HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: 23 More Academic Scandals.

REMEMBER THE GOOD THINGS:  Artemis II Mission Begins Return Trip to Earth.

IF TRUTH WERE THEIR CONCERN THEY WOULDN’T BE CLIMATE ALARMISTS:  EPA’s Lee Zeldin Speaks Truth to the Climate Alarmists.

PFUI. WARS ARE EASY TO END; WHAT’S DIFFICULT IS ENDING THEM WELL:  This Dem Rep Laid Out His Plan to End the Iran War. There’s One Big Problem.

THE MORE YOU TIGHTEN YOUR GRIP…  Russia Cracks Down On VPNs, Brings Down Banks.

THEY THINK POLITICS IS A GAME. THEY’RE FOR THEIR TEAM:  The left would complain if he hanged them with a new rope.

INSTRUCTION YOU CAN USE:  Situational Awareness, part 2. How do I develop it?

IT’S CALIFORNIA. FUNNELING MONEY TO SCAMMERS IS THE POINT:  The obscure California program that loses billions every year to scammers.

IT’S FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN:  Inside Gavin Newsom’s empire of fraud.

NO IDEA SO STUPID AND DETACHED FROM REALITY THAT SOME IDIOT DOESN’T TRY TO KEEP IT GOING:  Taking up the Population Bomb Cause.

The fact it objectively hurts humanity won’t stop them either. Look at Communists!

PRETTY MUCH:  Inequality = Civilization. Inspired by Scheidel’s The Great Leveler and Escape from Rome.

ANOTHER ILLUSION SHATTERED:  In spite of how I may present at times, I don’t have all the answers.

ONE OF MY BLOG READERS AND FRIENDS HAD TO GET SOMETHING OFF HIS CHEST:  Never Leave a Fallen Comrade, or Yet Another Reason America is the Greatest Country in the World. -A Rant by Padre0875.

THIS MIGHT BE… NO WAIT, THIS IS THE BEST REVIEW I’VE EVER GOT. ALSO THE MOST EPIC:  Review: Sarah Hoyt’s No Man’s Land develops rich tapestry blending SF/fantasy tropes to imagine “first contact” with vast cultural, political and gender differences
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No, seriously! The! Most! Epic!

OPEN THREAD: Hump Day.

OOPS: The Artemis 2 space toilet is actually working fine. But there is another problem.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Tattoos Affect Your Immune System in Ways We’re Just Beginning to Understand.

FASTER, PLEASE: Scientists Engineer “Tumor-Eating” Bacteria That Devour Cancer From Within.

THIS IS ACTUAL GENOCIDE:

An advert in Denmark shows a White Danish couple hugging on the sofa

An "expert" shows up out of nowhere and tells them not to date each other because it’s basically "inbreeding" for whites to have babies with other whites

He says they should have kids with non-Whites instead pic.twitter.com/ZnFGL9dWkP

— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) April 8, 2026

WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED: Study of 633,000 people links loneliness to suicidal thoughts.

STAND BY:

Channel 14 reports there could be a collapse of the ceasefire tonight on Iran’s part.

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) April 8, 2026

THIS KIND OF DEATH WISH IS HOW YOU GET “DEATH WISH”:

Only societies with a death wish deem being insane as an excuse to murder people without real repercussions. https://t.co/l5HxpB9fEM

— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 8, 2026

NEITHER DOES ELON: “The problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI insiders don’t trust CEO.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Can Judd Apatow ‘Comeback’ from Trump Derangement Syndrome?

Judd Apatow made better comedies than just about everyone for a good, long while.

Here’s just a sampling of films and TV shows he either wrote, directed or produced over the past 20-plus years.

“Anchorman”
“The 40-Year-Old Virgin”
“Knocked Up”
“Freaks & Geeks”
“Crashing”
“Bridesmaids”
“This Is 40”
“Step Brothers”
“Get Him to the Greek”

Now, that’s a legacy. And, for the past few years, said legacy has been stuck in neutral. His 2022 Netflix original, “The Bubble,” got hammered by critics. His attempt to make Pete Davidson a movie star, “The King of Staten Island,” got stung by COVID-19 and a lack of big laughs.

His last mainstream comedy hit? The 2013 Amy Schumer vehicle “Trainwreck.”

I bet you can guess what happened next.

UNEXPECTEDLY! California’s $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers led to ‘negative outcomes,’ researchers say.

Researchers found that California’s minimum wage hike for fast-food workers led to “negative outcomes” such as automation and reduced work hours.

The researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz suggested in a report published in March that the policy could produce unintended consequences such as an increase in menu prices, a loss of overtime and benefits, reductions in employee working hours, and an implementation of automation that replaces workers.

The minimum wage for workers was $16 before the $20 minimum wage for fast-food workers became law in April 2024. Gov. Gavin Newsom said in September 2023 the increase would help workers earn more as the cost-of-living rises.

“The results indicate a plethora of negative outcomes such as higher menu prices for consumers, reductions in employee working hours, widespread elimination of overtime and loss of benefits for employees,” said Stephen Owen, an economics lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz.

“Further decreases in employee opportunities are being driven by automation and the adoption of labor replacement technologies is accelerating.”

The real minimum wage is always zero.