SQUEAKY WHEELS (AND CRYBULLIES) always get the grease.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The 2020 pre-election Democrat primary circus is proof - if you need any - that the inmates have taken over the asylum.

OTHER THAN AS PAWNS, Democrats have no interest in illegal aliens.

IF DILBERT WAS A CAT, here's his office.

From my email.

GIANT IDAHO POTATO converted into Airbnb rental. I'm going to miss those commercials, especially the farmer's Studebaker pickup. (My first and second cars were both Studebakers.)

MICROSOFT: From workplace to 'wokeplace'.

DEMOCRATS, GET WOKE! Just do it.

Make Kurt Schlichter happy.

SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS: "They deserve neither respect nor deference. What they need is consequences."

POT, MEET KETTLE: Hillary Clinton swipes at Trump after Mueller probe, says anyone else would have been indicted.

Hypocrisy unbounded.

SPRING LIVES: Episode 5 of the series.

We've had rain most of the week, but the skies cleared enough to take this week's pictures. The vegetation enjoyed the rain, though - leaves, leaves, everywhere. Here's the usual view from the deck picture:

Green is out in force and the pond is already beginning to be obscured by the foliage. The water is still cloudy from the rain; we had so much that the water level rose by about 6" and overflowed the dam itself in a couple of places. The level is almost back to normal now, but it's clear I'm going to have to put in some more overflow drains to protect the dam.

The area around the fire pit hasn't changed that much yet, but the ground is so heavily covered with leaves that there's never that much in the way of bushes low to the ground and the trees in that section are always late to bloom.

The next picture is of the house, taken near our 'lookout' bench on the path to the pond. It's probably the last reasonably clear picture of the house from down the hill until next fall.

This final picture is of the pond/dock/picnic table takes from the steps just above the pond. You can see the pond through the buds on the trees; by next week, I suspect the pond itself (and the picnic table) will be almost invisible as the leaves fill in.

Last week's pictures are here for comparison.

IT'S EASTER, and Mary had a little lamb....

POWERLINE'S Mueller Encore edition of its Week in Pictures is up. Here's my favorite this week:

As usual, there are many more. Go see them.

MORE PROOF that the mainstream media (and liberals, for that matter, but I repeat myself) are insane: Speech is violence, and vice versa.

SUBARU INTRODUCES A NEW MODEL: the 'Scubaru'.

I guess the wing wasn't quite big enough. Found on 'Nox & Friends.

"NOW WE ARE FACED WITH THE NATTERING NADLERS OF NIHILISM. The shifty and full of schiff. Delirium and dark waters. Schumer and shinola. They all embody the stupidity and excess and mendacity of the Democratic Party. Taken together, they give us the face of the Democratic Party to perfection."

Heh. Read it all.

SARAH HOYT: to dream the American Dream. To make it real requires work.

IF YOU WANT TO DEPOPULATE YOUR STATE here's how to do it. (This only works if you want fewer millionaires and billionaires....)

THEY'RE ONLY FOR VIRTUE SIGNALING: Sanctuary cities don't want illegal immigrants in their back yards.

Neither do the rest of us....

CALIFORNIA COMMITS to being the offical clown car of the Democrat party.

They're very good at it.

THE UNIVERSITY OF TULSA: anatomy of an academic suicide.