CALIFORNIA REFUSES TO ALLOW TESLA'S FREMONT MANUFACTURING PLANT TO REOPEN. Elon Musk responded:

Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move its HQ and future programs to Texas/Nevada immediately. If we even retain Fremont manufacturing activity at all, it will be dependent on how Tesla is treated in the future. Tesla is the last carmaker left in CA.

California Assemblycritter Lorena Gonzalez responds:

F*ck Elon Musk.

Musk replies:

Message received.

Read about it here.

And today, Elon Musk went ahead and reopened his Fremont plant.

Well done!

GEORGETOWN LAW PROFESSORS: "just two more vipers swimming in the muddy waters of the Washington swamp."

RANDOM THOUGHT: I'm getting sick of all the television advertisers busily virtue signaling while patting themselves on the back for being so virtuous.

It's disgusting, and will be very much on my mind when I go shopping in the future.

IT WAS TIME THREE MONTHS AGO. Is it time for a new approach to coronavirus?

MALLARD FILLMORE explains why Earth hasn't been contacted by aliens.

WUHAN FLU [CORONAVIRUS] UPDATE for May 11, 2020:

Still 'same old, same old'. Just another data point on the same trend lines.

The estimated death rate is 0.1061%, still moving down, and the estimated percentage of Americans not yet infected is still decreasing, at 76.750% today. If the minimum percentage of infections is 25% to gain herd immunity (as I've seen bandied around the internet), we're almost there.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures has two favorites for me this week:

and

Go see them all.

MIKE ROWE: unsung casualties of the coronavirus panic.

YES, IT IS. LET'S GET BACK TO WORK: The 'new normal' is ridiculous.

PROBABLY NOT INTENTIONALLY, BUT THEY'RE SURELY BEING USED BY THE DEEP STATE: Is the CDC meddling with the 2020 election?

ARE ENDLESS LOCKDOWNS the result of malice or stupidity? Ordinarily I follow the advice of Hanlon's Razor (actually a minor variant of Occam's Razor): "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Admittedly there is widespread stupidity among our government mandarins, but ... coordinated stupidity? No. It's malice.

AT A MINIMUM, IT NEEDS TO HAVE ITS REGULATORY AUTHORITY SHUT DOWN: The Food and Drug Administration desperately needs an overhaul.

FAUXCAHONTAS: Trump is 'adding years to our economic recovery' by pushing businesses to reopen too soon.

Fauxcahontas speaks with forked stupid tongue....