Today is Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday)
UMD student calls hippie-inspired fashion 'deeply offensive'
Guess what, Idiot du Jour: Hippie was fashion. Fashion + drugs.
Why won't my shoes stay tied? Scientists are trying to figure it out. All knots inevitably fail
The pros behind the hit records: The Wrecking Crew
Paul Ekman: Three mottos I live by
Evolving war technologies
Food: Loonie Labels In La La Land
By the way, Joss Whedon has announced that Trump will exterminate all gay men in America if you don't join #TheResistance.
Alternate headlines
Notre Dame Students Feel ‘Unsafe’ about Mike Pence Speaking
Manipulative little lying punks
CNN’s Acosta Rules It’s Un-American to Slam CNN, News Media; Doesn’t Regret Screaming at Trump
Syria Strike Fails To Follow Progressive Playbook, Leading To Unhinged Op-Eds
Bummer: Immigration Crackdown Leads To Illegals With Minor Crimes And No Criminal History Being Arrested
VDH: Trump’s Cultural Optics
Trump Was Right! Obama Got FISA Warrant to Spy on Trump Team
Trump is plowing and salting the fields of a bureaucratic oligarchy
Winning behind the scenes
Trump Team Moves Closer to Gutting Some Federal Agencies.
Steyn:
... Christian leaders, friom Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury on down, seem to have more to say about potential, hypothetical upticks in "Islamophobia" than about the sustained attempt to eradicate the oldest adherents of their own faith. Western politicians don't seem to have much to say about it, either, perhaps out of shame: On America's watch, public expression of Christianity was obliterated in Iraq, and the last Christian church in Afghanistan razed to the ground. Almost exactly two years ago, when 148 students were slaughtered at a school in Kenya, President Obama could not bring himself to identify them as Christian, even though their killers had gone to great pains to separate their captives according to their faith, releasing the Muslims and killing the Christians. As I remarked somewhat mordantly, apparently black lives don't matter when they're Christian.
The Islamic supremacists' assault on Christianity is not confined to the Holy Land and the more benighted parts of the developing world. Monday's subway bloodbath in St Petersburg was also celebrated by Isis as making "a metro to Hell for worshipers of the Cross". It's doubtful that most of the victims, who included many students, would have seen themselves as such. But that's the point: you might not think of yourself as a "worshiper of the Cross", but that's how the guys who want to kill you see you.
And so it went in Stockholm also...