BEING AROUND YOUNG, HEALTHY MEMBERS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX EXTENDS LIFE AND FERTILITY: New research finds that male pheromones may improve health of females’ eggs. If I recall, there was an experiment with fruit flies that showed male fruit flies living longer and being more fertile when exposed to young female fruit flies.

HE’S A UNITER! Even Democrats Are Getting Sick of Presidentish Joe Biden.

WELL, GOOD: Scientists devise method to prevent deadly hospital infections without antibiotics.

UH-HUH: Biden Admin Quietly Admits Math Error Is Causing Massive Oil, Gas Permitting Delays.

ENERGY SEC. GRANHOLM DENIES HIGH GAS PRICES ARE RESULT OF BIDEN ADMIN POLICIES DURING SPAR WITH HAWLEY.

Flashback: Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm sings the praises of banning gasoline in music video that should’ve been left in the ground.

IT’S ALIENS: NASA engineers investigate Voyager 1 spacecraft data mystery.

ALL OUR INSTITUTIONS ARE CORRUPT: Two Secret Service agents sent home after off-duty incident in Seoul.

Flashback: The Secret Service’s history of sex and alcohol scandals.

Also: Secret Service agents in Biden detail reportedly part of bribery scheme.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: The left hates Elon Musk because he’s a twin threat that doesn’t tolerate BS.

Why does the left hate Elon Musk?

It’s simple, really: Because he can’t be controlled, and because he doesn’t tolerate BS.

The left can’t stand either. It insists on control, to the point of systematically eliminating or co-opting anything that might serve as an independent power center. (Their fear is justified: “Music clubs” turned out to be a major factor in Czechoslovakia’s 1989 anticommunist Velvet Revolution.) And it insists on not merely spreading BS, but on requiring people to repeat and endorse its BS as a sign of submission.

Musk is thus a twin threat. As the sometime richest man in the world, he has a lot of power, and it’s not under anyone else’s control. And he’s a nerd, with a nerd’s low tolerance for bull. Where more socially “polished” people would go out of their way to show fealty to leftist tropes popular among the Gentry Class regardless of their absurdity, Musk is happy to point out that the emperor has no clothes.

The naked emperors who want to rule us hate that. (Bumped).

HILLARY CLINTON ‘AGREED’ TO LEAK TRUMP-ALFA BANK ALLEGATION TO MEDIA, EX-CAMPAIGN MANAGER TESTIFIES.

UKRAINE WAR: Putin’s Latest Brilliant Masterstroke. “Three months into this stupid war, there’s zero sign of restraint or wisdom in either Moscow or Washington.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Shortage of contrast dye for medical scans leads to rationing, delayed procedures.

HMM: MONKEYPOX THOUGHTS from 2021.

CHANGE? Fifth Circuit Court Starts Dismantling The Administrative State. “The Securities and Exchange Commission’s in-house judges violate the U.S. Constitution by denying fraud defendants their right to a jury trial and acting without necessary guidance from Congress, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday.”

HEH: Republicans Introduce ‘Women’s Bill of Rights’ and Democrats Will Hate It.

GLENN GREENWALD: “The Typhoid Mary of Disinformation:” Nicolle Wallace. Nobody Spreads it More Relentlessly.

DON’T GET COCKY: Dems in Disarray: Internal Polling Looks Devastating. “Down eight points within battleground districts. In their own polling. Which means that some ‘tossup’ races are just gone for them, and other ‘reach’ races for Republicans may very well be on the board. And if battleground congressional races mirror Senate battlegrounds, the DSCC must also have bad indigestion right about now.”

KEVIN DOWNEY JR: Creep-fest: 135 — Oops, 137 Teachers Arrested for Sex Crimes So Far This Year.

READER FAVORITE: Nisaku Hori-Hori Weeding and Digging Knife. #CommissionEarned

WHEW: Starliner successfully launches, reaches a stable orbit. “The Boeing spacecraft is presently targeted to dock with the International Space Station at around 7:10 pm ET on Friday.”

THE GEORGE FLOYD GRAVY TRAIN IS RUNNING OUT OF STEAM: Netflix scraps two Ibram Kendi shows: ‘Antiracist Baby’ show meets the chopping block.

“BAD LUCK:”

CORN, POPPED: Hillary Clinton Campaign Manager Robby Mook Will Testify in Russia Collusion Hoax Trial.

CRITICAL RACE THEORY WAS EXPLICITLY DESIGNED TO UNDERCUT EQUALITY AND FREE SPEECH: Prof calls diversity of thought ‘white supremacist b******t.’

JOE ISN’T UP TO THE JOB: Jill Biden sent on diplomatic mission to save the Summit of the Americas.

YES, THEY’LL COVID TEST AT THE DROP OF A HAT BUT IT’S LIKE PULLING TEETH TO GET A FLU TEST: How Many Influenza and RSV Cases Go Untreated Because They Had a Negative COVID Test?

The CDC tells readers the best protection against influenza is the flu vaccine. Unfortunately, this year’s flu vaccine is only 16 percent effective against contracting influenza. The CDC influenza surveillance report goes on to say, “There are also prescription flu antiviral drugs that can be used to treat flu illness.”

But, as I pointed out in my April 18, 2022 blogpost, the prescription antiviral, Tamiflu, must be started within the first two days of the onset of influenza.

Unfortunately, rapid influenza tests that give results in about 15 minutes can only be performed by health care practitioners at urgent care centers or in doctors’ offices. The Food and Drug Administration has thus far only approved at‐​home self‐​administered flu tests that must be sent in to laboratories that provide results in about 2 days—often outside the window for effective antiviral treatment.

Well, the FDA. But there’s finally progress: “On May 18 the FDA announced it approved a new at‐​home, self‐​administered test that can detect COVID, influenza, and RSV (Respiratory Syncytial Virus—11 percent mortality in adults) off of one specimen. The test is available without a prescription and can be obtained online from Labcorp or at retail stores. This new test is an important breakthrough.”