EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired. “Ten doses of the Covid-19 vaccine would expire within hours, so a Houston doctor gave it to people with medical conditions, including his wife. What followed was ‘the lowest moment in my life,’ Dr. Hasan Gokal said. . . . Late last month, a judge dismissed the charge as groundless, after which the local district attorney vowed to present the matter to a grand jury.”

As pointed out in the comments, note that this is a Blue Zone, with a Democratic mayor and a Democratic District Attorney. The NYT does not point that out in its outraged discussion.

Plus: “The officials maintained that he had violated protocol and should have returned the remaining doses to the office or thrown them away, the doctor recalled. He also said that one of the officials startled him by questioning the lack of ‘equity’ among those he had vaccinated. ‘Are you suggesting that there were too many Indian names in that group?’ Dr. Gokal said he asked. Exactly, he said he was told.”

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: In a Just World Democrats Would Pay for Impeachment Lies. “The Democrats want to think they’re on the moral high horse right now. In reality, they’re all mucking about neck-deep in the stable dung. I would like to say that they are embarrassing themselves but none of them have any self awareness, so they can’t be embarrassed.”

RIGGED: Georgia Sen. Warnock Under Investigation For Voter Registration Misconduct.

THEY CALL HIM “EDGY BETO:” Democrats’ Newest Political Crush Is ‘Privileged’ Harvard Grad Who Pointed Gun at Unarmed Black Man: Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman, aka ‘Edgy Beto,’ demands forgiveness for racially charged transgression.

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH PIERS MORGAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY: ‘It’s nonsense:’ Piers Morgan blasts policy replacing ‘breastfeeding’ with ‘chestfeeding’ in transgender-inclusive effort at UK hospital.

CHARLES LIPSON: The Political Logic of the Trump Trial.

Democrats may end up paying a higher political price than they anticipate. The trial won’t only delay Mr. Biden’s program. It will tarnish his image as a “unifier” eager to work across party lines. That identity will be much harder to sustain after Democratic senators vote in lockstep to convict Mr. Trump and push through a mammoth Covid relief bill without any Republican votes.

With all or almost all Democrats supporting Mr. Trump’s conviction, the president will be pressed to declare his position. Whether Mr. Biden speaks out or not, he signaled his position when he refused to dissuade Mrs. Pelosi from transmitting the House’s article of impeachment to the Senate. The speaker wouldn’t have done so over the new president’s opposition.

As the trial unfolds, Mr. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris (who has begged off from presiding over the trial) will try to keep a low profile while avoiding any criticism of this party-line effort to denounce and convict Mr. Trump. That tacit approval will be universally applauded by Democrats and their media allies. But it leaves Mr. Biden facing backward, avenging grievances from the Trump years, not forward, advancing his own program. Partisan revenge is hard to reconcile with bipartisan restoration.

Presuming Democrats were ever interested in such a thing, of course.

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS: If You Thought the 2020 Elections Were Chaotic, Just Wait.

BLUE ON BLUE: Did Bernie Sanders Just Tank Biden’s OMB Pick Neera Tanden?

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Gene-Editing: China Is Creating a New Master Race.

FROM KAL SPRIGGS:  The Fallen Race.

Humanity has fallen.

Earth has become a charnel house, the bones of twelve billion inhabitants moldering in ruined and gutted cities, victims of their own governments. Earth’s remaining colonies are besieged. On two sides, aliens bent on the eradication of humanity continue their unstoppable march, capturing world after world.

Baron Lucius Giovanni, Captain of the War Shrike, finds himself in a position to stand and fight. The son of a renegade officer and a social outcast himself, he nevertheless refuses to give up. Lucius has few resources: a forgotten colony in a backwater of space, his ship and crew, and the rumors of a lost fleet that might hold the key to the survival of the human race. He’ll take on pirates, aliens, and his own treacherous allies in a bid to save humanity.

Lucius will not give up. He will not go quietly into the night. He will stand against humanity’s foes and he will prove that while humanity may have fallen, they will rise once again.

EVEN RATS LIKE PRIVATE WHEELS:  Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats.

UH:  The Cat Who Reformed.

ONLY A CAT WOULD FIND IT NECESSARY TO SAY “I’M NOT A CAT”:  How to use the Zoom cat filter to look like viral feline lawyer.

YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE GREAT? IF THEY DIDN’T P*SS ON OUR NECKS AND TELL US IT’S RAINING:  A few more points about that Time report.

BAD TIMES: Degrees of Toxicity

WE MUST REMEMBER WE’RE AMERICANS:  “You Play with My World Like it’s Your Little Toy”.

SOCIALISM IS THE IDEOLOGY THAT MAKES YOU DIE LAUGHING:  Socialist Party Beclowns Itself Via Twitter.

But in the end, it’s always death, either by the mass graves of hard socialism, or the lack of babies and purpose in life of soft socialism. The result, however, is always death.

TYRANTS ALWAYS LIE: The lie that was COVID.

The result is always more tyranny.  As long as we put up with it.

SIGH:  Today’s blacklisted American: Peter Pan and Dumbo.

WELL, HE IS A LEFTIST MALE:  Charisma Carpenter accuses Joss Whedon of ‘toxic’ behavior on ‘Buffy’.

WE KNOW WE CAN ALWAYS TRUST THE WHO BECAUSE REASONS: WHO scientist says COVID-19 likely originated from bats in China.

Among other reasons, we’re mentally deficient, we want to be fooled, or we think the there’s some kind of pay off in kowtowing to the idiot left.

FORGET DOXING. SHE’S A RACIST, EATEN UP WITH HATE:  NY Times defends ‘1619 Project’ creator after she doxxed reporter.

SO IF YOU’RE CONCERNED ABOUT AIR POLLUTION? TELL CHINA TO COOL IT:  Plume of Sahara dust caused spike in European air pollution.

WELL, AT LEAST AOC SAVED NYC FROM THIS:  Amazon’s new Virginia HQ building looks like a poop emoji.

Of course nothing could save NYC from Billy the Red.

I’M SO OLD I CAN REMEMBER WHEN SNOW WAS JUST A THING OF THE PAST:   Eiffel Tower needs blowtorch for ice as snow blankets Europe.

In fact, I’m so old, I remember when we were all going to be frozen solid by 2000. Weirdly the solution for Global Freezening (look, dumb concepts deserve dumb words, okay) was the same as for Global Warmering. Moar Socialism! It’s like there’s an agend driving all these panics, no?