SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:57 P.M. ET: 

OH, AGAIN – From the New York Post:   Hillary Clinton drew ire from Native Americans on Saturday over her use of the phrase “off the reservation” in a CNN interview.  Activists pointed to the saying’s dark origins in late-19th-century laws restricting Native Americans to reservation lands.  “When reservations were first established, going #OffTheReservation meant you were going to be hunted down and killed,” Ruth Hopkins tweeted.  The social-media firestorm forced Clinton’s campaign to apologize — also on Twitter.  “Divisive language has no place in our politics,” tweeted Amanda Renteria, Clinton’s national political director. “Hillary Clinton meant no disrespect to Native Americans. She wants this election to be about lifting people up, not tearing them down.”  I love how Hillary goes full pompous whenever she's caught in a gaffe.  She talked about how she's dealt with men who go "off the reservation," now she's claiming her heart is pure.

AND MORE PC – From the College Fix:   Los Angeles’s Occidental College has chosen Harvard Law Prof. Randall Kennedy, and hoo-boy – this hasn’t sat very well with student activists and some faculty.  You see, Kennedy has publicly spoken out against the dubious film The Hunting Ground for its portrayal of “the general sexual assault phenomenon at universities and of [Harvard] student Brandon Winston.”  The case against Winston was so spurious that a grand jury didn’t even indict him – despite a prosecutor’s recommendation to do so. (See this legal explanation of why is so significant.)  Kennedy also had the temerity to chide Harvard race protesters for overreacting to incidences of apparent “hate,” like the most-probably-a-hoax “black tape” affair at the college Law School.  I want to see a group of PC students hold up a sign saying "Down with everyone."  Why not say what you really mean?

I GUESS THE INSURANCE COMPANY DOESN'T HAVE TO PAY – From London's Daily Mail:  Captain Cook's famous ship has seemingly been discovered in the United States 230 years since it was sold, sunk and forgotten.  The Endeavour is one of the most famous ships in naval history and was used by Captain James Cook to discover the East Coast of Australia in 1770.   The last sighting of the Endeavour was around 1778 when it is believed the ship was sold, renamed the Lord Sandwich, and then used to transport British troops during the American Revolution.   Archaeologists believe they have found the scuttled remains of the Endeavour in Newport Harbour, Rhode Island.  The Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project made the discovery, saying the ship was scuttled in the harbour by British forces in the lead up to the Battle of Rhode Island in 1778.  Maybe that's where my lost Parcel Post packages are.

May 1, 2016