RANDOM THOUGHT: Why isn't 'black privilege' a thing?

Answer: It is, if it comes with a stuffed animal.

SPRINGTIME 2021, Week 13, and it's done. This is the last post until I start the Fall 2021 falling leaves series. Here's the usual pond view:

The hardwoods have finally filled in -- not completely, but almost so. Next the usual fire pit view:

The trees are almost completely filled in, although you can see they're still a bit thin at the top left. The fire pit is (almost) completely renovated, and all the plantings in the gardel to the right of the walkway are filling in nicely.

Here's the garden area at the edge of the walkway. The flowers seem to be thriving, and we plant a few more with each visit to the nursery. That's the pond in the background, but as with every spring it's now nearly invisible.

The Arapaho Walk road 'tunnel' is now nearly nearly complete, but again, not quite completely filled in at the very tops of the trees.

And finally, the best view of the pond we'll have until next year.

Until then....

ANSWERS to 12 bad anti-free speech arguments.

Linked from Instapundit here.

THERE'S STUPID, there's incredibly stupid, and then there's academia: University professor claims American universities are too rightwing.

THE DIPLOMAD indulges in a bit of gloating.

MY FAVORITE from PowerLine's Week in Pictures:

Now go see the rest -- and don't miss the breaking news.

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.