OPEN THREAD: Mama just don’t understand.

THE SPACE REVOLUTION CAME IN 2033, WHICH WAS RATHER LATE FOR ME: Humans could move to this floating asteroid belt colony in the next 15 years, astrophysicist says.

IT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: The Making of a Molotov Cocktail: Two lawyers, a summer of unrest, and a bottle of Bud Light.

IT’S MEWE, AND I’M ON THERE: Hmmm: New Facebook Competitor Adds 2.5 Million Subscribers — In A Single Week.

HMM: ‘Exercise protein’ doubles running capacity, restores function and extends healthy lifespans in older mice.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Nothing says, “This was a perfectly normal election, and now it’s time to come together as a united nation,” like having your swearing-in behind 12-foot-high razor wire surrounded by 25,000 troops whose loyalty you doubt.

THE RETURN OF ETIQUETTE AND DECORUM WE WERE PROMISED? Biden Snipes at Reporter Questioning His Vaccine Plan. “The president did not engage further, [and] got up and left the room as an aide broke up the proceedings by urging reporters out.”

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HANDMAIDENS OF TERROR: Feel The Healing: MSNBC Analysts Discussing Banning Republican Speech, Years Of “Detox” For The Right.

NOT MENTIONED: BLACK LIVES MATTER. 2020 Saw Unprecedented Murder Spike In Major U.S. Cities. Though, shockingly, there’s this from Bill de Blasio: “it’s certainly related to the fact that the criminal justice system is on pause and that’s causing a lot of problems”.

Do tell.

MATT MARGOLIS: Biden Administration Tear-Gassed ‘Peaceful Protesters’ Just Hours After Inauguration.

BRONZE AGE CASH: Objects suggest Europeans used standardized money 4,000 years ago.

CHINA PUSHING HARD TO CLOSE MILITARY DRONE GAP WITH U.S.: The Epoch Times’ Eva Fu has an exclusive report, based on a leaked file. Beijing’s military build-up is on all fronts.

JOURNALISM IN THE TRUMP ERA: Slouching Toward Post-Journalism: The New York Times and other elite media outlets have openly embraced advocacy over reporting. Also the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Biden eras, but it’s getting worse with each iteration.

PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD. The mom suing a Nevada high school for compelled speech in a class based on “intersectionality” is asking for support. According to the complaint, “Plaintiff William Clark’s first graded assignment for the class … required him to reveal his racial, sexual, gender, sexual orientation, disabilities and religious identities” (and later, of course, dealt with his alleged “privilege”). FIRE dealt with a similar situation at the University of Delaware back in 2007. It was bad then and it’s bad now.

TRUMP’S FOUR YEARS REALLY WERE FULL OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Issues & Insights takes a look back and compiles an impressive look at Trump’s record. How long before “Miss Me Yet? photos of Trump proliferate?

JUST WHAT YOU NEED FOR HOME DEFENSE: Review: Tippmann Armory Gatling Gun 9 mm.

LIVE IN FIVE FOR OUR VIPS: Live Chat with Kruiser, Preston, VodkaPundit.

ALSO FOR OUR VIPS: Gird Your Loins, Libertarians. The Biden Admin Is Going to Be Keeping an Eye on You. “Former CIA Director John Brennan let the cat out of the bag during an MSNBC appearance Wednesday, saying that the Biden administration is laser-focused on rooting out ‘insurgency movements’ in the U.S., cracking down on pernicious malefactors like (gasp!) libertarians. No, really.”

I BLAME #ORANGEMANBAD AND ANTI-MASK RED-STATERS: China reports more COVID-19 cases in Beijing, Shanghai.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Another Woman Gave Me An Orgasm At A Strip Club Bachelor Party.

REGULATIONS: New FAA Drone Rules: What Recreational and Commercial Pilots Need to Know.

QUESTIONS: How does SARS-CoV-2 get in your head and destroy your sense of smell?

HEY, JOE, CAESAR CHAVEZ WAS A VIRULENT FOE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: Maybe our 46th chief executive should spend more time reading journalists like The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson.

QUESTION ASKED: Can Biden Sec State Continue the ‘Tougher Approach’ on China?

President Joe Biden’s incoming secretary of state, Antony Blinken, agrees former President Donald Trump’s administration got communist China right.

During his Jan. 19 Senate confirmation hearing, Blinken told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: “President Trump was right in taking a tougher approach to China. I disagree very much with the way that he went about it in a number of areas, but the basic principle was the right one. And I think that that’s actually helpful to our foreign policy.”

Blinken knows the Chinese Communist Party endangers America and the world.

But can the Biden administration continue “the tougher approach” with Hunter Biden’s China investment scandal lurking in the diplomatic and criminal background?

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HEALTH: New trial finds arthritis drug tocilizumab no better than standard care for severe COVID-19.

ZERO PLUS ONE: Joe Biden, Who’s Been Accused of Sexual Misconduct, Announces Zero-Tolerance Conduct Policy for Administration.