A LITTLE-REMEMBERED STORY OF HEROISM: Even old weapons crewed by older men can save a nation.

The lightning strike where you seize the government in one fell swoop seems to be less successful than hoped, most of the time.

FASTER, PLEASE — A LOT FASTER: Helicity Space Fusion Propulsion Funded by Lockheed Martin.

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Second Amendment Roundup: A Double Shot of Oral Arguments.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: 28 More Academic Scandals.

COLLEGE IS BAD FOR STUDENTS AND OTHER LIVING THINGS: Suicides among US college student athletes have doubled over past 20 years: Study.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA selects companies to develop, operate moon rover for Artemis astronauts.

THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE EARTH IN THOSE DAYS: Scientists still baffled from giant human skeletons up to 10 feet tall decades after initial discovery.

DEI DELENDA EST:

WINNING: The University of Texas is closing down its DEI division, forcing some DEI deans to return to teaching, and eliminating other DEI positions altogether.

We will not stop until DEI is abolished and salted over. pic.twitter.com/1eLE45HNa9

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 2, 2024

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Do Diverse Companies Produce Better Earnings? These Academics Say No.

A COUNTERPOINT TO THE GLAMOR OF TECH:

Two revolutionary companies went public twenty years ago. These are their returns since…

Google: +6,080%
Domino's Pizza: +8,200%$GOOGL $DPZ pic.twitter.com/cNr6nIhIOL

— Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) April 5, 2024

COVERING UP ADVOCACY OF TERRORISM: Harvard scrubs ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ film info from website.

JEEZ, YOU GO TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE TO ESCAPE THAT BULLSHIT: Community college’s new social justice center focuses on issues like ‘white privilege’ and ‘water.’

BOOK RECOMMENDATION: So I just finished up The Naval Odyssey of Prof. James Brand, so far as it goes to date, and quite enjoyed it. It’s a World War II series with plenty of action, but its central character is Prof. James Brand, a wunderkind physicist/operations analyst who zips around solving problems with everything from antisubmarine warfare to amphibious landing load-outs to bombing strategies. The logistical/production side of the war gets a lot more attention than in most war novels, and serves as a reminder of how many hairy problems they had to solve back then. Very enjoyable, and I’m eagerly awaiting the next installment. (Bumped).

FOULING THEIR OWN NESTS IS WHAT COMMUNISTS DO:

International financial centers don’t have political prisoners. https://t.co/8V4CwgrJX0

— Mark Simon (@MarkSimonHK) April 3, 2024

DON SURBER: This week’s wins: Don’t let the news media get you down. We are winning.

SALENA ZITO: Democrats should be jittery about Pennsylvania voter registration trends.

WELL, YES: Believe data, not activists: Transgenderism among kids is mostly a fad.

PRO-TERROR AT HARVARD: Harvard Grad Student Calls on Hamas To ‘Strike Tel Aviv’.

NOBODY BELIEVES CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD, NOT EVEN THE PEOPLE WHO PRETEND TO: ‘It wasn’t him’: Alleged witness pans Kavanaugh accuser’s new memoir reviving sex-assault claim. Maybe even especially the people who pretend to.

AS IT’S MEANT TO: That’s the Idea: UK Survey Finds Diversity Training Forces Workers to ‘Conceal beliefs’ for Fear of Losing Their Job.

SMITH & WESSON MOVED FROM GUN-HATING MASSACHUSETTS TO MY HOMETOWN OF MARYVILLE, TENNESSEE, and product is now shipping.

As they say, it’s a new beginning.

IT’S SAD THAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING THIS, AND SADDER THAT IT’S BELIEVABLE: Ready for the 2024 Election Pandemic?

UM, ASK YOUR MOTHER:

Teen Thanks Parents For Supporting Him Through That Time Of Confusion But Can He Have His Testicles Back Now https://t.co/rPIylWSsmd pic.twitter.com/DzNkcjYjlf

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 4, 2024

Related:

Democrats Warn Parents To Quickly Transition Their Kids Before They Grow Out Of It https://t.co/oWV0NClQNu pic.twitter.com/moGxc9gWI8

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) April 4, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Just do it.

THIS PARAGRAPH CAPTURES THE ESSENCE OF THE ATLANTIC’S SAD PIECE ON THE WORLD’S BIGGEST CRUISE SHIP: “A real journalist or a more intrepid conversationalist would have gone up to the couple and asked them to explain the longevity of their marriage vis-à-vis their love of cruising. But instead I head to my mall suite, take off my meatball T-shirt, and allow the first tears of the cruise to roll down my cheeks slowly enough that I briefly fall asleep amid the moisture and salt.”

Mocking cruise ships and cruisers is a long-established custom of the Gentry Class. But it’s hard to mock successfully when you yourself are pathetic.

Plus: “As I fall asleep that night, I realize another connection I have failed to make, and one that may explain some of the diversity on this vessel—many of its passengers have served in the military.”

But he misses the lesson there, of course.

UPDATE: A friend texts:

What a writer proudly and pompously ignorant of what “aft” means looks like.

Excuse me, I mean a travel journalist.  

Are you sure this isn’t some really hurtful Sacha Baron Cohen hit on the left?

Kinda reads like one.

I mean, the subtle attack on lefty douchebaggery via the clever lens of a lefty douchebag.

I wish. Plus:

This is not actually an article about cruise ships.

I for one salute The Atlantic for the petard hoistment. The unabashed mirror on itself, compliments of this wanker who seems to be more interested in himself than the alleged subject matter. It’s almost like a desperate cry for help. Like, this is the depth of masturbatory douchebaggery we have sunk to!

Well, for some values of “we.”