SAD. THE SAN JOSE LOCATION USED TO BE MY DISNEYLAND: Fry’s Is Gone, and Another Old Friend Passes Into the Night.

THEN LOCK YOURSELVES UP, COPPERS, BECAUSE I’M OFFENDED BY THIS IDIOCY: British police send “chilling” message: “Being offensive is an offence,” later retract.

MICHAEL BARONE: Partisan strife produces high voter turnout, but no big boost for either party.

DISPATCHES FROM THE “IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN WE DO IT” PARTY: Bill Gates Defends Using Private Jets While Warning about Dangers of Climate Change.

I don’t want to hear another word about Glenn Reynolds’ carbon footprint.

21ST CENTURY PARENTING: YouTube New ‘Supervised’ Mode Will Let Parents Restrict Older Kids’ Video Viewing.

Nice, but it would probably be better to get your kids off YouTube, which is one of Google’s most powerful data-harvesting tools.

LYING TO CONGRESS: Becerra Falsely Claims He ‘Never Sued Any Nuns.’

RESIGN, GRANNY-KILLER CUOMO: Pressure grows for ‘Cuomo to go.’

NEWSWEEK: It’s Time to Impeach Andrew Cuomo. “The truth behind the obfuscation and lies is this: The governor snuck a toxic corporate immunity clause in the 2020 budget on behalf of his top campaign donor, the Greater New York Hospital Association. You don’t need a PhD to understand that handing out get-out-of-jail-free cards to for-profit nursing homes in the middle of a pandemic will lead to more deaths.”

20 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE: Kamalamania! Prepare for President Harris.

TRIFECTAS OFTEN ARE GOOD. NOT THIS ONE: It’s the Biden $1.9 trillion Covid Christmas Tree that mostly has little to nothing to do with battling the disease, and everything to do with rewarding supporters and growing the government on which they depend,

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEF: Biden’s Creepy Mask Fetish Isn’t a Real Plan To Manage COVID. “Thus far, Biden’s SUPER BIG PLAN to deal with the bat flu has involved lying about Trump’s vaccine plan, plagiarizing Trump’s vaccine plan, then hamstringing Trump’s vaccine plan with woke union politics, and finally, talking about masks a lot.”

COLLUSION: Congressional Republicans Slam Carter Center’s China Ties.

JAMES BOVARD: The Lies Aren’t Secret: Thanks to friendly courts, the Deep State continues to avoid accountability, triumphant at home and abroad.

As I’ve noted, the judiciary is a reliable ally of the Gentry Class.

NEO: Why didn’t more professors oppose the Gramscian march or at least stick up for free speech?

With a powerful assist from Allan Bloom. Read the whole thing.

DOING THE STATE’S BIDDING THIS WAY IS CENSORSHIP: Sheryl Sandberg and Top Facebook Execs Silenced an Enemy of Turkey to Prevent a Hit to the Company’s Business.

CHINESE AMERICANS AGAINST CRITICAL RACE THEORY: CACAGNY Denounces Critical Race Theory as Hateful Fraud. “Chinese Americans are​ people of color​ and therefore start from the ​oppressed ​side of CRT’s binary. But as we overcome discrimination and achieve upward mobility, we are now ​White by adjacency​. In New York City, ​Black Lives Matter​ rioters with CRT signs assaulted our rally supporting merit-based education. . . . One way or another, CRT wants to get rid of ​too many Asians​ in good schools. Asians are over-represented.​ CRT is today’s Chinese Exclusion Act. CRT is the real ​hate crime​ against Asians.”

RULES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Newsom Holds Indoor Event at Restaurant Barred From Offering Indoor Dining.

Recall this turd.

UNEXPECTEDLY: NBC, CBS, NBC avoid explosive sexual harassment claims against Andrew Cuomo on evening news broadcasts. CNN and MSNBC also declined to address the scandal on their air Wednesday.

Just think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.

Evergreen:

WE’RE GOVERNED BY PETTY, PETULANT, DIVISIVE IDIOTS: School Board Member Compares School Reopening to Slavery, ‘White Supremacist Ideology.’

TAKING A STAND AGAINST BIGOTRY: West Virginia lawmakers take aim at critical race theory, write bill to ban it in nearly all public spaces.

FROM HENRY VOGEL:  Fortune’s Fool.

He digs through the past to unearth his future. But will rocketing into the expanse blast him into deadly trouble?

Xenoarchaeologist Mark Fortune just needs one big find to be set for life. Roaming the post-apocalyptic galaxy in search of riches, the pragmatic loner believes he’s finally made the breakthrough of his career when he activates an ancient portal. But when he’s catapulted onto an unknown planet, he’s followed by a revenge-driven skybiker out for his blood.

For the sake of survival, Mark and the motorhead form an uneasy alliance until they can escape the strange and unforgiving world. But the only path back home pits them against a ruthless warlord in a flying space fortress armed with pre-holocaust tech and a horde of killer robots…

Can Mark tear down a dictator before his newest discovery is otherworldly death?

Fortune’s Fool is the first book in the edgy Fortune Chronicles science fiction adventure series. If you like throwback futurism, gritty action, and expansive worlds, then you’ll love Henry Vogel’s interstellar doorway.

OH, DRY UP: Coke and the Call to Be ‘Less White.’

Personally, I’m tired of corporate bigotry.

PERHAPS WORTH PONDERING?  On A Loan.

AND YET THEY’LL CONTINUE PUSHING:  After a year there is zero evidence government edicts slowed the spread of COVID-19.

I GUESS IT’S DIFFERENT WHEN THEY COME FOR YOU?  Today’s blacklisted American: Leftist journalist who called for blacklisting finds his work blacklisted by YouTube.