WELL, THE JAPANESE ARE WAY A-HEAD OF US:  Advanced Civilization Begins Here: A Love Letter (and Mild Audit) of TOTO.

LOSING GRIP ON REALITY:  Reasonable Suggestion.

THEY DON’T DO GRADUATION ADDRESSES LIKE THIS NOW: Every Tuesday on HillFaith there appears a featured post entitled “FAITH OF THE FOUNDERS” that provides readers with a quote illustrating the deep influence on that remarkable generation.

Today’s installment is a passage from the address by then-Columbia University President William Samuel Johnson to the first graduating class after the American Revolution’s successful conclusion. Johnson was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and was subsequently elected to the Senate. His father had previously served as Columbia’s first president.

The contrast between his deeply faith-informed address and the typical Critical Race Theory-based orations heard on today’s campuses points to the vast distance our nation has travelled in the wrong direction.

OH DEAR:  Suicide pact.

DEMOCRATS HUFFING THE GOOD GLUE:  Democrats Considering Radical Plan to Replace Virginia Supreme Court Justices.

BECAUSE OF COURSE HE DOES:  DOJ: Biden Plans to Fight Release of Recordings With Ghostwriter.

42 PERCENT OF DEMOCRATS ARE NOT JUST IGNORANT ABOUT GUNS, BUT STUPID TOO:  New Poll: 42% of Democrats Think Butler Assassination Attempt on Trump was Staged.

IF NEWSOM IS INVOLVED, IT’S GRIFT:  The difference between helping and grifting.

SIGH:  The Shadow Cabinet of Soros. Inside the Soros-Funded Nonprofit That Hand-Picked Biden’s National Security Team, Then Pretended to Dissolve.

DATA REPUBLICAN BEING A NATIONAL TREASURE AGAIN:  This is their core ecosystem. I did not build this map. Most dots represent a separate NGO. And this is only a partial list and does not include actors such as DemAID.

X-cancel.

WE’RE NOT THE ONLY ONES IN THIS SPOT:  Ibaraki Prefecture’s Rewards Program For Tips On Illegal Foreign Workers In Effect.

WELL, THEY CALLED THEMSELVES THAT:  Were the Nazis socialists?

Related (From Ed): A Brief Comparison of National and International Socialism.

THE DYING BEAST IS MOST DANGEROUS:  Don’t Get Cocky.

WE’RE AT THE BEGINNING OF A GREAT RELEARNING:  Knowledge of the Ancients.

WELL, BYE: Pressure on Starmer Mounts as Dozens of Labour Lawmakers Call on Him to Quit.

Personally, I want Labour out, not just Starmer.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: How Trump’s ‘anaconda’ tactics put the squeeze on Iran and China.

And the Democrats.

RIP: Craig Morton, longtime Cowboys and Broncos QB, dies at 83.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

IT’S ALWAYS IN THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK: Black holes slamming into scorching stars may be causing mysterious blue flashes in the cosmos.

STUDENT LOANS: A MULTIGENERATIONAL TRAP. The sooner we freeze the increases on all of them forever, the better off we’ll be.

HMM: Poop From Young Mice Reverses Signs of Age-Related Decline in Older Mice.

HMM: That Haunted Feeling May Be Caused by a Sound You Can’t Hear.

HOW IT STARTED:

HOW IT’S GOING:

I’m all for free speech an all, but I have zero sympathy for a group that calls for their university to go after a student group, and then gets mad when the university goes after them instead. Just desserts, it seems to me.

MAKE YOUR HOUSE MORE COMFORTABLE: AEOCKY 74 Pint/D Energy Star Version 6.0 Dehumidifier. #CommisisonEarned

UNEXPECTEDLY: Democrats ask the Supreme Court to halt a Virginia ruling blocking new congressional districts.

I expect SCOTUS to tell them to pound sand, but you never know.