DAVE CHAPELLE TO SHOW-BUSINESS WOMEN: WOMAN UP! “One lady said, ‘Louis C.K. masturbated in front of me, ruined my comedy dreams,’ Word? Well then I dare say, madam, you may have never had a dream.”

“Come on man, that’s a brittle spirit. That is a brittle-ass spirit, that is too much, this grown-ass woman… Show business is just harder than that… I know that sounds fucked up, I’m not supposed to say that, but one of these ladies was like, ‘Louis C.K .was masturbating while I was on the phone with him.’ Bitch, you don’t know how to hang up a phone? How the fuck are you going to survive in show business if this is an actual obstacle to your dreams?”

RACIAL BIAS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT: Russia probe grand jury looks like ‘a Black Lives Matter rally,’ says witness.

LIST: 14 Great Pocket Pistols For Personal Defense.

FEAR AND LOATHING at the DOJ.

PAUL KRUGMAN ON ELECTION NIGHT: “If the question is when markets will recover, a first-pass answer is never.”

Today’s WSJ: Nasdaq Closes Above 7000 for First Time.

OBAMA VETERANS CONTINUE TO BECLOWN THEMSELVES OVER IRAN: Former CIA Director Brennan hits Trump strategy on Iran

“With wholesale condemnation of Iran and nuclear deal over past year, Trump Admin squandered opportunity to bolster reformists in Tehran and prospects for peaceful political reform in Iran,” Brennan tweeted. “Bluster is neither a strategy nor a mechanism for exercise of U.S. power and influence.” Because eight years of appeasement, including the lifting of sanctions, illegally sending hundreds of millions of cash straight to the Iranian government, and allegedly easing up on Hezbollah worked so well. I’ll take the Trump Administration’s moral clarity on Iran over that any day.

SO MUCH BIGOTRY OUT THERE: ‘This is uncomfortable’: World’s first father and daughter pole-dancing duo cause a stir on This Morning as viewers brand it ‘weird’ and ‘creepy.’

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THE LEFT IS TAKING JOHN C. CALHOUN’S NAME OFF OF COLLEGES, EVEN AS IT ADOPTS HIS CONSTITUTIONAL THEORIES: Can California Stop Employers From Consenting to Federal Immigration Inspections? An interesting federalism question raised by a new law that goes into effect on Monday.

100 YEARS. 100 MILLION LIVES. THINK TWICE.

As Roger Kimball tweets, “For some reason, this perspective was missing from The Red Century, The NY Times’s series celebrating Soviet Communism.”

Curiously though, Nicholas Kristof of the Times retweeted the link on Saturday, perhaps to atone for being used as a propaganda tool of the North Koreans. Here’s a flashback to a September Washington Examiner article headlined, “Nicholas Kristof in North Korea shares photos of ‘fun’ and pizza.”

BRUCE BAWER: Old Chestnuts to Mark a New Year.

IT’S COME TO THIS: NY Times’ White House correspondent compares Trump blocking people on Twitter to Iran shutting down the Internet.

IN WHICH I RESPOND TO SAMANTHA POWER’S ONLY COMMENT TO DATE ON THE IRAN PROTESTS:

THE INTERNET OF THINGS UNNECESSARY AND OVERPRICED SECURITY RISKS: Otto, maker of the $700 smart lock, suspends operations.

AS RICHARD FERNANDEZ SAYS, THE TORPEDOES THE DEMOCRATS PUT IN THE WATER HAVE CIRCLED BACK ON THEM: “Oh My God, This Is So F—ed Up:” Vanity Fair goes “Inside Silicon Valley’s Secretive, Orgiastic Dark Side.”

(Classical reference in headline.)

YES IT IS: Restricting the Deduction for State and Local Taxes Is a Big [Expletive Deleted] Deal.

AN OPEN LETTER TO JANUARY NEWBIES AT THE GYM. Some people gripe when the gym is crowded with people who won’t be there by the end of January. But I figure those people’s memberships are just subsidizing mine for the other 11 months out of the year.

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SOCIAL JUSTICE MEDIA: Twitter Suspends Mohammad Cartoonist Bosch Fawstin. “Yet those who threatened to KILL Fawstin are not banned.”

Bosch would have been treated better if he had threatened to cut somebody’s head off instead of drawing a cartoon — because wrongthink by the wrong people is worse than violence or threats of violence from the right people.

“GOT STUDENT DEBT? You’re not alone, but maybe it means you really didn’t graduate from college.” Harvard’s Kennedy School is telling a graduate (and the world) that he really isn’t a graduate until he pays off his tuition. Appealing to “fundamental principles of equity” (a legal phrase even more vague than Due Process) the graduate in question, entertainment industry veteran Stephen Powell, alleges in a defamation claim that:

“Harvard conferred an MPA degree on him in 1994, and is now suing Harvard seeking an order that Harvard be stopped from denying that he is a graduate of the Kennedy School,” states a December 22 court filing by Harvard. “However, Powell never paid Harvard for any of the costs of obtaining an MPA degree, and indeed deliberately avoided paying Harvard for the costs of that degree. Fundamental principles of equity dictate that Powell cannot claim entitlement to a degree without paying for it.”

This just doesn’t sound right, unless Harvard is admitting that they do not provide, you know, an education, but merely a piece of paper.

BUT MORE GUNS EQUALS MORE GUN DEATHS OR SOMETHING: Don’t Tell Anybody, But Accidental Shooting Deaths Are Way Down.

DID HELL FREEZE OVER OR WAS THIS HOUSE DEM PRAISING TRUMP MISQUOTED? I know it’s frigidly cold all over the country – so cold, according to Sen. Charles Grassley that politicians are keeping their hands in their own pockets! – but did this very liberal House Democrat really just praise President Trump on North Korea?

THE WHOLE APPROACH TO “CHILD PORN” NEEDS RETHINKING, AS WE KEEP SEEING CASES LIKE THIS: Child porn law goes nuts: 14-year-old girl charged for nude selfie. It’s absurd to say that teenagers aren’t mature enough to engage in this conduct, but are mature enough to be treated as felons if they do.

WHY NOT? OBAMA IGNORED THEM NINE YEARS AGO. For Some Reason, Obama Officials Want People to Ignore Iran Protests.