HMM: MS has mixed impact on risk for cancer, study says.

RIP: Darth Vader actor David Prowse dead at 85. Prowse was asked to audition for the roles of Darth Vader and Chewbacca but he said he chose Luke Skywalker’s father because ”you always remember the bad guys.”

That’s such a curious statement, since he chose to play one of the series’ most important good guys.

INTERVIEW: Glenn Greenwald on Biden, Free Speech, and Leaving The Intercept.

UTAH MONOLITH: The mysterious silver monolith in the desert has disappeared.

Has anyone checked the lunar crater Tycho recently for magnetic anomalies under its surface?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The last known photo of the monolith may provide a clue to its disappearance:

IF ONLY THERE WAS A LIQUID AVAILABLE THAT COULD RELIABLY POWER CARS, AND WAS EASY AND INEXPENSIVE TO REFILL: ‘Why did it take nine hours to go 130 miles in our new electric Porsche?’

NYC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS TO REOPEN FOR IN-PERSON LEARNING ON DEC. 7: DE BLASIO.

No word yet how badly Andrew Cuomo will lash out at reporters over this decision.

TWO, TWO, TWO 2020s IN ONE!

● Pandemic Nightmare Returns. Supply Chains Stressed, Leading to Empty Store Shelves.

● Cha-Ching: Black Friday sales hit new record totals.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Broncos won’t have quarterbacks against Saints because of COVID contact concerns.

WITH A NAME THAT CONTROVERSIAL, THEY’RE DOOMED: ‘Students for Western Civilization’ wants to set up shop at Canadian university.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A SMALLER BLOG: Hopefully AOC’s grip on a cocktail shaker was better than her grip on economics. Because she knows nothing about economics. Let me explain.

CONSPIRACY TO INTERFERE WITH CIVIL RIGHTS: Incoming Texas freshmen threatened with doxxing if they join conservative campus groups.

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IT’S EXTREMELY EASY IF YOU TRY. Thought experiment: Imagine if Iran had assassinated an Israeli nuclear scientist.

ROGER KIMBALL: Reality and the Narrative.

The strongest argument for Biden’s victory is not the vote tally. It is the monolithic narrative, pumped up like one of those inflatable play castles at a child’s birthday party. With every passing day, that narrative becomes more boisterous, more assertive, more uncompromising. It is a collective primal scream, emitted with eyes shut and ears plugged.

There is a problem for the narrative, however. Or more to the point, there are 73 million problems. A major concession in the Biden-won-give-it-up-narrative is revealed by the hawkers of the “Unity Now” meme. Let us all come together as one nation, under Joe, and reassert the American normality that has been so sorely missing under the despotic reign of Donald Trump.

No. No, that’s not going to fly, and not only because of the snarling viciousness that attended Donald Trump and his entire administration from the moment he was elected until now. Granted, Democrats are masters of hypocrisy. I will give them that. Brazenness is part of the formula. They are utterly unembarrassed by double standards. Indeed, they glory in them.

Plus: “Inquiring minds want to know, how is it possible that voter turnout in just those key cities in just those key states was so high: often 90 percent or more? How is it possible that Joe Biden, who barely campaigned, garnered more votes in just those spots than even Barack Obama had done? How is it possible that, as everyone was getting tucked into bed on the night of November 3, Donald Trump had notable leads in almost all of those states and then, suddenly, all at once, in the wee hours, floods of votes poured in and—wouldn’t you know it—they were overwhelmingly, sometimes exclusively, for Biden? And what about those voting machines from Dominion: are we confident that they are secure?”

Read the whole thing.

EVEN WITH FRAUD, “President Trump actually came closer to winning the presidency this year than Hillary Clinton did four years ago.”