DID THEY HAVE TO WRITE THIS? YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU SAY STUFF LIKE THIS:  World War III is Not Possible.

MY GUESS IS THAT THEY DESPERATELY CRAVE RELIGION, AND THIS TWISTED THING IS WHAT THEY CHOSE:  Covid Redux.

A LEFTIST?  What makes a Nazi?

THE “ETHICS” BOIL DOWN TO AGREE WITH THE BULLIES OR ELSE.

KEITH CANNOT BE KILLED BY CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS: The Rolling Stones rocker Keith Richards celebrates both his 80th birthday and 40th wedding anniversary to wife Patti Hansen as his famous loved ones send tributes.

Classical reference in headline:

OPEN THREAD: You can learn from my mistakes, but you’re posing in the glass again.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Alec Baldwin berated by group of pro-Palestinian protesters who flooded Grand Central, Penn Station: ‘Shut your f—kig mouth.’

Pro-Palestinian protesters targeted actor Alec Baldwin Monday evening as the “30 Rock” star suddenly appeared during a protest as hundreds of agitators flooded into Penn Station and Grand Central Station during a fiery demonstration where they told Israel to “go to hell.”

Hundreds of protesters targeted the major Big Apple transit hubs with some lambasting Baldwin and his “tanking” career while shouting up harsh slogans against Israel and President Biden during the protest opposing Israel’s military campaign in Gaza against Hamas.

Baldwin was walking by the demonstration near West 29th Street when protesters spotted him and darted toward him, accusing him of supporting Israel. A group berated Baldwin as cops stood between the group and the comedian, who was against a door.

Baldwin had no problem jawing back at them but was quickly met with the ire of the protesters.

“Shut your f—kig mouth, you have no f—king shame,” one man shouted back at Baldwin.

When he was asked if he supported Israel, Baldwin replied, “No, I support peace for Gaza.”

The confrontation ended when Baldwin was able to get through the door he was waiting in front of.

“Your career’s tanking by the way,” the man yelled as the door shut.

Insert Henry Kissinger’s Iran-Iraq War joke here.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Space Force’s first six missile-defense satellites in medium orbit to cost about $500 million.

AND THE HITS JUST KEEP COMING FOR DISNEY: Disney Marvel’s Big Rising Star, Their Next “Thanos-Level Threat,” Was Just Convicted of Harassing and Assaulting His Girlfriend.

MOVE ALONG, NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Americore Gave James Biden $600k Loan on Promise He’d Deliver Funding from Middle East, Trustee Says.

AFTER THATCHER:

The current state of affairs has analogs with how the era of Thatcher’s best overseas friend, Ronald Reagan, is seen today (though Reagan is less controversial in the United States than Thatcher is in Britain). How has it come about?

Part of the explanation is specifically British; part wider. It is important to understand that, even before Thatcher had arrived in office, there was no consensus about her in Britain. She probably did not mind that, because she loved to say how much she disliked consensus: “The Old Testament prophets didn’t go out into the highways saying, ‘Brothers, I want consensus.’ They said, ‘This is my faith and my vision!’… And they preached it.” But it meant that there was already a battle over her legacy, almost before she entered the office which she held for eleven and a half years.

In the first volume of Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography (2013), I devoted a whole chapter to reactions to her, because they were so unusually strong. Differing attitudes to her embodied a culture war. One would have expected the first woman prime minister to have aroused opposition in conservative circles because of her sex. This did happen to some extent, most notably, for example, in her Tory predecessor, Edward Heath. But the hostile reaction to her sex came much more from the Left, many of whom seemed repelled at the idea that a woman could be a strong leader in politics and yet hold the “wrong” views. When Lady Thatcher died in 2013, the House of Commons gathered to commemorate her. By far the harshest contributor, in what was naturally expected to be a respectful occasion, was the distinguished actress and Labour M.P. Glenda Jackson. She spoke of the “extraordinary human damage” Thatcher had done, and concluded, “To pay tribute to the first Prime Minister denoted by female gender, okay, but a woman? Not on my terms.” It was as if a woman not on the left was an unnatural creation. Thatcher’s sex had a big influence on how she was received and made reactions toward her much more emotional than if she had been a man.

Read the whole thing.

I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS WITH SOME FRIENDS NEXT YEAR: Physicist Discovers ‘Paradox-Free’ Time Travel Is Theoretically Possible.

I think this would addresss Niven’s Law of Time Travel, but I’m not sure.

HMM: Dark Genome Discovery: Researchers Reveal “Ancient Genetic Parasite” Implicated in Human Diseases.

WELL SURE, BUT WOULDN’T TERMINATING THE NFL PRODUCE EVEN MORE DRAMATIC RESULTS? Taylor Swift’s whirlwind romance with ‘soul mate’ Travis Kelce has produced 138 TONS of CO2 emissions in three months – and the singer would need to plant more than 2,200 trees to offset the damage.

I’ll believe global warming is a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start to act like it’s a crisis themselves. In the meantime, I don’t want to hear another word about Glenn Reynolds’ carbon footprint.

RIP: Legendary LA radio personality Jim Ladd dies at 75. “The news of Ladd’s death came as his colleagues from SirusXM Deep Tracks channel announced on the air that the longtime radio personality had suffered a heart attack over the weekend. SiriusXM issued a statement on social media in response to Ladd’s death[.]”

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Study bolsters evidence that severe obesity increasing in young US kids.

HE’S NOT WRONG: Don Surber: Liberals destroy society: From dams to cities to children, they demolish everything.

READER FAVORITE: Anker PowerCore Fusion 5000, Portable Charger. #CommissionEarned

PROBABLY WHY THEY WENT EXTINCT: Neanderthals may have been early risers.

BIDEN CRIME FAMILY UPDATE: Joe Biden’s Brother Was Caught on Tape in FBI Bribery Sting. “A corrupt trial attorney went to James Biden to get what he wanted… solely because he is Joe Biden’s brother.”

HMM: Apple to halt sales of latest smartwatches over patent dispute. “On Dec. 21, the company will halt sales of new smartwatch models online. Retail stores will also stop selling the smartwatches on Dec. 24. Sales of the smartwatches will continue outside of the U.S., Apple noted.”

ALSO ON TRADITIONAL MEDIA. Health misinformation is rampant on social media.

Related: How the Sugar Industry Shifted the Blame to Fat. And traditional media went along with that for decades.

FUN TOY: Flying Orb Ball, 2023 Upgraded Flying Ball Toy. #CommissionEarned

THE CDC BLEW ITS CREDIBILITY: Americans Yawn at CDC Warnings About ‘Tripledemic.’ “The CDC began its big vaccination push more than two months ago, with this tragically hip tweet from CDC director Mandy Cohen.”

HMM: I might have to upgrade my Apple Watch just for Siri’s new health features.

We’re getting closer to my idea of a body computer, which I wrote about decades ago.