MICHAEL WALSH: Never Forget, Never Forgive, Never Again. “Latterly, there’s a movement afoot by those who brought you the continuing Covid disaster to feign remorse over what they did. Don’t buy a word of it. These crocodiles — a cabal of frightened women and pusillanimous yet power hungry men — enjoyed every minute of your misery, even as they swan about on their mini non-apology tours and warn direly about the next iteration of the Black Death that is surely headed our (but not their) way. Meanwhile, they’re allowed to quietly resign and cash in their enormous pensions, courtesy of you.”

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Build Back Red California: The transformation of Dust Bowl migrants into surfing suburbanites was a social and economic miracle that supercharged the American dream. It can be replicated today.

IT’S LIES AND COVERUPS ALL THE WAY DOWN: Byron York: A whistleblower scandal is brewing inside the Hunter Biden investigation.

CHRIS QUEEN: Democrat Déjà Vu: This Election Feels Like 1980 All Over Again in Many Ways. “From the outside looking in at the Democrats, it seems like they would want to shake themselves loose from the oblivious octogenarian Biden, but they can’t seem to quit him. I’m old enough to remember the last time an incumbent Democrat who was sinking the country into oblivion became the standard-bearer in his quest for a second term. Of course, I’m talking about Jimmy Carter in 1980, and the road to 2024 so far feels like déjà vu for that election.”

YOU’LL OWN NOTHING AND YOU’LL EAT BUGS: Burgeoning burger battle: Agriculture really bugs Lurch and the Left. “Another article in The Economist bemoans that eating bugs ‘just hasn’t caught on’ as much as they’ve pushed it, but maybe they should try a different tack.”

THIS MEANS YOU HAVE TO HAVE STANDARDS:  Testing to a standard.

GOOD:  Pushback: California loses big for trying to force churches to violate their religious beliefs.

I STOPPED SUBSCRIBING WHEN THEY ACCLAIMED CLINTON’S ELECTION AS THE FIRST SMART PRESIDENT:  Scientific American is Now the Bud Light of Science Journals.

To be fair, apparently Nixon qualified for Mensa. I won’t say that’s better…

IS ANY INDIVIDUAL HUMAN A DEBIT OR A CREDIT TO THEIR GOVERNMENT? WHEN HUMANS BECOME A DEBIT, GENOCIDE IS AROUND THE CORNER:  Debit or Credit?

THE ODDS TEND TO SAY THE KING GOES NAKED, INDEED:  Dealing With The Threat.

LAND CONFISCATIONS. PEOPLE ARE ARMED, MORON:  Looking around: why reparations will never be implemented; illustrative video of media all parroting from the same script; Jean-Fraud Kerry says land confiscations “not off the table”.

DINOSAURS, BOBBING IN THE DEEP:  Biden says Pelosi helped rescue the economy in the Great Depression; Ron DeSantis officially declared candidacy.

I’VE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS THE LEFT WOULD EVENTUALLY ROUND UP THE HOMELESS AND EUTHANIZE THEM:  Canadian’s ready to kill the homeless?

THEY’RE ACTUALLY WORTH NOTHING, AKA WHAT PEOPLE WILL PAY FOR THEM:  Analysis: Unused COVID Vaccines are Worth Over $2 Billion.

WHERE ARE THEY GOING TO KEEP THAT BABY? IN A BOX?  Monty Python’s ‘Life of Brian’ Stage Show Being Rewritten to Avoid Offending Trans People.

SURE. GERMANY. THE PEOPLE WHO ARE LOSING THEIR FORESTS RATHER THAN NOT SHUTTER THEIR NUKE PLANTS. SANE PEOPLE. SMART PEOPLE. NOT:  Germany’s Scholz Publicly Backs Biden for 2024, Calls Trump ‘Divisive’.

Biden has the support of all the countries running into the abyss with their pants on their heads.

ANOTHER COMPANY THINKS THAT THE COUNTRY IS TIKTOK:  Target in panic mode after cozying up with LGBTQ mob sparks customer boycott.

Collides with reality. Hilarity ensues.

NO. HE ACTUALLY CRASHED INTO THE PARK ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE WHITE HOUSE:  Truck Crashes Into White House Barrier, Hysteria Ensues.

And he’s an immigrant from the Indian subcontinent. Put it this way, he was closer to BLM plaza than the white house.

Hey, FBI, your attempts at entrapment are now pegging the meter at stupid and crazy.

FOR THE LOVE OF REASON, THEY THINK SOCIAL WORKERS FIGHT CRIME:  NYC To Fight Crime One Acronym At A Time.

Which means they think people steal because they’re poor. That is ridiculous both as an insult to the honest poor, and as an analysis of the merely criminal. Given that most of them are criminals, you’d think they’d get it.

HE WAS BORN STUPID:  Biden: Default, Blame, And The 14th Amendment.

Corrupt, venal and utterly treasonous he chose himself, though.

PRAYERS FOR GUAM:  A major typhoon is striking Guam.  I understand it is somewhat less powerful than it was originally predicted to be, but I’m sure it’s bad enough.

This may give the Biden Administration’s FEMA some real grief.  Dealing with a disaster on an island far from the mainland (and in Guam’s case thousands of miles even from Hawaii) is a horrendous task.  The Trump Administration was unfairly accused of racism in its efforts to deal with Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico in 2017.  Puerto Rico’s population is about 20 times Guam’s, so that will make FEMA’s task easier this time around.  But Guam is much farther from Hawaii than Puerto Rico is from Florida, so that will add to FEMA’s difficulties.

BOB GRABOYES: The Fatal Conceit and Effective Altruism.

The greatest economics lesson of all may reside in the Yiddish expression, “Der mensch tracht, un Gott lacht” (“Man plans, and God laughs.”) That, writ small, is the message of Friedrich Hayek’s broadsides against central planning in The Fatal Conceit and “The Use of Knowledge in Society.” The latter was one of the most influential economic essays of the 20th century, and in a gentler time, when philosophical adversaries actually listened to one another (some, at least), a significant number of socialists and would-be planners found the anti-socialist Hayek’s arguments persuasive (or at least informative). . . .

In recent decades, charitable giving has been a somewhat atomized endeavor. Even John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Henry Ford each controlled a relatively small percentage of charitable donations. The socialism suggested above by Nathan Robinson envisions a world where charity is planned by the monopolized, centralized might of government. EA, it seems to me, seeks a middle ground, where a goodly percentage of donations are directed (or at least strongly suggested) by a relatively compact set of EA organizations. The question is whether this leads to groupthink—a world where a relatively like-minded cadre of EA organizations mutually self-reinforce and direct themselves toward similar visions of optimal giving. I write often on early-20th century eugenics, where the charitable arms of Carnegie, Ford, and others did, in fact, fall prey to groupthink, with horrific consequences.

EA received a certain taste of this risk when Samuel Bankman-Fried (“SBF”) emerged as perhaps earth’s most visible public face of EA. Given the adulation he had received and the spectacular manner of his fall, one might guess that divine laughter was especially hearty in the wake of that particular man’s plans.

He was a grifter, too, which ought to be some kind of a clue.

OPEN THREAD: Enjoy!

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: The biggest threat to our military just might be DEI indoctrination.. “Last fiscal year, the Army fell 25% short of its recruiting goals. This is a Bud Light-level failure. . . . Back in his anti-war days, former Sen. John Kerry asked who wants to be the last man to die for a mistake. Today the question is: Who wants to be the first?”

BAN ALL THE THINGS! Bill to ban ‘dangerous additives’ in Skittles, other foods passes California State Assembly.

I’m pitching a new cable show: Breaking Bad, but Walter White earns his fortune selling black market Skittles to California kids.