THESE PEOPLE ARE MORONS: “Also in this article is an acronym I’m seeing for the first time: TARL. This is a ‘trans-agnostic reactionary liberal’.”

THE MAJORITY OF OUR INSTITUTIONS WERE REVEALED AS CORRUPT, ENTITLED, AND INEPT: Harvard Tramples the Truth: When it came to debating Covid lockdowns, Veritas wasn’t the university’s guiding principle.

Harvard and the wider scientific community have much work to do to deserve and regain public trust. The first steps are the restoration of academic freedom and the cancelling of cancel culture. When scientists have different takes on topics of public importance, universities should organize open and civilized debates to pursue the truth. Harvard could have done that—and it still can, if it chooses.

Almost everyone now realizes that school closures and other lockdowns, were a colossal mistake. Francis Collins has acknowledged his error of singularly focusing on Covid without considering collateral damage to education and non-Covid health outcomes. That’s the honest thing to do, and I hope this honesty will reach Harvard. The public deserves it, and academia needs it to restore its credibility.

I was talking to a friend yesterday, and we noted that everyone now knows that Covid came from a Chinese lab with U.S. government funding, and yet no one has been hanged yet. When people can perpetrate enormities with no consequences, there’s little reason to trust them.

HARVARD’S DIRTY SECRETS ARE COMING OUT: Court Orders Harvard’s Investigative Report in Francesca Gino v. Harvard Largely Unsealed.

OPEN THREAD: It’s there, it’s there for you. It’s what you want.

THURSDAY MORNING AT 8AM ET: How to watch SpaceX’s 3rd Starship launch test live online.

EVERY RECORD HAS BEEN ALTERED: Here Are Some Mugshots of ‘White’ Prisoners.

RESULTS ARE AT MOST SUGGESTIVE: Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques From Clogged Arteries.

FASTER, PLEASE: Scientists Discover Method To Stop Active Cancer Cells in Their Tracks.

SOME PARTS OF AMERICA STILL WORK: SpaceX Crew-7 safely splashes down in Gulf of Mexico on return from ISS.

Related thoughts here.

ONLY TWO OUT OF THE THREE CAN STILL REMEMBER THE LYRICS:

This is circulating among the sector of my Democratic acquaintances who can be counted on to believe anything they’re told by Occupy Democrats, NPR, and the like.

21ST CENTURY LIFE: Most teens report feeling happy or peaceful when they go without smartphones, Pew survey finds.

HMM: 2024 Tesla Cybertruck Dual Motor Foundation Series First Test: You’re All Wrong: The Cybertruck is neither the best nor the worst truck of all time.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Improving Your Rifle’s Accuracy.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Obesity associated with poorer mental health, especially in women.

WE NEED FREE SPEECH ON CAMPUS, EVEN FOR IDIOTS: Texas Tech Investigates Professor for Social Media Posts: The AFA objects. “Funez-Flores has shared his thoughts on the events in Israel and Gaza on social media. As with many academics, his views on Israel are controversial. In his case, expressing his private political opinions on social media resulted in his being suspended, investigated, and threatened with termination by his state university employer.”

From the Academic Freedom Alliance: “There can be no question that the social media posts of Professor Funez-Flores are constitutionally protected expressions of private political opinions and cannot themselves form the basis of university discipline. For the university to explicitly leverage complaints about such social media posts into grounds for a fishing expedition into the professor’s professional conduct on campus is not only inconsistent with the university’s policies and constitutional commitments but has a direct chilling effect on all members of the faculty who might wish to engage in their own constitutionally protected expressive activities on controversial topics. The publicly announced suspension and investigation is itself a form of punishment, and the stated cause of this punishment is that the faculty member engaged in protected political expression that some found ‘hateful, antisemitic, and unacceptable.'”

That’s right, and Texas Tech should know better. The only bright side is that as campus leftists face the kind of negative repercussions for their speech that they’ve been happily doling out to conservatives and libertarians, perhaps they’ll once again support free speech. Perhaps.

THERE ARE WORSE AILMENTS TO GET, AND WORSE WAYS TO GET THEM: Sun exposure plus certain foods, meds can cause ‘margarita rashes.’

I REMEMBER WHEN CERTAIN FEMINISTS WERE PROCLAIMING THE END OF MEN DUE TO NEW REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY: New technology may enable embryos with genes from 2 men.

GIVE A MAN A FISH AND YOU FEED HIM FOR A DAY. DEPORT A MAN AND YOU NEVER HAVE TO FEED HIM AGAIN.

Texas has transported over 104,000 migrants to sanctuary cities:

Over 12,500 to DC
Over 38,900 to NYC
Over 32,000 to Chicago
Over 3,400 to Philadelphia
Over 16,500 to Denver
Over 1,500 to LA

Texas will continue to provide help to our border towns until Biden secures the border.

— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) March 6, 2024

DEI MUST DIE:

The full quote here is: “Go have a coffee with your marketing team, and just terrify them with the possibility of what might happen if they don’t give you what you want.”

Now you know why DEI dominates marketing. https://t.co/I53uXuxwJR

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) March 11, 2024

I note, though, that all the biggest marketing horror stories seem to come from listening to DEI people.

YOU COULD JUST LEAVE OUT THE “IRISH” PART AND IT WOULD STILL WORK: Mark Judge: President Blarney: Biden is an embarrassment to Irish Americans.

TIME FOR HIGHER EDUCATION REFORM: Taking On the College Cartel. “What’s needed today is a heavy dose of trust-busting, deregulation, and entrepreneurial energy.” Particularly with regard to the accreditation trust.

IT’S A LOYALTY OATH TO AN UNAMERICAN IDEOLOGY: ‘DEI must die’: Nebraska bill would ban university diversity pledges.

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM? (CONT’D): UC Berkeley student speaks out about ‘horrific day for Jewish students,’ says freshman female was ‘choked’ during violent protest: Once people were at the event, Sobkin said they could ‘feel it shaking underneath the building’ as pro-Palestinian protesters were banging on the doors and windows.

LITTLE GEORGIE’S JOBS HAVE NEVER INVOLVED TELLING THE TRUTH:

The dishonesty of Stephanopoulos' interview is striking. He says 10 times that Trump was found 'liable for rape' in the E Jean Carroll case. He says that the jury found Trump 'liable for rape.' In fact, the jury specifically found Trump *not* liable for rape. It found him liable… https://t.co/AGr0WWnaMS

— Byron York (@ByronYork) March 10, 2024

DON SURBER: Hey, Look, Haiti!

The internal polling on Dark Brandon’s state-of-the-union speech must be horrible because Democrats and their deep-state go-fers in the media quickly changed the subject. First, they tried to make the story about Republican Katie Britt’s Karen-in-the-kitchen response to Biden’s speech, but no one outside DC cares about these responses.

Then Biden said he threatened Netanyahu with a come-to-Jesus moment. Bibi did not take Biden serious and no one else did. I mean, what was Biden going to do? Make Bibi eat a ham sandwich?

With the Ukraine war wearing out its welcome, the only diversion left was the uncivil war in Haiti. Suddenly riots in its capital became the most important story in the world!

We are sending troops to Port-au-Prince, something we failed to do to Minneapolis, Seattle and Portland four years ago. Apparently it is OK to give rioters in Baltimore space, but not in Haiti.

Haiti has replaced Ukraine as the 51st state, just like Dick Sargent replaced Dick York as Darrin on Bewitched. There was no discussion and no explanation. How important is Haiti now? The New York Times pulled down its paywall to report the story.

Haiti has always been a basket case, and it’s only become more basketish with ten-plus years of deep international involvement. (Is any place actually improved by the attention of NGOs and UN agencies?) The only time it didn’t suck was when it was run by the United States Marine Corps, and that wasn’t worth the trouble for us back then, and would be more trouble now.