THEY SURE DO LIKE SPENDING OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Biden's $2.2T infrastructure package: 'Not nearly enough'.

INSTAPUNDIT DOES HAVE A WAY WITH WORDS: Totalitarian cockswaddle.

THIS IS SATIRE -- 15-Year-old boys' soccer team demands equal pay for beating U.S. women's team.

Except that it isn't; the boys team did in fact beat the women's national team in a recent scrimmage.

CANDACE OWENS: Democrats represent Black America 'like plantation owners represented slaves'.



It's a Fox News video clip from Life, Liberty, and Levin. Normally I don't embed videos, but Candace Owens is special.

IT'S TIME TO TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. Run to the nearest private school.

DONALD TRUMP to visit border in next few weeks. Invited by ICE and CBP.

NO! NOT ONLY NO, HELL NO! Biden White House plans 'vaccine passports'.

If you want to understand what to expect, remember Dr. Anthony Fauci at the Washington Nationals opening game this season, and read Ward Moore's Caduceus Wild.

If there is anything that will drive me from the U.S. permanently, 'vaccine passports' are it.

SPRINGTIME 2021, Week 4: Last week's Early Bird, er, Bush, is doing well, so let's start this week with the Tulip Magnolia, which I call the butterfly bush since it attracts them in droves. The flowers have begun to recede, partly because it's time for the leaves to appear and partly because the rains have taken quite a few as well. In the background is the pond, which will begin to disappear next week. The trees are all budding out, although they can't be seen in the pictures yet....

Next, a second view of the tulip magnolia, taken from the walkway to the fire pit. The perennials in the foreground have all started popping through the mulch bed and begun to blossom. Unfortunately so have the weeds....

Here's my usual pond view, taken today from the lower deck area (that's Rusty in the lower left checking for intruders). If you look carefully, there are hints of green in the trees in the distance. I also expect the ferns that are below the retaining wall where Russ is sitting to make their appearance soon.

And finally -- our future yard, once the barn is in place, the gravel from the old driveway removed, and fresh lawn soil put down.

Maybe by the time for 'falling leaves' pictures....

MALLARD FILLMORE EXPLAINS UNITY: Democrat style.

THE BIDEN PRESS CONFERENCE in one simple cartoon.

RANDOM THOUGHT -- an update to an old reliable: To err is human; to really fuck things up requires a smart phone.

FAT CHANCE: Biden official asked GOP senators visiting border to delete photos from facilities.

OOPSIE: Parler didn't do it.

...of the 270 charging documents filed by the Department of Justice [on the Capitol riot], 80 percent of social media references involved Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. “Only 5% referred to Parler.”

Don't expect to see that on the mainstream media....

THIS IS A SURPRISE? New White House directive suggests they're preparing for Kamala's takeover.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Yes, I had to fill up the tractor again.

EXCELLENT QUESTION: If categories like women and men no longer matter, why bother with Equal Pay Day?

I'd suggest replacing it with 'Victim Pay Day' where employees are to be paid on the basis of their position in the Critical Race Theory victimhood hierarchy. Then watch what happens when the progressive Left explodes.

Buy plenty of popcorn....

THE PROGRESSIVE LEFT IS SELF-CANCELING: Race and inclusion editor fired from
USA Today for 'angry white man' shooter comments.

Perhaps, to paraphrase Ilhan Omar, "It's all about the benjamins." They're not flowing as freely as when Trump was the target.

IT'S NOT A BORDER CRISIS: Here's why.

Pathetic.

AMMO GRRRLL writes on 'fairness'.

DON’T WASTE OUR TIME WITH GUN BANS,DEMOCRATS: Enforce existing laws instead.

KURT SCHLICHTER: Understand that some people love the pandemic.

It’s kind of sad, but not so sad that the rest of us are going to play this nonsense much longer. We’re done with this. It’s time for those with empty lives to fill them up again with something that isn’t a hassle to the rest of us.

Read it all.

JUDGE LAURENCE SILBERMAN'S DISSENT: abandon the constitutionalized defamation law fabricated and fashioned by the Supreme Court in New York Times v. Sullivan.

The media has become a dependent adjunct of the Democrat party; it must be reformed.

THERE THEY GO AGAIN, reporting the news in advance.

RANDOM THOUGHT: NewSpeak for 'fake but accurate' is now 'factually X but morally Y'.

THE DIPLOMAD ON BIDEN'S FIRST (ONLY?) PRESS CONFERENCE: "Biden is a joke, a cruel one, and the punchline comes at the expense of America and the West."

THEY BETTER HURRY: Service stations begin widening signs in preparation for higher gas prices.

IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE SATIRE, NOT THE NARRATIVE: Media now claims shooter was factually arab, but morally white.

Yes, it's America's News of Record being prescient again.

SOUNDS LIKE A PERSONAL PROBLEM TO ME: View host feels like a hostage to all those law abiding gun owners.

Has she thought about seeing a psychiatrist?

SHARPTON TO MANCHIN AND SINEMA: If you support the filibuster, I’ll hold town halls in your states accusing you of racism.

So the filibuster is racist?

NEVER MIND: Kamala Harris on gun control via executive order.

IS SANITY RETURNING? Ohio Legislature overrides Gov. Mike DeWine's veto of law curtailing his dictatorial COVID-19 powers. Good.

HOO, BOY: Coca-Cola facing boycott in Georgia for not denouncing GOP-backed election bill.

The Left is denouncing Coca-Cola for not being woke enough; I'm denouncing them for being too woke.

Update: The bill was just signed into law by Gov. Kemp. (Fantasy Gov. Stacey Abrams not pleased.)

BIDEN'S PRESS CONFERENCE: "It was an intimate affair, and [he] was among friends."

HOW TO BEAT THE WOKE: Never apologize, rally friends and punch back harder.

Make them feel pain....

UM, about that alligator....

WOKESTER ALERT: Perhaps it's not wise to feed the alligator.

MAYBE THE NEW YORK TIMES should quit trying to attack the Babylon Bee.

But they're not that smart.

LET'S GIVE KRISTI NOEM SOME ROOM TO MANEUVER: Despite Tucker Carlson's obvious skepticism, she's not completely wrong.

ANOTHER? Toilet paper could face a new shortage.

It's Trump's fault. Clearly he caused the container ship to be grounded in the Suez canal, which is seriously affecting the number of available shipping containers needed to move the wood pulp used to make toilet paper from its source in Brazil to the U.S.

Obviously Trump. Obviously.

SO, HOW ABOUT KAMALA? Jen Psaki defends firing a bunch of potheads.

CALM THIS! If aggressive progressives believe there is a calm in America, it is only because they are simply too dishonest or too deluded to see what is happening.

Read the whole thing.

OH, THIS IS RICH: San Francisco school board member claims many Asians use 'white supremacist thinking' to get ahead.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the purpose of an education to 'get ahead'?

THE MEDIA peddles an unsupported narrative of the Atlanta spa shootings.

It's been over a week now and the 'narrative' is still hot on the progressive Left.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The left-wing postmodern idea of “truth” as a mere pick-and-choose official narrative is now normal.

Unfortunately true. Read it all.

THE 800-POUND GORILLA in Trump's inner circle.

The GOP establishment has never been more out of touch with the grassroots and are becoming increasingly irrelevant, with their treasure trove of money buying them less and less favor with a constituency who cares more about putting America First than the golden calf of gross domestic product.

Sounds good, right? Until you're told that Jared Kushner is the 800-lb gorilla. I'm willing to listen to the argument, but it strikes me as more innuendo than fact. And I'm reminded that Kushner was instrumental in bringing the Abraham Accords to fruition.

I do agree that President Trump made a serious mistake in not kicking out all the Obama appointees on Day One of his administration, but I also think that the author's disparagement of Nikki Haley, Betsy DeVos, Jared Kushner, and Ivanka Trump is a bit over the top.

Read it all and make your own determination.

EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Fund kids, not institutions.

Some good may come from this pandemic yet.

SO MUCH FUN: PowerLine has a midweek edition of its Week in Pictures. My favorite is #15. For those of you with a progressive education, it's this one. (I can count; I have 'white privilege'.)

Now go see the rest.

WHAT IS THE LEFT DRINKING WITH THEIR KOOL AID? Climatista fragility.

The stupidity index is off the chart in this one.

THANK YOU, 'PSEUDODENT' BIDEN:

On January 22nd I paid $3.19/gallon for premium gasoline; two days ago I paid $3.60 at the same pump. On February 3rd I paid $2.21/gallon for regular gasoline; two days ago I paid $2.73.

In two (2!) months, premium gas cost increased 12.9%; regular gas increased 23.5%.

I'm betting $4 premium, $3 regular by the time I fill up again.

BERNIE SANDERS ADMITS: 'I don't feel comfortable about' Trump ban from Twitter.

He's right, but I suspect his real reason is Trump's plan to return to social media with his own service.

IT HOLDS for the Democrat Party as well....

VACCINATIONS CONQUER PANDEMICS. Bureaucrats prolong them.

SO THAT'S WHERE THE $1.9 TRILLION 'STIMULUS' WENT. Politicians breaking own rules can now purchase 'Hypocrisy Credits'.

FINALLY, VIA SHOE, AN EXPLANATION: Now we know....

BIDEN: I will go to the border 'at some point'.

Yeah, after it's too late....

SPRINGTIME 2021, Week 3: Let's start the sequence with Early Bird, er, Bush, the one which started the spring sequence. Here it is again, this time with the road in the background. More flowering, many more leaves.

Now for the usual pond view. Nothing much yet, except that our 'butterfly bush' has flowered. It's a lovely red, which unfortunately doesn't show up well (if at all) on camera due to the cloudy day.

The trees are showing signs of budding out, but no colors yet. Probably another 2 weeks before we see signs of color. I had hopes for the next view, if only because I was expecting to have the new barn's pad finished.

False hope -- I took another tree down that was too near the barn location on Saturday and expected to have the stump pulled out by today but it defeated me and the tractor by being too big and too deeply buried. Tomorrow my neighbor and I will use his (much bigger) Bobcat to hopefully dig it out. Maybe next week there'll be a nice flat and somewhat landscaped pad surrounded by budding trees....

Finally, a new view of the pond from near the barn location. With more trees cleared out and the brush removed, we should finally have a view of the pond fountain from our yard.

Till next week, then.

THIS SHOULD BE INTERESTING: Trump returning to social media with 'his own platform'.

ANY YOU THOUGHT WE DIDN'T LIVE IN A BANANA REPUBLIC? Biden locks media out of border operation amid spiraling crisis – reporters look in from Mexico.

THE TWITTER BIRDS for sure.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Based on its response to America's foreign and domestic terrorists, the Biden administration should go down in history as the 'Eat Me Last' administration.

DE-EVOLUTION:

And after the sheep are shorn -- lamb chops.

RANDOM THOUGHT: It's time for Democrats to turn in their race card - it's old, worn, and well past its credit limit. Now is the time for the new Democratic Socialist plastic Platinum unlimited woke card backed by billionaire George Soros and his Associate Tyrants.

NEVER HAPPEN (UNFORTUNATELY): Advance copy of Dr. Fauci's Emory University commencement address.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

It's more humane than euthanizing them.

IS ANYONE LISTENING? Toyota again warns against electrifying all automobiles.

Unless you're willing to live with electron shortages....

WELL SAID: "Other than Operation Warp Speed, our entire [government] response to the covid epidemic has been a fiasco."

One quibble: 'Fiasco' isn't strong enough.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The Left seems to think that 'existential threat' is one word.

YES, BUT JUST NOT HERE: Is the Left in trouble?

Yet....

AMMO GRRRLL reminds us of what it was like to live as a free people.

BUT WILL THEY GET RID OF KAMALA? Biden White House cracking down on staffers over past marijuana use.

UPDATE: Smokers warning for Kamala?

HERE'S a great idea.

More: last item.

BUT HE IDENTIFIED AS WHITE: “It’s good to be white when you’re doing crimes” writes “journalist” about Capitol rioter … not realizing the subject of his article was in fact black.

MALLARD FILLMORE: Humor is not permitted in our Utopia.

THE DIPLOMAD: The farce continues.

I THINK CHRIS MUIR IS RIGHT: Nancy Pelosi wants the National Guard to become her progressive Praetorian Guard.

[See Wikipedia.]

TOUGH SHOES TO FILL: Dan Bongino will take over the Rush Limbaugh time slot on talk radio.

I wish him well.

VERY LONG BUT VERY WORTHY: Why establishment conservatives still miss the point of Trump.

The gist is that, unlike the GOPe [establishment], Trump fought back. On the Democrats' turf. Not hard enough, in my view, but he fought.

The Right needs to adopt the progressive Left's take-no-prisioners attitude.

NEW PROOF THAT THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IS OVER: The murder hornets have returned.

THE WASHINGTON POST: Our news is fake but accurate.

GOOD DOCTOR, BAD DOCTOR:

Who do you trust?

BIDEN ON CUOMO: ‘A woman should be presumed to be telling the truth’ and claims investigated.

Unless her name is Tara Reade.

The hypocrisy is nauseating.

ILHAN OMAR wants to take your rental properties. But it's for a good cause (obviously).

And you'll be (un)justly compensated.

A WARNING: The Doctor is In(sane).

TUCKER CARLSON IS THE NEW TRUMP — because there is nobody else.

At present. In a way, it's a pity that Carlson has no presidential aspirations because the Leftist/mainstream media reaction is proof of his effectiveness in dismantling the progressive dream machine.

HOORAY! The government is handing out the most expensive free money you have ever received.

THE MEDIA'S ENTIRE GEORGIA NARRATIVE IS FRAUDULENT -- not just the fabricated Trump quotes.

Mollie's post is accurate. I live and vote in Georgia and had to suffer through the rampant cheating that gave us Biden, Ossoff, and Warnock. That cannot be allowed to happen again.

PowerLine has more.

IT’S TIME to tell Fauci to go to hell.

Fauci’s time is over. It’s been over for quite a bit now. The last remaining shred of anything resembling credibility died when he backed the “wear two mask” nonsense. That will soon become three masks, then we’ll be going back to six-feet apart, which could morph into 10-feet. The experts don’t know, and if you still think they do—I don’t know what to say. This was a long con. They lied. And now they need to simply go away. We have a vaccine. The rates of vaccination are excellent. This trend coupled with natural immunity means that herd immunity could come sooner than expected. It’s time to reopen…everything.

Fool me once....

QUESTION: Is the pandemic over?

Answer: The medical pandemic, yes; the political pandemic, not until 2024.

AMERICA'S NEWS OF RECORD IS PRESCIENT AGAIN: Stimulus check already spent on tank of gas.

Sorry, Babylon Bee, you got one wrong: Americans are spending their stimulus checks on guns.

FAUCI TO STATES: Keep COVID restrictions or the Fourth of July could be canceled.

Methinks Fauci thinks too highly of himself.

GENESIUS TIMES: Biden approval rating surges after he’s replaced with a cardboard cutout of himself.

So that explains it....

HEAR THE JOKE about the GoFundMe page set up to pay off Harry and Meghan's mortgage?

It brought in a whole $110....

MY DEMOCRAT FRIENDS are getting very embarrassed.

I keep reminding them that this is what they asked for. They’re beginning to realize they helped create this mess and they’re feeling a bit like that guy that gave the Nigerian prince $1,000 -- embarrassed! But here’s the thing about embarrassment -- it’s the embryonic stage of anger. I estimate gestation to require about 19 months. Angry and motivated voters will be fully mature, just in time for the midterm elections.

Just.In.Time. ... for 2022.

SALENA ZITO: The culture curators want to think for you.

Approved thoughts only.

QUESTION: Which Government 'experts' were right?

Correct answer: None of them.

HAS CALIFORNIA reached peak progressive?

One can wish, but I wouldn't hold out too much hope as yet.

CONSERVATIVE, INC: Shut up and get out of the way.

We're tired of losing gracefully.

WILL LEFT’S VIOLENT TENDENCIES lead to U.S. breakup or dictatorship?

No, but I think it will get violent as an increasingly pissed-off Right decides to give the Left a strong dose of their own medicine. Here's a thought: Choose Your Ground.

[FORMER LtCol] ALEXANDER VINDMAN proposes suing conservative media outlets to make them less 'radicalized'.

May I suggest that Fox News (and conservative media generally) have deeper pockets and 'punching back' works in lawfare as well. Vindman should take a careful look as his backers' checkbook....

IT IS A MISTAKE to only consider the immediate effects of public policies and ignore the unintended consequences of them: A minimum of facts about the minimum wage.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Keep that in mind as the 2022 mid-terms approach.

PUNCHING BACK? Peter Thiel pours $10 million into super PAC backing likely J.D. Vance Senate bid in Ohio.

AL GORE: Biden has had the most consequential first 50 days since FDR.

Well, that may be true, but not in any positive sense.

WOKESTERS REJOICE! You too can receive a solicitation for 'BidenCare Health Insurance'.

It's in your spam folder....

THE LEFT'S WAR ON HISTORY: Cancel culture's next targets are George Washington and Abe Lincoln.

"Hate America First" should be -- or is -- their motto.

I SUGGEST ELBONIA: Meghan for President?

Prince Harry may already have a fur hat....

FOR TRUMP'S OPPONENTS, PERHAPS: This does not end well.

SPRINGTIME 2021, Week 2: We start this week not with the usual pond view picture, but with a reminder from last week, the little bush that had just started to bud out. Here it is today:

Now for the pond view. In the grand scheme of things, not much has changed. Some of the trees are showing interest in budding out, but very little is visible so far.

Finally the yard. Even with the help of the tractor, there's not much evidence of progress. Moving tons of dirt is slow and painstaking, and it looks like I'm going to have to find/buy more to get the barn's pad flat enough to install.

And the trees down the road don't seem interested (yet) that spring is here.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures is up. My favorite is easy this week:

Now we know why the National Guard is there.

And as a bonus, a reminder:

Now go as see the rest. And don't miss Titania McGrath; she has good advice for pet owners....

THE DIPLOMAD: Dreary times, part II.

Plus a bonus movie review.

SHOE EXPLAINS how taxes work.

SLAVERY 2021: Red is the new Black.

POWERLINE'S SHORT TAKES: “excessive whiteness,” Myles Leonard, and Vanita Gupta.

SCIENCE, POLITICS, AND COVID: Will truth prevail?

The short answer is probably not.

THE PROTECTING THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE ACT: Federal labor legislation that would kill my livelihood.

Much more here.

MICHIGAN GOV. GRETCHEN WHITMER goes to war with Canada.

She also may face criminal charges over her handling of deaths at nursing homes in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

BEING FUNNY IS NO DEFENSE if you're a conservative comedian.

LONGER, BUT WORTHY: Translating social justice newspeak.

GAY REPUBLICANS ARE WELCOME, establishment squishes are not.

YOU HAVE TO BE WOKE TO DRINK A COKE: Coca Cola demands that its law firms engage in unlawful discrimination. This after their "be less white" employee seminars.

I've been a loyal Coca Cola drinker for over 70 years. No more.

SOME FINAL THOUGHTS ABOUT RUSH LIMBAUGH from Victor Davis Hanson. My thought: Maybe Limbaugh was 'called home' because he is no longer needed here. I had a somewhat similar thought a few years back when my mother died. Her memorial service was on a cloudy, dreary, almost rainy day but by the time I drove home that night the sky had cleared and the moon and stars shone brightly, and I felt like she was telling me "I'm home now. You've learned enough; it's your turn to carry on." Perhaps that's the message we should take from Rush's passing.

WHO IS IN CONTROL? The need to rein in big technology.

THE DAM IS BREAKING. Are mask mandates crumbling?

Weirdly, many of the states that require masks are taking an anti-science line toward them. They, with help from the ever-unreliable federal government, are promoting the idea that even after you get vaccinated, you still have to wear a mask. Not to protect yourself, but to protect others. How you can transmit a disease you don’t have to someone else remains a mystery.

I hope the mandate crumbles, but it will take our support -- refuse to wear a mask.

“EQUALITY ACT” PASSED HOUSE AGAIN – here are the problems and the fools who voted for it.

It's in the Senate now. With luck -- and the filibuster -- it won't pass.

RANDOM THOUGHT: How about a '2-fer' immigration deal? For every 2 illegals that cross our border, we send their home country a progressive.

My bet is that illegal immigration would come to a screeching halt immediately....

THE NEW NORMAL: Report suggests never-ending presence of National Guard troops at the U.S. Capitol.

REP. LAUREN BOEBERT [R-CO] exposes the Cruz Cancun hysterics for the frauds they are.

World News Tonight [ABC] covered Cuomo’s nursing home scandal for a total of 54 seconds following the news of the federal probe — after two days of refusing to mention the scandal at all. Yet the show found a full three minutes and 28 seconds to discuss Ted Cruz’s horrible optics.

Yes, a legacy media news outlet gave the Ted Cruz “scandal” nearly four times the coverage (3.85 times, to be precise) that it gave to Cuomo’s career-destroying scandal.

All the news we believe you should be allowed to know....

And you wonder why the legacy media is called the Fake News media?

MASKS TODAY, masks tomorrow, masks forever.

You think it's over? Think again. The Fauci fascists won't give up easily.

SUFFOLK POLL: Nearly half GOP would leave for a new Trump party.

Tell me something I don't know.

Republican donors aim to move the party away from Trump's influence. It won't happen. The GOPe (establishment) can remain in our party, but in the leadership? No. No way.

Tread carefully, GOP squishes. We're watching. And we vote.

BECAUSE IT DESTROYS THE NARRATIVE? Johns Hopkins Medical School Professor wonders why no one is talking about the 77% decline in new China virus cases.

Since I no longer trust either of the two national sources I've been using (one of which quit tracking March 7th. Because the pandemic is over? Or because it's no longer needed?)

Here's a year's worth of Georgia hospitalization data that confirms Dr. Makary's assertion that hospitalizations are down steeply and suddenly.

The winter peak was in mid-January; hospitalizations today are down over 70% from the peak.

This second chart is of reported coronavirus cases on a daily basis. The peak was in early January, about 10 days before the hospitalizations peaked. Note that there are actually two curves, one for confirmed; the second for confirmed plus 'probable'. Probables are consistently about 1/3 of the total, and were introduced 4 November 2010, about the time of the presidential election, ostensibly because of the introduction of rapid test kits. That may be, but personally I suspect it was -- and is -- to keep the pandemic alive.

I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WERE UNICORN-POWERED BUSES ON FANTASY ISLAND:

'NUFF SAID.

COMING SOON to a gas station near you.

CAN WE SEND DR. RACHEL LEVINE? NASA is working to send its first woman to the lunar surface.

Return not required....

FIRST IT WAS THE JEWS; now white people aren't human.

Farrakhan, his allies in Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other 'woke' progressive need to understand that pissing off every member of the dominant culture is no way to make friends and influence people.

Quite the contrary....

DILBERT explains progressives.

It's what you do when you have nothing else to offer....

SWALWELL SUES: I'm looking forward to discovery.

And countersuits....

THERE ARE WOKESTERS IN TEXAS? Who knew?

YOU THINK DR. SEUSS IS BAD? Here are 12 more children's books that should be canceled immediately.

But support The Tuttle Twins. I did.

OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Worse than you can imagine.

I can imagine a lot, but this is too much, even for me. It's time -- defund public schools and give parents a choice. They can certainly do no worse.

I LOVED NEW MEXICO when I went to college there in the 60's and 70's but since I left in 1980, the victimhood has taken over and turned the state deep blue. Why I had to drive 250 miles (to Texas) to get my COVID vaccination.

BLUE-ANON: Q-Anon has a competitor on the progressive Left.

Heh. Enjoy the stupidity.

SPRINGTIME 2021: It's time to start my annual weekly 'spring is springing' picture series. I start this year with the reason for the season: buds showing. This little rascal started the season - a bit early, in my estimation - by showing the first buds of the season.

Now for the traditional pond view taken from the back (now side) deck. The reason for the change of name will be clear further down. As expected this time of year the pond is easily visible. Hopefully it will remain visible as we're going to have a lot of the brush cleared out in the forseeable future.

This the traditional fire pit view, with a difference this year - about 20 trees have been taken out to make room for a garden barn to be installed (hopefully) next month. So our northern forest will become an actual yard, to be named the front yard (hence the back deck becomes the side deck).

More future construction - here's the new driveway, not really visible since there's no gravel on it yet. The old driveway, sort of visible on the right, will be filled in to become a garden/front yard. Enough trees have been taken out that we're hopeful plants - maybe even grass - will grow.

The pile of dirt in this photo is the location of the future barn. With good weather and better luck it will be flat and stable enough for the barn by next week.

Next is a more-or-less traditional view of our house, taken from the road. If all goes well, the barn will be visible in front of the left side of our house, and the current driveway will cease to exist.

Finally a view down our road to the highway. It's clear right now, but by the time the final spring picture is taken it will be a tunnel.

Come back next week for more.

ELITE NAVEL-GAZING IS BAD FOR OUR HEALTH: ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ is racist.

Just because academia -- at least the progressive element -- is batshit crazy does not mean we have to follow.

BECAUSE LATINO MEN ARE MEN? Democrats have a problem appealing to Latino men.

And to add insult to injury, Democrats won't learn until after it's too late -- if then.

JERRY NADLER [D(umber than dirt)-NY]: "God’s will is no concern of this Congress."

Well, his half, maybe.

A BIT LATE, but PowerLine's Week in Pictures is chock full of goodies this week. Apropos of the new Biden administration, my favorite:

Now go see the rest (including the mouse).

IF ANY IS NEEDED: More proof that reality and Nancy Pelosi have little nothing in common.

Read the comments.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND solves the crime problem.

For the rest of us, that is. All we need to do is wait until all the thieves and thugs have moved in, then put in a fence topped with razor wire and gates locked from the outside.

Maybe just extend the Capitol fence to surround both D.C. and Montgomery County....

THE DIPLOMAD ON AMERICA 2021: "Malaise caused by a drip."

ANOTHER DWARF SELF-IDENTIFIES:

Taken from this TownHall cartoon page.

WHY TWO MASKS ARE REQUIRED:

Now you know....

POWERLINE'S SHORT TAKES: "Former CIA Director John Brennan says 'I’m increasingly embarrassed to be a white male these days.' That makes two of us. I’m embarrassed that John Brennan is a white male. Also that he’s an American."

Now go read the rest.

AMMO GRRRLL writes on striving to be less white.

There is nothing original in teaching one race to hate another. I have hated racism in any form since I was first aware of it as a young child. And still do. Anyway, this hateful anti-white garbage has now seeped out of its leaky plastic trash bag all over the floor of academia, all the way down to kindergarten, and into corporate America. The garbage smells just as bad no matter which race is being vilified.

Of course, as with all Ammo Grrrll columns, read it all.

IT'S TIME to replace all those statues the Left pulled down with something more appropriate.

MORE PROOF THAT HYPOCRITES NEVER LEARN: French Laundry 2.0.

WELL, SCRATCH WATCHING SOCCER EVER AGAIN: US Soccer council member removed over speech against repealing anthem-kneeling ban.

VOTE BUYING: Biden team readies wider economic package after virus relief. They'd rather buy votes than grow the economy -- it's easier, with more opportunities for graft, corruption ... and control.

BAD CHOICE during the COVID crisis.

HIS ARROGANCY IS GETTING CANCELED: Top Democrats reject Cuomo's attempt to steer sexual harassment probe.

It was [not so] nice knowing ya. Good-bye; please don't come again....

HYATT HOTELS: We even welcome Democrats.

HYPOCRISY IS THE DEMOCRATS' MIDDLE NAME: Teachers union president who pushed COVID closures sends his kid to private school.