HOLY TOLEDO:  “New York Hero Chases Down Carjacker with Grandma & Baby Inside.”  Sounds like something out of a movie.

RICH VEDDER:  “The Collegiate War on Excellence and Descent into Mediocrity.”  Interesting factoid:  Around 1960, the typical college student spent about 40 hours a week in class, studying, writing papers, working in the lab, etc.  Today, it is less than 30 hours.  (But, of course, grades are much higher!)

LADIES’ MAN: Don Lemon Goes Full Sexist in Rant About Nikki Haley.

IF THE PROFESSOR HAD BEEN ANTI-FEMALE  INSTEAD OF ANTI-MALE, THE STORY WOULD BE DIFFERENT:  “Stanford denies ethics probe into female law professor accused of extreme anti-male bias.“

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Defending Yourself While In Your Vehicle.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX scraps idea of converting offshore oil rigs into floating launch platforms — for now.

Elon Musk’s private space company in 2020 bought two deepwater oil rigs it dubbed Phobos and Deimos — after the moons of Mars — with plans to convert them into floating launch platforms.

But those plans have been scratched. The company has sold the rigs, located in Mississippi’s Port of Pascagoula, to undisclosed buyers.

“They were not the right platform,” SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell told reporters after the annual Federal Aviation Administration Commercial Transportation Conference in Washington, D.C., last week. “We really need to fly this vehicle to understand it, to get to know this machine, and then we’ll figure out how we’re going to launch it.”

Assuming Musk’s Mars colonization program begins, he’ll need a lot more launch platforms.

CHRIS CUOMO: ‘I Was Going to Kill Everybody, Including Myself’ After CNN Firing.

READER FAVORITE: Surge Protector, Outlet Extender with Night Light. #CommissionEarned

SAD: ‘Did I vote for that?’: Feinstein reportedly confused about her own judicial nominee vote.

WHY IS CNN SUCH A FONT OF AGEISM? Don Lemon on Nikki Haley: Women age out in their 40s, you know.

Also CNN: Oh, Joe Biden Is More Energetic Now Than in the Late 1980s, Huh?

UPDATE:

(Updated and bumped.)

WHERE STOLEN BIKES GO.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT [VIP]: Putin’s Stupid and Unnecessary War, Part II. “One of the most important questions a commander-in-chief must ask before giving the go order is: is our military up to the task? Russia’s was not. That wasn’t obvious to most outsiders, but Russia’s generals must have known the truth.”

SEEMS LIKE IT’S ABOUT TIME: Hyundai, Kia pushing updates so you can’t just steal their cars with USB cables: The updates, rolling out for more than 8 million cars, also come with stickers.

HMM: Parts of Georgia grand jury report on Trump election investigation released. “We find by a unanimous vote that no widespread fraud took place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election that could result in overturning that election.”

The trick is, it doesn’t necessarily take widespread fraud to steal a state. It just takes enough fraud in one large, Democrat-controlled county.

WELL, GOOD: Researchers develop ‘green’ method to extract hydrogen from seawater.

GOING AROUND, COMING AROUND: Alliance for Global Justice, a radical left activist group, is beginning to learn the hard way about the consequences of aiding Palestinian terrorism, The Washington Free Beacon’s Andrew Kerr reports:

“The Alliance for Global Justice said in a statement that Salsa Labs, which handles its credit card contributions, locked the “anti-capitalist” group and its network of 140 left-wing initiatives out of its online fundraising platform. The Alliance claims the freeze-out is the result of a January Washington Examiner report that the group was illegally fundraising for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a U.S.-designated terror organization.”

This isn’t the first time for the group, as Discover Card cut it off for similar reasons in 2021. On both occasions, the justification for the action that severely limits the group’s fund-raising capabilities was its ties to and assistance of terrorist activities. Dark money can take you lots of places, including perhaps jail.

AND YET HE WON’T BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE: The FBI Search for Biden’s Classified Documents Expands AGAIN.

DEAL OF THE DAY: COOFANDY Men’s Casual Linen Button Down Shirt. #CommissionEarned

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: New study targets free sugar for higher risk of heart disease, stroke.

This has been known for a long time, though the sugar industry paid Harvard scientists to blame fat instead.

But “follow the science,” y’all. They were Harvard scientists!

COLD WAR II: China Hits Back at US with Sanctions on Lockheed, Raytheon. “The economic consequences might not be as strong as the political ones – those companies don’t do business in China. They may face some limitation as a result of these new sanctions, but still, it’s largely politically symbolic.”

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Yale Woke Religion Vs. Yale Muslim Students: Push for  guaranteed religious accommodations as new housing process takes effect.

QUESTION ASKED: ‘Why Would You Want Some Lady’s Dirty Clothes?’ Biden’s ‘Non-Binary’ Ex-Nuclear Waste Chief’s Rough Day in Court.

SHRINKAGE: You Won’t Believe How Many People Have Fled California.

CHANGE? Twitter becomes first major social platform to allow weed ads.

To advertise on Twitter, cannabis companies must be pre-authorized by Twitter and meet many requirements. Perhaps the most significant restriction is that cannabis companies can’t promote or offer for sale cannabis products.

Among the other requirements cannabis companies must adhere to:

• Be licensed by the “appropriate authorities”

• Only target ads to areas where they are licensed to promote products or services online

• Not target those under 21

• Assume all legal responsibility for complying with applicable laws and regulations

Cannabis advertisements also can’t appeal to minors, make any health claims or show any depictions of cannabis use.

Even with this change in Twitter policy, some cannabis companies won’t be able to take advantage of the platform for advertising due to state laws restricting online cannabis advertising.

I’m not sure what those restrictions leave.

GOOD QUESTION: ‘Why Would You Want Some Lady’s Dirty Clothes?’: Biden’s ‘Non-Binary’ Ex-Nuclear Waste Chief’s Rough Day in Court.