IT WILL BE IF YOU VOTE FOR THEIR TICKET: It’s a death trap, it’s a suicide rap. “Inside the hall, the three presidents sat in matching white armchairs and took the stage to strains of ‘Born to Run’ by Bruce Springsteen, the unofficial bard of the Democratic Party. . . . Three Presidents were sitting in white armchairs before people who’d paid up to $500,000 apiece to sit in the audience in the most beautiful theater in the country. The comments over there are mostly about the fourth President. That guy, Mr. Trump, steals focus from everything. Also stealing attention were the protesters at the 3-Presidents event. They were shouting ‘blood on your hands’ Obama chided them: ‘You can’t just talk and not listen. That’s what the other side does.’ Seems to me protesters on Obama’s side have interrupted more speeches than those on the other side.”

Today’s Democratic Party machinery is getting the treatment from the Woke Left that it last got from the New Left in 1968. And as always, the talk of “blood on your hands” comes from the people with bloody-handed fantasies.

TO BE FAIR, THAT’S BECAUSE HE’S A TOOL:

Before the 2020 election Stephen Colbert was doing skits encouraging people to be skeptical of Big Pharma and its motives.

After the election he was dancing like a fool while surrounded by people dressed as syringes. pic.twitter.com/9IXtxKRi7M

— MAZE (@mazemoore) March 29, 2024

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

I WAS EXPECTING A MARS-SHATTERING KABOOM: Giant Mars asteroid impact creates vast field of destruction with 2 billion craters.

THEY SHOULD ALWAYS BE PLANNING TO BE AT WAR IN THE NEAR FUTURE. I MEAN, THAT’S THEIR JOB, NOT DEI OR MUSLIM OUTREACH OR WHATEVER. Still:

this is why you don't 👏 get 👏 rid 👏 of 👏 your 👏 industrial 👏 base https://t.co/decE79lKQe

— Aaron Slodov (@aphysicist) March 29, 2024

And maybe they shouldn’t alienate their biggest pool of potential combat soldier recruits.

#JOURNALISM:

Nex’s father r*ped her and m*lested her for years. He was arrested again 2 weeks before she overdosed. WaPo knew this information and still blamed me. pic.twitter.com/Xsi2UYn6Fy

— Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) March 28, 2024

JOHN LUCAS: Putting Lipstick on the Pig: Biden is unpopular but so is everybody. It’s not his policies. Thus sayeth The New York Times. “Democrats and the media (please excuse the redundancy) are in a nationwide panic over President Biden’s plunging poll numbers. But The New York Times, like the rest of the ancien regime nobility is constitutionally incapable of discerning the reasons why more and more people, as well as demographic groups that Democrats thought were in the bag for them, are rejecting Biden and his policies.”

Just spitballing here, but maybe it’s because those policies suck, and are harming the non-graft parts of America.

LONGEVITY UPDATE: An Expert Unwraps Chocolate’s Surprising Health Benefits.

ORIGIN STORY: SUPERHERO, OR SUPERVILLAIN? Scientists Put Tardigrade Proteins Into Human Cells. Here’s What Happened.

“Amazingly, when we introduce these proteins into human cells, they gel and slow down metabolism, just like in tardigrades,” says molecular biologist Silvia Sanchez-Martinez, from the University of Wyoming.

“When you put human cells that have these proteins into biostasis, they become more resistant to stresses, conferring some of the tardigrades’ abilities to the human cells.” . . .

“When the stress is relieved, the tardigrade gels dissolve, and the human cells return to their normal metabolism,” says University of Wyoming molecular biologist Thomas Boothby.

What shall we call that character? “Tardiman?” That just sounds like someone who’s always late.

ON THE OTHER HAND, WHEN’S THE LAST TIME YOU HEARD OF A CASE OF MONKEYPOX? Mpox infections double last year’s rate in U.S.

AMERICA MADE A HUGE BET ON SPORTS GAMBLING: Now the backlash is here.

SEVENTEEN SHOTS HEARD ‘ROUND THE WORLD: Tamara Keel: The Day the Pistol Universe Changed.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: The Case for Marrying an Older Man. Long, and self-obsessed, but revealing — and not wrong — in its neotraditionalism.

HAHA. Threads Is Not the Utopia Progressives Were Promised and Many Are ‘Triggered.’

THE NEW SPACE RACE: JAXA SLIM moon lander survives second lunar night.

MOVE YOUR MUSCLES: Sitting 30 minutes less per day may cut high blood pressure among seniors.

HMM: A Christian revival is under way in Britain.

Well, you know, it’s the new transgressive.

GRIFTING IS MY BUSINESS, AND BUSINESS IS GOOD: Professors get $1 million to apply ‘critical race studies’ to the classics.

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF ANTISEMITISM? House committee opens investigation into Rutgers University over ‘pervasiveness of antisemitism on its campuses.’

SKED FOR THIS AFTERNOON AT 1:37 PM ET: United Launch Alliance to launch final Delta Heavy IV rocket March 29. Here’s how to watch live. “In addition to the Delta IV Heavy, ULA plans on retiring another one of its rockets: The workhorse Atlas V. The idea is to make way for the company’s new Vulcan Centaur, which launched on its first mission on Jan. 8, 2024 when it sent Astrobotic’s Peregrine lunar lander moonward. The Atlas V will keep flying through 2029, however, as it is already booked for missions to help develop Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet constellation and send Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule to the International Space Station on its first launch, slated for no earlier than May 1.”

Deltas and Atlases have a great history, but both rockets are older than me. The future is elsewhere.

GEORGE KORDA ON the education situation.

CHANGE: New Georgia Voting Rules Approved. “While there are plenty of people talking about improving election security, Georgia appears to be doing something about it. Just in time for this year’s elections, the Georgia legislature has passed reforms that will impact access to the presidential ballot. They have also altered the rules defining the criteria for being able to submit a ballot and how ballots can be challenged. Ballot challenges will be under strict scrutiny this year with more people expected to be monitoring the process from each party, particularly in swing states like Georgia. The measure has been sent to Republican Governor Brian Kemp, who is expected to sign it into law. Needless to say, many Georgia Democrats are not happy about this.” Of course they’re not. It makes cheating harder.

Also: Shocking Court Ruling Says Ballots Must Be Signed and Dated.

NOBODY CONDESCENDS MORE, WITH LESS BASIS FOR CONDESCENSION: Liberal Media Scream: Condescending ‘Really?’ to Rubio’s wish to be Trump VP.

“INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE.” BUT FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! Biden Admin Could Use ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ To Kill Critical Mining Project.

THE TIMES LOOKS BACK ON COVID: “The New York Times looks back on covid, four years down the road, and says ‘Here’s what we’ve learned.’ I would say we have learned some things that the Times doesn’t touch, like the idiocy of shutting down stores, businesses, churches and, especially, schools. But admitting that would be a bridge too far for the Times. Even on the lessons the Times acknowledges, you sometimes have to read between the lines.”