SOMETIMES THE 21ST CENTURY DOES LIVE UP TO MY EXPECTATIONS: Starship’s Orbital Feat.

RECRUITING CRISIS UPDATE: Army Seeks Retirees to Come Back to Work Amid Manpower Crisis.

GIVING YOU BOTH GOOD MEMORY, AND GOOD MEMORIES! Huge Study Confirms Viagra Cuts Alzheimer’s Risk by Over 50%. “Studies have repeatedly demonstrated enzyme blockers called phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors not only have an ability to promote blood flow in the penis, but could prevent the neurodegeneration responsible for dementia.”

I say get a prescription. Why take chances on your health!

AND WITH MORE CO2, PLANTS SHOULD BE GROWING BETTER: Challenging Long-Standing Climate Assumptions: Earth Is Getting Hotter, but Soil Is Getting Wetter. “Why did soil get wetter even as the planet got hotter? A recent paper from Harvard University researchers found that precipitation, rather than temperature, overwhelmingly explains soil moisture trends. While it’s not surprising that more rain means wetter soil, the research challenges a long-standing assumption that increases in global temperatures will lead to drier soils.”

This seems like pretty basic stuff.

HAHA, NOW THAT WOULD BE JUSTICE:

Letitia James Prosecuted For Grossly Overvaluing Trump's Fine https://t.co/MSW7HjAzIz pic.twitter.com/gNMBKkLOqV

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 25, 2024

JOHN HINDERAKER ON THE MOSCOW ATTACK: Disinformation, Theirs and Ours. “Finally, I can’t help contrasting Russia’s attitude toward terrorism committed in its country with its attitude toward the vastly greater and more horrific terrorist episode that Gazans inflicted in Israel on October 7.”

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Why our institutions keep going woke and going broke.

DAVID BARON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Mountain lion kills man in Northern California in state’s first fatal attack in 20 years.

1 IN 7,000 DOESN’T SEEM ALL THAT COMMON: DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest: People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many think.

DON’T STOP PUNCHING UNTIL THE REFEREE STOPS THE FIGHT: Dreams That Didn’t Come True: media, and the politics of its workforce, are on the ropes. “I am saying that it’s an interesting case study in a broader culture where people finally seem exhausted of the constant yelling, where more and more young people appear to grok that the definition of left politics as hectoring obsession over language and moral hygiene has been a disaster for the left and its constituencies.”

And don’t let them just pretend it never happened.

ABOLISH THE ATF: More ATF Atrocity: ATF SWAT raid in Arkansas Raises Questions About Excessive Force.

FASTER, PLEASE: Drilling for water ice on Mars: How close are we to making it happen?

IT’S COME TO THIS: Would Artificial Wombs Solve the Depopulation Crisis?

WHERE COULD THAT HAVE COME FROM: As Princess of Wales reveals diagnosis, doctors warn of mysterious cancer ‘epidemic.’

BECAUSE THEY’RE RUN BY AWFUL, GREEDY PEOPLE: Why Are the Universities Cesspits of Anti-Semitism? “These international students, the large majority from countries with little freedom of speech and little or no tradition of academic freedom, are the shock troops of anti-Semitism. True, they bring some leftist students along with them. But the most anti-Semitic universities, like Harvard, Penn and MIT, are also the ones with the most foreign students from anti-Semitic countries. This was illustrated by the fact that when violently anti-Semitic students assaulted Jewish students at MIT, isolating them in the library and trying to break down the doors to get at them, MIT declined to expel the anti-Semitic thugs. Why? For fear that they would be deported. There are a number of reasons for the corruption of higher education; this is by no means the only one. But it is an important part of the explanation of why our allegedly top universities have gone so completely off the rails. This story in the London Times relates to the U.K., where reliance on foreign students is even more extreme than in the U.S. But it sheds a lot of light on why British universities are so tolerant of anti-Semitism and other left-wing outrages.”

GOOGLE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND: Google Has Been Ratting Out YouTube Viewers to the Feds.

Say what you will about TikTok, at least it probably won’t rat you out to the feds. Also, what’s wrong with tutorial “videos showing how to generate maps using a drone and some AI software”?

APOLOGY NEEDED: Bates student cleared of weapons violation in Nerf gun prank. “A lot of the committee members apologized at the end because of how absurd the situation was.”

THE ROACHES SCATTER WHEN THE LIGHTS GO ON: Columbia student group panics amidst House investigation into school’s anti-Semitism.

JEFFREY CARTER: Stealing It: Chicago Shows How It Is Done. “Only about 20% of eligible voters voted, and it’s taking them at least six days past the election to count all the votes. Every single one of these people is responsible for making fraud easier. But, the State’s Attorney’s race was closer. Lo and behold after all the ballots were practically counted they ‘found’ another mail-in ballot dropbox full of 10,000 ballots that were not postmarked or dated. They are counting them now.”

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Planet Fitness Paying the Price for Trans Agenda.

WELCOME TO THE MONOCULTURE: What Do Law Professor Campaign Contributions Say About Their Politics?

YOU MEAN THE SUCKING-UP TO HAMAS WASN’T A VOTE-GETTER? CNN Poll Shows Trump With 8-Point Lead Over Biden in Michigan.

ICYMI: RIP, Vernor Vinge. We are still living in his world, even if he is not.

Here’s the podcast interview that Helen and I did with him for the late and lamented Glenn & Helen Show. Note Helen’s skepticism re virtual sex.

And Rainbows End is looking pretty plausible post-Covid.

MATT TAIBBI: “The future of AI-powered censorship is here, and the early returns are as error-filled and clumsily destructive as Google’s infamous Gemini rollout.”

ALSO DOESN’T CARE: US doesn’t know how many Americans were abandoned in Afghanistan.