WELL, HELLO: Meet the Wild Yeasts From Patagonia Making Your Next Lager Unforgettable.

I attended Knoxville’s Brewfest at the World’s Fair site yesterday. An amazing array of good brews, and my Hamm’s Beer shirt was a surprisingly big hit.

IT MIGHT NOT HAPPEN, BUT THAT ISN’T THE WAY TO BET: The Upcoming Naval Battle in the South China Sea.

A LUXURY 6X6 OVERLAND CAMPER? Not bad, but I’d prefer something on a Unimog chassis.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Having a Salena Zito Moment.

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ADVICE FOR OUR TIME: Extra Ammo? Why Not?

OUT: BMI. IN: BRI. Should we ditch BMI and use the ‘body roundness index’ instead?

LAW: Moore v. United States: Joe Biden Thinks He Can Tax Gains in the Value of Your House When You Have Not Yet Sold It: The Biden Solicitor General’s office and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson think that cases under the Taxation Clause or the 16th amendment are political questions.

TRUST: Citing national security, US will ban Kaspersky anti-virus software in July.

I WAS ASSURED THAT IT WAS ALWAYS GOOD FOR YOU: Pot use seems to contribute to more severe cases of COVID-19, study finds.

ONE NIGHT IN BUCKHEAD WHERE THE JUDGES RUMBLE: Metro Atlanta judge arrested at Buckhead nightclub, faces felony charge: Douglas County Probate Judge Christina Peterson was already facing ethics charges.

Another bad look for their judiciary. I can sense a clown show sitting next to me.

PROGRESS: University of Utah will close women’s, LGBT centers to comply with DEI ban.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Rice University SJP to protest Houston pride parade: ‘No Pride in Genocide.’

Losers, and morons.

ROGER KIMBALL: Some Unsolicited Advice: Trump should allow Biden to do what Biden does so well: to descend into rambling, shrewish incoherence, while his focus should be on what a future under Donald Trump might look like.

MAKE THEM PAY: Pentagon sued over deletion of ‘Duty, Honor, Country.’

A DEBACLE: Columbia Dean Calls Cops on Free Beacon Reporter: We wanted to ask Columbia College dean Josef Sorett questions. He summoned the police—after calling to defund the NYPD in 2020.

SHOCKER: Federal Budget Deficit Forecast Jumps $400 Billion, Fueled by Student Debt Forgiveness.

HE’S NOT WRONG:

BREAKING: The former Democrat Governor of New York just admitted live on air that the Trump case would've never been brought if Trump wasn't running for President

"I'm telling you, that case would have never been brought. And that's what's offensive to people. And it should be."… pic.twitter.com/KHrq7asKNh

— George (@BehizyTweets) June 22, 2024

Related: Bill Maher and Cuomo Admit Something We’ve All Known About the Trump Hush Money Trial. “hat case, the attorney general’s case in New York, frankly, should have never been brought. If his name was not Donald Trump and if he wasn’t running for president. I’m the former AG in New York. I’m telling you, that case would have never been brought. And that’s what is offensive to people. And it should be.”

MEH, PALESTINIANS SAY A LOT OF STUFF. Israel Airstrikes Hit Gaza City, and Palestinians Say Many Are Killed.

OPEN THREAD: Happy Saturday.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: How SpaceShipOne’s historic launch 20 years ago paved the way for a new space tourism era. And much more. It wasn’t huge in itself, but then, neither was the flight at Kitty Hawk.

ANOTHER “SCIENTIFIC” MYTH, BUSTED: The Mysterious ‘Ecocide’ Collapse of Easter Island Never Really Happened. “The myth of this so-called Rapa Nui ‘ecocide’ – held up for decades as a cautionary tale about overexploitation of natural resources – should be firmly relegated to the bin of outdated theories, scientists now say. This finding is just the latest in a mounting body of evidence that the Pacific Islander population’s decline had nothing to do with their way of living.”

It now seems likely that they were casualties of open borders: “In fact, the collapse so soon after European contact in the 1700s probably had more to do with the slave trade, enforced migration, and introduced pathogens.” I don’t see people being as eager to hold that up as a warning.

INSERT STANDARD JOKE ABOUT NO INTELLIGENT LIFE HERE: Astronomers May Have Found Life Beyond Earth.

SEXISM IS FINE, SO LONG AS IT’S SUITABLY INDIGENOUS SEXISM: Museum withheld images of African mask that ‘must not be seen by women’: Pitt Rivers curators applied warning to Igbo artefact in the interest of ‘cultural safety.’

Of course, considerations of “cultural safety” only apply to some cultures. For others it’s epater les bourgeoise.

WELL, TO BE FAIR, THE FDA DOESN’T CARE ABOUT AMERICANS: If Opiates Are Killing Americans, Why Won’t the FDA Let Us Try an Alternative?As the DEA relentlessly tightens regulations on pain meds, the FDA refuses to approve a safer alternative already being used in similar countries.

THE ROBERTS COURT: The Contorted Rahimi Ruling Didn’t Damage Bruen as Anti-Gunners Had Hoped.