the Donk Primary is heating things up

For starters someone should ask her when she'll deal with the economy, foreign trade and affairs, and the immigration issue:   BUT WHEN WILL SHE SLEEP, WRECK OTHER ASPECTS OF THE ECONOMY, AND BURN ADDITIONAL AMERICAN EMBASSIES TO THE GROUND? Hillary Vows to Spend ‘Every Single Minute’ as President to ‘Change Gun Culture.‘

If we’re lucky, she’ll bring the same dedication and focus that Obama brings to his “every waking hour” serving as president.

And it runs in the family:  VOTE ANDROID 2016: Chelsea Clinton babbles robotically about the Second Amendment and what her mother can do to it now that Scalia has died.

on the brighter side theres this:  IN LIGHT OF THE HARRIET TUBMAN NEWS, they’ve put this story by Charles C.W. Cooke on blacks and the Second Amendment outside the paywall.

and this:  SHOCKER: Colorado Campus Carry: 12 Years, No Mass Shootings, No Crimes by Permit Holders. Though I find the illustrated style of carry . . . problematic.

BROKEN PROMISES: THE HOUSING MARKET IN SAN FRANCISCO (AND TEN IDEAS TO FIX IT):

No matter how expensive the left makes it to live amidst the squalor of 21st century San Francisco, they can’t drive out the Gods of the Copybook Headings.

How the Government is Destroying the World’s Best Oysters

EPA POURS TOXIC WASTE INTO RIVER, REFUSES TO PROTECT LOCALS: Remember that yellow river EPA created in Colorado last year? Agency officials dumped an estimated 880,000 pounds of toxic metals waste from a mine into the Animus River, which supplies drinking and working water for millions of people in three states and the Navajo Nation.

Nearly eight months later, reports Ethan Barton of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group, EPA officials concede they essentially have no plan in place in the event storm water runoff swells the river. That’s likely to happen in Spring and Summer and when it does, the swirling water picks up the toxic waste and deposits it further downstream.

IT’S AS IF THEY CARE MORE ABOUT GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES THAN THEY DO ABOUT CITIZENS: CDC secret warning on surge of illegal kids: ‘Plan on many having TB.’

SO many other topics under which I could've posted tihs:  A Climategate-like bombshell: State Attorney Generals colluded with Green groups to punish political opponents

 Since I kinda ignored Earth Day (or, rather, Human Diaspora Day):  Seven Earth Day predictions that failed spectacularly

and this:  A VERY PARTIAL LIST: The Stuff Greens Keep Getting Wrong.

Remember last week when I linked to the article from the profg claiming that attendance and grades were racist  It gets worse.  ANGRY BRIT: CORRECTING GRAMMAR IS RACIST, CLASSIST, AND CENSORIOUS.

Of course SOME people believe the Classics still matter.  400 Years After Shakespeare’s Death, He’s Still Required Reading (Even For Econ Majors)

This letter was a hoax of sorts, posted somewhere on the internet as a response from Oxford to students attending as Rhodes Scholars to remove the statue of Oxford Benefactor Cecil Rhodes.  DEAR SCROTTY STUDENTS: “Understand us and understand this clearly: you have everything to learn from us; we have nothing to learn from you.”

Congress and Crony Capitalists Want to Take Over the Contact Lens Market: New at Reason

MEMO TO HILLARY AND BERNIE: Student Loans Are Expensive Because Student Loans Are Risky.

and for the "clip and save" file:

Remember me mentioning a few weeks back about Aristotle's Politics?  I needed to pay more attention.  Aristotle Explains the Trump Phenomenon

Too many pithy quotes to pull them out - much about "what's wrong with society"  The Virtues of Book Ownership

YOUR TWITTER JUXTAPOSITION OF THE DAY:

Potty wars: 

Transparent, the Amazon-streamed show about transgender acceptance, is having a disagreement on its set related to its new unisex bathrooms. Some crew members are reportedly upset about having to use the restroom in the same space as coworkers of different genders, now that both bathrooms are open-access. TMZ reports the story, adding that many are allegedly afraid to complain about the issue over concern that they’ll be labeled transphobic.

As Rod Dreher writes, “ It’s like being a servant in Kim Jong-un’s palace. You don’t dare complain about anything, or it’s curtains.”

SOMEONE SHOULD BE FIRED OVER THIS. OR AT LEAST DEMOTED: University of South Alabama admits citing student for empty holster was a mistake.

So manyof my posts could go under multiple headings.  I choose to put this one here. WHY WE NEED MORE POLITICAL DIVERSITY ON FACULTIES: Professor: I don’t like the idea of writing a recommendation for a student who likes guns. “How can I say that I don’t want to support students who are gun enthusiasts, without getting put on some sort of list?”

Well, you were probably fine with lots of other kinds of lists, so don’t expect much sympathy.

GUN-TOTING REPUBLICAN WOMAN TO BE FEATURED ON TWENTY-DOLLAR BILL: Hamilton to say on $10, Jackson getting replaced by Tubman.

UPDATE: Endorsed:

Related:

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and some nsfw stuff, to kick back with:  Vintage Men's Mags #44: Women with Weapons

Pelosi’s Husband Invested in Solar Firm Weeks Before Lucrative Expansion.

FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMED: Federal Park Ranger Mocks Founders, Constitution … While Leading Tour of Independence Hall!

THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Author: U.S. Official Who Issued Visas to 9/11 Hijackers Still Works for State Department.

SUIT CLAIMS FORMER FDA CHIEF HELPED HUBBY’S HEDGE FUND MAKE MILLIONS: Katie Watson of the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group reports that former FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg is accused in a suit filed in federal court of using her office to clear the way to approval for Levaquin, a controversial antibiotic in which her husband’s hedge fund just happened to be highly invested.

I don't do this very often with short form work but THIS might make my must read list along with Arnold Kling's "Three Languages of Politics" and my own soon to be started "Arguing from the Base of the V."

It's long.  Grab a soda or a cup of coffe or a nice green tea or a single malt.  Not wine. God, no.  Not wine. Turn off the phone.  Turn of the noise.  Settle in.  This is a 15 - 20 minte read and deserves your undivided.

Here's where I found it:BETTER LATE THAN NEVER, AS SOMEONE AT VOX GETS A CLUE: The Smug Style in American Liberalism. “ It is a way of conducting politics, predicated on the belief that American life is not divided by moral difference or policy divergence — not really —but by the failure of half the country to know what’ s good for them. . . . A movement once fleshed out in union halls and little magazines shifted into universities and major press, from the center of the country to its cities and elite enclaves. Minority voters remained, but bereft of the material and social capital required to dominate elite decision-making, they were largely excluded from an agenda driven by the new Democratic core: the educated, the coastal, and the professional. . . . The wages of smug is Trump.”