TOYOTA SIENNA tries to make the minivan cool.

TODAY IS THE LAST DAY for two-day shipping from Amazon. Which is free if you have Amazon Prime, or are buying certain photo and video stuff.

CENSORING F. SCOTT FITZGERALD at Yale. “If even quotes from Fitzgerald which have to be misinterpreted to be offensive can be banned at Yale, I fear these administrators will fall down and die the first time they watch an episode of Family Guy or South Park.”

JANE HAMSHER DEFECTS TO FOX: “Forget the junior Congressman from Alabama who is defecting to the Republicans. The big defection of the day was the decision by Jane Hamsher, proprietor of the left-wing Firedoglake group blog and organizer of the Hadassah Lieberman boycott, to appear on Fox News to call for the Democratic health care proposals to be defeated. While Hamsher is ultra-liberal, she points out that the Senate bill will lead to increased costs on the middle class.”

MAURA FLYNN: Build-A-Climate Scare: Why You Should Boycott Build-A-Bear.

ANDREW KLAVAN’S CHRISTMAS GHOST STORY.

JENNIFER RUBIN: Black Panther case will heat up in January.

HOW SUCCESS killed Duke Nukem.

THE LAST OF THE MILQUETOAST TRIUMVIRATE is gone.

NEW HAMPSHIRE YOUTUBE ARREST GETS BIGGER: “A Portsmouth, NH woman who was roughed up by Portsmouth police officers during her arrest, an event that was caught on video and posted to You Tube, will now fight the charges against her. Police say they did nothing wrong. The video is certain to be a key piece of evidence.”

A MESSAGE TO THE TROOPS from Brian Williams.

FRANK MUNGER: Will ORNL Hook Up Jaguar and Kraken? “There they sit, side by side, in the downstairs portion of ORNL’s National Center for Computational Sciences, two of the three fastest computers in the world. Jaguar is No. 1 and Kraken No. 3 on the recently released Top500 list. Both are Cray XT5 systems, virtually identical except that Jaguar has more cabinets and a different decorating scheme. It apparently would be easy enough to plug the two petascale systems together and run them as one, offering a theoretical capability that would simply blow the socks off anything seen yet.”

GRAND ROUNDS IS UP!

IN THE MAIL: The Sugarless Plum: A Ballerina’s Triumph Over Diabetes.

VIA MICKEY KAUS: “The arc of Obama’s administration so far: They took on all the big issues that will affect people … in 10-25 years! Issues affecting people today, not so much.”

HOPE, CHANGED: Q3 GDP revised sharply downward — again. “The third-quarter growth looks a lot more anemic than advertised by the Obama administration, especially when one considers the gimmicks that temporarily boosted its performance. Most troubling is Commerce’s poor performance in analyzing economic conditions. . . . If they got pressured into stating overly cheerful numbers, it’s something else entirely. That would be something Congress should investigate … if we had an independent Congress at all.” We will, before the statute of limitations expires . . .

PETER WEHNER: The Health-Care Backlash. “This health-care bill may well be historic, but not in the way the president thinks. I’m not sure we’ve ever seen anything quite like it: passage of a mammoth piece of legislation, hugely expensive and unpopular, on a strict party-line vote taken in a rush of panic because Democrats know that the more people see of ObamaCare, the less they like it.”

MORE TOWNHALL WACKINESS FOR CAROL SHEA-PORTER.

LOOKING FORWARD TO A SUPREME COURT Privileges Or Immunities Extravaganza.

CHOCOLATE: Racism in China.

BAD PUBLICITY FOR OBAMA IN DOONESBURY?

GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE: Trust-Buster, or Cartel-Builder. Probably the latter, sold as the former. “Needless to say, if you think monopoly bargaining is the problem in health care, our cost problem is going to get worse, not better. Think of the one area where we see the most customer complaints: quasi-public utilities like the cable and phone companies. They also have a rather ponderous rate of innovation, and no particular interest in controlling their costs. That’s not an accident; it’s a feature of a regulatory structure that starts from provider costs and works up to what extra percentage they will be allowed to charge essentially captive consumers.”

RASMUSSEN: 46% strongly disapprove of Obama, only 25% strongly approve.

STEVE CROWDER: Detroit In Ruins: What Entitlement and Government Spending Buy You.

HOW IMPORTANT IS CONTROLLING CARBON EMISSIONS? NOT VERY. Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation in Congress on Monday to protect a million acres of the Mojave Desert in California by scuttling some 13 big solar plants and wind farms planned for the region. I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who keep telling me it’s a crisis start acting like a crisis.