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“If bunnies aren’t meant to be chased, why are they so good at running away?”

Miss Cleopatra Chioux, the French Bulldog I have been socializing since Thanksgiving, is with us all weekend – a huge treat for me. What’s more, there will be a new Willie story for Father’s Day, and she’s in it. Under her own name, too.

I love this dog and she loves me, and that’s the first thing that’s first, but I love to study her, too, and I have had time with her like with no other dog. She has disabused me of any number of academic claims about animal behavior, while teaching me a great deal about the mammal-brain origins of thinking-brain obsessions. Expect to see more of her in Willie stories, because she’s funny.

Meanwhile, she both commands attention and rewards it, as do I with her, so I’m off to play with my little buddy.

In other news:

Housing Wire: Home prices still rising in Phoenix, Austin, Sacramento.

CNBC: Mortgage rates shoot higher after Fed Chairman Powell’s comments.

Housing Wire: New home sales fall due to low inventory and high prices.

The Denver Channel: Colorado Springs house deemed ‘little slice of hell’ by realtor selling for $590,000 cash.

Jack Posobiec: Entire Portland Police Rapid Response Team Resigns After Officer Indicted for Breaking Up Antifa Riot.

The New York Post: Thieves now mock the rule of law in ‘progressive’ cities like San Francisco.

City Journal: Critical Race Theory and Academic Freedom.

Charles Murray: Identity crisis: how the politics of race will wreck America.

Larry Elder: Father’s Day: Fatherlessness Is America’s Top Domestic Problem.