LIKE ANYONE HAS THE TIME TO CLEAN THEIR CLOSETS:  Americans love hoarding junk.

WELL, GOOD LUCK WITH THAT: “Roy Moore does not concede, states ‘God is always in control.’??”

THE WONDERS OF CHINESE COMMUNISM:  ‘Rentable parents’ will meet your teacher or significant other.

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MY PAPER ON MILITARY COUPS JUST KEEPS LOOKING MORE TIMELY: Movie director flirts with the idea of a military coup ‘to defend democracy here at home’ from the GOP.

AP IS NOW PROJECTING a Doug Jones win in Alabama, despite Gloria Allred’s best efforts. But a lot of GOPers ought to be wondering if Mo Brooks would’ve won. (Answer: Yes.)

SKYNET SMILES, AND SAYS “OH, YOU’LL KNOW:” Will AI Ever Become Conscious, And How Would We Know if It Did?

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#BELIEVETHEWOMEN: “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he was the victim of a fake news hit on Tuesday, and has turned over to Capitol Police a document that purports to detail lurid sexual harassment accusations by a former staffer.”

NATIONAL JOURNAL: Why Bredesen is Democrats’ Only Hope in Tennessee.

He’s a good guy, and the only Democrat with statewide prospects anymore. But I wonder how well he’ll play in a Year Of The Woman rerun, given his administration’s history of being charged with sexual-assault coverups. Odd that this National Journal piece by Alex Rogers didn’t even mention that.

I wrote this about Bredesen’s national chances for the Wall Street Journal, back in 2005.

PROF. JACOBSON: “Democrats’ #Resistance is creating a genuine constitutional crisis.” “It reflects a subject I, and others, have been focusing on since election night — the refusal of Democrats and #NeverTrump Republicans to accept the outcome of the election not just emotionally, but as to the transfer of power that continues to this day, over a year since the 2016 election.”

IT’S NOT OVER IN WISCONSIN: Schimel says Ethics Commission chairman should recuse himself from matters related to leak investigation. “Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel is disputing arguments made by the state’s Ethics Commission and asking its chairman to recuse himself from matters related to a recently released Department of Justice report. . . . Schimel argued Halbrooks, who was a witness in the first John Doe investigation into Gov. Scott Walker and his associates during his time as Milwaukee County Executive, should recuse himself from any involvement related to the most recent DOJ investigation. The first John Doe investigation was used as a basis for the second secret probe and, Schimel argued, a third investigation DOJ refers to as ‘John Doe III.’ The ‘previously unknown and secret investigation into a broad range of Wisconsin Republicans’ was uncovered during the DOJ investigation of the Guardian leak.”

THE DOUBLE STANDARD FOR TRUMP SPOKESWOMAN SARAH SANDERS:

Liberal male columnists have written about Sanders in terms that, if applied to a progressive woman, would be recognized as despicable and borderline misogynistic. In the most infamous example, Los Angeles Times writer David Horsey called her a “slightly chunky soccer mom” in a scathing column. It was so clearly offensive that he was forced to issue an apology: “I want to apologize to Times readers — and to Sarah Huckabee Sanders — for a description that was insensitive and failed to meet the standards of our newspaper. I’ve removed the offending description.”

Just when you think a media establishment that has lost its collective mind, credibility, and sense of decency since last November can’t go any lower, it does. These sexist, cruel taunts have little to do with Sanders’s job performance or making sure the American public gets the facts from a sometimes fact-averse White House. Viewed from a wider lens, the treatment of Sarah Sanders has little to do with Sanders at all. The vicious ridicule is directed at all conservative women — particularly women from the South — whom the Left will never forgive for helping elect Donald Trump. It’s on a continuum with attacks against conservative women such as Kellyanne Conway, Ivanka Trump, Melania Trump, and Betsy DeVos. The hatred is aimed at all female Trump voters — Sanders is simply a proxy. A year that began with faux feminists participating in the Women’s March, where aggrieved women loudly pledged to defend their sisterhood against sexist bullying or attacks, is ending with a whimper.

As all the best people who hold themselves out as progressive intellectuals believing in hope, tolerance and diversity told me about Sarah Palin in 2008, “She’s not a woman, she’s a Republican.”

HOT MIC IS LIVEBLOGGING the Alabama election returns.

CONTEMPT FOR YOUR CUSTOMERS WILL DO THAT: NFL woes: Three straight months as America’s most hated sport. But hey, Roger Goodell just got a big-bucks contract renewal.

SO IT WAS MORE ABOUT SOCIAL-CLIMATE CHANGE THAN, YOU KNOW, ACTUAL CLIMATE CHANGE: Cooking fire at a homeless encampment sparked Bel-Air blaze that destroyed homes, officials say.

SKYNET SMILES: Human race OVER: Fears ‘conscious’ killer robots will ‘end our evolution.’

WE’RE GONNA FIND OUT HE WAS A PARTNER IN FUSION GPS, AREN’T WE? Politico: Justice Department won’t disclose details on Mueller ethics waiver.