THE NEW YORK TIMES has enlisted South African history in its all-out war on Elon Musk.

THE DIPLOMAD has thoughts about Madrid (it was a nice place when I was there 50 years ago) and the Democrats' all-out war on children.

SAY WHAT??

Umm, so not killing a baby still in the womb kills those already born? I think these people (to use the term loosely) have a sanity problem....

AMMO GRRRLL has thoughts about Mother's Day.

QUICK! WE NEED TO EXPORT MORE POLLUTION TO THE RED STATES: California officials warn of possible (read as probable) electricity shortages this summer.

POWERLINE has more Loose Ends to discuss. My favorites are (obviously) the 'wokeness' failures.

SPRINGTIME 2022, Week 10: Finally, the green is coming back! Here are my two usual views of the pond and fire pit. Like last week it's a gray and cloudy day, but the leaves are bright green and filling out rapidly. The ground cover is popping up all over and growing so fast that by next week the hill we live on will be all green.

Even the dogwood tree I feared was dead seems to be slowly -- ever so slowly -- recovering. It's hard to see in this picture, but the buds have begun to open. Perhaps by next week we'll see some flowers and/or leaves begin to show.

Here's a view of the pond. The green is dramatic from just last week. There's still a little bit of fleshing out (top left) to come in the hardwoods, but that's about it. Our house at the top of the stair is now just barely visible. We still have a view of the pond, since from our porch it's below the tree canopy but from down on the pond it's hardly visible.

The final colors at the pond. I don't know what the tree/bush is, but it flowered last week in brilliant orange. Unfortunately it didn't last and the flowers are already dropping off. There were several such in the dense growth that is on the back side of the pond

Until next week....

'RUTH SENT US': Pro-abortion protesters lay out plans to disrupt Mother's Non-Binary Birthing Person's Day church services.

Every time you think they can sink no lower, they prove you wrong....

UNCHECKED SPEECH causes racism and censorship somehow.

MMM-KAY: We need to do everything we can to ensure President Biden decides to pay off his constituency of affluent sexually dysfunctional college loan debtors... This is a golden opportunity to raze academia as currently constituted and sow the campuses with salt.

WELL DESERVED: 'Shifty' Schiff gets shit on by former intelligence officials.

ISSUES & INSIGHTS: "The Left has decided that policy will not be made like sausage but through tantrum, intimidation, and riot."

SO STACEY ABRAMS IS A CROOK; who'd have thunk it?

THIS IS APPALLING: home theft.

FORGET STAR WARS; how about chart wars?

AN INTERESTING POST on the infrastructure challenges of electric vehicles: a perfect example of the cliche 'don’t put the cart before the horse' ... preemptively moving forward with a major philosophical green energy paradigm without having even a clue of what accompanying infrastructure (i.e., public charging stations and electricity generation) must be built.

Read it all. You might want to click through to the part 1 exposé; the politics are overwrought but the numbers are accurate.

HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY MAYORKAS' very bad day.

ANOTHER COLLEGE SELF-DESTRUCTS: St. Vincent College seeks to torpedo one of academia’s few remaining jewels.

INSTAPUNDIT on the destruction of the Supreme Court:

Should the leak have come from a clerk, as many are speculating, the Court should probably stop hiring law clerks. The Justices did their own work for the first century of the Court, before clerks were introduced, and arguably their opinions were better. In fact, come to think of it, the Court should probably stop hiring clerks anyway. The original justification was that they would be a transmission belt bringing the latest legal thinking from law schools to the justices. Given the state of law schools today, that’s a bug, not a feature.

And if the leak came from a Supreme Court Justice, that Justice should be impeached immediately.

KURT SCHLICHTER: We can't let ourselves be oppressed by weirdos, losers, and mutations Democrats.