HOW DARE YOU SHARE MY PUBLIC CELEBRATION OF A MURDER:

INDEED:

If the proles can’t be trusted with something by today’s elites, that’s all the more reason they should have it.

MOOD INDIGO: Getting used to tyranny.

Just now, in the California gulag, a law was enacted to forbid the watering of “decorative” grasses, regardless of drought conditions. But it’s okay. We’ve become sort of used to it.

My sense of self-worth, however, resents being told what to do with my water. Sometimes I think of sustaining other non-essential plants…and even taking a shower or washing dishes. But the self-anointed geniuses have already enacted a statute that limits household daily water consumption to 55 gallons per resident for “internal” use, not including landscape irrigation. Since nobody knows how many residents are at any particular address, let alone what water is used indoors versus in the garden, the same “rulers” put the burden of enforcement on the local water districts. Thus far, such authorities have looked the other way.

All this has been done in order to compensate for avoiding the most obvious way of dealing with this issue: increasing reservoir storage capacity and building coastal desalination plants next to nuclear power generating facilities, as has been done near Carlsbad.

Why are we being governed by such stupid jerks? Answer: because we allow it.

Read the whole thing.

HMM:

As an old internet acquaintance asked, “Maybe Gavin is on commission?”

THAT CERTAINLY SEEMS EXCESSIVE: A $95,000 Fine for Transporting a 6-Pack of Beer Defies the Eighth Amendment, a Supreme Court Brief Argues. “State troopers discovered the beer before the plane took off, and Jouppi was convicted of a misdemeanor. The trial court, which concluded that Jouppi had been ‘willfully blind’ to the six-pack, sentenced him to three days in jail and a $1,500 fine. But state law mandated another punishment that was 63 times as severe: forfeiture of Jouppi’s $95,000 airplane. Although that penalty seemed grossly disproportionate, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that it did not violate the Eighth Amendment’s ban on excessive fines.”

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS TEACHING REMEDIAL ALGEBRA:

CORN, POPPED:

SOMEHOW, THIS FAILED TO GET MUCH COVERAGE LAST WEEK: RFK Jr. Indicts Modern Democrat Party. “So I’m 72 years old, and for 70 years of my life, I would have bet any amount of money that I would not be addressing a Republican convention. The irony of my presence here is inescapable.”

THE NOT-SO-FINAL COUNTDOWN:

Wait, I thought Florida was going to be gone by the mid-1990s:

HMM: Are GLP-1s the New Statins? “As their popularity grows, so does the number of health benefits that reach beyond the scale. The most consistent and robust findings seem to be for the heart. In fact, GLP-1s appear to have similar cardiovascular results to statins—a well-established cornerstone of cardiovascular care for decades. But there is one glaring difference: people actually want to take GLP-1s. Despite the expanded use of statins among younger folks, they have grown an unpopular reputation for their potential muscular side effects. Given that the most promising recent cholesterol drug didn’t actually work, is the next pivot toward GLP-1s? And will Ozempic and Mounjaro soon usurp the reign of statins as the go-to heart drug?”

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Federal Judge Blocks Maryland From Enforcing Prohibition On Concealed Carry in Silver Spring Synagogue. “The pair of decisions by Senior U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow came down last Thursday as another federal judge weighs the Department of Justice’s challenge to Montgomery County’s new gun prohibitions. The lawsuits are all challenging the county’s ban on sale, transfer, possession, or transport of firearms and ammunition within 100 yards of a ‘place of public assembly.'”

HARD PASS:

As a wise woman once wrote, “Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one’s own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value—and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.”