ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Elizabeth Warren faces backlash over ‘wine cave’ comments. Including this:

Earlier: What exactly is a wine cave?

BEHOLD THE AWESOME MIGHT OF A SINGLE SNOWFLAKE: SantaGate: Microsoft Removes Santa Hat Icon After a Single User Complained It Was ‘Pushing Religion’.

IN BABY YODA, HOLLYWOOD SEES ITS PAST, PRESENT AND MEME-ABLE FUTURE:

Familiar yet new. Baby Yoda may offer viewers a sweet respite from the world, a Dalai Lama in toddler form, but for Hollywood, Baby Yoda is the very embodiment of its modern reality, of all the forces that have shaped the galaxies of entertainment over the past decade and will likely mold it into the next decade and beyond. Baby Yoda is the decline of the movie star and the ascendance of IP, the rise of cord-cutting and the escalation of the so-called streaming wars, the dominance of web culture and the technological leaps in CGI … all tucked into one adorable little package.

And while the stars are fading away and/or becoming CGI in Hollywood, at Commentary, Rob Long notes that they’re getting plenty of competition for clicks and views on YouTube: A Decade of Nobodies. As Rob writes, “The past decade—with its relentless expansion of things to click on—has ushered in a new kind of fame, something we might call the ‘Who the Hell Is That? Is That a Famous Person? I Never Heard of That Person’ Era.”

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BAN ALL THE THINGS! Environmentalists: To Save The World, Dump Your Pets.

And don’t get them started on farting cows and airplanes, either.

ACADEMIC FEATHERBEDDING: Officials at Penn State can’t say what ‘equity promotion’ means on the school’s budget. “The Fix discovered the mysterious budget item when researching the Office of Vice Provost for Educational Equity, which employs 73 staff members in a wide variety of positions.”

SUPER GAFFE-O-MATIC ’76: Pushed on age, Biden says Winston Churchill was older. He wasn’t.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘Yikes, nope, denied’: Nonpartisan free speech org. calls out college’s ‘discrimination’ against conservatives.

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TOM FRIEDMAN, CALL YOUR OFFICE: China slammed over mass rape program.

AUTHOR OF HIT PIECE ON J.K. ROWLING SAYS VOX ‘IS GETTING TOTALLY RATIOED BY NAZIS’ OVER IT:

As Twitchy reported earlier, Vox did its Vox thing by publishing a piece asking if “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling had destroyed the legacy of “Harry Potter” with a single, transphobic tweet. This is after Rowling tweeted, #IStandWithMaya, meaning Maya Forstater, a British woman who was fired, and her firing upheld by a tribunal, for tweeting “absolutist” things about there being two distinct biological sexes… The author of that piece is loving the clicks — and the ratio — which she attributed to “Nazis” reading her article.

That is quite a ratio — we’d heard horror stories of how many Nazis there are on Twitter, but we didn’t know there were that many.

As another twitter responded to Romano, “Everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi.” But Nazis are Vox approved – sort of:

Not everything the Nazis touched was bad. Hitler was a vegetarian. Volkswagen is a perfectly good car company. Universal health care is a perfectly good idea. Indeed, the Nazis actually did a pretty good job increasing economic growth and improving standards of living (they were, many think, the first Keynesians, adopting the strategy even before Keynes had come up with it), pushing Germany out of a depression and back into expansion. Unfortunately, they also set out to conquer Europe and exterminate the Jews. People shouldn’t do that.

—“Nazi Ideas,” Ezra Klein, The American Prospect, September 11(!) 2006.

And fellow Voxer Mathew Yglesias tweeted in 2016:

To bring this post full circle, let’s give the last word to the Babylon Bee, America’s Newspaper of Record: In Unexpected Plot Twist, Far Left Now The Ones Burning Harry Potter Books.

ANALYSIS: TRUE.

RICHARD JEWELL, CARTER PAGE AND THE ILLUSION OF THE FBI’S POWER AND COMPETENCE: “The Washington Post, the hometown paper for the Deep State, is fretting that the Eastwood movie’s ‘vilification of reporters and the feds’ amounts to ‘nearly a second railroading … of Jewell’s accusers.’ But some FBI officials and some journalists deserved tarring for their abuse of Jewell. The media’s reflexive rallying around the FBI in the Jewell case is a warning sign of how difficult it will be to build support to rein in the FBI regardless of how many of its abuses are exposed.”

THIS IS PRETTY ON-BRAND FOR HANOI JANE: Jane Fonda Calls for Prosecution of Climate Change Deniers.

But considering Fonda co-stars in Netflix’s Grace & Frankie series, will she be arresting herself? Your Netflix habit ‘could be destroying the planet’, experts warn.

HERESY OF THE FIRST ORDER: Sex Differences in Personality are Large and Important. “In other words, you can predict whether a person is male of female from their personality traits almost as well as by looking at their face.”

RADICAL CHIC: THE NEXT GENERATION. Cory Booker Protected the Terrorists Behind the Jersey City Anti-Semitic Shootings.

THE 2010s: When the phone call died.

GREEN NUDE EEL UPDATE: Elizabeth Warren unveils $10.7 trillion ‘green new deal’ to end all electricity generation by fossil fuels by 2035 and claims it will create 10.6 million jobs.

2035? But AOC assures us that we aren’t going to be around after 2030.

Earlier: Ruthless Joe Biden Admits He’ll Sacrifice Hundreds of Thousands of Blue-Collar Workers for His Green Dream.

THIS HAD TO HAVE BEEN PAINFUL FOR CNN TO REPORT: CNN Poll: US economy receives its best ranking in nearly 20 years.

TO BE FAIR, IT WAS DESIGNED TO: ‘Social Justice’ Ideology Is Damaging American Values.

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