HOLY SMOKES! You've never met a "perk" 'til you've met a Meta perk.

The 'Woke' are finally feeling the effects of a recession.

THAT SHOULD BE COMPLETELY OBVIOUS TO ANYONE WITH TWO WORKING BRAIN CELLS: Global COVID-19 infection rates may far exceed reported cases.

POWERLINE'S 'PINK RIPPLE' EDITION of its Week in Pictures. My favorite is obvious:

Now go see the rest.

AMMO GRRRLL has a few thoughts about last Tuesday. They're not kind.

WELL, KATIE HOBBS IS SECRETARY OF STATE: What’s the matter with Arizona?

It's long been known in my world that 'to err is human; to really screw things up requires a computer". Technology enthusiasts take note, because it works with cheating as well....

REPUBLICANS NEED TO FIGURE OUT MAIL-IN VOTING: It’s being used by Democrats to influence the course of elections.

The answer, of course, is to ban it. Election day only; Absentee only with proof of disability or absence on election day.

HE'S RIGHT, OF COURSE, but I'm the one who has to suffer with them....

[N]o “red wave.” For that, you need more than a couple of years of a disastrous Democratic presidency. You need millions of Democrats who’ve actually seen the light, who’ve snapped out of the brainwashing, who’ve come to realize that abortion is still legal and that Trump isn’t the devil and that what happened on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, wasn’t anything close to an insurrection. You need a big chunk of the American population to experience a road-to-Damascus moment. And I’m afraid that until that great awakening occurs, expecting a “red wave” at the polls is, alas, sheer folly.

Read the whole thing.

NO. DEMOCRACY DIES IN DEMOCRATS. Democracy dies in climate panic.

THE DIPLOMAD WRITES ON THE MIDTERMS: looking back and ahead.