MASKAHOLICS: Mask mandates and magical thinking.

It's all about control; fearful people are more easily controlled. I will not be the least bit surprised if a 'new' pandemic panic suddenly shows up just in time for the mid-term elections.

Linked from Instapundit.

ECONOMICS TRUMPS (HEH) VIRTUE SIGNALING: BlackRock ditches green activism.

Wokism impoverishes.

YA THINK? Fauci was paid for undermining Trump.

Well, he did stay on in the Biden administration when he should have been sent to Elbonia as medical director there....

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Imagine the unimaginable.

I hope he's wrong but I fear he's right.

SCANDALS IN THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: "We are crazy to repose so much power in institutions – people – who so little have our interests at heart."

RI-I-I-GHT: Trust 'the Science'.

FROM THE WAYBACK MACHINE, Ayn Rand in 1944:

The greatest threat to mankind and civilization is the spread of the totalitarian philosophy. Its best ally is not the devotion of its followers but the confusion of its enemies. To fight it, we must understand it.

Totalitarianism is collectivism. Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group — whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called “the common good.”

Throughout history, no tyrant ever rose to power except on the claim of representing “the common good.”

And yes, I struggled through Atlas Shrugged myself. It took about 20 years.

KEITH OLBERMANN SPENDS MOTHER'S DAY attacking mom for choosing to homeschool her children.

It's a bit late, I know, but I try not to miss an opportunity to punch down at this pompous airhead....

KURT SCHLICHTER: Yet another never-Trump loser sucks up to the media.

DEAR GOD, NO: "The frontrunner for a Pennsylvania House seat is a Democratic socialist backed by Sens. Bernie Sanders, [I-VT]., and Elizabeth Warren, [D-MA], whose political path mirrors that of far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, [D-NY]."

Please, no.

LIBERAL 'EXPERTS' ARE DUMBASSES: Women and people of color will suffer most from Elon Musk's Twitter buyout.

It's almost enough to cause me to return my doctorate so I won't be confused with these self-aggrandizing buffoons.

LIBERALS ARE EVIL: "I don’t think it is possible to observe today’s liberalism without concluding that it is largely demonic."

FLORIDA CITES GENDER DYSPHORIA DEFINITION IN MEDICAL TEXTBOOK; textbook publisher 'updates' definition.

SPRINGTIME 2022, Week 12, the final week until the fall series begins anew. We begin with the usual pair, pond view and barn area, only juxtaposed with the Week 1 views of each:

Summer is almost officially here. There are some trees around the neighborhood that haven't yet fully recovered but are now beginning to aggressively leaf out. We've a few dead pines, and the remaining ones, even now, don't appear to be that healthy.

What is striking about the photos above (to me, at least) is how the ground cover has come back. Just a few short weeks ago my brush cutter and I had cleared the whole hillside.

Here's the fire pit & garden area as of this morning. Still too much raw dirt in the picture -- we were hoping for some grass by now, but COVID, weather, and now supply shortages have delayed us and planting season is nearly over.

Lot 7, across the road from our house is filling out nicely, but you can see gaps where trees in the background that have not yet begun to fill out.

Finally, our road has become a tunnel again.

Until next fall....

WE'RE GONNA CONTROL YOU IF WE HAVE TO START A WAR TO DO IT: Gen. Milley warns West Point graduates of 'increasing' risk of global war.