EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: White House Report Card: Biden reelection stuck in neutral, approval at ‘fail.’

FOR “EQUITY:” Washington State Does Away with the Bar Exam. “All of this is happening, apparently, because the current Washington State Bar is 83% white and 56% male in a state that, according to the US Census, is 77% white (and 50% male).”

FLASHBACK: Harvard Smart People Misspell ‘Arithmetic’ While Advocating ‘Ban’ On Homeschooling.

THE COURAGE OF THEIR CONVICTIONS: Georgetown Law Professor Published Anti-Semitic Screeds to School’s Scholarly Article Database. When We Asked Questions, She Scrubbed Them. “Lama Abu-Odeh, who teaches seminar on conservative legal thought, tells reporter to ‘f— off.'”

THE EXODUS IS HERE: $1.8B Sony movie studio backed by Mark Wahlberg approved for Summerlin.

TO BE FAIR, BIDEN DOESN’T KNOW WHAT HE’S SAYING, OR WHAT HIS ADMINISTRATION IS DOING: Biden Decries Criminalization of Cannabis Consumers Even As He Insists They Have No Second Amendment Rights: Hours before the president said “no one should be jailed” for marijuana use, his Justice Department was saying no one who uses marijuana should be allowed to own guns.

CDR SALAMANDER: The Intelligence Community Is Not A Serious Community.

SPACE LAW: Space CSI investigates murder in microgravity.

Laura Montgomery notes that space falls under the “special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States.” And it has for quite a while.

OPEN THREAD: Disport yourselves in the comments.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: SpaceX planning rapid turnaround for next Starship flight.

FASTER, PLEASE: Scientists Find ‘Switch’ That Stops Immune System Attacking Healthy Cells.

IN DEFENSE OF UNDERTAKERS: “‘It’s a shame/outrage/scandal to take advantage of people on the worst day of their lives!’ is the most common reaction from a conversational partner.”

Well, I’ve had the occasion to deal with undertakers in connection with a number of family deaths, and I’ve been impressed with their professionalism and thoughtfulness every time. As I’ve noted in the past: “I should note, though, that although hospice care gets good press, when my father-in-law was dying, the folks from the hospice were pretty awful. The funeral home people were much better, once he died.”

DEFENSIVE SHOOTING: To Crouch Or Not To Crouch.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: What to do when it’s time for a parent or grandparent to quit driving: When it’s time to give up the car keys, an ‘advance directive for driving’ can help.

HMM: Keto diet found to slow early stages of Alzheimer’s disease in mice.

TRUST THE SCIENCE: AI-generated nonsense is leaking into scientific journals.

WELL, SURE, WE’RE BLAMED FOR ALL THE WORLD’S ILLS: Too much energy spent combating stress linked to earlier death in men, study finds.

STANDING UP AGAINST RACISM AND BIGOTRY IN ALABAMA: Alabama passes sweeping bill that would prohibit diversity, equity, and inclusion at public schools and universities.

TRUMP TO LETITIA JAMES: You’ve made Manhattan real estate worthless already, so take my Trump Tower . . . please! “The 91 felony indictments helped Trump in the polls. His popularity could skyrocket if James confiscates his tower. The political value might exceed the half a billion dollars in wealth it will cost.”

Plus: “People will stop doing business in New York. No one will take the risk, and lenders are now spooked. The real estate market is already a disaster, with office buildings worth a fraction of what they were once worth, and there are metastasizing effects when a large part of the city’s budget is from real estate.”

DON SURBER: In Praise of Ties: They helped build a society that we are destroying. “The first thing I notice when I watch a black-and-white TV show on one of the rerun networks is the ties. In the 1950s, every man wore a tie. The milkman wore a tie. The mailman wore a tie. The policeman wore a tie. Even Elvis wore a tie on occasion. Chuck Berry always wore a tie. Gas station attendants wore them. You could trust your car to the man who wore the star because he had a tie on. Men wore ties to ballgames because men were civilized.”

I had some related thoughts here.

ERIC COWPERTHWAITE: Enormous Win for Veterans 2A Rights: The VA’s underhanded “Red Flag” capability got taken away.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: UW-Madison professor worked to cancel her conservative grad student: FOIA documents.

GET WOKE, GO . . . Harvard closes library, citing ‘financial considerations.’ “According to the Harvard Crimson, the university will close the John G. Wolbach Library on Friday. The Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory collections are housed at the library. Harvard Center for Astrophysics Director Lisa J. Kewley wrote in an email to the outlet that the decision was driven ‘primarily by financial considerations.'”

JOHN LUCAS: Joe Biden’s Interview With Special Counsel Hur Is Worse Than You’ve Heard.

OUR RULING CLASS AT WORK: Civil ‘collapse’ feared in election.