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.

THE SONG THAT CAME IN FROM THE COLD: “Baby It’s Cold Outside” begins its return to some radio stations.

WELL, ENJOY TODAY: What Is the Horniest, Most Fertile Day of the Year?

VIDEO: Google CEO Squirms as Jim Jordan Grills Him Over 2016 Latino Turnout Efforts. “Did Google push the Latino vote in Florida and Nevada to help Hillary Clinton?”

THE ORIGIN OF THE WOMEN’S MARCH IS A STORY OF VIRULENT ANTI-SEMITISM: “Four white women, one of them Jewish, wanted to put on an anti-Trump rally but then feared they were too white. So they reached out to some kind of media fixer named Michael Skolnik, who gained notoriety due to his connections to Russell Simmons (himself a supporter of Louis Farrakhan), to ask him to recommend women of color to add to their group. (Apparently, these liberal white women didn’t know any — what a shock.) And what they got were loud-and-proud antisemites, and Linda Sarsour hadn’t even joined yet.”

Read the whole thing, which is yet another reminder that the alt-right and the mainstream left are the mirror images of each other.

BREAKING: Fatal Shooting Near Christmas Market in Strasbourg, Suspect on the Run.

UPDATE (From Ed): As always with shooting incidents, early reports can be chaotic and contradictory. However, Andrew Neil of the London Spectator tweets that “This is becoming a scandal. French media reporting gunman escaped this morning from a search carried out at his home in the district of Neudorf south of Strasbourg by gendarmes. Grenades were found on site by the gendarmes.”

The London Telegraph is currently reporting that “at least four people” have been killed, and that the gunman is still at large. “The authorities are treating the attack as a terrorist act. Anti-terrorist prosecutors have opened an investigation.”

LATE UPDATE (From Ed): The Telegraph have since stealth edited their article, and currently state that “A suspected terrorist is on the run after killing at least three people and injuring 11 more in the eastern French city of Strasbourg near its Christmas market.”

(Bumped.)

JAMAL KHASHOGGI IS THE RIGHT TIME PERSON OF THE YEAR – FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS:

Khashoggi’s death, TIME tells us, ‘laid bare the true nature of a smiling prince, the utter absence of morality in the Saudi-US alliance and – in the cascade of news feeds and alerts, posts and shares and links – the centrality of the question Khashoggi was killed over: Whom do you trust to tell the story?’ Let’s remember that before he fled to the US a year before he was cruelly murdered in Istanbul, Khashoggi became rich working for a Saudi royal family that was, and remains, among the world’s worst persecutors of journalists. He edited government-controlled Saudi newspapers, which are without exception regime propaganda outlets, and headed TV news channels that were owned by Saudi princes.

Then he outdid himself by working as a media adviser to a senior Saudi prince in London and Washington. He embraced with unbridled enthusiasm his role of justifying Saudi regime atrocities in the Western media. He even denied on the BBC that anyone was ever tortured in Saudi Arabia.

Time magazine declaring a leading purveyor of fake news as one of its “Persons of the Year” sums up the current state of Time magazine perfectly.

Meanwhile, at the intersection of journalism and Twitter, Time’s editor-in-chief, Edward Felsenthal tells the Today show’s Savannah Guthrie that also included in its “Persons of the Year” for 2019 are “Two amazing reporters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, who exposed a mass killing of ten Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. And are in prison, actually, one day – a year to the day tomorrow, as a result of their reporting.”

Myanmar is where Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted on Sunday, for those looking for exotic locales in which to meditate, “if you’re willing to travel a bit, go to Myanmar.” As The Hill noted in response, “Twitter users took issue with Dorsey’s tweets, given that Myanmar’s military has been accused of ravaging the Rohingya in what the United Nations has deemed a genocide” — and arresting journalists.