OF COURSE, YOU CAN’T BELIEVE A WORD CHINA SAYS:  China claims second suspected spy balloon over Latin America was also lost.

ABOUT TIME!  Pushback: Civil rights complaint filed against California school district for running segregated program.

THE HORSE IS NO LONGER IN THE BARN:  Democrats Desperately Declare Hunter’s Laptop Trivial And Half-Fake.

WHATEVER. I’D RATHER STARVE THAN EAT THE BUGS:  Fires Destroy New Zealand Egg Farm and Canadian Seafood Plant.

Not that I’m at risk of starving. Could use a bit of fasting, to be honest.

DID THE LUMP IN HIS NECK CALL FOR HELP?  PA Sen. John Fetterman Taken to Hospital After ‘Feeling Lightheaded’ at Senate Democratic Retreat.

Look, I read A Canticle for Leibowitz, okay?

BUT IT IS “FEMALE” MALE GENITALIA!  ‘Exposed to Male Genitalia’: Swimmer Claims No One ‘Forewarned’ Them About Sharing Locker Room With Biological Male Lia Thomas.

(Do I really need to add a sarcasm tag?)

ARE THEY SURE? I HEARD SOME OF US HAVE ASSAULT ROSARIES!  FBI HQ Retracting Richmond Field Office Document Targeting ‘Radical Traditionalist Catholics’.

Scary that.

ABOUT TIME: TX Governor Greg Abbott Tells State Agencies and Public Universities to Stop Considering Diversity in Hiring.

Diversity assumes that everyone will discriminate, and so orders people to…. discriminate.

Honestly, any reason for hiring outside of “competence” destroys competence. Either immediately or over time. We have a competence crisis in all our institutions. Stop the nonsense.

THE LEFT HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT GUILT BY ASSOCIATION:  Airbnb bans Lauren Southern’s PARENTS.

TAKE HEART. THE NUMBERS FOR PERMA SOCIALISM DON’T WORK:  Doing the Arithmetic.

I WILL KEEP THE DISNEY COMICS I BOUGHT FOR THE BOYS AND MIGHT ADD MORE, USED, OTHER THAN THAT I AGREE:  The Last Straw of US.

NOT JUST SOMALIA. THE WORLD:  Somalia’s Problem Isn’t Climate Change, It’s the Climate Agenda.

AGAIN, IT’S BEEN THIS BAD MY ENTIRE ADULT LIFE:  A look at just how bad left our universities have fallen.

They just used to hide it better, till Trump made them lose their minds.

THIS IS NOT NEW. STORY OF MY PROFESSIONAL LIFE AND THAT OF ALL MY FRIENDS IN THE ARTS AND MANY IN ACADEMIA:  How Ideologues Infiltrated the Arts.

And we’re in our fifties and sixties.

THEY KEEP IMAGINING THAT ‘GRANDMA’ WAS BORN IN 1920:  It gets harder and harder to shock people.

Some of us are quite shockable but not by their puerile acts. That’s just show business. It’s whatever. Their casual contempt for the bill of rights? that leaves me breathless and disgusted and, yes, shocked. Disgusted to. And that they don’t realize.

WEIRDLY THAT ALSO MEANS YOU CAN’T GET FORCED CHILD-SUPPORT FROM FATHERS:   Judge Claims Abortion Loophole In 13th Amendment.

Intellectual consistency. So inconvenient.

BIDEN CLAIMS A LOT OF THINGS WITH NO CONNECTION TO REALITY:  Biden Claims We Are In Competition With China, Not Conflict.

HIRING FOR ANY REASON OTHER THAN COMPETENCE, OVER TIME DESTROYS COMPETENCE:  Competence is dead and diversity killed it.

WE’LL SHOW THEM PRECISELY THE RESPECT AND DECORUM THEY SHOWED TRUMP. PRECISELY:  Democrats and Media Suddenly Care About Decorum and Respect After Biden SOTU Address.

WHAT? REGULATE AND TAX?  Congress Looking to Create New Regulations, Taxes for Marijuana.

Now there’s an effective war on drugs.

THEY DON’T LIKE CHILDREN ANYHOW:  The Baby Formula Shortage Crisis Continues.

REPARATIONS TO PEOPLE WHO WERE NEVER SLAVES PAID BY PEOPLE WHO NEVER OWNED SLAVES:  Boston Mayor Michelle Wu Assembles Reparations Task Force.

THEY’RE CULTISTS WHO DON’T UNDERSTAND MATH OR PHYSICS: LA Time editorial delusional about fossil fuels.

NEWS FROM 2015. IT’S ALMOST LIKE WHAT THEY HATE IS COMPETENCY:  MARSCON- DAVID WEBER WEIGHS IN.

I’d say I don’t find the science fiction squabbles funny anymore, but I never did. Stupid, however, the left continues to be.

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE:  Sea Level Is Stable Around the World… The Good News the Media Don’t Want Us to Hear.