LIGHTFOOT MEETS THE BIGFOOT: PowerLine's [last[ Week in Pictures. My favorite is Lori Lightfoot's CNN application:

Apologies for being late again ... now go see the rest.

THE HUMANITIES: Another example of Leftism ruining everything.

GLENN REYNOLDS [INSTAPUNDIT]: How I was wrong about COVID.

SHE'S LEARNING. Tulsi Gabbard accuses Democrats of becoming ‘racists they claim to hate’.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: 'Woke' moral bankruptcy leads inevitably to real bankruptcy.

THE WAR ON RURAL COMMUNITIES: Energy colonialism will worsen the urban-rural divide.

I'd add that when push comes to shove rural America will feed rural America first and let urban America starve.

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY [R-LA] shares more trademark truths.

With humor.

IT'S GETTING HARDER TO ESCAPE AND EVADE. This AI knows who you are and who all your friends are (and is telling the IRS).

DEPRESSED? You must be a liberal.

KURT SCHLICHTER: "Never, ever, take your red [state] for granted, or the next thing you know you’ll have a socialist human hairstyle for a Democrat governor too."

SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE IN THE NEWS:

Cuts are coming to both.

Social Security to go broke in 10 years.

Biden’s Social Security pledge will likely mean huge middle class tax hikes.

As a not-too-recent retiree, I'm hopeful (no, not really) that our political class will soon have the courage to touch these 'third rails'.

If you're interested in social security, consider my series of posts on social security privatization over the last several years. They're in no particular order given the way Blogger's search function works.

THE DAILY CHART: From bank run to panic.

Read the comments; then thank your friendly Biden administration.

DOESN'T SAY MUCH FOR HUMANS, DOES IT? OpenAI’s GPT-4 exhibits “human-level performance” on professional benchmarks.

YOU CAN'T SAY IT BETTER THAN THIS: “Woke” is just a short way of saying stupid, crazy, and vicious.

TAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: 42,000 federal employees “repeatedly” failed to file taxes.

Now there will be about 87 thousand new opportunities....

NEW DEFINITION: 'intellectual desert' = stupid.

And of course, read the whole thing.

SPRING 2023, WEEK 2: It's been a cool, clammy, cloudy dull day as we start with our fearless forsythia, which now has traded in its flowers for leaves.

Unfortunately we're headed for a week of light freezes, which hopefully will not damage the plants.

Next is the usual pond view, highlighting the tulip magnolia, which is in full flower. A bright spot in an otherwise dull day.

You can't see them yet, but our two dogwood trees are just beginning to bud out.

Hopefully the coming cold nights won't affect them. Freezes are in the forecast, but they should be short and days are forecast to be mild.

Our lawn is greening nicely. We've had several inches of rain over the past few days so the barer spots are beginning to fill in. Another 2 weeks and we'll begin overseeding to fill in and add more lawn down beyond the barn/fire pit area

That's the tulip magnolia in the background.

Finally, a view down the road to confirm that spring isn't fully here quite yet.

YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME: Minnesotans to pay reparations for slavery?

It is, after all, a blue state....

THIS COULD WILL GET INTERESTING: Fauci previews his defense.

COULD? REALLY? Historic decline in IQ could stem from poor education.