BETTER TAKE A DUMBRELLA:  Now a university in England has rejected the sonnet as too white and Western.

It’s stupid out there.

THE PROBLEM IS THEY’RE ALL FABULISTS. ALL OF THEM:  If the Palestinians say it, they print it.

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE:  Census screw-up favors blue states? Shocking.

OKAY, THE MAN IS A MILE A MINUTE GAFFE MACHINE:  George W. Bush Slams Putin’s ‘Wholly Unjustified and Brutal Invasion of Iraq’ Instead of Ukraine.

But becoming Clinton’s bestie has done him no favors.

KEEP LOOKING FOR WHITE SUPREMACISM UNDER YOUR BEDS IDIOTS:  House Passes ‘White Supremacism’ Domestic Terrorism Bill After Buffalo Shooting.

You won’t like it if you create it.
To be fair, I think they’re sincere in this. Not that it makes any sense, but the same way that they meet accusations their books aren’t fun with “that’s because you don’t want minorities to write!” (This usually said by affluent white women, mind) the left can’t imagine anyone opposing their insanity unless they’re “white supremacists.”

Because wanting formula for your baby, not wanting your kid sexually molested by weirdo teachers, and wanting to have money to eat, must mean you’re a racist, yo. Not rational and sane.

So they associate things like a crazy communist shooting people with “White supremacy.” Because, you know, if they keep shoveling, they’ll find a pony under all the sh*t.

KEEP BRACING FOR VIOLENCE FROM THE RIGHT, FOR THE THOUSANDTH TIME:  DHS Reportedly Bracing for Violence From the Right and ‘Abortion-Rights Proponents’ if Supreme Court Overturns Roe.

They don’t realize what it would be like, should it be unleashed. And if they ever manage to flip that switch, chances are they never will.

IT’S ALMOST LIKE BIDEN’S WAR ON ENERGY IS WORKING!  Gas Prices Hit ‘Record Highs Each Day This Week’, All 50 States Average $4 a Gallon.

Let’s go Brandon!

I’M GOING TO GUESS IT’S MADE UP:  Just as Elon Musk Becomes a Hot Story a Report Surfaces of an Old Sexual Harassment Claim.

Though to be fair, it’s also possible that he simply didn’t read the context very well. He has the hallmarks. And these days, to be a man attempting to date you need to be part mind-reader and part lawyer.

OPEN THREAD: Never say never.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: DIU selects nuclear-powered spacecraft designs for 2027 demonstrations.

NEXT IT’LL BE IMPOSING A SEX ON THEM BY SKELETAL ANALYSIS: AI Can Predict People’s Race From X-Ray Images, And Scientists Are Concerned. “The findings raise some troubling questions about the role of AI in medical diagnosis, assessment, and treatment: could racial bias be unintentionally applied by computer software when studying images like these?”

Assuming the AI is accurate, how can it be racially biased? The article doesn’t make that clear.

THEY SHOULD SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THAT WILL DISCOURAGE FUTURE EFFORTS OF THIS SORT: Justice coming for the ‘Dirty 51’ Hunter Biden laptop liars.

One of the most galling aspects of the Hunter Biden laptop saga is that the 51 former intelligence officials who played such a critical role in suppressing The Post’s stories and giving Joe Biden cover before the 2020 election have never been brought to account.

The “Dirty 51” lied by painting our stories as Russian disinformation in an Oct. 19, 2020, letter they signed and delivered to Politico five days after The Post exposé and three days before the final presidential debate of the election campaign.

They used the institutional weight of their powerful former roles to legitimize partisan political propaganda designed to smear The Post and everyone associated with the story and dissuade the rest of the media from looking deeper into the laptop.

The letter, titled “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden emails,” and signed by former CIA Directors John Brennan, Leon Panetta and Mike Hayden, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and other ex-spooks, claimed the material on Hunter’s hard drive “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation,” although not one of them had seen it.

Their lie “probably affected the outcome” of the 2020 presidential race, as former Attorney General William Barr has said, describing the letter as “partisan hackery,” “baseless” and signed by “a coterie of retired intelligence officials who had lost their professional bearings.”

Yet they have never apologized or retracted their lie.

I’m glad Trump’s siccing lawyers on them. Lessons must be taught.

WOW, I’VE HAD LOST BAGGAGE BEFORE BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS: Moth last seen 110 years ago found at Detroit airport.

THE EMERGING REPUBLICAN MAJORITY: STUDY: Testosterone Treatment Turns Democrat Voters More Conservative. “Someone tell Brian Stelter.”

Flashback: Buzzfeed Crew Shocked To Learn They Have Low Testosterone Levels.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Menopause symptoms may interfere with sexual activity.

INTRODUCE THEM TO NANCY PELOSI AND SEND THEM SCAMPERING BACK TO THEIR HOME STAR SYSTEMS? What could we realistically do to stop an alien invasion? Sufficiently violent neolithic tribes were able to keep out Europeans for centuries, but it helps that they didn’t have anything much worth taking.

CONFORMITY IS DIVERSITY: CRT Symposium Speaker Calls Diversity of Thought ‘White Supremacist’ Excrement.

RIP: Vangelis, composer of Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner soundtracks, dies aged 79.

Vangelis had continued his film score work throughout the 1970s, but it was in the 1980s that this reached its commercial heights. Chariots of Fire became inextricable from Vangelis’s timeless theme, and the music became synonymous with slow-motion sporting montages. “My music does not try to evoke emotions like joy, love, or pain from the audience. It just goes with the image, because I work in the moment,” he later explained.

His score to Blade Runner is equally celebrated for its evocation of a sinister future version of Los Angeles, where robots and humans live awkwardly alongside one another, through the use of long, malevolent synth notes; saxophones and lush ambient passages enhance the film’s romantic and poignant moments. “It has turned out to be a very prophetic film – we’re living in a kind of Blade Runner world now,” he said in 2005.

Later in the decade he scored the Palme d’Or-winning Costa-Gavras political drama Missing, starring Jack Lemmon; the Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins drama The Bounty; and the Mickey Rourke-starring Francesco. He worked again with the Blade Runner director, Ridley Scott, on 1992 film 1492: Conquest of Paradise, and elsewhere during the 1990s, soundtracked Roman Polanski’s Bitter Moon and documentaries by Jacques Cousteau.

I saw Blade Runner three or four times during its initial 1982 run, in no small part due to Vangelis’ jaw-dropping synthesized score, which along with Peter Gabriel’s III and IV albums, were a preview of where music would be going in the 1980s.

WE BATTLE THE LEFT BY STANDING UP FOR FREE SPEECH, STANDING UP FOR LIBERALISM:

Obviously, Team Biden figured out that the creation of this new Department of Homeland Security agency was bad politics for them heading into the midterm elections, along with a dozen other obstacles they will have come November.

But this move was also an acknowledgment that people aren’t going to put up with being dictated to by the woke mob anymore, which has seemed to control much of social media, entertainment, and the Democratic Party for the past few years.

I shared this tweet. It went viral.

Much of the replies came from conservatives confused or even offended by my use of the word “liberal.” This is understandable. In modern American politics, “liberal” has long been used to identify people on the Left, Democratic voters, Green Party voters and so on.

What I meant is a definition my fellow libertarians and certain types of conservatives would also recognize. In the simplest terms, the Oxford dictionary defines “liberal” as “willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one’s own.”

In the cultural battle over free speech in the US right now, it is libertarians, conservatives, and a minority of old school progressives standing up to protect free expression, both public and private, and an increasingly authoritarian Left that clearly does not “respect or accept behavior or opinions different” from their own. They want to label speech they don’t like as “disinformation” and cancel anyone who disagrees with their narrow vision of what is socially acceptable in today’s America.

The contemporary Left is not liberal. It is becoming more illiberal by the day. I’m not saying conservatives have never been guilty of similar censorious attitudes, because some Republican politicians still do push illiberal speech policies.

The left’s adoption of the world “liberal” in the 1920s because Woodrow Wilson had so debased “Progressivism” in the previous decade is one of the greatest stolen bases in history.

SHE’S NOT A WOMAN — SHE’S THE TERMINATOR: Is Anna Wintour human?

HE LIES A LOT: Biden Can’t Manage to Talk About Guns Without Telling Another Whopper.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Would George Carlin Be Bill Maher … or Howard Stern 2.0 … Today?

GOOD GUY WITH A GUN: Florida sheriff applauds motorcyclist for pulling a gun on a knife-wielding driver to end a road rage incident.

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