TEMPERAMENT.

“Don’t pour a pot of boiling potatoes on your spouse’s head” is a single sex neutral standard of conduct that virtually all seekers of high office of both sexes manage to meet, and that no man would be able to continue running for governor having failed to meet https://t.co/jvtKCWkrFL

— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) May 11, 2026

WELL, BYE: Pressure on Starmer Mounts as Dozens of Labour Lawmakers Call on Him to Quit.

Personally, I want Labour out, not just Starmer.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: How Trump’s ‘anaconda’ tactics put the squeeze on Iran and China.

And the Democrats.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Black holes slamming into scorching stars may be causing mysterious blue flashes in the cosmos.

HMM: Poop From Young Mice Reverses Signs of Age-Related Decline in Older Mice.

HMM: That Haunted Feeling May Be Caused by a Sound You Can’t Hear.

WELL, GOOD: Nasal spray developed for prehospital emergency aid for ischemic stroke.

CHANGE:

Men are actually more likely to "sexually expire" in the eyes of their wives than vice versa.

Only 20% of women still want to have sex often once a relationship hits the 90-month mark, whereas men's desire for intimacy remains remarkably stable over time. pic.twitter.com/VHUxOgCDMI

— Patrice Mauricard (@PMauricard) May 10, 2026

WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE: You Too Can Have a Fire Team Leader Gun.

I HAVE A LIST OF CANDIDATES:

THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA Is Set To Begin Training With A Prototype Of Blue Origin’s Crew Moon Lander.

PROBABLY KINDA CORRODED: The mangled remains of probes sent to Venus may still be there.

THE EVIDENCE IS PRETTY SOLID IN FAVOR: Is testosterone therapy safe and effective? What we know. I love this:

Testosterone’s reputation has had its ups and downs since the hormone was first synthesized in the 1930s. After an initial golden period, in which it was described as “one of the most potent drugs recently introduced to medicine,” the therapy fell out of favour for fear that it could cause cancer. This idea originated from the work of urologist Charles Huggins who, in 1941, found that prostate cancer depends on testosterone and that lowering the hormone levels caused tumours to shrink. It was a groundbreaking discovery for which he was awarded a share in the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1966.

Morgentaler says that when he was training as a urologist in the 1980s, there was a widespread belief, based on Huggins’s findings, that testosterone therapy could promote prostate cancer. Despite the presumed risks, he says he still thought that the hormone could help some of his patients who had low testosterone and sexual problems. So, he started treating them while monitoring them closely.

They didn’t get cancer, Morgentaler says, and they benefited from the treatment greatly. Some of his clinical findings — along with the revelation that Huggins’s most dire warnings about the hormone causing cancer were based on observations of a single person — helped to clear the way for renewed interest in testosterone therapy.

Sample size: One. So much received medical wisdom comes from this sort of thing.

TECH REVOLUTION?

AI is going to destroy what they've carefully built out of sight for decades.

You have be able to SEE the Beast to kill it.

They'd figured they'd made it so massive, so hard to track, nobody could ever attempt it.

We're going to do it. https://t.co/qGHeG55not

— Brian Cates – Political Columnist & Pundit (@drawandstrike) May 10, 2026

I APPEAR ON CHICAGO’S MORNING ANSWER TALKING ABOUT SEDUCTIVE AI: Glenn Reynolds: AI’s Real Danger Is Not Superintelligence But Emotional Manipulation, Fiduciary Liability for AI Companions Is the Right Legal Fix.

PRIORITIES: Black man shoots five; U. Iowa community upset at subsequent online racist comments.

JONATHAN TURLEY UNDERTAKES a distasteful task. “Under Schapiro, a wide array of speech was deemed “microaggressive” or intolerable in the interests of harmony and inclusion. He did little to quell the viewpoint intolerance at Northwestern and the virtual purging of faculty ranks of conservative or Republican faculty. Now the mob has come for Schapiro.’

STARMER’S LUCKY HE’S NOT LEAVING OFFICE ON A RAIL:

Put another way, "We will fight the British people in Brussels. We shall fight them on the French beaches with rubber boats full of third world migrants. We will fight them in the public squares with crowds of praying Mohammedans. We shall fight them in the raping places. We… https://t.co/V7RQ7JNDmL

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) May 11, 2026

The left always talks about “decency” while doing indecent things. Anyway:

BLUE STATE UPDATE:

Nobody disputes that Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen is a skilled and seasoned prosecutor.

So it shocked the local Jewish community — even in this era of appalling antizionist bigotry — when Santa Clara Superior Court Judge Kelley Paul effectively decided Thursday that… pic.twitter.com/AgbbR90o4i

— Kevin Deutsch (@kdeutschjourno) May 10, 2026

Blatant anti-semitism from Judge Kelley Paul here.

DON SURBER: Blue wave? Red wave? No, an Orange Wave nears: Panicked Democrats want to retire the entire Virginia Supreme Court.

You see, they have to do this to protect our norms and traditions and the rule of law.

SOUNDS RIGHT:

Here is the deeper blackpill, men's brains literally prune the circuits for expecting care. The male brain, around adolescence, begins to treat social neglect as baseline, not as trauma. The same way a child raised in a loud factory learns to sleep through the noise. https://t.co/NwdYDRtCjc pic.twitter.com/dXjphmEVuS

— Anon Noiré ✶ (@Anoryx_) May 8, 2026

I remember my friend Norah Vincent said that when she lived as a man, the first thing she noticed was that suddenly nobody seemed to care about her. As a woman, even a fairly masculine, not terribly attractive woman, people showed concern if she was carrying heavy packages, if she tripped and fell on the sidewalk, if she just looked sad. As a man, bupkis. You’re on your own, buddy.

SAY IT AIN’T SO:

You're not gonna believe this, but Gavin Newsom's new "free diapers" program is yet another corrupt NGO money laundering operation.

Kelly Sawyer runs Baby 2 Baby, an LA charity that provides baby gear to poor mothers. If you go to an LA private school, you get solicited to… pic.twitter.com/5TNbU3lFSD

— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) May 10, 2026

ICYMI: MY LATEST SUBSTACK: The Gathering Storm.

ILYA SHAPIRO: Justice Thomas’s Constitution: The Court’s most steadfast originalist reaches a historic milestone.