ANSWERING AN IMPORTANT QUESTION: Why are there seven days in a week?

HE WAS WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING, STILL TOASTED BY LEFTIES:

Paul Ehrlich has died. He was 93.

He is survived by 8,300,678,394 people (134% increase from 1968), with a daily worldwide average calorie intake of 2,800 kcal (a 22% increase).

— Ogiel (Moe Lane) (@Ogiel23) March 16, 2026

HOW IT STARTED: Oscars 2026 First Look: This Year, the Stage Is a “Sanctuary of Celebration.”

The Academy Awards is Hollywood’s biggest night on its biggest stage—and this year, that stage is an especially zen space.

Each year, production designers Misty Buckley and Alana Billingsley reimagine the stage at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre. Some years it’s grandiose and bold; other years it harkens back to the golden era of Hollywood. But it’s never been as green as it is this year.

This year’s design—debuting exclusively with Vanity Fair—is especially unique. The theater has been designed to represent a calming garden courtyard, with greenery woven throughout it. It’s an ode to this year’s pointedly handmade theme—“A Human Touch”—as well as an attempt to create what feels like a relaxing space in a chaotic world.

“There is an unsettled nature around the climate right now, and there’s just something very calming about being surrounded by architecture, but having this space for trees to grow,” Billingsley tells Vanity Fair. “We are exploring the contrast between the organic and the rigidly architectural, and that creates the feeling that life can exist anywhere.”

How it’s going:

Ahhh…the Dolby Theatre the morning after:

a once-hallowed coliseum of counterfeit grandeur now gutted into a rancid abattoir of shattered bottles, crumpled prestige, and the stench of three hours’ worth of performative excess.

This isn’t “cleanup.”

This is the autopsy… https://t.co/lGX3j3dcnL

— LHGrey™️ (@grey4626) March 16, 2026

Yet another to ignore Tinseltown’s environmentalist fervor: “This trashed mausoleum is the only honest Oscar they earned last night…the trophy of their own degeneracy, captured in high definition for anyone with eyes and a spine to see. The immigrants they exploit will clean it. The rest of us will remember it. And the Hollywood trash will pretend, once again, that none of it ever happened.”

IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Virginia Legislators Literally Exempt Themselves From Their Own Gun Control Law.

The way I see it, Virginia is the Dems’ test-case for what they’ll do from now on in any state where they manage to take power. Basically, they’re fast-tracking everything Colorado Democrats needed a decade to accomplish.

LIMITED TIME DEAL: Alpha Grillers Meat Thermometer Digital. #CommissionEarned

UGH: 153 people on Princess cruise ship in the Caribbean infected with norovirus.

LOL:

“Premature,” lol. The abject refusal to just admit this guy was completely wrong is one of the funnier Boomer-coded traits. pic.twitter.com/oM5GYgDEtR

— Sonny Bunch (@SonnyBunch) March 16, 2026

Rest in wrongness, Paul.

THIS IS NO TIME TO GO WOBBLY:

BREAKING 🚨

Huge setback for Iran’s Islamic regime 🤯

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇷 U.S. and Israeli air forces have reportedly struck an underground IRGC command center in Tehran.

Reports say 50+ senior IRGC officials were killed while meeting to plan attacks for the coming days. pic.twitter.com/cDCBhWb8ZD

— Hinduism_and_Science (@Hinduism_sci) March 16, 2026

IN HOLLYWOOD, HATING COMMUNISTS IS A MORTAL SIN; CHILD RAPE IS A PECCADILLO AT WORST.

I'm super confused by this b/c Elia Kazan's crime was that he hated communists. I thought that was less bad than Roman Polanski's crime (raping little girls) which Madigan and Harris applauded only 3 year later. https://t.co/iwwLjJpJ8r

— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) March 16, 2026

LEFTIES PLAY THE LONG GAME: The Gun Control Push in Virginia is About More Than Just Banning ARs and 30-Round Magazines.

The response from gun owners was predictable: “LOL, Dems are so dumb! Don’t they know their bans just cause panic buying? Millions more guns and mags are sold than would have been without the ban!”

Here’s a hard truth, though: The gun-banners know all of that…and they don’t care.

This isn’t just about banning scary guns and magazines, it’s about destroying the gun culture in the long term. You will still have your guns and your mags, but those who aren’t yet into shooting (or who are too young right now) will be denied them.

And politics is downstream of the culture, as the wise man once said.

I HAD BEEN ASSURED BY ALL THE VERY BEST PEOPLE THAT EPIC FURY WOULD SHATTER OUR ALLIANCES:

During an interview Sunday with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the UAE’s Minister for International Cooperation Reem Al-Hashimy said that the United Arab Emirates is “doubling down” on its agreements with the United States following continued attacks by Iran.… pic.twitter.com/mz1nvCPCs3

— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) March 16, 2026

Of course, some allies are more useful than others:

(Iran attacked a British base during this conflict and has actively plotted multiple murder plots on UK soil) https://t.co/Wr7HEukO8P

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) March 16, 2026

COMATOSE, CLOSETED, AND STUPID IS NO WAY TO GO THROUGH LIFE, SON: Reports Claim Mojtaba Khamenei in ‘Low Condition,’ Said to Be Dull-Witted.

For background on that Insta-headline: Trump briefed that Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is probably gay — and president has priceless reaction.

MAYBE WE NEED A “MADMAN” THEORY OF HISTORY:

I would note that Trump’s unexpected attacks against Venezuela and Iran have added to his own personal version of the “madman theory.” Nobody knows what Trump will do in the near future, in part because Trump probably doesn’t know himself. Nicolás Maduro thought so little of… pic.twitter.com/l9rimYxDdM

— Jim Geraghty (@jimgeraghty) March 16, 2026

The truth is that nobody expected the world’s only superpower ever to act like one again, defending its interests with appropriate force and enthusiasm.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: In a first, nine Texas Antifa members found guilty on federal terror charges.

ANOTHER REMINDER THAT THIRD-WAVE FEMINISM IS ABOUT THE REVOLUTION AND NOTHING ELSE:

Iran has reportedly kidnapped the families of the Iranian women’s soccer team members who requested asylum & the women are now abandoning those claims and returning to the country to face torture or death. No prominent left wing American women’s soccer players have said a word.

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) March 16, 2026

CHA-CHING! The Obama Gravy Train Just Hit a Disgusting New Low.

DON’T GO WOBBLY: Iran Looking *Almost* Ripe for Regime Change. “If I’m a Basij checkpoint guard I’m seriously thinking of calling in sick today.”

GET ENOUGH VITAMIN D: ForestLeaf Vitamin D3 10,000 IU. #CommissionEarned

HOMELESS, INC.:

City of Los Angeles bought a Ramada Inn for $10.2 million to house homeless

Since then, they started sending money to a NGO to takeover the project. Its now sat vacant for 4 years and $20 MILLION has been spent, meant to house only 32 people

No work being done. Money laundering… pic.twitter.com/kdviHNulsG

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 16, 2026

If Gavin Newsom ever solved the homeless problem like he keeps saying he will, his cronies would never forgive him.

HOMELESS, INC.: DiNapoli Report Analyzes Increases in NYC’s Unsheltered Population and Spending.

But even as the city provided shelter for more people, street homelessness continued to rise from 3,588 in FY 2019 to 4,504 in FY 2025.

The city’s Department of Homeless Services (DHS) Street Homeless Solutions (SHS) division is tasked with overseeing outreach and related services to counter street homelessness. Spending on these efforts has more than tripled from $102 million in FY 2019 to $368 million in FY 2025, and is expected to reach $456 million in FY 2026, with planned spending declining to $442 million by FY 2029.

I wonder what the ratio is of administrators to actual homeless.

HATING AMERICA IN WARTIME IS A BAD LOOK: Howard U. women’s b-ball team to remain in locker room following mandate to stand for nat’l anthem.

MEMORY-HOLED:

The personal profiles of Chinese military industry experts Wu Manqing (left), Zhao Xiangeng (center), and Wei Yiyin (right) have been removed from the official website of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

These men are the engineers and scientist behind China’s Anti Air Radar… pic.twitter.com/d3z6fUeT6A

— The Great Translation Movement 大翻译运动 (@TGTM_Official) March 16, 2026

ROBERT SPENCER: After Four Jihad Attacks in Two Weeks, Guess What It’s the International Day to Combat.

LOCK THEM UP: Arkansas state troopers attacked, multiple protesters arrested at Erika Kirk Club America event.

ICYMI: THEY WERE WARNED.

I am getting an almost uniform sense from my sources in the black community that there are fears that immigrants are taking over the Democratic Party, and not even offering power sharing. Mandani’s commie cabinet is remarkably devoid of black men.

— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) March 13, 2026