DEAR DIARY: CNN’s Jim Acosta roasted for saying covering Trump was ‘nonstop national emergency,’ ‘might merit hazard pay.’

COMMIES GOTTA COMMIE: Antifa launches soccer league in Portland.

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH GLENN GREENWALD IS A VOICE OF SANITY: The Threat of Authoritarianism in the U.S. is Very Real, and Has Nothing To Do With Trump. The COVID-driven centralization of economic power and information control in the hands of a few corporate monopolies poses enduring threats to political freedom.

PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT A LOT: The Toyota Supra Is Good, But It’s Not the Japanese Sports Car I Wanted.

DON’T BLAME 2020: “The misery caused by the COVID-19 pandemic also gets written off as 2020’s fault. I can’t help but think that blaming the Chinese Communist party would be more constructive. After all, this time last year the hospital in Wuhan was already admitting patients for the virus. You could attempt to grapple with this; to revisit the West’s over-friendly relationship with an authoritarian regime for the past 20 years, the crucial moments where the CCP moved to quash the truth rather than be open about the coronavirus. But again, that all sounds pretty hard. ‘2020, man’ is a much less stressful alternative.”

“TWAS A FEW NIGHTS AFTER CHRISTMAS, AND AT FIRE HQ…” Sheesh, I take a few days off for the holidays and my colleagues start writing FIRE’s year end review in verse.

DEMOCRATS ARE RIGHT TO WORRY ABOUT THE GEORGIA RUNOFFS, BUT DON’T GET COCKY.

OUT ON A LIMB: New Exposé Shows UK’s COVID Response was Rife with Corruption and Cronyism.

2020, MAN: Your Tax Dollars at Work: Man Convicted of Raping His Daughter Approved for Transgender Surgery.

I’LL BET IT GETS GREAT MILEAGE — WAIT, WHAT? First Look: Masterpiece Arms DS9 Hybrid Pistol. I’m disappointed; I feel like they could have gotten the price higher if they’d tried.

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LET FREEDOM RING: ‘A Direct and Severe Violation’: Court Strikes Cuomo’s COVID-19 Orders on Churches, Synagogues.

#RESIST: Biden Claims Trump Defense, Budget Officials ‘Obstructing’ Transition.

Flashback: Obama, Biden Oval Office Meeting On January 5 Was Key To Entire Anti-Trump Operation.

#DEFUNDTHEPOLICE: 6 Officers Cited for Heroism at Nashville Blast Site Before Explosion.

21ST CENTURY HEADLINES: Searching for invisible axion dark matter with a new multiple-cell cavity haloscope.

THE HILL MUST HAVE HATED HAVING TO PUBLISH THIS HEADLINE: Trump ends Obama’s 12-year run as most admired man: Gallup.

MALPRACTICE: Medical Journal: Hide Everybody’s Sex Because A Handful Of Trans People Get Bottom Surgery.

SNOWFALLS ARE NOW JUST A THING OF THE PAST: Bill Gates Had a Plan to Stop Global Warming—Until Science Got in the Way.

The Harvard Project is called the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPex). To most of us, it sounds like a project that will severely tick off the stratosphere. And opponents of the project fear it will. They fear these projects will lead to attempts to engineer climate with artificial sunshade. The sunshade would essentially consist of blowing a bunch of dust into the stratosphere.

No one knows what this could do to life on earth because it is an insane proposition. We could end up living in a world that looks like the set of Dune. Or causing unknown changes to weather patterns. Dust is a well know respiratory irritant. What if it floats back down to earth?

Or we could freeze our tails off since we are in what is called a solar minimum, projected to last from now until 2053. The last time this happened, in the Middle Ages, we went through what is known as the Little Ice Age. But the geniuses in the climate cabal want to assure you that means nothing; we will still see global warming. Never mind that science can’t accurately predict the weather, and none of them were around in the Middle Ages. They just know, so shut up.

I’m so old, I can remember when this was President Obama’s “Science” “Czar’s” Dr. Strangelove-esque pet project:

Apparently, despite being told that he only had four years to save the planet, even Obama wasn’t crazy enough to let Holdren go for it, a warning Gates might want to keep in mind.

(Classical reference in headline.)

HOW DID WE MISS THEM? Yes! A Previously Unknown Population of Blue Whales Has Been Heard in The Indian Ocean.

2020 MORPHED INTO YEAR ONE SO QUICKLY IT MAKES YOUR HEAD SPIN: Abraham Lincoln Statue Defaced at San Francisco City Hall.

SYMPATHY FOR THE DIABLA: “And if you think you’ve got problems in your life, think of Hilaria Baldwin. At the end of the day, she’s still married to Alec Baldwin.”

UM, THANKS? Bill Gates Has an Insane Idea to Save the Human Race From Global Warming.

I BLAME #ORANGEMANBAD AND ANTI-SCIENCE REDSTATERS — OH, WAIT: New COVID-19 cases, deaths in U.S. fall to lowest levels in weeks.