JANE FONDA ON WHETHER SHE’S ‘PROUD’ OF AMERICA: ‘No, but I’m Proud of the Resistance’ Against Trump.

Sackur followed up by asking if it is effective for celebrities to protest Trump at award ceremonies and whether she is “proud of the American today.”

“I don’t know, all I know is, and I say this as a dyed in wool Democrat, the Democratic Party has failed us,” Fonda said. “Clinton failed us, and in a way the Obama administration have all neglected the very people who voted for Trump, who used to be the base of the Democratic Party.”

Before joining any “resistance,” Fonda needs to ask herself why so many Obama voters switched to Trump.

PEOPLE HAVE MORE RIGHTS IN CRIMINAL CASES IF YOU DON’T TAKE A “LIVING CONSTITUTION” APPROACH: Georgia’s conservative Supreme Court: Compelled breathanalyzer tests violate state privilege against self-incrimination.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: How identity politics divided a campus: Meet the Reed student driven out of college for questioning a protest.

HMM: Amazon Patents Drone to Recharge Electric Cars While Driving.

What if electric cars could top up their metaphorical tanks not just faster than internal-combustion vehicles…but could recharge without even stopping at all?

It’s not a new idea—companies such as Qualcomm have explored wireless chargers built into the road surface to provide power on the go—but none of the past ideas have been quite as creative as an electric car-recharging drone system patented by Amazon, which recently received the stamp of approval from the United States Patent Office and was dug up by Greentech Media.

In a nutshell, the patent—which was filed in late June 2014 but was formally granted in early October of this year—describes a method in which electric vehicles would contact a central server when their batteries were running too low to reach their intended destination, prompting a computer to dispatch an unmanned flying machine with a supplementary battery pack. The drone and the car would wirelessly exchange information to sync up their speeds and locations; once they rendezvous, the car would deploy a retractable charger, and the drone would plug into the vehicle while in motion to pass along the needed juice.

I can’t even begin to imagine the liability problems of having a lithium-ion battery flying at highway speeds just feet above traffic.

TYLER O’NEIL: What Did Mueller Know? New Documents Show Clinton-Russia Scandal Dwarfs Anything on Trump’s Side.

ANN ALTHOUSE TO LARRY LESSIG: “Professor Lessig, you need a causation element.”

All this unproved “collusion” with Russia had less to do with the election’s outcome than Hillary’s own awfulness — and failure to campaign in key states. But if you want to find collusion with Russia, well, there’s this.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Sander & Steinbuch: Mismatch And Bar Passage: A School-Specific Analysis. “Past research on law school mismatch has been hampered by the absence of school-specific data, thus requiring scholars to estimate individual levels of mismatch through various indirect techniques. In this paper, the authors use data on nearly four thousand students at three law schools to directly measure mismatch levels based on LSAT scores or an academic index. The analysis shows large and statistically significant effects of mismatch; when one controls for mismatch, racial effects lose statistical significance. The results highlight the importance of mismatch in explaining both racial bar passage gaps and individual outcomes on the bar. The results also illustrate the great importance of individual school-level data across a range of schools in studying mismatch.”

ROCKET VALLEY, SOUTH KOREA: Yet another show of force.

RELATED: Another rocket live fire training exercise “providing South Korean and U.S. forces the ability to launch rockets from mobile locations and strike targets with minimal notice.”

YOU HAD ME AT SCI-FI MATERIALS: The sci-fi alloys inside tomorrow’s hi-tech watches.

FUNNY, MY SONS HAVEN’T BEEN THERE IN YEARS:  Bigfoot allegedly spotted in Northern California. (Mean?  Bah. Factual. You didn’t have to find shoes of extraordinary size that the local stores didn’t sell by the time they were 12.)

INDEED:  Masculinity Is the Solution to Weinstein-Like Scandals in Hollywood.

STRAIGHT UP RACISM:   Man Spits on Homeless Guy for ‘Making His Grandmother a Slave’.

I’M SORRY, DID ANYONE EXPECT TO GET MONEY OUT OF THE CLINTONS’ CLUTCHES?  Of Course: Clinton Foundation Says It Won’t Return $250K in #HarveyWeinstein Donations.

AND SPEAKING OF…   Gentle Reminder: Bowe Bergdahl is NOT a Victim!

YEAH, SOME OF US REMEMBER:  The Bergdahl Obamanation.

YOU KNOW, THIS SHOCKED FACE IS GETTING WORN OUT:  Bombshell Revelations about Russia and Obama’s Department of Justice.  Has everyone forgotten the “more flexibility” slip?

THEY NEED COMPETITION:  YouTube Suspends Account of Chinese Dissident.

GOOD!  Trump Pushes Tax Reform at Heritage Dinner .

AT AMAZON, Deals on Hunting & Fishing — clothing, and gear.

HILLARY CLINTON’S RUSSIAN SCANDAL:

The Hill reporters John Solomon and Alison Spann’s inquiry found that the FBI began investigating an effort by the Russian government to infiltrate the American nuclear materials industry as early as 2009. “Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States,” they reported.

These reporters were privy to documents revealing the scope of the FBI’s operation, which was extensive and supported the allegation that Moscow had “compromised” a Uranium trucking firm. All of this took place before the Russian energy firm Rosatom secured its first 17 percent stake in the American nuclear materials extraction company Uranium One in 2009. A year later, Rosatom won a majority stake in that company—a deal that had to be approved at the highest levels of the American government and which alarmed observers who fretted the national security implications of that kind of concession to Moscow.

Meanwhile, between 2009 and 2013, the Clinton Foundation was the recipient of four suspicious tranches of donations totaling $2.35 million from Russian-linked sources including Uranium One’s chairman. Former President Bill Clinton personally received half a million dollars for one speech in Moscow from a Russian government-linked investment bank that was promoting Uranium One stock. While the Uranium One deal was under consideration by the Treasury Department, that bank’s analysts were talking up the value of that firm’s stock.

Weird how little media attention this has gotten.

1967: IN 50 YEARS WE’LL HAVE FLYING CARS!

2017: Pole dancing is in line to become an Olympic sport within a decade.

WOMANSPLAINING: Men, you want to treat women better? Here’s a list to start with.

WELL, THIS IS DISTURBING: Nearly a third of Japanese people are entering their 30s without any sexual experience.

INSTITUTIONAL MISANDRY: “Men at Yale are bad in bed because they are bad at listening to women.” Count yourself lucky, sister — if they did listen to you, they probably wouldn’t want to have sex with you at all.

IMPORTANT ADVICE FOR WOMEN: Do not try to “cleanse” your vagina by sticking a cucumber in it.