BUT HE'S A DEMOCRAT SO IT DOESN'T MATTER: Special Counsel Jack Smith confirms it tampered with key evidence [from Mar-a-Lago] and admits to misleading the Court.

FOUR RADICAL REFORMS to shrink the federal budget.

I like the last one, which I'll call 'Food Stamps for Politicians'.

MIKE HUCKABEE: Donald Trump should pay his gag order fines in $1 bills.

No, in pennies. Unrolled if dumped; rolled if thrown.

AS LONG AS THEY CAN'T OUTRUN ME: There's a surprising reason why robots can't outrun the fastest animals.

JEFF CHARLES AT RED STATE: Taylor Lorenz can't possibly be this stupid.

You're projecting, Jeff. Just because you're not that stupid doesn't mean she can't be.

I WAS HOPING HE'D FINALLY RETIRE: Progressive champion and two-time presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders announces re-election bid.

No such luck....

FINALLY SPRING, WEEK 9: Oops, and a day late. I had actually created this post yesterday (Sunday) and completely forgot to publish it. So here goes. Our usual pond view:

There's been a surprising amount of 'filling in' over this last week as evidenced by the additional tree cover of the across-pond background.

The same is true around the barn/fire pit area. Note that the grass is filling in, as are the trees. Notably the one in the forground that never dropped its dead leaves over the winter is now full of new green leaves.

All the trees across the road have almost fully fleshed out - except one. It's still unclear as to whether it's just late - or dead. I'm hoping for the former because it's going to be hard to cut down.

Finally the dogwoods (except the lazy one just barely visible in the center) are back and the hillside across the creek is no longer visible.

Next week (week 10) will probably be the last of this series even though this year has taken longer than usual to return to summer.

THERE IS SOME ORGANIZATION BEHIND THIS MOVEMENT: NYPD gives chilling update after 56 arrested at NYU and the New School.

No shit, Sherlock.

WHY? THE MONEY IS WHERE THE MIDDLE IS. The IRS plans to more than double its audit rate of wealthy taxpayers.

You can bet your sweet bippy the IRS doesn't need $80B and 3,700 new employees to audit a few billionaires....

FINALLY, ONE WHO BELIEVES IN LAW: Judge ignores faculty pleas and refuses to lift suspensions of arrested anti-Israel rioters.

The comments are not kind (to the 'students'). Read them.

AND THE BASIC PROGRAMMER [ME] TURNS 80: The BASIC programming language turns 60.

NOT THE IVIES. NUKE THEM AS A LESSON. Can the current universities be saved?

It's Victor Davis Hanson, so read it all.

PROGRESSIVE MESSAGING: What happened when scientists taught parrots to video chat?

AMMO GRRRLL HAS THOUGHTS ABOUT DEI: Quotas instead of merit are not working out. Enough, already.

SHAM SCIENCE: “Inclusive scholarship” is the latest justification for failed diversity efforts.

The morons will never stop trying to justify their ignorance. Ignore them.

POOR DEARS. BLESS THEIR TINY LITTLE SHRIVELED HEARTS. ‘Irrevocably Shaken’: Editors of Columbia Law Review demand cancellation of exams, citing trauma caused by police presence on campus.

THE EVOLUTION OF DEMOCRAT THOUGHT:

Truman (1945): "The buck stops here."

Biden (2024): "The buck hides here."

Arrived at through the following thought chain: We need higher taxes. To hire more bureaucrats. To pass the buck. More expeditiously. So we can maintain control.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S PROBLEM ... and its [obvious] solution.

BUT, BUT ... corruption is illegal for thee, not for me.

REMEMBER HOW THE TEA PARTY PROTESTERS left places cleaner than they found them?