SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET: 

THE MARCH OF JUSTICE – FROM COLLEGE FIX:   A former New Jersey high school student is suing his school’s baseball coach for ordering him to slide during an attempted triple.  During that slide, then-Bound Brook High School player Jake Maser’s cleat dug into the dirt, causing his ankle to turn over. The resultant injury required surgery.  According to My Central Jersey, 2016 Bound Brook graduate Maser ended up suing coach John Suck and the Bound Brook Board of Education for “negligently” and “carelessly” supervising the game.  Watch.  Someone will sue an umpire for not distributing balls and strikes evenly among marginalized groups.

YIKES! – FROM BBC:   A US university faces a fine of $8,500 (£6,280) for apparently losing a small amount of weapons-grade plutonium.  The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said Idaho State University is unable to account for 1 gram (0.03oz) of the material.  The plutonium is used in reactors and to make nuclear bombs but the NRC says the amount missing is too small to make a nuclear weapon.  The university says documents show the material was on campus from 2003-04.  However, an NRC report says that in October 2017 three teams at the university conducted a physical search for the material and failed to find it.  Is this serious?  A university loses weapons-grade nuclear material and gets fined only $8,500?  Says plenty about our sense of priorities. 

UP AGAIN – FROM RASMUSSEN:  The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 51% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-nine percent (49%) disapprove.   The president's rise has been consistent over the past ten days.  In Rasmussen, at least, his approval now tops his disapproval.  That is not true in other polls.  The president's strength comes despite almost unprecedented attacks by the mainstream media.  Many people appear to be discounting these attacks.  As usual, the citizenry is ahead of the press.

May 4, 2018