, or reject. From the Roman Empire to the seventeenth-century Venetian court; from the Zauberberg a hundred years ago to Davos Dorf today, many have tried to geld it or beat it into submission, but art and artists will always have the last word. There is no Reset, neither by gods nor bonzes, but there is always rebirth. And that is forever the province of the glory, jest, and riddle of the world—Man.

Read the whole thing.

SHE’S RUNNING FOR FAME AND FORTUNE, NOT FOR OFFICE: Stacey Abrams’ Bizarre Stunt at a Lizzo Concert Shows How Desperate She Is.

BUT OF COURSE: What a difference Biden makes: Delta Airlines OWNS their suddenly profitable oil refinery. “Where does Delta come into all this, after the commodities and doom and gloom lecture? That’s kind of interesting, too. At the top of the post, where I linked to those three PA refineries being closed in 2012? One of them was the Trainer facility, and it was given an EPA reprieve, of all things. CONOCO-Phillips still wanted to unload it, and Delta Airlines bought it as a hedge against oil prices and jet fuel shortages. They lost their butt owning it for years – as a small refinery fighting the EPA mandates tooth and nail didn’t help – and repeatedly tried to unload it, but, HEY! There’s been a sudden turnaround. Things are looking rosy and they are looking prescient.”

Plus, much more on the diesel shortage, and this: “We are ruled by malevolent clowns.” True!

HMM: Two alleged Chinese spies charged with trying to obstruct US Huawei investigation.