EVERYTHING IS GETTING MASSIVELY MORE STUPID: Congresscreature trying to push gun control in the wake of Paris.

YEAH, IT SHOULD: Supreme Court Should Defend Freedom of Speech by Striking Down Texas Law that Muzzles Veterinarians.

WE ALL LIVE IN AN ONION WORLD: The Feminist Guide to Being a Foodie Without Being Culturally Appropriative. And if you don’t want to give hits to crazy people, the gist of the article is that if you enjoy the authentic cuisine of other traditions this means you’re “culturally appropriative” which is bad, because, you know, we’re all born with our cuisine engraved in our DNA, just like our language and our religion.  (Removes tongue from cheek before it pokes through.)  FORTUNATELY I’m an American.  Being culturally appropriative IS our culture.  We take other people’s food, clothing and entertainment traditions and we make it bigger, better and more amazing than the original culture could try.  And the feminist guide can put that in its pipe and smoke it!

POLITICALLY INCORRECT: Bill Maher Blasts Liberals For Believing That Muslims Share The Same Values. “This idea that all religions share the same values is bullshit and we need to call it bullshit. . . . If you are in this religion, you probably do have values that are at odds [with American ones]. This is what liberals don’t want to recognize.”

SO IN THIS STORY ABOUT THE ANTHONY BOURDAIN/GUY FIERI FEUD, THE REAL STORY IS IN THE COMMENTS:

My experience with Guy Fieri is personal in nature. It took place a couple of years ago in the Santa Rosa, CA airport. I was attempting to get myself and my mother through security and into the waiting area of this tiny airport. As I struggled with Mom in a wheelchair, wrangling luggage, and just trying to get settled, he approached me and asked what he could do to help. He said”How can I help you? Can I carry some luggage or push your Mom’s wheelchair? You look overwhelmed”. I explained to him that they were sending someone to help, to which he replied “Okay, but if you decide you need me, I’ll stick close by”. I thanked him, and thought to myself “there are so few people who would actually offer help, let alone a celebrity.” I don’t care what negativity is directed at Guy, I am a fan for life. So is my mom.

And there you are.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15. “After acquiring his entire elementary and secondary education from OpenCourseWare and MITx, Ahaan Rungta joined the MIT Class of 2019 at age 15.”

All is proceeding as I have foreseen.

PREDICTION: WE’LL SEE COLUMNS LIKE THIS WRITTEN BY PROFESSORS SOONER THAN YOU THINK. I worked in a video store for 25 years. Here’s what I learned as my industry died.

NAT HENTOFF: Suppression of Free Speech in Academia Is Out of Control.

OUCH:

KNOXVILLE’S MAYOR lashes out at critic. Amusingly, it’s former Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe. Here’s the column she’s unhappy with.

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SUSAN GOLDBERG: The Folks You Never Thank On Thanksgiving.

SNOW STORMS AND ICY BLIZZARDS SWEEP IN ACROSS THE UK.

London Independent hardest hit.

FREE UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA YOGA CLASS CANCELLED DUE TO ‘CULTURAL APPROPRIATION.’

“So, I assume this is what [Hillary’s] yoga emails were all about.”

WHEN DOCTORS CHANGE THEIR MINDS: Dealing With “Medical Reversal:”

The consequences of medical reversal are complicated. For starters, reversal challenges the notion that medicine is scientific — the premise that a century ago helped doctors to exorcise images of snake oil and hucksterism. But despite impressive progress, faith in medical leadership is currently at its lowest point in 50 years, a decline likely accelerated by a widespread sense that medical dogma often flip-flops.

On a practical level, reversals also mean accomplishing the near impossible: convincing people to abandon strongly-held convictions. Antibiotics have been used for ear infections for so long, and so pervasively, that years after studies showed they do more harm than good, parents and doctors continue to believe.

I don’t mind people changing their mind when new evidence comes in. It’s a bit rough, though, when they pretend to be infallible.

REMAIN CALM. ALL IS WELL. ISIS chemical terror threat sounds alarming but is unlikely.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Jimmy Carter is slagging Obama’s Mideast Policy. “I noticed that two of his secretaries of defense, after they got out of office, were very critical of the lack of positive action on the part of the president.”

ELECTRONIC MILITIA: Hacker Group ‘Anonymous’ Releases List of ISIS Attacks Set for Sunday.

PUTIN IS BETTER AT PR THAN OBAMA: Russia Sends Puppy To Paris To Replace Slain Police Dog.

Then again, Putin cares whether people like his country.

THE HOLLYWOOD SUPERSTAR AS VICTIM: HIV-Positive Charlie Sheen Blames ‘Unsavory and Insipid Women’ for His Failures.

AND SPEAKING OF ‘THE EVE OF DESTRUCTION:’ Al Gore’s January 27, 2016 Prediction is Coming Near: The Earth Will End From Overheating.

Which makes sense — after all, as NASA’s James Hansen warned on January 17, 2009, President Obama ‘has four years to save Earth.’ That no-so-final-countdown, one of many, quietly expired as well.

CHANGE: Quantum entanglement achieved at room temperature in semiconductor wafers.

AND ON ANOTHER EVE OF DESTRUCTION, TO BOOT: P. F. Sloan, Enigmatic Writer of ’60s Hit ‘Eve of Destruction,’ Dies at 70.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. President Obama Is Downright Insufferable On The Subject Of Syrian Refugees.