OPEN THREAD: One taste of the bait is worth the pain of the hook.

I TALK ABOUT SPACE RESOURCES, and my new(ish) book America’s New Destiny in Space, in this Pacific Research Institute podcast.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Terraforming Mars Will Be Difficult.

AP CALLS NYC DEM MAYORAL PRIMARY FOR ERIC ADAMS:  I hope Democratic leaders across the country are listening.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Heh.

Also, apparently it’s okay to say “Stop The Steal” again, now that lefties are doing it.

Typical Democrats — privileged white lefty woman trying to cancel the election of a hard-working black man.

ANOTHER UPDATE (ALSO FROM GLENN): “I’m so glad that happened. It would have been very hard for people to accept a different outcome. Who could trust what happened inside a computer that shuffled and recounted votes for weeks if it didn’t match in the original, simple version of the count?”

Plus, from the comments: “That woman has the look of a Cyberdyne Systems UltraKaren 9000™ on a search and destroy mission in Bed, Bath & Beyond.”

And: “She is li’l Hillary.”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Taliban parade new weapons seized from Afghan military as U.S. withdraws.

Totally unrelated: Biden’s Administration Is the ‘Wrecking Crew.’

SO I WAS ON FOXNEWS PRIMETIME LAST HOUR WITH MARK STEYN, but I stupidly forgot to post something about it. I’ll post a link if I can find it online.

UPDATE: The link is in the comments. My part starts at about 21:58.

PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: The Sun Just Spat Out an X-Class Flare, The Most Powerful Since 2017. The good news: The solar cycle does appear to be waking up, after a rather extended quiescence.

DRAINAGE PATHS: New website allows users to track mesmerizing journey of a raindrop. “A Pittsburgh web developer has made a website that allows anyone to trace the path of a raindrop that falls in the contiguous United States from when it lands on the ground to its final destination and everything in between.”

The site is River Runner.

PUTIN’S BETTER AT RUNNING A MAFIA THAN RUNNING A COUNTRY: The Shocking Enormity of Russia’s Botched Pandemic Response: A massive third wave is spreading unchecked, anti-vaxxers are rampant, and the Kremlin’s vaccine diplomacy has failed.

If my only choice was a Russian vaccine, I’d be an anti-vaxxer too. See also Sinovac.

MARK JUDGE: Moon Shot: the Rear-End Dead End of the Ridiculous Hit on Me and Brett Kavanaugh.

IS THERE ANYTHING RON DESANTIS CAN’T DO? Racial gaps in breast cancer death risk narrowing in Florida, study says.

21ST CENTURY MEDICINE: Self-powered implantable device stimulates fast bone healing, then disappears without a trace.

A VIP TWOFER COURTESY OF PAULA BOLYARD…:The Biden Admin’s Latest Stunt to Push COVID-19 Vaccines Is the Most Terrifying Yet.

…AND YOURS TRULY: Terry McAuliffe Answers the Question: How Many Cringes Can You Fit in a 21-Second Video?

KRUISER: Be Nice: AI Could Make Me ‘Digitally Immortal.’

AT HELEN’S PAGE: A new album by Kevin Taylor, Shotgun Divorce.

#RESIST: Are Speed Limiters Coming to American Cars?

PERSONNEL IS POLICY: Biden to nominate environmental lawyer as assistant Army secretary.

DISPATCHES FROM YEAR ZERO: Vandals Topple Statues, Burn Churches to the Ground in Canada.

I AM SISYPHUS: Biden Administration officials are apparently still going around claiming that (1) students of all races misbehave at exactly the same rates, but that somehow (2) black students wind up getting disciplined more because school teachers are a bunch of anti-black racists. How does the Democratic Party gets away with calling one of its most loyal constituencies racist?  I hereby refute the argument about misbehavior rates one more time.

THE LEFT WILL WRECK ANYTHING IT CAN’T SEIZE, AND SOME THINGS IT CAN: Biden’s Administration Is the ‘Wrecking Crew.’ “We should have seen this coming. Remember the first official act of President Biden on Inauguration Day? Shutting down the Keystone Pipeline to ensure that the country would not have access to cheap oil and gas, but would instead be forced to rely more heavily on so-called renewable energy sources that can only be affordable with the help of vast government subsidies. The Department of Energy is now the Department of Less Energy, and fewer jobs too, to the tune of 50,000 construction and oil workers sidelined by Biden.”

A bare minimum of 74 million of us saw this coming.

SKYNET DELIVERS: The Delivery Robots Are Your Friends, Says Delivery-Robot Company.

ANYTHING FREE IS WORTH LESS THAN YOU PAID FOR IT: Wikipedia Co-Founder: Site Has Become ‘Thought Police’ That ‘Shackles Conservative Viewpoints.’

ABOUT THE LEFT’S ANTI-SEMITISM: It keeps growing and growing, and Jeff Dunetz at The Lid has a pretty good idea why.

THE STRUGGLE IS REAL: People living with obesity struggling with their weight in silence.

WAIT, HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CLAIMED THAT THESE VACCINES WERE NO GOOD AND THAT BY OFFERING THEM TO THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY ISRAEL WAS BEING RACIST: After Palestinians reject deal, Israel to send 700,000 vaccines to South Korea. Human Rights Watch and similar groups, which once had a proud history of standing up for human rights, have become propaganda factories for the far left. Here is Ken Roth of HRW, making up a phony obligation by Israel to provide the PA with vaccines, and then buying PA lies about why they wouldn’t accept vaccines when offered.