Ya think it's easy?

“If you don’t hear the slice of ham when it hits the kitchen floor, you’ll smell it on the breath of the dog who did.”

More bad news for Fiasco Joe: The pandemic is over.

Norway and Japan are both waking up to the fact that lockdowns and hysteria have done more harm than good, and nation after nation will join them in learning to live with COVID unquarantined.

But Fiasco Joe needs a vaccine mandate – that he has no idea how to implement – and he claims that the restoration of America’s birthright freedoms depends on a 97%+ vaccination rate – where the status of being vaccinated is a moving target.

Good luck with that.

We won’t learn much from this experience, but we may learn enough: Compulsion is always toxic. There is no safe quantity of government.

In other news:

Housing Wire: Affordable housing vacancy drops, and rents are climbing.

CNBC: Home-flipping profits are shrinking, but here’s where you can net the most.

City Journal: The Linguistic Equivalent of War: Today’s progressives are heirs to a long tradition of abusing words to advance their policy goals.

City Journal: Denying the Crime Spike: A new report from Third Way downplays concerns about the rising tide of violence.

FEE.org: Extreme Hospital COVID Policies Are Leading More Pregnant Women To Choose A Home Birth.