FOR THE LOVE OF BOB. GIVE HER PERMANENT TIME OFF. WE’RE ALL FATIGUED FROM DEALING WITH HER AND OTHERS LIKE HER:   Professor Demands Black Faculty Get Paid Leave to Deal With ‘Racial Battle Fatigue’.

WELL, I HAVEN’T SHOPPED AT EITHER, BUT I CAN’T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OL’ PETE AND A CARTOON CHARACTER:  ‘Man of the People’ Buttigieg: “You Think Tucker Carlson Knows the Difference Between a T.J. Maxx and a Kohl’s?”

I DID WONDER WHY RELATIVES IN EUROPE ARE SUDDENLY TERRIFIED OF COVID AND HOW IT’S COMING BACK:  Farmers’ Protests Erupt in the Netherlands and Belgium Against EU Climate Change Restrictions,

How many times will Europeans fall for the fear porn to keep them from rebelling? I told you this in the depths of lockdowns, but please listen to me this time: Lockdowns? Curfews? Other ways of limiting the movement of populations? I’ve lived through a few long ago and far away. I have more experience of this than anyone should have.  They’re never about whatever emergency they’re supposedly about. They’re always because a government is terrified of its citizens and wants them imprisoned.

Remember that. The country you save might be your own.

CONSIDERING HOW THOSE THINGS END UP IN HUMANS, AND THE VARIOUS ERUCTATIONS OF BILL GATES, I’M SORRY, I DON’T TRUST THIS:  U.S. Might Vaccinate Chickens Due to Bird Flu Outbreak.

Dear establishment, realize we’ve had enough of your sh*t and no one trusts you. Stop digging.

SOMETHING ONLY BEFORE SEEN IN POORLY EDITED BOOKS:  Jan. 6 Footage Shows Officer Brian Sicknick Walking Uninjured in Capitol Around the Time Rioters ‘Killed’ Him Outside.

APPARENTLY THE FLORIDA LAW DUH HAS BEEN MISREPORTED:  Even if both sides do it, it’s a bad idea.

So second verse, same as the first, it’s just the left. Still a bad idea, and definitely register this.  (The Florida Bill just says that reporters don’t get protection when they engage in defamation, which honestly? As someone who’s been defamed by paid reporters, we need a better definition of “public person” and of what reporters can get away with in terms of making stuff up wholesale that will affect one’s livelihood.)

TIME TO CANCEL RACIST SNL: Donald Glover claims Chevy Chase called him the ‘N-word’ on set.

WHEN VIDEO DESTROYS A NARRATIVE: Jan. 6 footage shows Capitol cops escorting QAnon Shaman to Senate floor.

He should withdraw his plea on the ground that this video was withheld from the defense.

WHAT IS IT THAT YOU’D SAY YOU DO HERE?

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Biden stumbles again on Air Force One, almost falls on Alabama trip.

A single stumble got Jerry Ford endless mockery on SNL. But Biden is immune. Because SNL is a bunch of Democratic Party hacks, pretending to be comics.

THERE’S NO SUCCESS WITHOUT FAILURE IN ROCKETRY: Japan H3 rocket fails, destruct command issued.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

THIS WOULD SEEM TO BENEFIT JEFF BEZOS’ BLUE ORIGIN THE MOST: NASA shifts focus of suborbital crew program. “A NASA program originally intended to fly astronauts on commercial suborbital vehicles has evolved into a broader effort to enable flights by agency personnel and supporting the nascent industry. At the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference in March 2020, then-NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced a new effort, later called Suborbital Crew or SubC, to allow NASA astronauts to fly on commercial suborbital vehicles for training or to conduct research. The effort would be analogous to the Commercial Crew program to develop vehicles to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station.”

And maybe it’s a lifeline for Virgin Galactic.

I SUSPECT THAT STATISTICALLY, OTHER TIMELINES ARE LIKELY TO BE LESS STUPID THAN THIS ONE: Exploring The ‘Multiverse’ Could Be Key to Finding The Best Conditions For Life.

EVEYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Biden: “I was diagnosed with having a uh, anyway, they had to take the top of my head off a couple times to see if I had a brain.”

GOOD: Temperature-stable tuberculosis vaccine safe, prompts immune response in first-in-human trial. TB is the biggest killer worldwide.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: I’m in a sexual relationship with airplanes — so I go on vacation a lot. “Rodo, who said she’s spent nearly $4,267 on model airplanes, revealed that she identifies as objectum sexual. Yes, that’s a real thing. Also known as objectophilia, this particular love-match occurs when individuals develop strong sexual or romantic feelings for a specific inanimate object, according to a 2022 study published in the Spring Nature medical journal. Some academics have theorized that the condition could be linked with autism spectrum disorder.”

Sounds highly plausible.

VIRGINIA POSTREL: Japan’s Old Age Crisis and Ours to Come: What happens when people live to be very old and don’t have a passel of kids to take care of them? “As a childless baby boomer, I’m afraid I don’t have a good solution. But we’ve been warned.”

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Don’t put lip balm on your eyes, experts urge.

Women were using chapstick as eye cream when I was a kid, but apparently using the menthol is a bad idea.

NOW OUT FROM JACK MCCALL: Pogiebait’s War: A Son’s Quest for His Father’s Wartime Life. He had self-published a much earlier version some years ago, but now there’s a revised and extended version as part of the Legacies of War series.

YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: Thirteen times Democrats gave George Santos a run for his money. Shock: it’s not just Republicans who lie on their résumés.

OFF THE DEM PLANTATION: Black Democrats Break Party Ranks to Back Permitless Carry Bill in Nebraska.

WELL, YES: ‘They Think They’re God,’ Tulsi Gabbard Says of People ‘Trying To Erase Us as Women.’

A NOSE FOR NEWS: CNN Boss Ordered Staff Not to Look Into COVID Lab Leak Theory Because It Was ‘Trump Talking Point.’

READER FAVORITE: GORNEL Wireless Meat Thermometer. #CommissionEarned