NOT EVERY MAN CHOOSES TO LEAD THE JANN WENNER LIFESTYLE: Rolling Stone: Men Who Abstain From Porn Are Dangerous Alt-Righters.

HAS ANYONE ASKED TOM FRIEDMAN FOR COMMENT? ‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims. Weird how Gitmo, which was a rounding error in comparison, got worldwide attention from the “human rights” community and Muslim nations, while this gets crickets.

NOVEMBER OF 2019 IN THE MOVIES: Brilliant sentient robots “more human than human.”

November of 2019 in reality: Boeing abandons its failed fuselage robots on the 777X, handing the job back to machinists.

ISN’T EVERYTHING? Stacey Abrams: ‘The Electoral College Is Racist.’

HE’S RIGHT: AG Bill Barr Speaks About The Damage to Our Nation From The “Resistance.” Transcript at the link.

Related: Attorney General Barr defends Trump, assails ‘Resistance’ in fiery speech to conservative lawyers. “‘In waging a scorched-earth, no-holds-barred war of Resistance against this administration, it is the Left that is engaged in a systematic shredding of norms and undermining the rule of law,’ Barr said in a speech to conservative lawyers at the Federalist Society’s convention in Washington.”

UPDATE: Attorney General Barr Shreds The Political Left During Federalist Society Speech.. “In any age, the so-called progressives treat politics as their religion. Their holy mission is to use the coercive power of the state to remake man and society in their own image, according to an abstract ideal of perfection. Whatever means they use are therefore justified because, by definition, they are a virtuous people pursing a deific end. They are willing to use any means necessary to gain momentary advantage in achieving their end, regardless of collateral consequences and the systemic implications. They never ask whether the actions they take could be justified as a general rule of conduct, equally applicable to all sides.”

MORE ANTI-ASIAN PREJUDICE AT HARVARD: Hundreds of students shame Harvard Asian American groups for not joining pro-DACA walkout.

QUESTION ASKED: Obama Left An Ambassador to Die, But We’re Supposed to be Outraged Over Trump’s Yovanovitch Tweet?

Related: “Masha” Yavonovich: When You Think About It, I’m Just Like the Four Diplomats Being Murdered in Benghazi. I’m a Hero!!!

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Ongoing free speech lawsuit against UIllinois draws broad support.

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ANNE APPLEBAUM JOINS THE ATLANTIC:

Anne Applebaum, The Washington Post columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, is joining The Atlantic as a staff writer. Applebaum will write on national politics and foreign policy, with a particular focus on Europe, for both The Atlantic’s site and the magazine. She begins with The Atlantic in January, and joins as the publication continues to expand its reporting and readership.

Announcing Applebaum’s hire, editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: “Anne is one of the great talents of our age; she is one of the world’s leading experts on, among other things, pre- and post-Communist Europe; disinformation and propaganda; and the future of democracy. The addition of her writing to The Atlantic will strengthen us enormously.”

Well, that’s one way to put it, since in 2009 Applebaum defended Roman Polanski in the Washington Post, and alleged whistleblower Eric Ciaramella blurbed her 2017 book:

IMPEACHMENT THEATER OF TROLLS:

And the president’s approval rating? It’s 44.1 percent, according to the RealClearPolitics average. The day before the Ukraine transcript was released, it was 45.0 percent. After six weeks of set-your-hair-on-fire-and-do-the-funky-chicken impeachment hoo-ha, the Democrats have succeeded in reducing the president’s support by not quite one full percentage point. Minus red-hot public demand, the Republican senators won’t be escorting the president out the door.

Brooks noted in his column that an Ohio professor discovered that, of 80 students in his class, 78 had not heard about the impeachment saga and all 80 said they were uninterested anyway. Hence the Democrats’ hopecasting that getting the TV networks to sign on as their promotional partners Wednesday might turn their sad charade into a national obsession. “The first hour of a hearing and the first hearing has got to be a blockbuster,” a senior Democrat told CNN beforehand.

So . . . how’d that go? “Impeachment hearings play big on TV, less so with viewers,” ran a headline on, gulp, NBC News? NBC News is a television news outfit. For it to admit its own programming fizzled is not its usual habit. Does McDonald’s post a giant sign outside saying, “Yelp Reviewers Dislike the Quarter Pounder”?

As Yogi Berra said, “If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.”

WAR ON CHRISTMAS UPDATE: It’s that Stupid Politically Correct Holiday Season Again.

THESE CAMPAIGNS WON’T FINANCE THEMSELVES: Texas Democrat Caught Carrying Envelope of Cocaine. “Nevárez used an envelope with official state letterhead to carry his drugs.”

BOB MCMANUS: Bill de Blasio’s ‘churro’ problem shows how terrified NYC leaders are of their own laws.

ARE BILLIONAIRES BAD FOR DEMOCRACY? That depends on whose side they are on, natch.

JOHN KASS: Northwestern University, the cancel culture and ‘Whatsoever things are true.’ “We’re told this is a great teaching moment for the students. But I see it as a teaching moment for the rest of us, a teaching moment to rub our noses in what adults have allowed to happen at high schools and at universities, where feelings count, where students must not be intellectually challenged lest they become ‘triggered’ and upset, where the teaching of mathematics is twined with social justice warrior rhetoric. And, where students have been taught to cravenly craft opinions to satisfy the political views of faculty.”

Empowering a bunch of noisy neurotics is no formula for a successful institution or society.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Should You Get An MBA?

STAY THE COURSE:  When It All Comes Apart.

IT’S NOT TRUMP. IT’S WESTERN CULTURE THEY WANT TO DESTROY:  The new rules…

AND WE WANT THEM TO GET IT!  IN CUBA!  Dem Sen: All Dems Want Universal Coverage, But at ‘Different Speeds and on Different Paths’.

NAH, BRA, WE WERE JUST SAYING WE WERE AT WAR WITH EASTASIA TO SERVE THE POLITICAL MOMENT. THERE IS NO REALITY BUT THAT WHICH THE PARTY SAYS:  Deval Patrick: I Never Bought Into Obama’s Attacks on Bain Capital.

BECAUSE IT’S A SHAM-WOW IMPEACHMENT, MADE-FOR-TV. IN OTHER WORDS, A SOAP OPERA. I’M WAITING FOR US TO FIND OUT THAT BLASEY-FORD DIDN’T REALLY DIE AND IS REALLY MASHA’S LONG LOST TWIN WHOM TRUMP SOLD TO TURKEY AS A BABY:  Impeachment Hearing Day Two: Nunes Reads 1st Ukraine Call, Questions Why Yovanovitch is Testifying