CHANNELING BILLY IDOL: WITH A REBEL YELL SHE CRIED MOO, MOO, MOO!  Rebel cow escapes her farm to run free with bison crew.

THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY I WAS TOLD TO EXPECT:  These next-generation weapons will blast asteroids out of the sky.

THEY’RE NOT LISTENING STILL:  The Parable of the Man of Many New Words.

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YESTERDAY: President Trump may be giving a speech to a empty room in Davos.

TODAY: Speech Snub: Theresa May gives her speech to a half-empty room in Davos as the crowds rush out for Donald Trump.

HERE IT IS! Tonight’s open thread.

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REMY: “Wedu Nagivafaka.”

OH NO, NOT THAT! In the end, federal deductibility changes maybe simply force New York, New Jersey and Connecticut to cut their rates to compete with red states.

BACKLASH: Should Aziz Ansari’s Accuser Be Exposed?

It’s a tough question to answer; if Ansari’s accuser should have been exposed, and one I don’t have an answer to. Clearly, Babe was at fault for publishing her account, but given what we now know of them, it’s clear that their Ansari hitjob was far from the worst thing they’ve ever published. With journalism where it is; where anyone can publish anything, should it also be fair game for those who wish to expose those who peddle in revenge porn masked as a compelling accounting of sexual misconduct or assault?

Read the whole thing.

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

CNN, today: Dow leaps 222 points to a record. Nasdaq, S&P 500 rally more than 1%. All three indexes rise about 2% on the week.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: If You’re Poor, Don’t Move to San Francisco.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Surprising history of the “Canadian Tuxedo,” starring Bing Crosby.

SCOTT RASMUSSEN: The Art of the Shutdown. “President Trump didn’t respond to the so-called shutdown of the federal government in the way that the political class thought he should. He didn’t get personally involved in detailed negotiations to end the impasse and didn’t convey a sense of crisis to the American people. When all was said and done, this skirmish showed the dangers of underestimating President Trump and his ability to connect with voters on issues the political elites ignore. His approach worked because he instinctively understood the strategic situation far better than Senate Democrats, establishment Republicans, and his other beltway critics.”

Weird how this keeps happening, at the same time we’re constantly told he’s a big fat idiot with the emotional stability of a toddler.

GET WOKE, GO BROKE: Social Justice Warrior Jemelle Hill Steps Down from ESPN’s Little-Watched Nostalgia Trip, Sports Center, Ace of Spades writes:

Trouble is, as Marvel Comics is finding out, Social Justice Warriors are not consumers of any of these products, and will not buy them even if they have been converted into full Social Justice Warrior propaganda outfits.

These organizations are being infiltrated by Social Justice Warriors not because Social Justice Warriors like them or the cultural products they produce, but because Social Justice Warriors know that non- Social Justice Warriors enjoy these products, and thus these cultural artifacts must be seized and repurposed to serve leftist indoctrination ends or simply destroyed.

Read the whole thing. As Robert Conquest’s third law of politics states, “The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.”

UPDATE: Outkick the Coverage Claims Jemelle Hill Was Forced Out Due to Ratings “Collapse.”

As Glenn noted in October, “So in ESPN we see an institution that is recklessly alienating its prime customer base, and only now — much too late — beginning to dimly sense that it’s in trouble.” And like the rest of the Ruling Class, “their loyalties are essentially tribal. They care more about what their peers think of them than, basically, anything else, including the success or failure of the institutions they manage. Thus, they are prone to suicidal levels of virtue-signaling. And — because they are socially and intellectually isolated from non-ruling-class Flyover America — they often have no idea how badly their actions resonate.”

Huh — I thought the left was obsessed with the concept of “sustainability.” Who knew that mixing toxic SJW politics and sports would be a recipe for disaster?

MAYBE THE DRUGS WORK AS INTENDED BUT THE DISEASE MODELS ARE WRONG: Failure of Alzheimer’s drugs in trials makes researchers wonder what is going wrong. “The basic assumption that removing amyloid will automatically lead to an improvement in Alzheimer’s patients needs to be re-evaluated, said Michael Murphy, an associate professor with the University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging. Although the genetic evidence has been convincing that amyloid drives the disease, that doesn’t mean that removing the protein from people already in the throes of Alzheimer’s is going to help them, Murphy said.”

WELL, THERE’S PLENTY OF ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT: Making the GOP Great Again.