NO DUH:  Bill Maher scolds MSNBC host who says Trump supporters at odds with reality: ‘Lot of crazy on the left’.

OBERLIN? BRAVE OR CRAZY TO SPEAK OUT?  Here’s why biological men don’t belong in women’s sports: Oberlin coach.

THIS CAN’T GO ON:  Today’s blacklisted American: Law professor fired and escorted by police off campus for being conservative.

THE SCARY THING IS SCIENCE REPORTERS DO THE SAME, ONLY HARDER:  How reporters lie with facts.

SHE HAS NOT BOUGHT THE OFFICIAL NARRATIVE:  Former ’60 Minutes’ Reporter Lara Logan To Release Investigation Of Jan. 6.

THEY OWN LIBERTY SAFE? DON’T THAT EXPLAIN A BIT!  Anti-2A Company Gave Nearly Half a Million Dollars to Gun-Control Happy Democrats.

GOOD. NOW GIVE IT TEETH:  Border Crisis: Fifth Circuit Issues Temporarily Stay for the Texas Rio Grande Buoys.

OH, BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE, DO:  Biden Biography Bombshell: Hillary Violated Logan Act, Drew Rebuke From Ex-Crony.

THIS IS MY FEELING TOO:  America’s Closer To “Imploding Under The Weight Of Its Own Absurdities” Than Many Realize.

Only I’d say the world, not just America. Because there’s symptoms of the same madness elsewhere. Leftism if a cult that can’t handle deconfirmation. So, you know, things like Brexit, or the original one, the fall of the USSR just keep breaking them.

THE MEDIA HATES SELF-DEFENSE AGAINST ITS TOOLS: DeSantis rebukes heckler; Politico lashes out.

FLASHBACK:

The elites lost their mojo by becoming absurd. It happened on the road between cultural appropriation and transgender bathrooms.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) February 17, 2017

OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves in the comments.

GOOD LUCK WITH THAT: GAO report calls for more transparency on SLS costs.

The Government Accountability Office called on NASA to be more transparent about the costs of the Space Launch System rocket, a vehicle senior agency officials acknowledged risked becoming “unaffordable.”

In a Sept. 7 report delivered to the leadership of House and Senate appropriations subcommittees that fund NASA, the GAO criticized NASA for a lack of details on costs of the SLS now that the vehicle has completed development. NASA spent $11.8 billion to develop SLS, a cost that covered work though the Artemis 1 launch in November 2022.

“NASA does not plan to measure production costs to monitor the affordability of the SLS program,” the report stated. “These ongoing production costs to support the SLS program for Artemis missions are not captured in a cost baseline, which limits transparency and efforts to monitor the program’s long-term affordability.”

Those concerns are not new. The GAO noted as far back as 2014 that it recommended NASA establish cost and schedule baselines for subsequent Artemis missions that would use the initial Block 1 version of SLS. The agency has not done so, nor has it developed a total lifecycle cost estimate for SLS, a concern the GAO raised in 2017.

The thing to remember is that the costs are the whole point of this project, which is pure pork.

IT BOILS DOWN TO A CRAPPY, SELF-INDULGENT LEADERSHIP CLASS: China’s Qing Dynasty Collapsed For Reasons That Feel Eerily Familiar. “We argue that the four-fold population explosion peaking in the 19th century, the growing competition for a stagnant number of elite positions, and increasing state fiscal stress combined to produce an increasingly disgruntled populace and elite, leading to significant internal rebellions.”

It’s all just another case of history repeating.

AND THEY WANT YOU TO KNOW IT SO YOU WON’T FEEL SAFE EITHER: Alan Dershowitz: Trump is being denied due process.

MAYBE HE’S NOT ACTUALLY “ELITE.” MAYBE NONE OF THEM ARE: Body cam catches elite federal prosecutor offering his Justice Department card in DUI crash arrest.

LOL, IT’S A LAW ENFORCEMENT FAILURE IN BLUE STATES, NOT A “PUBLIC HEALTH” PROBLEM: Gun Violence Declared a Public Health Emergency. The public health thing is just a way to dodge responsibility for that failure while not talking about who’s doing most of the shooting and why.

Anyway, the “public health” folks don’t have much of a reputation these days anyway, given their track record, so I don’t think this helps.

IS IT JUST ME OR HAS ALMOST EVERYTHING GOTTEN WORSE LATELY? I ordered ‘tuna tartare’ — I was served a can of tuna with chips for $18.

THAT’S OKAY, MOST AMERICAN WOMEN THINK THEY’RE MORE ATTRACTIVE THAN THEY ARE: American men think they’re healthier than they are, survey shows.

But this article is mostly about men not wanting mental health services. Men don’t seek out mental health services because they don’t trust the practitioners, who are overwhelmingly female, leftist and frequently hostile to men and masculinity. We need more diversity in mental health, so that men can see therapists who look like them.

APRIL SMITH: Why I’d Rather Consume Good Writing Than Porn: There’s something about a literary bad boy that gets me in the way that a real bad boy doesn’t. Well, to each her own.

ARE HILL REPUBLICANS PAYING ATTENTION TO TUBERVILLE? They should be because the Alabama GOP lawmaker is conducting a running seminar in how to force The Swamp to come to the table and negotiate healthy compromises that make real progress rather than mere window dressing. It’s my latest PJ Media column and I suspect that, were he to read it, Jimmy Madison would say “of course.”

WE SHOULD SUPPORT ANTI-REGIME ELEMENTS BUT I DOUBT THAT THE OBAMA HOLDOVERS RUNNING BIDEN’S WHITE HOUSE WOULD EVER DO THAT: Wait, What? Iran Claims U.S.-Backed Agitators Are Fomenting Anti-Regime Riots.

JUSTICE: Oklahoma Sheriff Opens an Investigation Into ATF SWAT Raid on FFL’s Home.

MAYBE THAT’S WHAT THE AI-DRIVEN AI DETECTORS WANT YOU TO THINK: OpenAI admits that AI writing detectors don’t work.

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Florida Jones and the Giant Hamster Wheel of Doom. “It’s your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week we have the man who was going to walk to London, Florida Woman’s feet of fury, and Nebraska Man’s attempt to turn a late-model Crown Vic into a livestock trailer.”