21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Broke women prefer more feminine facial features over manly men: study.

Related: What is ‘hypergamy’ — the dating trend sweeping 40% of Americans? Missing from this is a gender breakdown.

MICHAEL WALSH: Battle Station, Everyone. “Via its institutional mouthpiece, the New York Times, the American and international far Left has laid out its battle plan for the 2024 presidential election and beyond.”

OR, BY ALL APPEARANCES, THINK: ANALYSIS: Students are entering college unable to write.

HIGHER EDUCATION, A TOXIC INDUSTRY: A Frightening View of Free Speech and Academic Freedom at Harvard: A Harvard Dean suggests universities can and should limit controversial speech. “Professor Lawrence Bobo, Dean of Social Science and the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, has an article in the Harvard Crimson on the proper limits of faculty speech that has to be read to be believed.”

He’s going to love the Trump-second-term regulation of academe then. Or at least, he’s going to deserve it.

WELL, READY EXCEPT FOR HAVING A WORKING FLEET, AIR FORCE, LOGISTICS SYSTEM, ETC. Automatic draft registration bill passes the House: ‘A clear sign that we are getting ready for war.’

NAVAL STRATEGY, AND THE LACK THEREOF: While We Quibble & Fool, the PRC Builds.

HIS WHOLE PARTY IS A REMINDER: Joe Biden Reminds Us to Buy Guns and Ammunition. “Here’s the thing about senile people – they can’t hide what they really think. They blurt what they really think. And he really thinks that happily turning the military upon us if we defy him is a viable option.”

HMM: Over at The New York Times, it looks as though Trump has already won the election. “It’s almost as though there’s a conspiracy to deny the election.”

DON SURBER: Trump Derangement Syndrome Becomes Unprofitable. “These are the same outlets that spiked stories about Hunter’s laptop ahead of the election.”

Plus: “I remember when lefties hated Corporate America. Now they don’t because now they run it. But they are not running Corporate Media very well because they’ve wasted their credibility on unhinged attacks on President Trump. They became boring and they look stupid in the Biden era. The people who stopped watching CNN weren’t Trump supporters. They were Democrats — as were the subscribers who canceled the Bezos Post.”

REALCLEARDEFENSE: A Fiscal Crisis: The West is on the Wrong Side of Cost Curve.

CHANGE:

The difference between Paris and the rest of France is … telling.

Just underlines the simple fact: if you have been to Paris, you have been to Paris – you have not been to France. https://t.co/7wlSa36a7N

— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) June 16, 2024

ELON MUSK’S HIGH-PAY CONTRACT:

Mr. Musk might have been negotiating with his mom or Genghis Khan and the outcome would have been the same. The board would have accepted the terms he laid out, proposing no reward at all unless he succeeded in creating an extraordinary and implausible increase in shareholder value.

Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick, in her ruling, emphasizes that, golly, Mr. Musk’s contract was bigger than any other chief executive’s. Fluster, fluster.

In the real world, his contract was most importantly different because no other CEO would have signed it. Rationally, candidates want to be compensated for their time and effort even if their efforts don’t pay off in a higher share price.

After all, 99% of the variables are outside a CEO’s control, from the policy environment and the acts of competitors to changes in tastes and technologies. The best plans of mice and men, etc. High-caliber business talents spend decades building their market value precisely so they have bargaining clout to get paid (at least somewhat) even for failing.

So far, at least, betting against Elon has been a loser’s game. That won’t always be true, of course. But when you look at everything he’s accomplished over the last couple of decades, it’s pretty much unmatched. Any one of his companies would be a triumph of the first order.

ICYMI: NIH scientists made $710M in royalties from drug makers — a fact they tried to hide. “Almost all that cash — $690 million — went to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the subagency led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, and 260 of its scientists.”

KEEP FILING THOSE COMPLAINTS: MIT union ignored Jewish members’ objection to Israel boycott: federal complaint.

The process is the punishment.

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: DHS Is Still Paying Former PLO Spokesperson Who Celebrated October 7 Hamas Attack.

ICYMI: STEPHANIE GUTMANN: Just walk away, Caitlin (while you can still walk) or prepare to be made a whipping girl for the sins of White and Hetero Privilege for the rest of your WNBA career. “Why is seemingly everybody in the WNBA higher echelons so stubbornly grouchy about the ‘Caitlin effect,’ to the point of perversely, self-destructively shooting Clark down? Because the WNBA seems to have gotten comfortable in their dank little victim’s corner.”

Well, good, because that’s where they’ll be staying if they keep this up.

WHY IS THE WNBA SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATE, BIGOTRY, AND VIOLENCE?

JUST IN: WNBA player Angel Reese viciously elbows Caitlin Clark in the head as she goes in for a layup.

Reese could be seen completely missing the ball and making contact with Clark's head instead.

She was called for a flagrant 1.

The move comes as more and more WNBA players… pic.twitter.com/VOmjloMTRX

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 16, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Don’t you know that when you play at this level there’s no ordinary venue. . . . Can’t be too careful with your company.

But the real brilliance is here. I get my kicks at Texas State Line sometimes.

CHANGE: DARPA unveils 6 new designs for uncrewed vertical-takeoff military aircraft, eyes 2026 test flights.

OF COURSE:

Unexpectedly! https://t.co/tE7USv8096

— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) June 15, 2024

THE LONELY LIVES OF SCIENTISTS: Experiment Reveals Microplastics in Every Human Semen Sample Tested.

LIKE BITE MARKS, HAIR AND FIBER, ETC., MOST “SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE” IS GARBAGE: Wired for Disaster: The Hidden Dangers of Wire-Cut Evidence in Forensics.

FOR YOUR DELECTATION: My summer recipe for chilled poached salmon. Thanks to whoever it was who mentioned it in the open thread the other day.

SO YOU’RE SAYING THEY’RE DOING THEIR JOB OF WEEDING OUT DANGEROUS OR INEFFECTIVE TREATMENTS? Only 1 in 20 animal studies results in treatments approved for humans.

PUT A CHICK IN IT AND MAKE IT GAY?

Great advice. https://t.co/wqGxCNcTOr

— Brant Hadaway (@BrantHadaway) June 14, 2024