ZMan circles back.

Back in 2014, Rolling Stone published a story about an alleged rape on the campus of the University of Virginia. Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s “A Rape on Campus” story was a bombshell story that became a national controversy. It seemed to confirm everything the Nth-wave feminists were saying about the scourge of white males raping white women on the college campus. All of the usual suspects rushed to the nearest outlet to display their outrage over the incident.

Of course, this later became known as the “Virginia Rape Hoax” as the story was completely fake. The only things about it that were true is the star of the story was a human who attended the university and the writer used her real name. Otherwise, the story was a total fabrication and a ridiculous one at that. Sensible people noticed huge problems with it from the start. The two big clues that it was fake were that it read like a bodice ripper and the villain was named Haven Monahan.

In retrospect, this story was a turning point for mass media. By the old rules, everyone involved would have been shamed out of the public eye. The writer, Sabrina Erdely, would have been drummed out of the profession. Jackie Coakley, the coed who was the fake victim, would have been destroyed by an angry media. Erdely faced no repercussions and still works in the media. Coakley was mostly ignored and has gone on with her life, not having suffered from it.

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Becoming an astronaut requires perfect 20/20 vision, but unfortunately, the effects of space can cause astronauts to return to Earth with degraded eyesight. Now, researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed a sleeping bag that that could prevent or reduce those problems by effectively sucking fluid out of astronauts’ heads.

TMI.

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Food tech startup Perfect Day has released a report claiming that its process for producing milk proteins in the lab is much more environmentally friendly than getting them the old fashioned way, from cows.

“This shows that fermentation can unlock a more efficient way to make food that humans have a huge demand for,” CEO Ryan Pandya told Axios.

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The development of drugs to treat cognitive problems in patients with mental illness may be a step closer after a team of researchers discovered that an existing drug – used to treat constipation – may be able to boost our ability to think more clearly.

Severe psychiatric disorders can have a devastating impact on a patient’s life. Cognitive impairments – ranging from decreased attention and working memory to disrupted social cognition and language – are widespread in psychiatric disorders such as major depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. These common problems are poorly treated with current medications and often have a large impact on people’s lives, and so scientists are searching for ways of improving or restoring these functions.

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Besides being important to food, starch also has many other uses, playing a role in papermaking, drug manufacturing, and more.

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Thermo-electric generators convert heat directly into electricity, using the voltage generated at the junction of two different metals. This sounds like an excellent way to generate electric power; there are no moving parts, no working fluids, and very little to go wrong. Unfortunately the process is inefficent, and is not going to displace steam turbines. The output is DC, which is not helpful if you want to use a transformer to change the voltage. Nonetheless, thermoelectric generators were and are used where their special characteristics are needed.

 

David Cole.

Throughout my life, I’ve often been accused of lacking empathy. It’s a critique that goes back to high school, when I was a compassionless bully. And I’ll admit, I do have an empathy problem, but only when it comes to imbeciles.

I just can’t muster sympathy for the stupid. I don’t hate them; I don’t even blame them (no one’s at fault for the intelligence they inherit). But when imbeciles become an obstacle, I have zero tolerance.

Hence why I’ve been unable to summon sympathy for the 1/6 rioters.

He’s got a point.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

You’d think it would hardly need restating that inflation is chiefly caused by monetary profligacy by the government (especially the Federal Reserve and other central banks that think they can “create” money out of thin air), but the Biden Administration began on an ominous note with Slow Joe proclaiming that “Milton Friedman isn’t in charge any more.” Well, the CPI seems to have something to say about that.

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Blaine police say an elderly couple who ordered groceries through Instacart last week opened their door to a derogatory message from the delivery driver, and found their groceries destroyed.

Police say it appeared the couple was targeted due to a sign supporting law enforcement that was visible in the front yard of the home.

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The drops, known as pilocarpine, and sold by pharma outlet Allergan under the name “Vuity,” might help the 128 million people in the United States who are nearsighted.

One drop in each eye, according to the business, may enhance closeup eyesight for six to ten hours, according to CBS News.

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While the United States faces the greatest immigration crisis in its history, the department of Customs and Border Protection is forcing Border Patrol agents and other staff to undergo “unconscious bias” training, according to reports.

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Woke communism operates somewhat differently than 20th century totalitarian regimes. In those regimes, the government used arbitrary violence to control every aspect of public and private life. There was a scapegoat, as well as a simple narrative that explained everything.

In woke communist America, the government does not control everything, but where it leaves off, the cultural-business complex takes over. Education, corporate media, entertainment, big business, especially Big Tech and the Democratic Party, together constitute America’s woke communist regime. The scapegoat is white males. There is violence in the form of state-sanctioned mobs, but more often, and almost as effective, is cancelling. The narrative is that America is systemically racist and about to be overtaken by white supremacists. Everything must be made to fit this narrative. The Rittenhouse affair is a good example of how the facts must be twisted to fit the narrative. (The Jussie Smollett hoax is another example.)

How to close the economic perception gap (Washington Post) It’s just a ‘perception gap’.

Misery Index: New Numbers Show Biden’s Economy Continues to Hit Americans in the Wallet

Joe Biden Spins Tornado Misinformation

Biden’s Delusions Put Us in Danger: Negotiating with Iran

Team Biden’s Taiwan map flap

Biden Admin Stonewalls Congress on Security Screening of Illegal Immigrant Minors, GOP Lawmaker Says

Biden’s approval rating keeps falling

The High Price Of Bidenomics

Jussie Smollett faces $130k lawsuit from City of Chicago and separate filing from Osundairo siblings

Cook County DA Kim Foxx facing renewed criticism following Smollett verdict for dropping charges last year

Naomie Harris says ‘huge star’ groped her during audition (The Guardian)

Democrats Push ‘Racial Equity Audits’ To Cement Control of Tech Companies

As Homicide Rates Break Records, Black Lives Clearly Don’t Matter to BLM or to Soros-Backed Rogue Prosecutors

Nets Abandon Parade Slaughter, Censor Bigoted Hate of Wisconsin Killer

“We Can Never Believe Police”: Cal State Prof Denounces Smollett Verdict As A “White Supremacist Charade”

Mystery Surrounds Perpetrator of ‘Deplorable Acts of Anti-Black Hatred’

How big is the rich-poor divide across the globe — and where do you fit in? New study provides answers (Arizona Republic) Here is a stick to beat yourself with, whitey.

California governor says he will use legal tactics of Texas abortion ban to implement gun control (CNN)

TV chef Gordon Ramsay ditches California, moves restaurant HQ to Texas

High-profile Houston Democrats face corruption allegations

Chicago robbers steal watches worth millions from luxury car dealer

It’s time to retire the ‘defund the police’ slogan (SF Chronicle)

Where does stolen Bay Area merchandise go? The answer points to why retail crime is surging

Brazen crime, open drug use and trashed streets have some San Franciscans saying they’ve had enough

CNN, MSNBC Cheer Newsom Going After Guns to Spite Supreme Court on Abortion

Keeping Poor People In Their Place

Iowa Dem Promoted Radical Groups That Bail Out Violent Criminals, Work to Abolish Police

STUDY: NewsGuard Ratings System Heavily Skews in Favor of Left-Wing Outlets

Penn Swimmers Speak to Crushing Reality of Males Invading Female Sports

Brave: Chris Wallace Comes Out Of Closet As Fake News Journalist  Babylon Bee.

Dems Panic As Party Loses Grip Over Hispanic Voters

Liberal Baltimore Sun Nukes Conservative Columnist Cal Thomas

CNN: ‘Terrified’ Democrats Facing ‘Existential Crisis’  Apparently nobody wants to vote for crazy people.

Facebook Exec Says Society to Blame, Not Facebook

Opponents Of Trans Penn Swimmer Dismissed as ‘Transphobes’

Rudolph Changes Name To Rolanda, Dominates Female Reindeer Games  Babylon Bee.

China Plans to Pay American Influencers to Promote Beijing Olympics Amid Boycotts

Saint Louis University Threatens to Expel Student for Posting Flyers Promoting Conservative Speaker’s Event

What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining

Environmental groups are pushing for more agriculture regulations. Farmers say they’re already strapped.

No, California shouldn’t extend the life of its last nuclear plant. There are better ways to fight climate change (LA Times)

Minnesota lake ice shrinking as climate change warms winters (WEAU)

Charleston church attempts to bring attention to sea level rise (Charleston Post Courier) Hip, and trendy!

How the holiday buying season adds fuel to a rapidly warming planet (The Conversation CA)

New Miss Universe Urges ‘Action’ on Climate Change: Choice to ‘Kill or Save Nature’  Perhaps they ought to change the name to Miss Woke Universe.

Study: Cleared Tropical Forest Regrowth Helps Slow Climate Change  Who knew?

Rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities

The Looking Glass World Of “Climate Injustice” — Part III

CPUC Guts Solar Power in name of “equity,” adds $8/kW monthly charge paid to PGE.

Media, Liberals Quick to Blame Deadly Tornadoes on Climate Change

Mitchell & Leftist Climate Crusader Exploit Deadly Tornado to Sell Biden Agenda

California Looks To Stab Rooftop Solar Customers In The Back With Massive Incentive Rollback, New Fees

January 6 committee releases resolution recommending holding Meadows in contempt of Congress

Roberts court’s ‘stench’ began when it undermined Voting Rights Act and America’s democracy diplomacy (The Hill) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’/

Tapper: Trump tried to kill democracy once. He’ll do it again (CNN) In the Narrative Media, ‘democracy’ means ‘Democrat vote fraud’.

SNL’s Michael Che Nails Fox News Host Ainsley Earhardt’s Awful Christmas Tree Fire Take (Daily Beast) When these guys hit puberty, they’re going to be awesome.

The clear and present danger of Jim Jordan & Co. (The Hill)

Ex-Adviser Peter Navarro: Trump Ordered Me to Defy Congressional Subpoena (Daily BeastO Uh, guyd? Trump is no longer President – he can’t order anybody to do anything.

Trump’s Dark-Money Machine Gets a Makeover—and New Owners (Daily Beast) All Trump! All the time!

Distinguished persons of the week: The D.C. Circuit shuts down Trump (Washington Post) All Trump! All the time!

Atlantic Magazine Admits that January 6 Committee Has Flopped for Democrats

Why The Russiagate Scandal Outranks The Rest

Hillary Warns ‘End Of Democracy’ If Trump Wins In 2024; MSNBC Gets Even More Dramatic With Biden Overthrow

Two Common Over-the-Counter Compounds Reduce COVID-19 Virus Replication by 99% in Early Testing

Panic? US Mega-Corporations Rush To Abandon Vax Mandate

Fauci Undermined Trump, Misled Americans on COVID; ‘I Was Stunned at What I Saw,’ Dr. Scott Atlas Says

UK Reports First Death With Omicron Variant As BoJo Sees “Tidal Wave” Of Infections By Christmas

Austria Ends COVID Lockdown Measures For The Vaxx’d As Tens Of Thousands Protest Mandatory Jabs

Researchers find a treatable indicator of blood clotting in Covid patients

Doctor Says He Was Fired For Trying To Treat COVID Patients With Ivermectin

Uncertain Olympic COVID Protocols Have NHL Stars Worried

San Francisco Drug Overdose Deaths Nearly Triple COVID  Lock ’em down!

Hospitals Dropping Vax Mandate Due To Labor Shortages, Court Order

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The Council on American-Islamic Relations is defending one of its top officials who described mainstream Jewish groups and synagogues as “enemies” that “are working to harm you” in a recent speech to Muslim American activists, after Jewish organizations denounced her comments as anti-Semitic.

CAIR, which maintains close relations with some Democratic lawmakers, including Reps. Ilhan Omar (Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), and Pramila Jayapal (Wash.), praised its Bay Area director Zahra Billoo as a “widely respected civil rights activist” and said it was “so grateful for the courage she demonstrates in her civil rights work.” The group claimed her speech was being mischaracterized and called the allegations of anti-Semitism a “blatant lie” and “smear campaign.”

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I’ve been away from politics, so I had no idea that the Biden admin was flying illegal immigrants into the country. This feels like treason to me, but I guess it is just another day amid the ruins of our Republic. Ron DeSantis, however, is fighting back.

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Senator Elizabeth Warren recently stated that rising prices were due to corporations increasing their profits.

“This isn’t about inflation, this is about price gouging for these guys”.

It is simply incorrect.

No, corporations have not doubled their profits, and rising prices are not due to the evil doings of businesses. If evil corporations are to blame for rising prices in 2021, as Elizabeth Warren says, I imagine that they were magnanimous and generous corporations when there was low or no inflation, right?

Inflation is the tax of the poor.

It destroys the purchasing power of wages and engulfs the little savings that workers accumulate. The rich can protect themselves by investing in real assets, real estate and financial, the poor cannot.

Inflation is not a coincidence, it is a policy.

Elizabeth Warren is not an economist, she is a law professor. (And not even a good law professor, despite her being an affirmative-action hire at Harvard.) She has demonstrated that she knows nothing about economics beyond her socialist ideology and her proglodyte puritanism.

ZMan does a deep dive.

In a rules-based society, people who break the rules should suffer consequences commensurate with the damage done by the rule breaking. A general principle of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence is that the punishment fits the crime. If the crime, however, prevents a much larger crime from occurring, the rule breaking ceases to be a crime and becomes a public service. While this theory makes sense to a sensible person, its abuse by the deranged and dangerous suggests a serious flaw.

Then there is the issue of the media. In the old analog days, it was easy to make an exception for the press. In these cases, they were treated like neutrals. Even though they knew the material they were reporting was illegally obtained, they were allowed to report on it because a free press trumps government secrecy. In the digital age where we no longer have a free press or actual reporters, this no longer makes sense. The media is just the marketing arm of the unofficial ruling party.

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The Psalmist advises us, “Put not your trust in princes, in sons of men, in whom there is no salvation.” (Ps. 146:3) The author was thinking of eternal salvation, but the sentiment is true for political salvation, too.

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lorida Gov. Ron DeSantis set $8 million in his 2022–23 budget to transport illegal immigrants out of The Sunshine State. He proposed the spending in the Freedom First Budget (pdf) to protect against harms resulting from illegal immigration. The spending may include the transportation of unauthorized aliens located within Florida to other states or the District of Columbia.

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Chesa Boudin ignores global best practices for crime reduction and is undermining his own goals.

Experts say Jussie Smollett is in ‘matrix of arrogance’ as he awaits sentencing

Fordham U. prof fired after mixing up two black students in class

Most of Amazon’s Pollution-Spewing Warehouses Are Built In Communities of Color (Gismodo) God forbid poor black people should have jobs.

Iran threatens sanctions against US over treatment of Black Americans

Incompetent Kamala Harris is even worse than you think

Joe Biden: Destroying the Planet

On Inflation: Friday’s 7% Increase In Consumer Prices Is 11% When House Prices Are Added

US Formally Ends Combat Mission In Iraq, But No Troops Are Leaving

NPR Is UPSET: Poll Finds Bad Biden Numbers, Dems Not Getting Credit for Massive Spending

Dems Panic Over ‘Build Back Better’ Impasse As Child Tax Credit Set To Expire

Iranian Terror Group Protected by Biden Aided Him in 2020 Election

Titleist Bans “Let’s Go Brandon” Personalization Of Its Golf Balls

Biden health team ruled out free Covid tests for all over cost, logistics

This Amazon program has funneled thousands to anti-vax activists during the pandemic (Washington Post)

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ends School Mask Mandate

Pfizer Jab Is Only 23% Effective Against Omicron, South African Study Finds

“What is wrong with physicians?”

Hardcore vaccine refuseniks could need deradicalising like terrorists…

German Schoolchildren Subjected To ‘Ritual Humiliation’ Over Their Vaccine Status

Four States Calling In National Guard To Alleviate Healthcare Staffing Crisis

Professor: COP26 Seeded UK Omicron Covid Outbreak

China Creates “Humanized Pigs” To Be Used In COVID Research

Paragon of COVID-19 Wisdom? NBA Getting Ravaged By Pandemic

Hospitalizations, Mortality Cut In Half After Brazilian City Offered Ivermectin To Everyone Pre-Vaccine

SNL’s Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert Prove Just How ‘Dumb’ They Are (Daily Beast)

The Good News for the GOP Is Only Temporary (Politico)

After 50 rioters sentenced for January 6 insurrection, a debate rages over what justice looks like (CNN) It looks like BLM and Antifa rioters get a free pass.

How Dr. Oz went from being Oprah’s protégé to Trump’s cheerleader (CNN) And therefore must be destroyed.

EA Games Tells Kyle Rittenhouse His Name Could “Harm” Other Gamers

Stelter Ignores CNN’s Pedo Problem, Lashes Out at Fox News and Republicans

Pfizer scientist turned anti-vaxxer Dr Mike Yeadon wins award for pseudoscience

Stretch! Don Lemon Tries to Blame Right-Wingers for Surge in Traffic Deaths

Biden uses tornado tragedy to push climate agenda, suggests storms are ‘consequence of the warming’

What New York needs to look like as sea levels rise (Fast Company) And what color tie the Emperor needs to wear with his new clothes.

A white Christmas is less likely for many. The Grinch to blame is climate change (CNN)

Wetlands point to extinction problems beyond climate change (The Hill)

The Real Climate And Health Crisis

Climate Dreams and Energy Realities

Recent Tornadoes are Due to Unusually Cold Weather

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Here’s looking at you,  kid.

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Can you imagine sound travels in the same way as light does? A research team at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) discovered a new type of sound wave: the airborne sound wave vibrates transversely and carries both spin and orbital angular momentum like light does. The findings shattered scientists’ previous beliefs about the sound wave, opening an avenue to the development of novel applications in acoustic communications, acoustic sensing, and imaging.

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The race to create the weirdest flying taxi seems to never end.

Now, developers from a South African startup Phractyl have unveiled a hybrid bird-plane with its concept “Macrobat,” which is unlike anything that the industry had created before. With tracked feet, bird legs, a tilting cabin, and tilting wings, the aircraft promises a ‘near-vertical takeoff and landing (NVTOL),” even from unprepared terrains.

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The technology behind cyclotech’s cyclo-rotors is a mechanism that was patented almost 100 years ago, although never before used for an aircraft. wing blades are integrated inside a spinning cylindrical tube to form each propeller. the angle of the blades can be changed during flight to enable rapid redirection. in comparison, other eVTOLs need time to transition from vertical to normal flight mode for take-off and landing.

Steven Hayward at Power Line.

I think we can now confidently declare that Yale is the most disgraceful major university in America. On top of the shameful behavior of Yale Law’s Stasi-like diversicrats in the now famous “Trap House” student email, we have recently learned of the fuss about a lecture from Dr. Sally Satel to Yale’s School of Medicine several months ago, based on her extended time living in Ohio and studying the opioid crisis up close. (Sally was a guest on our podcast two years ago discussing her upcoming project. It should be noted that she’s been a long-time lecturer at the Yale Psychiatry department, and has also worked extensively at drug treatment clinics.)

Sally has long been a critic of how political correctness has been corrupting medicine, such as in her book PC MD. She’s also disputed the ubiquitous claims that disparate health outcomes among the races are the result of racism, in The Health Disparities Myth (co-authored with Jonathan Klick).

To paraphrase the old internet clickbait cliche, you’ll totally believe what happened next (because it is so predictable): A “concerned group of Yale Psychiatry residents” issued a letter of complaint.

18 Steps to a Democratic Breakdown (Washington Post)

‘It’s bringing people to tears’: SECOND UPenn swimmer speaks out against trans Lia Thomas competing for the women’s team and says the crowd was silent when she won most recent meet

Biden Rips Kellogg’s For Trying To Hire Permanent Replacements For Strikers (Huffington Post) Look for … the Union label….

Scientists Take a Stand Against ‘Woke Math’

What if Wokeness Is a Russian Conspiracy to Ruin America?

A Dozen Major US Cities Hit All-Time Murder Records With 3 Weeks Still Left In 2021  All run by Democrats.

Biles Quit on Teammates During Olympics, Awarded Time Athlete of the Year A non-participation trophy?

Why Can’t We Talk About the Murder Wave?

Wanted: Social Justice Drones – Schools Hiring Teachers With ‘Cultural Competency’

Lyin’ Brian Williams Does It Again: Fabricates False Story About Newsmax

Russia hoax whitewash era begins (5)

New York orders mask mandate for indoor public spaces statewide Time to leave.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58913875 (CNBC)

Pennsylvania’s high court strikes down school mask mandate

COVID-19 A Pandemic Of Fear “Manufactured” By Authorities: Yale Epidemiologist

Unvaxxed In Austria Could Be Imprisoned For A Year

EU Sees Signs That 4th COVID Wave Is Already Slowing

WHO/CDC: Zero Omicron Deaths In The World, Only 1 Hospitalized Across 22 States In US  But you still need to wear a mask.

Navy Destroyer #2 Officer Fired Over Refusal To Get Covid-19 Vax Or Tested  Time to leave.

Capitol attack panel obtains PowerPoint that set out plan for Trump to stage coup (The Guardian) Oh, I don’t think so.

Mark Meadows sues Nancy Pelosi, January 6 panel members

Kanye West publicist pressed Georgia election worker to confess to bogus fraud charges (Reuters)

What you learn after 350 hours of Joe Rogan (The Verge) “Meet the reporter dedicated to cataloging Joe Rogan’s bonkers claims”

Jan. 6 crossed a line. We need to say so before it’s too late for democracy. (Washington Post) “Democracy” as used by the Narrative Media means “vote fraud by Democrats”.

The Possible End Of American Democracy As We Know It (NPR) “Democracy” as used by the Narrative Media means “vote fraud by Democrats”.

Judge upholds prosecutors’ use of felony obstruction law in January 6 cases in pivotal ruling (CNN)

CBS Frets to First Lady: Aren’t You ‘Frustrated’ By Republicans?

Behold NY Times Fairness: ‘Archconservative, Hard-Right’ GOP Hates Governing

Smollett Convicted of Hoax, CNN Turns It Into Fierce Attack on… Sean Hannity?

Will New York Times, Washington Post Return Pulitzers for Misleading ‘Russia Collusion’ Stories?  Hint: No.

Border agents crushed after Senate Democrats confirm controversial Biden CBP nominee: ‘He’s pretty much hated’

Biden halts US funding for new fossil fuel projects overseas

CNN Tries to Spin Terrible Inflation News as ‘Sign of a Really Strong Economy’

Poll Finds Public Confidence In ‘Woke’ Military Is In Free Fall

CNN Hits Biden From The Left, Says No Plan to Protect Democracy  The term ‘democracy’, as used in the Narrative Media, means ‘vote fraud by Democrats’.

Scared Former NY Times White House Reporter Begs Media Dems: Go Easy on Biden!

Inflation Surges Near 40-Year High, Wages Aren’t Keeping Up

Native Americans’ farming practices may help feed a warming world (Washington Post)

S.F.’s plans to protect the Embarcadero from earthquakes and sea level rise could transform the Ferry Building

Help us support those on the frontline of the climate emergency (The Guardian) ITS AN EMERGENCY! GIVE US MONEY!

Climate change: Four cheap ways to save energy at home (BBC)

Reinventing the Battery Can Save Us From Climate Disaster (Daily Beast)

The father of environmental justice, on whether we’re all doomed (Vox) Of course we are – haven’t you been listening?

Toxic legacy: The fight to end environmental racism in Canada (Al-Jezeera)

The Man Who Predicted Climate Change (The New Yorker)

Magical coral spawning event gives reefs renewed hope

Promoters of Polar Bear Catastrophe in Hudson Bay Gloss Over Recent Good Ice Conditions

Fleeing Global Warming? ‘Climate Havens’ Aren’t Ready Yet

Critics Savage Progressive Climate Change Satire ‘Don’t Look Up’

The debate about nuclear power and climate change

Geothermal Everywhere: A New Path For American Renewable Energy Leadership

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“This project is a game changer for Habitat for Humanity,” said Janet V. Green, CEO of Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg. “We’re selling an affordable home to a family four days before Christmas, and at the same time, we’re finding solutions to build more efficient homes.”

The three-bedroom house will feature 1,200 square feet of living space, as well as two full baths.

In order to complete the project, Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and Greater Williamsburg partnered with Alquist and broke ground in July. Alquist used concrete in place of lumber to 3D print the walls, saving an estimated 15% per square foot in building costs.

The Other McCain is delightfully dyspeptic today.

One of the wonderful things about the Biden presidency is that, when things go wrong, Democrats can no longer blame Trump — and a whole lot of stuff is going wrong now. We are at the stage of events famously referenced by H.L. Mencken: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

Paul Mirengoff at Power Line.

We have noted the rapid decline of the Democrats’ popularity among Latinos. A group (if it makes sense to refer to such a diverse collection of voters as such) that has strongly supported Democrats until recently now is evenly split in its backing of the two parties, according to recent polls.

Ruy Teixeira argues that the news on Latino voters is even worse than now perceived. It’s noteworthy that Teixeira says this. In 2004, he, along with John Judis, wrote The Emerging Democratic Majority. They predicted that the rise of America’s Latino population would confer clear majority status on Democrats in the coming decades.

To be fair to Teixeira, I should point out, as Kyle Smith trenchantly does, that in 2004 “the Democratic Party was not yet a cult of lunatics dedicated to explaining that men can give birth, gigantic new federal spending programs reduce inflation, the comptroller of the currency should be someone who believes in ‘ending banking as we know it,’ energy production should be re-outsourced to Saudi Arabia and Latinos should be referred to as ‘Latinx.’”

53 die in horror crash of truck smuggling migrants in Mexico

Biden and Harris acted as ‘accomplices to a race hoax’ by amplifying Jussie Smollett’s claims

Migrant caravan brings highway in central Mexico to stand still

Biden’s Bill Should Be Called ‘Build Beijing Back Better,’ Mike Pence Says

University Shielding Biden’s Records Must Provide More Information Justifying Decision: Court

Inflation Surges to 40-Year High

Meet Rachel Rollins

Biden Megadonor Scores $500 Million Federal Loan for Solar Company

Biden Supported Stripping Atlanta of All Star Game; Beijing Not so Much

Covid-19 patients at this hospital are dying ‘at a rate we’ve never seen die before’ — and it’s taking a toll on health care workers (CNN) TIME TO PANIC!

Omicron in Oakland: How a Wisconsin wedding with ‘super responsible’ vaccinated people led to outbreak

Guillain-Barré Syndrome After Covid-19 Vaccination in US Vaccine Safety Datalink

ALERT: Biden on Track To Surpass Trump in COVID Deaths by Year’s End

Illinois Bill Proposes To Strip Unvaxxed Of Their Health Insurance

Whither Superspreader Events?

NY Judge Sides Against Scientist Father, Rules 11-Year-Old Daughter Must Get Vaxxed

Maine Governor Activates National Guard To Help At Hospitals After Mandate Forced Out Hundreds

EU Members Plan To Bring Back Vaccine Passport, Require Booster Shots

Sweden & Germany: No Deaths In Children Due To COVID

This chewing gum traps the coronavirus

SARS-CoV-2 infects human adipose tissue and elicits an inflammatory response  So don’t be fat.

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?