DON SURBER: In Praise of Ties: They helped build a society that we are destroying. “The first thing I notice when I watch a black-and-white TV show on one of the rerun networks is the ties. In the 1950s, every man wore a tie. The milkman wore a tie. The mailman wore a tie. The policeman wore a tie. Even Elvis wore a tie on occasion. Chuck Berry always wore a tie. Gas station attendants wore them. You could trust your car to the man who wore the star because he had a tie on. Men wore ties to ballgames because men were civilized.”

I had some related thoughts here.

ERIC COWPERTHWAITE: Enormous Win for Veterans 2A Rights: The VA’s underhanded “Red Flag” capability got taken away.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UW-Madison professor worked to cancel her conservative grad student: FOIA documents.

GET WOKE, GO . . . Harvard closes library, citing ‘financial considerations.’ “According to the Harvard Crimson, the university will close the John G. Wolbach Library on Friday. The Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory collections are housed at the library. Harvard Center for Astrophysics Director Lisa J. Kewley wrote in an email to the outlet that the decision was driven ‘primarily by financial considerations.'”

JOHN LUCAS: Joe Biden’s Interview With Special Counsel Hur Is Worse Than You’ve Heard.

OUR RULING CLASS AT WORK: Civil ‘collapse’ feared in election.

TWO-FACED: Susan Wild Spoke at CAIR Event Days Before Calling Herself ‘Very Pro-Israel.’

NOW THIS IS MORE LIKE THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS HOPING FOR:

Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship in the Pacific Ocean pic.twitter.com/YIdEH1ta4m

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 19, 2024

Not only that this happened, but that it’s become pretty much routine.

EVERYTHING IS STUPID: If An Illegal Alien Shoots a Trans Illegal Sexworker, Is It a Crime? Liberals Say No.

SENDING YOUR KIDS TO PUBLIC SCHOOL IS PARENTAL MALPRACTICE: Missouri AG slams school’s promotion of ‘divisive racial ideology’ over safety after teen’s brutal beating.

A DESCENDANT: SpaceX’s Starship will go interstellar someday, Elon Musk says.

OPEN THREAD: Talk talk.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Rocket launch marks big step in building China’s lunar infrastructure.

AT THIS POINT, ANY HONORABLE CITIZEN SHOULD HOLD CONGRESS IN CONTEMPT: Ex-Trump adviser Peter Navarro reports to prison on contempt of Congress conviction.

I want a GOP president and a GOP congress who will feed this stuff right back to the Democrats. I suppose the statute of limitations has run on Eric Holder’s contempt of congress, but . . .

And of course, despite what Judge Amit Mehta said, he is in fact the victim of a political persecution, and he’s not the only one. The perversion of the justice system — and the Department of Justice — is far advanced under this Administration.

DONALD SENSING: Immigrants and criminality.

I’M SORRY, BUT I THINK MILKING TODDLERS IS DISGUSTING: Toddler Milk Is a Huge Seller, But Do You Know What’s In It?

WELL, GOOD: Supreme Court clears way, for now, for Texas to arrest and deport migrants.

HANG THE COMMIE DICTATORS START A DEMOCRACY: Power outages, food shortages trigger social unrest in Cuba.

DO TELL: Breaking: Emerging Evidence Suggests COVID-19 Originated in a Lab.

THIS SOUNDS LIKE FUN: Son of SilverCon, with special guests Brad Torgerson. And I think Sarah Hoyt will be there, too.

FIRST CONTACT: An Armed Citizen’s Guide on What To Do When Calling 911.

WELL, THEY’VE FAILED TWICE SO FAR. UAW says workers at VW Tennessee plant file for union election.

THREE SHOTS IN THREE SECONDS: There are good reasons why this is an oft-quoted statistic in the firearms training world.

SPACE: SpaceX Starship Reached Orbit. Why Does It Matter?

MICROBIOME NEWS: Industrial societies losing healthy gut microbes, finds study.