I’M SURE THESE PEOPLE ARE ALL JUST IGNORANT AND UNEDUCATED ANTI-VAXXERS: Dozens of Scientists, Others Could Be Fired After Judge Won’t Halt COVID Vaccine Mandate. “More than 100 scientists, nuclear engineers, research technicians, designers, project managers and other employees joined the attempt to block the mandate. Several of the employees are specialists with high security clearance, performing functions from national defense to infrastructure improvements and research on COVID-19.”

I’m sure we can replace them with Chinese PhDs.

I HOPE THEY’LL BE PROSECUTED UNDER THE YOUNGKIN ADMINISTRATION: Loudoun County Superintendent Appears to Admit District Violated State Law by Not Reporting Sexual Assault. “The superintendent of a Virginia school district on Friday appeared to admit the district violated state law in failing to properly report alleged sexual assaults, as a state official confirmed the matter is under review.”

I’d be surprised to see much from Terry McAuliffe, as he’s an old Clinton hand and thus probably has no problem with covering up rape.

PETE BUTTIGIEG ENJOYS SECOND MONTH OF PATERNITY LEAVE AS SUPPLY CHAIN CRISIS WORSENS. “Meanwhile, top toy executive Isaac Larian of MGA Entertainment told Fox News on Thursday that ‘whether the ports are open 24 hours a day or 48 hours a day, you cannot get labor. If you cannot get labor, you cannot get trucks, you cannot get the merchandise out.’ As we noted earlier, the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, a point of entry for 40% of all US containerized goods, more than 80 container ships are at anchor and 64 at berths across the twin ports. The backlog doesn’t stop there as it takes well more than a week for entry into the port. Once the containers are unloaded, it takes another week to leave the port to warehouses. Unfortunately for poor families struggling to afford basic needs this year amid horrendous inflation, the US transportation secretary is MIA.”

1, 2, 3, INFINITY: FDA panel recommends J&J COVID-19 booster for all recipients who got first shot.

PRODUCER GILES MARTIN ON THE BEATLES’ LET IT BE REISSUE: They Were ‘Trying To Get Back To Their Youth.’

Here’s an British radio interview with Martin on the Let It Be boxed set, and the three-part, six hours documentary to stream on the Disney+ channel beginning Thanksgiving night:

https://youtu.be/5FhQoxoVoeM

OLD AND BUSTED: The Hippocratic Oath.

The New Hotness?

In other dispatches from the world of politicized health care:

DISPATCHES FROM VENICE-ZUELA: Squalor By the Seaside. Homelessness and RV fires have overrun Venice Beach, California.

Fires, pollution, and disarray are increasingly common not only in Venice but also around Los Angeles. The city’s 15 councilmembers act as demi-mayors, directing policy and policing in their districts. Mayor Eric Garcetti has seemed missing in action in the two years since his failed presidential attempt, leaving a vacuum to be filled by anarchy and lawlessness.

Garcetti’s legacy of inaction and incompetence has led to blighted living conditions in Los Angeles that are starting to rival those of the Third World. It’s somehow fitting that the city’s failed mayor aspires to be named ambassador of India: he has created conditions in Venice Beach that evoke some of the suffering in that country, along with a modern-day caste of homeless untouchables, exempt from laws and accountability.

Gooder and Harder, California.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Shatner > Brandon Edition.

JUST OUT: Ward Farnsworth’s The Socratic Method: A Practitioner’s Handbook. #CommissionEarned Helen read the book and says it has some excellent commentary on using the Socratic Method in today’s politicized world.

MICHAEL CAINE ANNOUNCES HIS RETIREMENT FROM ACTING:

But in an interview with the BBC Radio program “Kermode and Mayo,” Michael Caine revealed that he likely won’t be taking on any more roles. He’s 88 years old, after all, and he said not many films look to cast an 88-year-old lead. Caine also gave a few other reasons for retiring from acting, including health problems and focusing on writing.

“Funnily enough, it has turned out to be what is my last part really,” Caine said about”Best Sellers,” his latest film. “Because I haven’t worked for two years, and I have a spine problem which affects my legs so I can’t walk very well.

“And I also wrote a book, a couple of books, which were published and were successful. So I’m now not an actor, I’m a writer,” Michael Caine continued. “Which is lovely, because as an actor you have to get up at half-past six in the morning and go to the studio. As a writer, you start writing without leaving the bed!”

When the interviewer confirmed that Caine was saying this would be his “last picture,” he said, “I think it would be, yeah. There haven’t been any offers honestly for two years, because nobody’s been making any movies I wanna do. Also, you know I’m 88. There’s not exactly scripts pouring out with a leading man that’s 88, you know?”

What will Britain’s cottage industry of professional Michael Caine impersonators do now?

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO LIE ABOUT RAPE: Hoax: No substance to rape allegations against Oklahoma university frat.

YALE LAW SCHOOL TRIGGERS ME: A sign on my desk reads: “I’ll be nicer if you’ll be smarter.” I’m not feeling nice today — and I’m talking to you, Yale.

Plus: “Eldik, who served in the Obama administration, has mastered the art of insinuating in the nicest way possible that if you don’t do what I say, your life is over. Incidents of diversity extortion aren’t rare. We read about them often enough to wonder where it might end.”

It should end with Eldik out of a job.

#EMPTYSHELVESJOE: Brutal Twitter Hashtag Trends As Americans Realize Supply Chain Disaster’s Biden’s Fault.

THREE REASONS MIRACLES AREN’T ALWAYS HOAXES: It’s the latest “What Would You Say” number from the Colson Center. And for those who prefer to read the transcript than watch the five-minute video, the link to the document is included. Now, on your marks, set …. snark! I mean go, with intelligent, reasoned, evidence-based responses. (Put another way, enjoy our freedom of speech while we still can).

DISSENT IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF PATRIOTISM, UNLESS YOU’RE PROTESTING THE ESTABLISHMENT: Students’ mask mandate protest met with locked doors, expletive-ridden emails from university employees.

STEPHANOPOULOS IS TRYING TO CLEAN UP SOME OF THE RUSSIAGATE MESS, IN HIS ROLE AS DEMOCRATIC OPERATIVE: The name’s Steele, Chris Steele: The discredited British spy is set to be interviewed Monday by George Stephanopoulos.

Delicious. Christopher Steele, the single most discredited actor in the entire Trump Russia Collusion Hoax, is set to be interviewed Monday by George Stephanopoulos, the single most pompous of all the brood of lying, self-important talking heads that spent more than four years trashing Donald Trump.

I know that there is stiff competition for that first title. After all, Steele had to beat out James ‘Higher Loyalty’ Comey, liars and confabulators like John Brennan, Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, Peter Strzok and James Clapper. But Steele wins, hands down, because his so-called dossier — full of micturating prostitutes and other fantasies — was the stink bomb that really got the Russia Collusion Delusion going.

Remember the dossier is opposition ‘research’, secretly commissioned and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Even James Comey called it ‘salacious’. But that is far too kind. As Mary McCarthy once said of Lillian Hellman, every word of it, including ‘and’ and ‘the’, is a lie: fantasy fed by dubious sources to a credulous Steele.

But, my, how that steaming pile of merde rocketed through the news cycle. All the coolest spies are Brits, and here we had a certified, genuine former MI6 spook disgorging stuff that might have come out of a novel by John le Carré. Remember all that semi-coded language and Steele’s habit of typing people’s names in ALL CAPS because it made the document seem so much more authentic.

Nothing in the Dossier has been confirmed, much has been disproven. Nearly a year after the man our pantywaist elite loves to hate left office, you’d think that they would find some new lies with which to entertain us.

But no. As a preposterous trailer for the Hulu original shows, the are jumping into this nonsense feet first. Emetic talking head after talking head tells us how ‘historic’ the Dossier and the washed-up spook Steele are. But the only thing historic is the level of gumless credulity swallowing any part the this story requires.

Or, to be more honest, deliberate partisan dishonesty needed to sell this obviously bogus story.

SEEN AROUND TOWN: 200 Pcs I Did That Stickers Funny Sticker – Pointed to Your Left and Right – Funny Sticker for Car Motorcycle Helmet Laptop Window.#Commission Earned (Bumped)

AND RIGHTLY SO: Loudoun County Update: Family Of Alleged Rape Victim To Sue School District.