THEREBY EMBRACING A WORLD WITHOUT CIVILIZATION:  Justin Trudeau’s Canada Embraces a World Without Borders.

GOOD:  Jerome Corsi Challenges Robert Mueller.

HOW DO YOU SAY LEAD BALLOON IN FRENCH?   Macron’s Speech To Yellow Vest Protestors Channels Jimmy Carter’s Malaise Talk.

BUT I NEED MY EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ELEPHANT!  The Mule in Seat 1A, and His Turkey.

FOR THE TIMES, THEY ARE ACHANGING:  Making Your Luck.

WHY YES, I CAN GET WEIRD WHEN MY KID TAKES ME TO THE ZOO!  The Shoulder to Shoulder Option To Change the World.  (To quote my dad “centuries from now, when they unearth you intact, you’ll have me to thank for making you a martyr and a saint.”  Actually older son has come up with a plan to keep me energized in my late eighties: “I’ll just take mom to places like Whole Foods and museums, wind her up and watch her go.”)

HOW TO PICK A CHEF’S KNIFE.

I have a Henckel Twin that I like a lot.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: “If France can’t buy off the revolting Deplorables that means the global system is close to short on money. Like a Hollywood star in a drug haze and spending habit it finally finds itself overdrawn.”

Plus: “What’s worse is that according to the woke and Macron himself this same broke France has got to find terabucks to stop global warming and simultaneously cut back on destructive economic activity to save the planet. Where’s the money going to come from?”

UPDATE: Hmm.

THINGS THAT ARE NORMAL WHEN DEMOCRATS DO THEM ARE APPALLING AND EVIL WHEN REPUBLICANS DO THEM: Seth Barrett Tillman responds to lawprof hysteria over the apparently unprecedented phenomenon of gerrymandering.

IT WAS JUST THERE TO SUPPORT SURVEILLANCE AND A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR, SO IT ACCOMPLISHED ITS GOAL: Cohen’s ‘Appointment in Prague’ Was Dossier Bunk, Mueller Files Indicate.

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COLOR: On this day in 1781, Sir David Brewster, inventor of the kaleidoscope (among other things), was born.

OPEN THREAD: Hello, comment Tuesday.

INTERESTED IN GETTING A MASTER’S DEGREE IN LAW WHILE WORKING FULL-TIME? GMU Antonin Scalia Law School is Launching a New Juris Master (JM) Degree Program.

UPDATE: Got a few emails asking under what sort of circumstances someone might be interested in this degree. IMHO: (1) professionals like HR professionals, Capital Hill staff (we are 2 miles from DC), etc., who deal with legal issues all the time, and want to be better-versed in legal reasoning and lingo. (2) Someone who is pursuing a career in public policy, and wants the analytical rigor of law school without taking the LSAT or spending four years in part-time study. (3) Someone whose employer rewards/demands a master’s degree, but who wants to not just go through the motions but actually learn something important and useful.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Corporate Gun Control Fail: Dick’s May Have to Close 35 Stores Across 18 States.

CHANGE: 3 Reasons Behind the Meteoric Rise of Urgent Care Clinics. “Pharmacy clinics, typically staffed by nurses, provide basic first aid and preventative services like flu shots and physical exams. Emergency rooms are staffed by doctors, nurses and other health professionals trained save the lives of people suffering severe trauma, like victims of gun violence and car crashes and patients experiencing heart attacks and strokes, for example. These facilities are staffed and equipped to conduct surgery. Emergency departments are typically equipped with a wide array of diagnostic tools that allow medical professionals to do blood work, urine exams, X-rays and CAT scans.”

Related: No hospital, just an emergency ‘department’. They’re popping up all over. “Nearly every hospital chain is opening free-standing emergency rooms — commonly referred to as emergency departments, or EDs — to connect the dots between their major hospitals while cutting wait times and medical costs for consumers. . . “The doctors and nurses here are trained the same as the doctors and nurses who work in the emergency room in St. Petersburg. . . If a patient comes here and is having a heart attack, that is something we can stabilize here, and then transfer that patient to the hospital to be admitted.”

CONDOLENCES TO JULIA ROBERTS: THE ABSOLUTE WORST TYPO YOU’VE SEEN ALL YEAR.

Layers and layers of fact-checkers and editors, all down the role.

21ST CENTURY MEDICINE: An Apple Watch told a 46-year-old man he had an irregular heartbeat. It was right.

GLAD THEY EXIST, HOPE I NEVER NEED ONE: Eye Injections Are Magic Bullets for Retinal Disease.

The disease itself, however, seems mostly to do with diabetes.

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