CRY HAVOC AND LET SLIP THE RAPE DOGS OF WAR! Rape Dogs: The Laff Riot.

AND THE ANSWER IS NONE. NONE MORE BAGEL: The world has officially reached peak bagel.

New York’s Citi Field has weathered its share of away-team blowouts over the years, but the crowd gathered on a brisk Sunday last fall was not prepared for the upset awaiting them.

At the sixth BagelFest, more than 2,000 devotees of New York’s most iconic breakfast food had lined up to try samples and schmears from local favorites and shops as far away as Denmark and Hawaii. When a panel of expert judges announced its pick for “Best Bagel,” the crowd erupted with a mix of elation and disbelief.

The winner? Starship Bagel, which is not based in New York—or even London or Montreal, cities with venerable bagel traditions of their own—but in Dallas, Texas.

For many bagel purists, the future should look like the past. True New York bagels today are made in much the same way they were when they were brought over by Jewish immigrants from Poland in the 19th century. Few had succeeded in replicating them outside the region until places like Starship Bagel came along and shattered New Yorkers’ long-held belief that great bagels could only come from their own backyard.

The View of the World from 9th Avenue strikes again:

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Knoxville’s own Potchke made the list.

YES:

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH BILL MAHER IS A VOICE OF SANITY:

OLD AND BUSTED: “Don’t Be Evil.”

The New Hotness? Google Maps Just ‘Unburned’ the Pacific Palisades — and Infuriated Angelenos Noticed.

Angelenos have been noticing something strange: the Google Maps satellite imagery depicting the Los Angeles areas of the Pacific Palisades and Altadena now shows pristine neighborhoods untouched by the devastating fires of January 2025.

Of course, as we all know, those neighborhoods are in ruins. Why would Google pretend otherwise?

On Reddit, user TinyPinkSparkles asked, “Why is Google maps back to showing old satellite images of Altadena?” She continued:

Not too long after the fire, Google updated the satellite imagery to reflect the fire and thousands of lost structures. Now it’s back to pre-fire images of houses and businesses that are no longer there. Why?

Live look at Google maps of the area:

DECONSTRUCTING DECONSTRUCTION:

The virus is *non-falsifiable*. If you defend a norm, it’s because you’re the oppressor. If you deny being an oppressor, that’s proof of your unconscious privilege. If you cite facts, your facts are contaminated by the power that produced them. If you cite reason, reason itself is white, male, Western. There is no possible exit. The system is designed to make any objection inadmissible by definition. That’s exactly the structure of a cult.

And that’s exactly what has taken hold in universities, HR departments, media, administrations, and corporate boards for the past twenty years.

Read the whole thing.

YOUR OCCASIONAL REMINDER THAT ANYTHING THE LEFT CAN’T CONTROL, IT WILL DESTROY, AND IF IT CAN’T BE DESTROYED, THEY’LL DISCREDIT IT:

MADE IT, MA! TOP OF THE WORLD! The Coolest Video Ever Shot on Everest. Ma Chunlin has created one of the best videos we’ve ever seen come out of the Himalaya.

(Classical reference in headline.)

THE NEW VETTING: The broker standard of care after Montgomery. “The question is no longer whether brokers have responsibilities when selecting carriers. The question is what courts, juries, insurers, and the industry itself will consider reasonable in a modern transportation environment where enormous amounts of safety data are publicly available.”

Related: What’s next after Montgomery?

PORTENT OF PROBLEMS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA: A recent survey of congressional aides working on Capitol Hill for senators, representatives and committees find a big portion of them have in the past year either significantly reduced their social media scrolling or stopped it altogether. Check it out on HillFaith this morning.