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NANOTECHNOLOGY UPDATE: Tiny Nanoparticles to Treat a Huge Problem: Snakebites.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Steve Carell: The Office Would Be Too Offensive Today. If So, What’s Left?

During the post-Weinstein “Pervnado” of late 2017, there were articles getting the vapors over 1970s-era sitcoms such as M*A*S*H, Taxi, and WKRP. But The Office went off the air in 2013. What will PC do to tighten the shackles on Hollywood in another five years?

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY: The Week in Media Bias History: Barbara Walters Praising Cuba as ‘One of the Freest Nations on Earth.’

HILLARY CLINTON WANTS A WAR ON CIVILITY? THAT WILL COST DEMOCRATS, BIG TIME, Jon Gabriel writes in USA Today. 

Earlier: How to Tell If You Are Part of a Mob.

VIM MEANS VIGOR: No Wonder It Works So Well: There May Be Viagra In That Herbal Supplement.

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YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: What the media aren’t telling you about Jamal Khashoggi.

FASTER, PLEASE: Vaccine effectively protects against Lassa fever, rabies.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Save the Democrats: Crush Them at the Polls.

As Joycelyn Elders, Bill Clinton’s surgeon general would say, do it for the children.

BOB MCMANUS: King Andrew I: New York’s sure-to-be-reelected governor has consolidated control of every meaningful lever of the state’s political system. What could go wrong?

QUESTION ASKED: Does CNN Turning On Kyrsten Sinema Mean the Democrats Are Calling It Quits In Arizona?

Related: Quotations from Kyrsten.

MY ENEMY, MY TRADING PARTNER: “America’s external enemies have been internalized. The globalized world no longer required Russian and Chinese forces to cross borders. They are here: in the supply chain, through their lobbyists, on the airwaves, in computer networks and social media. The combatants are everywhere mingled. Unlike past conflicts they are too close to risk calling in the proverbial artillery.”

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Triumph of the Kanye West Edition.

SKYNET SMILES: Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Can Now Chase You Up the Stairs.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: ABC Regrets Firing Roseanne Over Bad Tweet?

SCRAPPLEFACE: Robert “Beto” O’Rourke: Big Bucks to Buy “F***ing Sh**load of Democracy.”

This comes on the heels of news that his U.S. Senate campaign raised an astonishing $38.1 million in the past three months — a total of $62 million to date — in an effort to unseat Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, who leads in the latest poll by about nine percent.

“I used to look askance at money in politics,” said O’Rourke, beloved by Democrats for his use of profanity on the stump. “I now realize that having an f***ing sh**load of money means more egalitarianism, more fairness, and thus more Progressive policies for all of the people.”

O’Rourke said the reverse is also true: “The puny, paltry, $12 million raised by the Cruz campaign in the third quarter should be seen  for what it is — a failure to buy enough Democracy for all of the people to have some.”

It’s satire, but is it really?

ROGER SIMON: Democrats’ ‘Kanye Derangement Syndrome’ Explodes.

BRUCE BAWER: Revisiting—and Politicizing—the 2011 Oslo Massacres.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: University of Virginia Health Center Is Hiring a ‘Masculinity Specialist’ for its Health Center, on the False Idea That Masculinity is a ‘Risk Factor’ for Sexual Assault.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Pro-life group accuses university employee of assaulting them during protest.

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: The UN climate-change panel that cried wolf too often.

(Classical reference in headline.)

NOTHING TO HIDE: Kent State asks student not to give interviews amid scrutiny.