OPEN THREAD: Enjoy.

WAIT, IT’S NOT 1619? July 2nd, 1776 Is Independence Day, NOT July 4th.

WORTHWHILE CANADIAN SPACE INITIATIVE: Artemis 2 astronaut Jeremy Hansen says a Canadian will walk on the moon one day.

IN THE FUTURE, EVERYONE WILL BE A WHITE SUPREMACIST FOR 15 MINUTES. And the future is now! Jemele Hill Tweets That Asian-American Activist Supports  ‘White Supremacy’ Following Supreme Court Affirmative Action Decision.

YES. NEXT QUESTION? Is Joe Biden our Grifter-in-Chief?

DISPATCHES FROM THE LAPTOP FROM HELL: Hunter Biden filmed himself smoking crack behind the wheel, driving at 172mph on way to Vegas: photos.

COFFEE IS A WONDER DRUG: Brewing Clarity: The Unique Neurological Effects of Coffee Over Plain Caffeine.

EXPECT THIS KIND OF MESSAGING TO BECOME MORE MAINSTREAM AS BIRTH RATES PLUMMET: Conservative influencers are pushing an anti-birth control message.

It may even become government policy. Remember that most fertility policy around the world is based, at least loosely, on Paul Ehrlich’s “Population Bomb” scare story, which was false.

The Dobbs opinion may even be a foreshadowing of this change. Flashback: A ‘living Constitution’ on the right?

Lastly, what about the Warren Court’s decisions on reproductive rights in Griswold v. Connecticut (striking down laws against birth control for married people), Eisenstadt v. Baird (doing the same for singles), and Roe v. Wade (finding a constitutional right to abortion)? These decisions were written against a background of hysteria about a “population explosion,” but now the United States — like many other countries — faces not a population explosion but a baby bust, with birth rates too low to sustain population, or to produce enough workers to fund retirement programs for the elderly. These decisions were also followed by a breakdown in family structures that continues to get worse. I can imagine a “living Constitution” conservative concluding that, whatever the logic of these decisions is, experience has shown them to be too flawed to survive.

As Oliver Wendell Holmes said, the life of the law has not been logic, it has been experience.

WELL, GOOD: Researchers identify unique cell receptor, potential for new therapies.

DEMOCRATS ARE SPOILED CHILDREN: The sound of no one calling for civility.

JUSTICE: Biden loses ‘ghost gun’ case, ATF ban ‘unlawful.’

In another blow to President Joe Biden’s war on guns, a federal judge has reversed an ATF ban on so-called “ghost guns,” ruling that the president and his gun agency overstepped their jurisdiction.

On Friday, Texas-based United States District Court Judge Reed O’Connor said that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives went further than Congress in banning the partially made guns.

“This case presents the question of whether the federal government may lawfully regulate partially manufactured firearm components, related firearm products, and other tools and materials in keeping with the Gun Control Act of 1968,” wrote O’Connor. “Because the court concludes that the government cannot regulate those items without violating federal law, the court holds that the government’s recently enacted final rule … is unlawful agency action taken in excess of the ATF’s statutory jurisdiction. On this basis, the court vacates the final rule.”

The ruling is likely to be appealed by Justice. It follows on the lifting of a ban on so-called “bump stocks” and signals trouble for the administration’s latest effort to ban AR-style pistols that use an adjustable brace.

Good.

TO BE FAIR, A LOT OF THAT WEIGHT IS BATTERY: BMW takes its storied subbrand into uncharted territory with a 644-hp, three-ton plug-in-hybrid SUV.

READER FAVORITE: Flat Plug Power Strip, Ultra Thin Flat Extension Cord. #CommissionEarned

USING MEN AS GUINEA PIGS: Much of what we’re told about gym exercises and resistance training is from studies of males, by men.

EVERYONE KNOWS IT, AND THE POWERS THAT BE KNEW IT WHEN THEY INSTALLED HIM: Joe Biden Is Unfit to Be President.

LIFE IN THE FAST LANE! How reckless Hunter Biden photographed himself driving at 172mph while behind the wheel of his Porsche en route to a days-long Vegas bender with prostitutes and pictured himself smoking crack while behind the wheel.

WELL, GOOD: Researchers discover new weapon against antibiotic resistance—it also fights malaria.

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Some US cities are replacing 4th of July fireworks with environmentally friendly drones.

All I can say is:

I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Fireworks for July 4? Here’s your safety checklist.

MARK JUDGE: From Saturday Night Fever to No Hard Feelings, how the American male in movies became impotent.

Films like Saturday Night Fever and No Hard Feelings dive into the energy of the lover archetype, yet both are representative of their times — in the case of No Hard Feelings, sadly so. In the archetype Moore and Gillette celebrate, the lover is expansive and poetical. “Nothing is out of bounds for him.” Men in 2023 are boxed in by overprotective parents, the addiction to pornography, and humorless women made brittle by feminism. Today it’s difficult to avoid the negative side of the lover archetype, the “addicted lover,” who is obsessively stopping every 3 feet to smell the roses to the point where the rest of life is ignored.

When Percy does finally have a sexual encounter with Maddie — well sort of — it has none of the spiritual power and grace of the dance scene in Saturday Night Live. It’s crude, off-screen, and over quickly. Percy can barely hold a joystick, much less dominate a dance floor. From Tony and Stephanie in the 70s to Percy and Maddie in 2023, it’s been a long and painful devolution.

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