FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: Voted ‘Best-Dressed Drunk in the Applebee’s Parking Lot.’ “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week we have the best-dressed drunk trying to open the wrong car door in the Applebee’s parking lot, how not to ask for a free refill, and New Mexico man’s bologna smuggling operation.”

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE:

Crushing civil liberties to appease some noisy activists is quite the flex.

ANOTHER DISNEY ACTRESS SEEMS DETERMINED TO TANK HER MOVIE: Vanessa Kirby Confirms Fantastic Four: First Steps Explores Gender Politics With Sue Storm.

Kirby spoke with Entertainment Weekly saying, “If you played an exact ’60s Sue today, everyone would think she was a bit of a doormat. So figuring out how to capture the essence of what she represented to each generation, where the gender politics were different, and embody that today, was one of the greatest joys of this.”

The idea that Sue Storm was a doormat in the early Fantastic Four comics is ridiculous. In the second issue of Fantastic Four, she turns invisible and breaks herself free from a federal detainment facility.

Later in the issue she works with the team to take out the Skrulls who have been posing as them and framing them for various crimes.

As Michael Walsh tweets to the above headline, “Translation: Please don’t go see this movie.” And that’s too bad, because as I wrote in February, the Googie-inspired production design looked fun in the trailer. But hearing the words “Gender Politics,” instead of mindless summer popcorn superhero flick where everything blows up, does not promise a fun afternoon at the movies.

REMOVE YOUR MASKS, MEDIA: The Masquerade is over.

My new piece at Sarah Hoyt’s According to Hoyt.

SHHH — MANY OF TRUMP’S CURRENT POLICIES WERE THE DEMOCRATS’, UNTIL OBAMA CAME ALONG:

Flashback: “Donald Trump should televise this Bill Clinton speech from 1995 and then simply state ‘I’m Donald Trump and I approve this message:’”

HOUSTON, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM: Murderer City? “If true, the mind boggles. Houston had 320 murders in 2024, so that’s just under three years’ worth of alleged murderers walking the streets.”

SHAPING SOULS TO STAY AFLOAT. AI is going to be coming hard for educators’ jobs. Is humans teaching actual virtue the way to maintain some utility (and solvency)?

I AUTOMATICALLY WRITE DOWN ANYONE WITH PRONOUNS IN THEIR BIO OR EMAIL: David Mastio: She/her, He/him: Please keep your obvious pronouns out of my emails. “I think people in professions who want to be trusted by all comers should recognize that many on the conservative half of the political spectrum view the superfluous use of pronouns as the equivalent of putting a liberal political bumper sticker in your every email. Count me among them.”

EUROPE’S ELITES DESPISE EUROPE:

Full text:

Ireland is being plundered by a small group of Irish families, banks and foreign investors. They are making billions for housing migrants through a network of shadowy offshore companies.

This industry is backed up by an NGO complex that employs 200,000 people and also costs us billions. Its purpose is to dumb us down and convince Irish people that being replaced in our own homeland is normal.

The police and judicial system are also onboard. Enforcing illegitimate laws passed by compromised politicians who serve the EU. Foreigners even get special privileges under Irish law.

What’s happening to Ireland is completely unnatural. Dumping people from African and Islamic countries into an ancient and homogeneous society is the quickest way of causing that society to collapse.

Trust is low, cohesion is gone and people from the 3rd world are walking straight into our country without even so much as medical screening. HIV, typhoid and diphtheria are becoming more common in Ireland.

None of us are safe.

Plus the added strain these migrants place on our housing market, education and healthcare systems cannot be ignored.

Those of us older than 20 remember the old Ireland. An Ireland with a relaxed pace of life and high trust communities.

We have a responsibility to maintain that version of Ireland and hand it to the next generation.

Yes.

BREAKING:

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AN UNGUARDED RESPONSE TO A CRITIC: Velkyn1 offered an usually detailed and lengthy critique of a video on the HillFaith YouTube channel. Take his critique and my response, put them together and you have an insight into the depth and detail of the present state of apologetical discussion of one critical detail from the Easter story, who were the guards Pilate commanded to keep watch on the tomb of Jesus to prevent His disciples from stealing his body and [falsely] proclaiming His resurrection?