| Can a GoFundMe Bring Back a Beloved Theme Park? Probably not. But that’s not stopping a man in my native Cleveland who wants to bring back the famous Geauga Lake theme park. He’s started a GoFundMe to raise $20 million bucks to start bringing the park back. That’s a fraction of price you’d need to bring it back, of course, and it will probably never happen. But it’s a nice thought. The Worrying Treatment of Michael Steele. At the Daily Beast, Doug Heye has a retrospective about the poor treatment of former RNC chairman Michael Steele. Most recently, of course, by CPAC’s communications director: With the communications director of CPAC declaring, from the stage this past week, that Steele was elected as RNC chair "because he's a black guy,” it raises even more serious questions about how Trumpian tribalism has quickly become the rule of law within a large segment of the GOP. The Rape Kit Backlog. This weekend’s Washington Post Sunday Magazine has a sobering look at the decades-long backlog of rape kits in Virginia. It’s a “Wrenching Dilemma” indeed, and worthy of your time. How are laws regarding minimum ages (for all manner of vices and privileges) set? Pretty arbitrarily, actually. Over at Reason, Barton Hinkle asks: How old is old enough? In the wake of the Parkland shooting, many are asking whether the age to buy a gun should be raised from 18 to 21. One might ask, why? At the same time, the shooting itself—carried out by a 19-year-old—has elicited proposals to raise the age at which a person can buy a rifle to 21. The notion that teenagers can be wise enough to teach their elders about firearms, but never wise enough to own them, is just one of the ways in which American attitudes about adolescence lack explicable precision. Why not make everything 18? 21? 26? Or 16? Meet John Gizzi. Over at the Free Beacon, Vic Matus has a wonderful profile of John Gizzi, Washington’s Rolodex. Here’s a taste: Gizzi would be an ideal author for a Letters to a Young White House Correspondent (the Art of Mentoring series by Basic Books is mostly excellent). It's something he could do when he retires—not that he has any plans of doing that soon. "George Putnam, who started doing radio recording in the news in the early ’30s, went on to be one of the first television anchors in the late ’40s and was putting me on as a guest on radio before he died at age 93. He wanted to die in the studio and did," Gizzi recalled. Do be sure to read Vic’s earlier profile of Gizzi. What Will You Be Using in 20 years? Our digital editor Jonathan Last wants to know: Vote now. Will it be Google, Amazon, Facebook, or Netflix? Which firm will be most likely to survive? Vote now. Inside the North Korean Escape Strategy. According to Reuters, the family members in the North Korean regime used Brazilian passports to get western visas. You gotta see the pics, and the names. The End of Woodbridge’s Tent City. South of greater Washington is Woodbridge, Virginia. It’s a former exurb that is becoming a suburb. A number of homeless individuals have lived in the woods there for 15 years, but development is pushing them out. There are a number of tent cities around Washington, but this is perhaps one of the bigger ones. It’s an interesting look at how some folks live in the shadow of one of the richest cities on the planet. Save the date! Join us at the 2018 Weekly Standard Summit. This May 17-20 at the historic Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs, join Stephen F. Hayes, Fred Barnes, and Michael Warren and special guests Bret Baier and A.B. Stoddard as they discuss the future of American politics. Book your tickets now. —Jim Swift, Deputy Online Editor Please feel free to send us comments, thoughts and links to dailystandard@weeklystandard.com. -30- | 