Sunday, May 21, 2023

POWERLINE'S DAILY CHART: The falling wages of Bidenomics.
MASS MURDER IS BAD ENOUGH but it's worse when politics weaponize it.
SUCK IT UP: Chicago residents learn that consequences aren't just for others.
THE NEXT STEP IN THE lEFT'S WAR ON AMERICA: Making Jordan Neely the new George Floyd.
ON THE SEARCH FOR VIRTUE! Spelunking the minds of Leftists.

If you have the courage to watch, click on the Twitter links.
FLORIDA GOV. RON DESANTIS responds (unkindly) to a reporter pushing radical gender ideology.

Related: Sit-in at DeSantis office results in arrests and a legendary photo.

If you have to eat at your desk you might as well enjoy the entertainment.
WOULD YOU TRUST THIS WOMAN TO BE YOUR CHILD'S DOCTOR? Medical school professor says parents must implement gender ideology for babies.

Nope. Not a chance.
THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES: Bud Light now hated by both sides.

Always unintended, and usually bad....
THE NARRATIVE DOESN'T ADVANCE ITSELF: Useful idiots -- we call them progressives -- are needed.
WHITE SUPREMACY: Its not just for whites any more.
Reality strikes: 'white' is the sum of all colors.

Apparently the Left is just now discovering prisms....
SORRY BUT WE DIDN'T VOLUNTEER TO BE SANCTUARY CITIES: NYC Mayor Adams thinks migrants should be sent to every city 'throughout the entire country'.

New York City did. Don't ask us to pay for your virtue signaling.
SPRING 2023, WEEK 12, AND THE END UNTIL FALL: We'll begin with our usual view from the top.
The trees have finally filled in, everything is green, and the ground cover (brush) is finally growing gangbusters -- the stairway and walking path to the pond will be hidden if I don't get to clearing them soon.
Here's the fire pit and a bit of the yard. The tomato plants and cucumbers (in the steel pots) were seeds and seedlings just last when they were planted. All the trees have fully leafed out, and the grass now has to be mowed weekly.
Here's today's pond, fully green. Last week I lamented that the flowers on the back side of the pond hadn't arrived; this week they did, but in white. They're fewer and not really visible in this long distance photo. The grass on the dam (not pictured here) is still thin, but now over a foot high. A few more weeks and I'll need a brush mower to clear it.
The house, taken from just beyond the fire pit. That's Wonda, our most recent full-time acquisition. Wonda is a Manx (tailless) cat; her previous owner gave her her name: "I wonda where she came from."
Finally, two street views. The first is of the carport side, with the roses and day lilies coming to bloom. The nandina and azaleas behind the fence are just now starting to grow.

That's it until the Fall series begins.
LAW SCHOOLS face an inflection point with diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Not just law schools, all schools -- kindergarten through university.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: The Biden Administration's new diplomatic cultural imperialism is proving to be a disastrous foreign policy.
UNRIGGING OUR ELECTIONS: Republicans need a serious counter-offensive if they want to stand a chance.

If we want to keep our Republic, we have to go back to election day, not election month, in-person voting, and voter ID.

Otherwise we will have to learn to live with a totalitarian government demanding to control every aspect of our lives for their benefit.
CHEVRON DEFERENCE, PRESIDENT TRUMP, AND THE 2024 ELECTION: What I fear lies ahead.

I'm inclined to agree.