NONSENSE, LIKE BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTS THEY’RE EXEMPT FROM VIROLOGY: Birx suggests inauguration-related gatherings could amount to “superspreader” event.

R.I.P. Larry King. His show was my very first big-TV appearance, many, many years ago.

ANN ALTHOUSE: If cancelling is something that is going to be done, why should Will Wilkinson be an exception? It’s got to be that the attempted cancellation of Will Wilkinson reverses the course of cancel culture.

UPDATE: Is It Time to Boycott Niskanen? Why Jerry Taylor Must Resign.

NOW OUT FROM ANDREW WAREHAM: The Balloonatics: A Tale of the Great War.

Also, The Pinchbeck Peer, Book Four.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Another teachers union refuses to return to work.

WELL, THAT’S THE PLAN: If Hawley and Cruz Are Cancelled, Conservatism Is Next.

HMM: NSAIDs might exacerbate or suppress COVID-19 depending on timing, mouse study suggests. “Dr. Wilen and his team expected that there would be little to no effect of NSAIDs on viral infection, which turned out to be correct.They also thought that NSAIDs would not significantly affect the antibody response to natural infection. ‘In fact, we initially didn’t even carefully look at the antibody response, because we didn’t expect it to be altered by NSAIDs. This turned out to be wrong,’ said Dr. Wilen.”

BROADCAST LEGEND TOM BROKAW RETIRING FROM NBC NEWS AFTER 55 YEARS.

Related:

• Marking Tom Brokaw’s Twenty Years of Tilt.
• Peter Jennings and Brokaw Defend Dan Rather Who Sees Effort to “Smear” Him.
• In supposed apology to Richard Jewell, Tom Brokaw revises history.
• Tom Brokaw Accused of Sexual Harassment By Former NBC Anchor Linda Vester.

And of course, this classic moment from 2008:

https://youtu.be/hzMas1bVidw

Just NBC all the gaslighting!

And so, as he flies the blue lady of the skies into the sunset, we say “Aloha!”, Five O’clock Tom, and return to our duties.  Let me remind you, the Weblog is open twenty-four hours for your dining and dancing pleasure.

VALUE: Cars that won’t depreciate.

GOOD AND HARD: “Release Them All:” Tucker Exposes Full Biden Jailbreak Order for Illegal Aliens.

Biden’s determined to show his old boss that there’s a new (pro-ACAB) sherif in town!

GOOD AND HARD: Biden’s Culture War Blitzkrieg.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Mastering The Element of Surprise for Personal Defense.

THE LEFT TALKS ABOUT BIGOTRY SO MUCH BECAUSE IT’S PROJECTING.

How many languages does Dr. Jill Biden speak?

IS THIS TRUE? OR ARE FLU CASES BEING REPORTED AS COVID? CDC: Flu continues to have ‘low’ impact as COVID-19 pandemic rages.

GOOD AND HARD: Biden Stops Trump Order To Slash Price Of Insulin, EpiPen.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Slow start: Biden’s opening approval below Trump and Obama, just 48%.

This is Rasmussen’s daily presidential tracking poll. Note that in Rasmussen’s final tracking poll for Trump, Trump was at 51%.

Weird, because the press is telling us that everyone hates Trump, a total pariah. And that everyone loves our America’s savior, Joe Biden.

Related: The impeachment is about legitimizing Biden.

He’s gonna need some legitimizing to be legitimate. (Bumped).

GONE: RIP Loon, Google’s balloon-based cellular network.

HEY, DEMS, YOU WON’T HAVE TO DIG DEEP TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THE NATIONAL GUARD’S EVICTION AT US CAPITOL:

ANTI-MASKERS ARE EVERYWHERE: Astronomers unmask cosmic eruptions in nearby galaxies.

OLD AND BUSTED: It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand. 

The New Hotness? It Usually Begins With David Brooks! ‘WTF are you smoking?’ Lincoln Project senior adviser blames NYT’s David Brooks for ‘that Capitol insurrection’ and even Tom Nichols’ jaw is on the floor.

The “conservative intelligentsia” who worships Barack Obama’s trouser creases. Who knew that Bobos in Paradise was the gateway drug to Capitol Hill erections, err, Capitol Hill insurrections?

Or possibly, the Lincoln Project itself! In his best-selling 2000 book, Brooks wrote:

To get the most attention, the essay should be wrong. Logical essays are read and understood. But an illogical or wrong essay will prompt dozens of other writers co rise and respond, thus giving the author mounds of publicity. Yale professor Paul Kennedy had a distinguished but unglamorous career under his belt when he wrote The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, predicting American decline. He was wrong, and hundreds of other commentators rose to say so, thus making him famous and turning his book into a bestseller. Francis Fukuyama wrote an essay called “The End of History,” which seemed wrong to people who read only the title. Thousands of essayists wrote pieces pointing out that history had not ended, and Fukuyama became a global sensation.

The Lincoln Project in general seems determined to take the advice of this member of the “conservative intelligentsia” to spectacular heights.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Exercising muscle combats chronic inflammation on its own.

NOT THE BABYLON BEE: Gov. Noem never shut down South Dakota. Their unemployment rate just dropped to 3.0%. That’s lower than it was before the pandemic.

GOOD: Experts: Vaccines likely to be effective against new COVID-19 variants.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: The Left Eats Itself: Petition Inside NPR Accuses Them of a ‘White Supremacist Culture.’

SUCKERS: