The new rules.

Maybe Trump supporters should start targeting anti-Trump politicians and media folks, now that we’ve established a precedent — going back to Obama’s busloads of SEIU astroturfers — that it’s okay to target people’s homes. But if that happens, we’ll get a lot of have-you-no-decency pushback that’s mysteriously missing from these incidents.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/294757/

I can't imagine why it wasn't published.

Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck conducted the most thorough previously known survey data on the question in the 1990s. His study, which has been harshly disputed in pro-gun-control quarters, indicated that there were more than 2.2 million such defensive uses of guns (DGUs) in America a year.

Now Kleck has unearthed some lost CDC survey data on the question. The CDC essentially confirmed Kleck's results. But Kleck didn't know about that until now, because the CDC never reported what it found.

http://reason.com/blog/2018/04/20/cdc-provides-more-evidence-that-plenty-o

I wondered how a judge could hire a prosecutor.

"Ordinarily, the decision to enforce a law of the United States imposing a criminal penalty is entrusted exclusively to the executive branch of government. Not so in the case of criminal contempt," Judge Castel wrote in the order. "The Court has the inherent power to appoint a private attorney to prosecute the contempt. This is because contempt of court, including a violation of grand jury secrecy, undermines the integrity of the judicial process."

https://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2018/04/judge-fbi-leak-case

Book that you shouldn't read -cue in theremin music-

https://twitter.com/notwokieleaks/status/987444212349194243

Moar from Randa Jarr

https://twitter.com/BasedMonitored/status/987731954568237056

Based mostly on comments I've read about Jordan Peterson here, I watched him on the Bill Maher show last night.

A very interesting interview, and I was disappointed this morning to read more about it and find the punditocracy laser-focused on its own liberal-vs-conservative blinkered view of the world.

Peterson actually spent most of the interview talking about how today's parents aren't doing a very good job (to which Maher heartily agreed; no surprise there).

The entire interview (not just the online clips) is worth seeking out.

Girl posts lyrics of a rap song to her private Instagram account. British authorities prosecute her for a hate crime.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921

White people should start filing hate crimes every time non white people like white art and then when the government does nothing sue the UK government for failing to enforce the law equitably

You can really hear the stress in her voice.

One wonders what distinction was intended with "physically on fire.

Did anyone know about this? Because, Doooooooooooooood

You can really hear the stress in her voice. ~ Crid at April 21, 2018 1:31 PM

Score one for Navy aviator training.

An Army tank crewman during the Iraq invasion was asked if his training had prepared him for fighting the Iraqis. He responded by telling the reporter than his training had been tougher than the actual combat.

Training is how you win wars and land injured planes safely.

Just a cat giving a massage to a dog

https://twitter.com/ClintFalin/status/987365140621398016

"The curse strikes again."

--Balko, circa '15

> Training is how you win

Cooper fell asleep on the launch pad. It's a cute scene in the movie, but more fun to read:

Early in the morning of May 15, while it was still dark, Gordo was inserted into the little human holster atop the rocket. As usual there was a long hold before the lift-off. The doctors monitoring the biomedical telemetry began noticing something very odd. In fact, they couldn't believe it. Every objective reading of the calibrations and printouts indicated… the astronaut had gone to sleep! The man was up there stacking Z's on top of a rocket loaded with 200,000 pounds of liquid oxygen and RP-1!

Well, why the hell not? Gordo had had plenty of opportunity to see how the launch days always went. You hit the sack in Hangar S about ten or eleven the night before, and then they woke you up about three in the morning, in the dark, and they took you out to the rocket and they laid you down on a contoured couch for two, three, four hours while they tuned in all the systems for the lift-off. You didn't have a damned thing to do, really, during most of this; so why not catch up on all the sleep you'd missed?

Throughout America, throughout the world, untold millions were by their radios and in front of television sets, waiting for the moment of lift-off, wondering, as always: My God, what goes through a man's mind at a moment like this! Scarcely able to believe it themselves, NASA never supplied the answer.

Six hours later, Balko said it himself.