RANDOM THOUGHT: If 'equity' were a real thing, then every basketball team would have a short, white, transgender man....

MAYBE: Gloating about the Cochrane Mask Study will win the argument, but lose the war.

But after 3-plus years ofbureaucratic COVIDiocy, I'll settle for gloating.

COMMUNISM EXPLAINED: Michigan Gov. Whitmer enjoys an evening out while 700,000 Michiganders freeze without power.

A PREDICTION:

This is how the world will end. Not with hordes of shiny, red-eyed monstrosities with rail guns blowing us to smithereens. No, it will end with AI slowly driving us insane. One person at a time.

I prefer railguns, but I think insanity will prevail.

WHEN I COVERED CLIMATE CHANGE I thought CO2 was certainly to blame for rising temperatures. I was wrong.

YES INDEED: Identity politics trumps everything.

THERE'S A REASON THEY'RE CALLED QUEER: LGBT ecologists ogle racist parks, nonbinary frogs, and the importance of public places for gay sex.

Note for the ill-educated: the dictionary definition of queer is strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint, unusually different, of which the above is certainly true.

BUT WILL IT WORK? DeKalb County's dark money donation flies in the face of Georgia election law.

Unfortunately the answer is probably 'yes'.

'NEW' INTELLIGENCE? Wuhan lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic. The Energy Department’s revised assessment is based on new intelligence.

Instapundit has 'low confidence' in the intelligence community; my confidence is bounded on the high side by 'miniscule'.

As I'm sure many others have noted, 'government intelligence' is an oxymoron.

TOO BAD HE ISN'T DEAD: Our criminal justice system is a farce.

BARNEY & CLYDE: Life in the corporate lane.

OUR ENERGY POLICY IS LITERALLY BEING RUN BY IDIOTS. Here's why.

WHERE WE STAND: This Presidents’ Day, our president was overseas promising money to the Ukrainian president, while Donald Trump offered aid and comfort to American victims in East Palestine.

Linked from Instapundit.

NEVER LET FACTS GET IN THE WAY: Whites are actually underrepresented in the construction industry.

But that's OK -- they're white!

INSTAPUNDIT ON SUBSTACK: What is a Vice President's job, anyway?

IN MINNESOTA bipartisanship has its limits.

You're always one election away from tyranny....

TOUGH LUCK, AUSTIN: 'Huge' parts of Austin left 'unpoliced' after city contract fight triggers mass officer exodus.

You got the chaos you richly deserve. Now suck it up.

I do feel sorry for the police officers who remain, though. Those who can leave, should.

HASHTAG MEDIA on force.

Linked from Instapundit.

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures. My favorite:

Go see the rest; there are many good ones