LIMITED TIME DEAL: Amazon Brand – Solimo Dark Roast Coffee Pods. #CommissionEarned

I’M TRYING TO AVOID AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Outdoing the dinosaurs: What we can do if we spot a threatening asteroid.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Nextmug – Temperature-Controlled, Self-Heating Coffee Mug. #CommissionEarned

HIS DADDY IS CASTRO. HIS INSPIRATION IS MAO:  “Why don’t you trust the media?”

DIVISIONS IN THE DIRT: The Army’s plan for the next big war.

HOW’S CRIME GOING?

Better than EVER!#ILoveNY https://t.co/xxSI5aGLtK

— The Govt Watch Lister Barsh Consulting Co. (@EmilyTVproducer) May 9, 2024

ANYONE WHO’S READ OR SEEN ‘DUNE’ KNOWS THE LITANY AGAINST FEAR, BUT HAVE YOU HEARD THE LITANY AGAINST CERTAINTY?Take a look at the Eternally Radical Idea Weekend Update for a behind-the-scenes look at my experience delivering USF Health’s commencement address and Angel Eduardo’s original Litany Against Certainty.

DECLINE IS A CHOICE: GM discontinues Chevrolet Malibu to focus on EV model.

THE GEORGE FLOYD ERA IS OVER: Schools in One Virginia County to Reinstate Confederate Names: The school board voted on Friday to reverse a decision made four years ago, when the killing of George Floyd prompted nationwide demands for a racial reckoning, to rename the schools. “Across the U.S., a host of measures adopted in 2020 and 2021, including new classroom curriculums about the nation’s racial history, have been curtailed or eliminated in the years since. Politicians have railed against ‘critical race theory’ and schools have reinstated mascots that had been condemned as racially offensive.”

The idea that we should have a national “reckoning” because of a single news event was always a bit crazy, and of course, manipulative.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE:

Lol they literally did the Norm tweet pic.twitter.com/FjhwOWSh1o

— rosey🌹 (@thechosenberg) May 11, 2024

Classical reference in tweet:

What terrifies me is if ISIS were to detonate a nuclear device and kill 50 million Americans. Imagine the backlash against peaceful Muslims?

— Norm Macdonald (@normmacdonald) December 16, 2016

WELL, GOOD: Drug for Sexual Desire Disorder in Women Works in Men, Too — Multiple favorable effects on male sexual function ascribed to bremelanotide.

CHANGE: Target Takes Pride Merchandise Out of Stores, Moves it Online.

SANE VOICES ON CAMPUS: Put down the Megaphones. Richard Shweder, an anthropologist at the University of Chicago, explains how private schools can support free speech while banning its more disruptive forms. He also quotes some excellent advice given by the president of Columbia University to the incoming freshman class in 1946:

“You who have reached the age of advanced study will, of course, have opinions, maybe even prejudices; but acceptance in an academic community carries with it the obligation to submit those opinions and those prejudices to examination under the bright light of human thought and experience. If, perchance, your views have been crystallized into slogans held aloft on banners, or are subject to control by allegiance to minor or major pressure groups, check your banners and your membership cards at the college gate.”

Of course, this advice to check the banners at the college gate would horrify the students who camped at Columbia this year. Slogans are all they’ve got.

THE LONG AND GRINDING ROAD: 54 Years After its Release, Let It Be, the Beatles’ Last Movie, is Finally Available for Home Viewing.

My latest, over at Ed Driscoll.com.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Autism’s missing microbes may influence social behavior by protecting the gut.

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

Maher Bitar has been appointed as president #Biden's special counsel. He also serves as the director of intelligence and defense programs in the #UnitedStates National Security Council.

Of course, he was already appointed by the Obama administration, where he managed the… pic.twitter.com/xgceGLmPVf

— Noor Dahri – نور ڈاہری ‎ 🇬🇧 (@dahrinoor2) May 9, 2024

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Dog Days of the 2024 Campaign.

READER FAVORITE: Camping Fan for Tent, 15000mAh Rechargeable Battery Operated Fan. #CommissionEarned

PRETTY SURE I SAW SWEDISH DEATH CLEANING OPEN UP FOR THE SCORPIONS AT THE SPECTRUM IN 1985: What is ‘Swedish death cleaning’ and should you be doing it?

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: Truman Scholarships overwhelmingly awarded to progressive students for tenth year in row.

WANNA GET AWAY?

I'm traveling to Rome because the solutions to the problems facing our city, country and planet must be solved together — by sharing ideas and strategies.

We will be talking infrastructure, climate change, the asylum seeker crisis and so much more.

Through hard work and… pic.twitter.com/yKeBh2opI9

— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) May 10, 2024

Or — and hear me out now — you could just stroll over to the New York Public Library and scroll through the magazine section for the back issues:

ALAN DERSHOWITZ ON IVY LEAGUE CRAZINESS: All These Idiots Get Admitted.

The core problem is in fact admissions.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG:

NEW: Georgia Election Board dumbfounded after finding out that 3,000 ballots were scanned twice in the 2020 election recount in Fulton County.

The board also revealed that 380,761 ballot images from machine count were “not available.”

Q: Does Fulton County know why there are… pic.twitter.com/y0NxRfDNNo

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) May 10, 2024

CERTAINTY IS THE MIND-KILLER.Check out my speech from USF Health’s commencement last Thursday, a new episode of So to Speak, and a whole lot more in the Eternally Radical Idea Weekend Update.

YOU COULD SEE THE AURORA BOREALIS IN KNOXVILLE LAST NIGHT: Rapid-Fire Solar Flares Unleashed: NASA Witnesses 82 Intense Flares This Week.

Aurora borealis over Neyland. You don’t see that every day. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the northern lights in Knoxville. pic.twitter.com/d1VopkuBVf

— Jake Thompson (@jthomps72) May 11, 2024

We’re are 9 miles north as the crow flies. I just took this. pic.twitter.com/l9AUMGjHBj

— Crass (@CrassBR549) May 11, 2024

Professor Carrington, call your office.