I GUESS HIS SECRET WARP DRIVE WORK IS PAYING OFF: Elon Musk renames Big Falcon Rocket to ‘Starship.’

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Detroit Board of Ed Approves Process to Remove Dr. Ben Carson Name From School.

STOP PRETENDING YOU DON’T LOVE THANKSGIVING — you get to tell your whole family that they’re fascists:

‘Anyway, I’m sorry, Cody. I’m sorry this family, except me, failed you.

‘And while Papa’s chat with the imaginary guy in the sky involved lots of thank yous for lots of things, make no mistake — every thank you was for the privilege of being white.’

Suddenly Cody pipes up and says that isn’t what Thanksgiving is about. ‘But Aunt Lauren, I thought Thanksgiving was about being grateful, like I am grateful for you!’

I’m literally shaking.

Is this 5-year-old mansplaining to me?

Heh. Read the whole thing, which is a pitch-perfect impersonation of the “Progressive” mindset this time of year.

RUSSIA’S PINPRICK WAR IN EASTERN UKRAINE HAS GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS

OH, CANADA: Celine Dion launches bizarre gender neutral kids clothing line.

These clothes are as ugly as you’d think. For one thing, they have lots of skulls. That’s not normal, either. Children are a fountain of life; they are vivacious, lively, inspiring, energetic, growing. It’s gross and unnatural to have children and dead men’s skulls together.

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I think she was trying to be funny, but you can’t miss the sheer creepiness of her saying that “our children are not ours.”

The contagion is spreading out beyond the Comcast boardroom.

MARINE LAVS GO AIRBORNE: This post analyzes the recent decision by the U.S. Army to give the 82nd Airborne Division a light armored vehicle and why the Army decided to procure the LAV-25 instead of other vehicles.

U.S. Army is obtaining from the Marines some LAV (Light Armored Vehicle) 25A2 8×8 vehicles…At 13.4 tons the LAV 25 is light enough to be air dropped.

The post includes a discussion of the ill-fated M551 Sheridan “airborne tank.”

Here’s a photo from 2013 of a USMC LAV-25.

COOL: Major Advances In Body Scanning.

THE STRUGGLE AHEAD:  Remarks by Michael Uhlmann.

I’M READY FOR MY CLOSE-UP, MR. OBAMA: Where does politics end and entertainment begin?

Barack Obama has gone from “You didn’t build that” to full-blown entrepreneurship. In the New York Post, Isabel Vincent has a story detailing the book deals, production deals, merchandising agreements, and speaking fees that are now bringing in millions for Obama and his wife, Michelle. One detail about Obama Inc. stands out among the rest: the deal the former first family has signed with Netflix. Vincent writes: “The $50 million, multi-year deal calls on the Obamas ‘to produce a diverse mix of content, including the potential for scripted series, unscripted series, docuseries, documentaries, and features.’”

It’s like Obama is attempting to become the world’s biggest celebrity or something. Who could have seen this coming?

SPENGLER: Yes, it’s Cold War with China — so win it like the last Cold War.

JUST NBC THE HYPOCRISY: Oops! Joe Scarborough’s Past Ideas About Al Sharpton and Racism Come Back to Bite Him.

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: Ocasio-Cortez for Speaker of the House?

THE NEW CIVILITY: Hawaii Congresswoman Calls Trump ‘Saudi Arabia’s Bitch.’

YEP. I LOVE THE WAY SIGS FEEL IN MY HAND, BUT I SHOOT BEST WITH A GLOCK THAT I DON’T PARTICULARLY LIKE: “It turns out that there is near-zero correlation between a gun ‘feeling good in the hand’ standing there unloaded at the gun counter and which gun one can shoot the best at speed on actual targets.” This is one of several reasons to distinguish between guns one shoots for fun, and guns one relies on for defense. My Ruger LCP is no fun to shoot, for example, but it’s quite accurate and easy to carry. No reason to shoot it more often than needed for practice.

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YOUR DAILY TREACHER: The NYT Has an ‘Angry Uncle Bot’ to Help You Navigate Thanksgiving with Your Family. “According to the robot programmed by a liberal, if you want to talk to somebody about hot-button issues over Thanksgiving dinner, the only acceptable responses are to agree with the liberal or to avoid openly disagreeing with the liberal. Anything else and you’re just an angry uncle.”

Do not taunt the angry uncle bot.

BIG FRANK: Frank Rizzo’s Blue-Collar Philly — Trump Voters before Trump.

FASTER, PLEASE: Lockheed Martin Has Started Building NASA’s X-59 Experimental Supersonic Jet: The X-59 can reportedly break the sound barrier without registering so much as a ‘thud.’

HEALTH: For the first time, researchers say Facebook can cause depression: The findings are published in the December Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology.

Related: Social Media As Social Disease.

HEADLINES FROM THE BIRTHPLACE OF LIBERTY: Defrosting your windscreen wrongly can mean a £60 fine and three penalty points.

DISPATCHES FROM THE INTERSECTION OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY AND THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Michigan College Cancels The Vagina Monologues Because ‘Not All Women Have Vaginas.’

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