VOX, THE 'EXPLANATORY JOURNALISM' WEBSITE has a hot new idea about gun control: licensing.

Reminder: Vox is "a website staffed by people who think they are the elite guard of social justice, but who are in fact some of the dumbest people ever to have been awarded an internet connection and a WordPress login."

MAN WITH RIFLE stops mass shooter.

The comments are on point.

SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT: Critical race theory 'isn't optional anymore'.

I'd suggest that this particular school superintendent is about to find out that continued employment "isn't optional" either.

BUT I FEEL REALLY, REALLY GOOD ABOUT HATING MYSELF: White Brandeis University dean posts 'I Hate Whiteness' on Instagram.

The IQ of the average progressive must be subzero....

IT'S BLACK, SCARY, AND GOES 'BANG!': ATF Director nominee asked to define an assault weapon. Click on the Twitter link to see the video.

It reminds me of Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's 1964 test for hard-core pornography: "I know it when I see it."

RANDOM THOUGHT: There would be a lot fewer mass murders if we were encouraged to shoot back.

ANOTHER NATIONAL TREASURE: Thomas Sowell.

THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION tries to understand why women are buying guns.

Oblivious to the obvious....

SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY [R-LA] IS A NATIONAL TREASURE: perfectly sums up the relationship of China and the World Health Organization.

Fauci is flabbergasted....

BRONC BUSTING, CANADA STYLE: A Venn diagram showing the intersection of politicians with reality would almost be a null set.

It's true in America as well.

TRUMP POUNCES: Levels New York Attorney General Letitia James in response to her announcement of a criminal investigation of the Trump organization.

MAYOR VOWED TO TAKE "ILLEGAL GUNS OFF THE STREET". Police just found one in her home.

Hypocrisy, thy name is 'Democrat'.

THE DIPLOMAD WRITES: "The land of the free/Where the less you know/The better off you'll be...."

Diploson3 had an interesting observation in disagreement with me. I told him I was getting my guns before they banned them. He argued they won't bother with that. The prog-wokes will let us keep our guns and obsess about keeping them, while they do away with all the other rights and protections. The law enforcement, judicial, and military institutions are joining the education and media establishments in becoming tools of the prog-woke machine. The "cancel" effort grows stronger and bolder. Non-woke positions are harder and harder to express. The censorship grows and grows, making communication of "unpopular" ideas ever tougher. The woke have established that the government, under a flimsy pretext, can keep us locked in our homes, dependent on hand-outs, unable to gather with friends and organize with like-minded individuals; the electoral process is a joke from top to bottom. They don't need to take our guns, for now.

I fear the Diploson may be right....

HOW PARTISAN FARCEBOOK FACEBOOK 'FACT' CHECKERS silence debate and punish those who atray from the 'approved' narrative.

HIGH. VERY, VERY HIGH: The price of conforming to critical race theory.

Critical race theory is a fraud foisted on us by academic welfare recipients for the sole purpose of making themselves feel good about their total inability to compete on a level playing field. Change my mind

The Shadow knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.

MICHAEL WALSH: Israelis should take the lessons of war to heart.

[I]t’s time to sack your officer corps, empty out the Pentagon, get women off the front lines, bring back the male-only draft, train warriors and not guidance counselors, and elect an administration who understands the nature—and, more importantly, the purpose—of warfare.

Yes. So we should. Domestically as well as militarily.

FLORIDA IS SOUNDING BETTER AND BETTER: Lifelong New Yorker wonders it the city can still be home.

Obvious answer: No.

HOW ABOUT AN 'ELIZABETH WARREN WEALTH TAX' ON UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENTS? Yale to alumni -- drop dead.

OMG! A GLOCK SEMIAUTOMATIC BB GUN! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! California assemblyman gets massively triggered by BB gun packaging.

Not the Babylon Bee....

SPRINGTIME 2021, Week 12, and it's almost done: No magical 'poof' day this year, since the frostbite delayed the hardwoods by 2-3 weeks, but they finally decided to show their leaves. Here's the usual pond view:

As you can see from the shade on the stairs, the leaves have come out -- it's not full yet, but close.

Here's the fire pit view, with (finally!) a new addition called our barn. Now it doesn't look quite so barren at the top of our hill. Spring is in full flower alone here -- our next-door neighbor's house isn't even visible.

Our road tunnel is finally back. Well, almost. There's still a bit of fleshing out to do, but the overhanging canopy is nearing completion.

And finally, a view up the hill toward the fire pit and new barn. You can telll the trees in the background above the barn haven't completely filled out yet, but by next week's finale they will be.