AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH —- EVs emit more particulate matter than gas-powered vehicles.

But won't all that additional smog slow global warming, er, climate change?

'GOD HELP US ALL': Austin [TX] 'at the brink of disaster' as police shortages hit crisis level.

Because the Austin City Council certainly won't.

BEHIND THE BLACK: The growing resentment to unjustified authority.

What these volunteers discovered when they tried to tell people what to do was the growing anger and resentment in the general population to these petty rules as well as the control freak mentality of anyone associated with our government. The volunteers must have thought it was 2020 again, and they could boss people around by exerting an authority they did not have, and that when they did so everyone would meekly bow to their lordly authority. Instead, they discovered people are now pushing back, telling them essentially to go to hell.

The story provides some important cultural lessons. First, the public is sick of being bossed around. It won’t tolerate rules any longer that make no sense. And it will now tell these bossy control freaks so, in no uncertain terms.

There are a few people in my neck of the woods who need to learn this lesson.

COMMON SENSE THOUGHT CONTROL: Progressives are proof that common sense isn't.....

SPRING PREVIEW: It's spring now in the north Georgia mountains, and so I'll be starting my weekly Sunday pictures this coming Sunday, March 10. Here's a preview from our sturdy forsythia, which began to bloom only a week ago:

The dogwoods seem to be perking up, too. The berries have already come and gone, so I'm hoping for blossoms iin the fairly new future.

Doritos brings 'Bud Light treatment' talk with transgender hire.

The progressive Left never learns....

UPDATE: They're learning. Or at least Doritos is learning.

IF YOU CAN’T WIN, CHEAT; if you can’t cheat, cheat harder.

BUT ONLY IF YOU'RE BLACK. Shoplifting is just reparations.

Is it still reparations if I identify as black?

I WOULDN'T HAVE THOUGHT IT POSSIBLE. California is about to get even worse.

TOO SOON? Introducing the lighter side of self-immolation. "I have to laugh because there isn't any room left in my dark little heart for the enemies of Western Civilization."

Agreed.

GOOGLE HAS REALLY STEPPED IN IT. The “diversity guidelines” for its Gemini AI basically exterminated white people from its representation.

In my world (and yes, I'm an engineer) it's long been assumed that no machine can be smarter than its developer. Taking that as a given, it's patently obvious that the Gemini AI developers are at best woke Googlidiots.

SEN. J. D. VANCE [R-OH]: There's an 'impeachment bomb' against Trump buried in the Ukraine funding bill.

Hopefully it won't pass the House of Representatives

THEY'RE CERTAINLY TRYING TO PREVENT HIM: Will the Democrats let Donald Trump be president if he wins?

Just don’t put it beyond possibility that they [Democrats] will not allow a peaceful transfer of power to Donald Trump. These people are not committed to democracy. They don’t care about freedom. They care about power, so much so that they allow a desiccated old husk to be the guy with his quivering finger hovering over the big red button.

Keep that in mind. Vote early and in overwhelming numbers.

TO SAVE GAIA: You little people need to die.

CPAC POLL: Newsmax is 'most trusted' in cable news.

Like many of our friends and neighbors, my wife and I have pretty much shifted to Newsmax over Fox News. I still watch Fox Business for financial news, and I think Fox News does better at selecting stories of interest to me, but their insistence on requiring me to give them my email before I can read breaking news stories has been a dealbreaker.

Goodbye Fox News.

I DON'T TRUST GOOGLE: Gemini is why I'm leaving.

For anyone with a shred of awareness of human history it should be clear how unbelievably irresponsible it is to build a system that aims to become an authoritative compendium of human knowledge but which actually prioritizes ideology over facts.

I left several years back.

CODDLED TO DEATH: Mental illness, illegal aliens and the Democrat party.