THIS IS CNN: At CNN Corporate Grief Counseling Session, Alisyn Camarota Talks About Zucker’s Firing As If It’s Caused Her Psychological Trauma, and Tater Begs Warners Honcho Jason Kilar to Provide CNN “Talent” With Emotional Healing.

How bad is it? It’s so bad that Soledad O’Earpiece is making fun of CNN “talent” for being weak and “pathetic.”

The left has never been the political movement of grit, resilience, self-reliance, and mental health. That’s the right.

The left has always been the political movement of neuroses, hysteria, insecurity, cloying need for validation, emotional fragility, and childlike temper-tantrums and outbursts of pure psychopathic hatred when frustrated.

That’s what makes the left the left. Leftist — Marxism — is best understood not as an actual politics but as a twisted self-help program for broken people, giving bent, bitter, sick individuals an external collection of boogeymen to redirect and focus their self-loathing at.

In other news from CNN: Chris Cuomo wants as much as $60 million from CNN amid Jeff Zucker exit.

Chris Cuomo isn’t backing down in his battle with CNN following the ouster of his boss Jeff Zucker — the anchor intends to demand as much as a $60 million settlement, according to sources.

Multiple sources tell Page Six that Cuomo, who was fired in December for helping his brother fend off sexual harassment allegations, is ready to dig his heels in by claiming that Zucker not only knew about his dealings with the governor — but that the network boss had his own inappropriate dealings with Andrew.

And he is prepared to demand not the $18 million left on his contract, but as much as $60 million.

“He wants Megyn Kelly money,” we’re told.

A fellow could feel reborn with that amount of dosh — and it wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened to Fredo…

XI JINPING AND PUTIN ARE LICKING THEIR CHOPS READING HEADLINES LIKE THIS: With world on edge, Army unveils climate change priorities.

THE BEIJING OLYMPICS AS 2022’S FYRE FESTIVAL:

THE NEW SPACE RACE: India to attempt its next moon landing with Chandrayaan 3 launch in August.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Bay Area calls on homeowners to help house homeless residents.

As the Bay Area continues to struggle under the weight of its homelessness crisis, officials and nonprofits are asking local residents to do more than hand out meals or donate spare change. They’re asking them to open up their homes.

Nearly 30,000 people are unhoused in the five-county Bay Area, and there isn’t nearly enough room in the region’s existing affordable housing developments. To fill the gaps, service providers increasingly are recruiting private landlords to take in homeless tenants. Some property owners are renting out entire units in exchange for agreements that the government or a nonprofit will cover the rent. Others are offering up spare bedrooms in their homes – sometimes in exchange for a small stipend, and sometimes as a purely charitable act.

But it’s hard to find owners willing to take a chance on someone down on their luck. At least one program recently ended because of a lack of landlord interest.

“This is something that someone can do when they just feel that despair of ‘oh my gosh, I just can’t stand seeing these poor people on the streets near my home,’ ” said Christi Carpenter, executive director of East Bay nonprofit Safe Time, which places unhoused college students and families in spare bedrooms for between one and six months. Since 2017, the group has made more than 60 placements.

Richmond Mayor Tom Butt recently partnered with the Rotary Club to match unhoused people with local landlords. The small program will be funded entirely by private donations and landlords will get one year’s rent in advance. The number of people Butt can house depends on donations and volunteer interest, but he already has two more landlords lined up.

“There are a lot of people out there who want to do something meaningful to try to alleviate the homelessness problem,” Butt said.

And maybe that’s part of the problem — “Despite its spending more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable city, [San Francisco’s] homeless problem is worse than any comparable city’s,” SF Weekly noted a decade ago, stumbling into the Fox Butterfield effect.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE!

@johnstone.gregory Probably should have checked in sooner, boss… #stayhealthy #thevaccines ♬ original sound – Greg Johnstone

REVENGE OF THE COVID MOMS:

Maud Maron hates the whole you-gotta-show-your-vaccine-passport-to-get-into-a-restaurant thing, and she thinks masking indoors is atrocious, but this is bright blue New York City, so fine. It’s just, “when Kathy Hochul”—the governor—“gets on the screen, talking about how she wants to protect us and keep the masks in schools, she doesn’t have a f**king mask on her face, and I’m so sick of politicians who take the mask off their face to tell me to put the mask on my children—like how dare you?” Anyway, that’s why she’s running for Congress.

We’re having tea around her kitchen island in her apartment in Soho. It’s big. There’s a ping pong table, a foosball table, a swing bolted into a wooden beam. A bright red, toddler-sized race car. A tattered copy of “Romeo and Juliet.” Speech-therapy exercises are tacked to the wall. Her husband, who’s Argentinian, runs a private-equity shop. “When you shut down my kids’ schools and impose devastating mental health effects on them—I don’t forgive anyone who did that,” Maron says.

After a beat or two, she adds: “This is the year that parents say, ‘You’re either with us or against us.’”

Speaking of Hochul and masked kids: New York Gov. Kathy Hochul decides to EXTEND the state’s mask mandate for schools.

IF IT WASN’T FOR DOUBLE-STANDARDS, THE LEFT WOULD HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL:

Shot: The Department of Homeland Security Just Smeared Americans Who Question Government on COVID, Elections as a ‘Terrorism Threat.’

—Hannah Cox, Based Politics, today.

Chaser: Biden To Set Free Would-Be 9/11 Hijacker. “Mohammed al-Qahtani, who planned to hijack planes on Sept. 11, 2001, for al Qaeda but was denied entry into the United States, will be transferred to Saudi Arabia following the Biden administration’s decision late last week to set him free. He is scheduled to be flown to Saudi Arabia and placed in a ‘custodial rehabilitation and mental health care program for extremists.’”

—Adam Kredo, the Washington Free Beacon, yesterday.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Spinal Implant Enables Paralyzed Man With Severed Spine to Walk Again.

WELL, TO BE FAIR, IT WAS A STUPID IDEA: The IRS: We won’t use facial identification tech after all.

TRUST THE SCIENCE! BUT MAYBE NOT THE SCIENTISTS. RealClearInvestigations: Famed Alzheimer’s Researcher John Hardy Is a Knight … but Not in Shining Armor.

The celebrated Alzheimer’s Disease researcher John Hardy was among the British doctors and medical researchers honored by Queen Elizabeth II with knighthoods at the dawn of the new year. It was just the latest on a long list of prestigious awards Hardy has collected, including the Potamkin Prize for his work identifying genetic aspects of Alzheimer’s disease, the MetLife Prize, the Thudichum medal, the Robert A. Pritzker Prize, and the Breakthrough Prize.

In 2018, Hardy added the Brain Prize to his list of accolades. Awarded by the Danish Lundbeck Foundation, it is regularly referred to as the “Nobel of neuroscience.” Winners are assumed to be on the short list for the Nobels themselves.

Missing among all the flattering kudos and attendant news coverage has been any mention of the geneticist’s leading role in a conspiracy that held Alzheimer’s research hostage to fraudulently acquired gene patents. The sordid affair mired efforts to find a cure in tangled, resource-sapping litigation. The last of the courthouse wrangling that began in 2003 wouldn’t be resolved for more than a decade – a resolution that came with a ringing rebuke from the bench expressing the judge’s outrage at the scheme, the schemers, and the damage they caused.

Yet until now the full details of the deceptions of Hardy and his accomplices have not been widely reported. Some of them are consigned to scholarly literature and other startling ones are found in overlooked testimony from the prolonged litigation, which documents one of the most celebrated scientists of our time admitting under oath that he lied and committed academic fraud, and confessing that he was ashamed.

The story – which also ensnared one of the world’s most prominent woman scientists, who admitted under oath that she too lied, pressured by Hardy – emerges at a time when the credibility of august scientific authorities is being sorely challenged on other fronts, not least during the coronavirus pandemic.

Scientists are humans, and are just as prone to selfishness and dishonesty as anyone else.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Jordan Peterson’s Next Move? Taking Out the Universities. The former professor is back, speaking to sold-out theaters and generating controversy.

Last month he stepped down as a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto after more than two decades (he’s officially emeritus now). He blamed his premature retirement on, among other things, diversity and inclusion efforts — “woke madness,” he called it — that he believes are poisoning the academy. He also fears that any graduate student he might supervise would have trouble finding a job given that, in some circles, Jordan Peterson’s name on your CV might as well be the mark of the beast. “These facts rendered my job morally untenable,” he wrote in a typically no-holds-barred resignation essay. He worked in a few parting jabs at his erstwhile colleagues, professors who are “cowering cravenly in pretence and silence. Teaching your students to dissimulate and lie. To get along. As the walls crumble. For shame.” When someone on Twitter asked how he would spend his time now, he replied: “Taking out the universities.” He so far hasn’t revealed how exactly he plans to do that, or even what the threat means.

His animus shouldn’t come as a surprise. For years he’s been calling universities scams and indoctrination cults, and declaring entire fields, including sociology, anthropology, and English literature, corrupt. He’s castigated colleges for luring students with promises of enlightenment and leaving them philosophically adrift and mired in debt. “They rob your future self while allowing you to pretend you have an identity,” he once said.

Well, none of this is wrong . . .

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I HAD A COLLEGE GIRLFRIEND WHO DROVE ONE OF THESE: Junkyard Find: 1980 Datsun 280ZX. It was pretty nice, but I always thought the earlier-generation Z-cars were more fun.

RIP: Douglas Trumbull, Who Pioneered VFX on ‘2001,’ ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Close Encounters,’ Dies at 79.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): The script wasn’t brilliant, but his directorial debut in special-effects breakthrough pic Silent Running deserves a mention. The use of front projection and models was pioneering. Interiors were in the decommisioned aircraft carrier “Valley Forge.”

LET’S GO, BRANDEAU! Outrage as Trudeau smears anti-vax mandate Freedom Convoy as ‘swastika-wavers’ in Canadian parliament despite no evidence: Protesters blockade busiest border crossing to the US at Detroit.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson also slammed Trudeau’s response, claiming the demonstrators are being treated like terrorists.

‘This is a peaceful, political protest. No one has shown any evidence to the contrary. It’s not a drug trafficking or human trafficking operation. It’s not Al Qaeda,’ Carlson said on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight.

‘These are Canadian citizens who drive trucks for a living, but they’re being treated like a terror group.’

Why would Trudeau object to peaceful protestors? Flashback: Justin Trudeau takes a knee at Black Lives Matter demonstration on Parliament Hill.

KEEP UP THE SCARE, AND MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE: Your Attention Please: Gun-Grabbers Are Losing the Culture War.

NEVER APOLOGIZE TO THE MOB: Ron DeSantis Has Some Excellent Advice About the Mob After All the Joe Rogan Controversies. “No, he shouldn’t have apologized. I mean, you see what happens? The mob will come after people, and they’re targeting Rogan because he’s threatening to upset the apple cart on some of the things that they’re holding dear. And with COVID, he’s just bringing opposing views. He’s letting people decide. They say he’s against [the COVID vaccine]. I do not listen to his show, but then I read he specifically advocated for people with co-morbidities and elderly to get vaccinated.”

CHINA TAKING POPULATION DECLINE SERIOUSLY: An AI robot nanny will care for human embryos in artificial wombs.

COMPLY, THEY EXPLAINED: Bombshell Email Reveals Plan to Arrest Maskless Loundoun County Students at School.

OH: Biden To Set Free Would-Be 9/11 Hijacker. “Mohammed al-Qahtani, who planned to hijack planes on Sept. 11, 2001, for al Qaeda but was denied entry into the United States, will be transferred to Saudi Arabia following the Biden administration’s decision late last week to set him free. He is scheduled to be flown to Saudi Arabia and placed in a ‘custodial rehabilitation and mental health care program for extremists.'”

MY AD REVENUES HAVE CERTAINLY TANKED POST-PANDEMIC, AND WERE IN SLOW DECLINE BEFORE IT: The ad-based internet: is the roof caving in? Whether or not the roof’s caving in, I remember the original PJ Media business plan relied on CPM numbers (that’s revenue per 1000 pageviews) that were entirely reasonable in 2005, but wildly high a decade later. That’s distinct from what’s happening to Facebook, etc., now but consistent with something I predicted long ago, which was that advertising was in fact never very effective, but that the Internet was making it possible for advertisers to figure that out.

GREAT MOMENTS IN KNOWING YOUR AUDIENCE: ‘Inspired by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro,’ a New York restaurant missteps in Miami.

A Mexican hangout where the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Che Guevara plotted the Cuban revolution is the inspiration behind a New York City restaurant opening a location soon in downtown Miami.

Miami is having a problem with this.

Café Habana, set to open at 229 S Miami Ave. in the Spring of 2022, opened its first location inside a converted New York diner in 1997. The concept is a fusion of Cuban and Mexican cuisine — with a backstory rooted in communist revolutionary lore.

“Inspired by a storied Mexico City hangout, where legend has it Che Guevara and Fidel Castro plotted the Cuban Revolution, the flagship Café Habana location was created out of an old-school New York diner in 1997. Eighteen years later, Café Habana remains an institution…” read a description on the restaurant’s website until this week.

That information was scrubbed from the restaurant’s website and Google in the days after people in Miami discovered the restaurant’s backstory.

Interesting theme for a restaurant — particularly one located in Miami — considering, as Moe Lane once wrote, Marxism “tends to attract the sort who can’t understand that an economic system that cannot feed its own population reliably has failed at the game of Life. Literally.”

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