WHAT WAS THEIR FIRST CLUE?  US officials fear most of Hamas’ hostages in Gaza are already dead: report.

WOULDN’T IT BE MORE EFFICIENT TO ONLY IDENTIFY UNBIGOTED PSYCHOLOGISTS?  Bigoted psychologists hound colleague who questioned social justice agenda.

BUILD THE WALL – LATINO SUPPORT NOW AT 42%, UP FROM 30% IN 2021:  Growing Latino support for border wall, strict enforcement.

Once immigrants majority-support the GOP? The democrats will build the wall with their bare hands, and send troops down to guard it.

THE PROVIDERS OF DUBIOUS “TREATMENT” REFUSED TO ALLOW ANYONE TO FOLLOW UP ON PATIENTS:  Trebling Down.

SURE, LET THEM TALK. BUT LET’S LOOK AT WHAT AND WHO IS FUNDING ALL THE DEATH TO AMERICA. AND LET’S LOOK AT THEIR GREEN CARDS AND CITIZENSHIP. ARE THOSE IN ORDER?  Free Speech, and Censorship.

Look, they want our attention. We should give it to them.

SO NOTED:  Holy crap, this is an indictment of the clowns in charge of training.

DID I SAY CLOWN-WORLD?  When Tickle sued Giggle.

This timeline would be far more palatable if the Author didn’t insist on ridiculously on-the-nose character names.

PEOPLE HAVE MORE OR LESS HAD ENOUGH WITH COMPELLED SPEECH:  TQ Clown Show: Humor and Danger.

NAH. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN OUR EDUCATION IS RUN BY LEFTISTS AND WE HIRE AND ELECT FOR REPRESENTATION, NOT COMPETENCE:  Idiocracy has arrived.

She’s not representative of the nation. The problem with that movie is that evolution doesn’t move that fast. Dumbing down of education and bad hiring does, though.

DISPATCHES FROM CLOWN WORLD:  Transvaluation of all values, April 9 edition: Richard Dawkins as “cultural Christian”; Amnesia International prostrates for HamaSS; a former Islamist speaks out.

WAR: THE NEXT GENERATION:  Attack of the Drones Revisited.

PANIC. ALSO, BECOME A VEGAN:  Media Begins Linking Possible Human “Bird Flu” Infections to Meat and Egg Consumption.

They don’t realize they already lost all their power. Now they’re just beclowning themselves.

GOOD FOR HER: JK Rowling to Radcliffe, Watson: Go Stuff Yourselves. “Celebs who cosied up to a movement intent on eroding women’s hard-won rights and who used their platforms to cheer on the transitioning of minors can save their apologies for traumatised detransitioners and vulnerable women reliant on single sex spaces.”

BUT IF YOU’RE STILL A NEVER TRUMPER ARE YOU CAPABLE OF THOUGHT? Kurt Schlichter: Time to Rethink Your Never-Trumpism. “This is getting real. This is life and death. Not just for cops and soldiers, but maybe even for you and your family.”

Plus: “Now, this column isn’t directed towards the professional Never Trumper dorks, the treacherous weirdos who make a living off of going on MSNBC and selling out their former allies. This is for the Republicans who have thought about it and have a real problem with Donald Trump. I get it, even if I don’t agree. I would not particularly like voting for somebody who I don’t like. However, I like Donald Trump and will eagerly support him following his victory over my primary candidate, Ron DeSantis. But sometimes you need to do things you would rather not do. You have to let go of the anger. Even the governor got on board and endorsed the president once the primary results became clear.”

JEFFREY CARTER: The Withering and Shrinking Middle Class: It’s Why Trump Has Traction, And Why Biden Wants to Crush Them.

Flashback: Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.

OPEN THREAD: So get to work.

SILLY WALKS & FREE SPEECH TALKS: The full video of my interview with the legendary John Cleese is now available. Enjoy!

GOOD: FAA: no current plans to tax commercial space launches.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL ON THE O.J. SIMPSON TRIAL AND ITS AFTERMATH:

● Why Simpson’s acquittal in 1995 was inevitable.
● Was it really “the trial of the century?”
● The Simpson trial gave rise to the quote of the ’90s.
● Why America stood still in 1995, awaiting the Simpson trial verdicts.
● Ron Goldman’s sister resisted driving over O.J. Simpson.

Related:

the lede on the NYT's original 1995 story about OJ Simpson's trial is insane pic.twitter.com/KgfrN90Tp2

— paris martineau (@parismartineau) April 11, 2024

Here’s the full story in the Times’ archive. What were the Gray Lady’s editors thinking?

UPDATE: Great moments in dispassionate objectivity:

Put it in the Louvre https://t.co/mUGZKmA2eE

— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 12, 2024

What was the AP thinking today?

PERSONALLY, I THINK THE “GREAT FILTER” IS SEX, BUT THAT’S NOT INCONSISTENT: AI Could Explain Why We’re Not Meeting Any Aliens, Wild Study Proposes.

HMM. EVEN IF SO, BIDEN IS NO LINCOLN. On Abortion, Donald Trump Goes The Way Of Stephen A. Douglas.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Anti-Israel students walk out to demand the right to disrupt others’ education: ‘We’ll disrupt till you divest!’

That’s basically a terroristic threat, you know. It’s not about persuasion, but intimidation. Punish them for their disruptions until they do better.

SCIENCE ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS: Will an Open Bottle of Fine Bourbon Ever Go Bad?

IGNORE THE BUZZ, HERE’S WHY SENATE SHOULD HOLD MAYORKAS TRIAL: “Nuking the Constitution” is reason one cited by Senate conservatives. Check out my report for number two on Epoch Times.

FEELGOOD STORY: Former Webster teacher reunites with 100 past students to watch eclipse.

It was a pinnacle moment for the former Webster science teacher, who’d spent over a decade sharing his passion for all things celestial with 14- and 15-year olds, and telling them to meet him in 2024 for the total solar eclipse bound for Rochester.

Moriarty, now 68, never thought a bunch of them would actually show up at his Brighton home for the occasion. . . .

About 100 former students descended on his driveway Monday, with camping chairs, sun-shaped cookies and champagne in tow. Many wore nametags with their year of graduation.

Some used canes now. Others had their dogs or spouses with them. All of them were eager to greet Moriarty, who towered above the crowd at 6-feet-7-inches, a shock of white hair and glasses bobbing from person to person.

Nice.