MAKING MONEY: Linemen for the county. An energy firm’s pre-apprenticeship program points to ways that states could help train future employees in the skilled trades.

Not bad. Not bad at all. It's about what I was making when I retired 10 years ago. (And I have a PhD in engineering.)

I WISH THE HEADLINE SAID 'ALL': U.S. says it destroyed Houthi air defense and drone systems in Red Sea area.

AMMO GRRRLL gets in the spirit of a renowned international day with CELEBRATE NORMIES’ INVISIBILITY DAYS (Days ending in “Y”).

She's on a tear this week; go read it all.

FROM POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures, I have two favorites in this edition. This is from Biden's announcement that his government would rebuild the Francis Scott Key bridge:

And this is his presidential campaign team:

Now go see the rest.

IMPRIMIS: Disparate impact thinking is destroying our civilization.

It is urgent that we fight back against disparate impact thinking. As long as racism remains the only allowable explanation for racial disparities, the Left wins, and our civilization will continue to crumble.

Read it all. Then think about it. Think seriously about it.

TRUMP CAUSED THE ECLIPSE TODAY; here's proof.

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY PETE BUTTIGIEG: DC crime rate is not a problem if you have taxpayer funded armed security detail.

WOKE IS A JOKE: This week's wins in transfantasy land.

TRIFECTA! The No Labels party has no ideas, no candidates, and no clue.

That statement applies equally -- if not more so -- to Democrats.

SATIRE? 'I didn't do that,' insists Biden After aides ask him who colored on the wall of the Lincoln bedroom.

Are you sure it's satire?

THEY HAVE NOTHING TO SELL AT THAT PRICE: 99 cents only stores are all closing.

I KEEP GETTING THESE STUPID WEATHER ALERTS ON MY iPHONE: Just this week:

A moderate severity wind alert: "sustained winds 10-20 mph; gusts to 30 mph." When I lived in the desert areas of New Mexico and California that that was called a 'light breeze'.

A moderate severity freeze warning: "sub-freezing temperatures expected as low as 32F". Last I checked, 'subfreezing' meant below 32F (usually well below).

The source for all this nonsense is our very own National Weather Service. Anyone (besides me) for cutting their funding?

IF THE U.S. WON'T STRIKE BACK, MAYBE ISRAEL WILL: Israel is on high alert in the aftermath of an airstrike that killed an Iranian general earlier this week, prepping its defenses against a possible retaliatory strike.

WATCH WHAT HAPPENS when a Virginia police officer comes upon a street takeover. It's in Springfield, Virginia, one of the wealthiest and most Democratic counties in the country.

The comments are not kind, and they give you a sense of what's to come.

THEY HAVE NO PLACE TO GO: Bureaucrats hunker down to protect themselves in anticipation of a Trump victory.

They'll die without the government teat to support them.

SON OF HAMAS COMMANDER delivers takedown of pro-Hamas activist:

There is no difference between Hamas and the so-called ‘Palestinians’, as the vast majority of them support Hamas.... There are no ‘Palestinian’ people. There are conflicted tribes, and without Israel as the common enemy, they would kill each other.

Read it all.

FINALLY SPRING, WEEK 5: Kinda-sorta on time this week. Not much has happened weatherwise. Here's the usual pond photo:

Brighter than last week, clearly, and the tulip magnolia has pretty much lost all it's blossoms, but the leaves have started to come out finally. We're on the way to summer.

The dogwoods are finally coming out of hiding. These outside our kitchen window have just begun to bud; hopefully we'll have more by next week.

Further down the hill toward the creek there are more dogwood trees, and they've now begun to come out of hibernation a bit early. Usually the trees leaf first, hiding the dogwoods from view.

The fire pit view is next, and nothing much has happened. Trees behind it are still mostly bare, though there are fits-and-starts beginning to show.

Along the road, the trees are beginning to show life at the very tops. Certainly the greenish pollen that comes with every spring has begun to show up on the cars, though it certainly hasn't reached its peak.

Until next week....

ANOTHER INEPT ORGANIZATION: Amtrak Twitter account goes woke on climate change.

THE ORWELLIAN NATURE of 'sex assigned at birth'.

Every time I see 'gender' on a form, I cross it off and write 'sex' in place.

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY PETE BUTTIGIEG HATES YOUR CAR, but mostly he thinks you're an idiot.

'Let's be clear, the automotive sector is moving toward EVs and we can't pretend otherwise.' This is like telling a death row prisoner that he's moving towards the electric chair and can't pretend otherwise. The prisoner might not want to make the "transition" to the next life, but the government has set a date for him — just like the Biden administration is trying to transition the entire country to EVs.

This from a guy(?) who's driven to work in a gas-guzzling limousine?