WELL, GOOD: Federal Judge Blocks Gavin Newsom’s War Against the Freedom of Speech.

THE WORD “NORMAL” IS RACIST, SEXIST, AND TRANSPHOBIC: Is Your Poop Normal? 10 Things It Can Reveal About Your Health.

ICYMI: MY NEWEST SUBSTACK COLUMN: The Coming “Symbolic Analyst” Meltdown. “As Eric Hoffer wrote, ‘Nothing is so unsettling to a social order as the presence of a mass of scribes without suitable employment and an acknowledged status.'”

COLORADO: Rep. Valdez bill tells rental owners they can’t charge a pet deposit; state would pay for damage. “While the bill requires those receiving the tax credit to allow pets, it does not address the likely impact on animal shelters from market-based housing whose landlords may stop allowing pets altogether because of the new regulations.”

It’s Whack-A-Mole against stupid bills like this one whenever Democrats are in charge, and the first thing they do is outlaw hammers.

JIM TREACHER: Louis CK Uncancels Himself. “Most people don’t have Louis’ resources. They can’t just go independent. If they get cancelled, that’s it. They gotta go find another way to make a living. When a talented person does something bad, it doesn’t suddenly make him untalented. It might change your opinion about his character, and you’re probably right. But if he’s still good at what he does, and if people want to pay him for it, they don’t care that you disapprove. You’re not as powerful as you thought you were. And that’s what actually rankles you. Cancel culture lost one. Louis CK defeated it, at great personal risk, through sheer force of will. If you’re angry about that, don’t worry. You’ll find someone else to destroy. You always do.”

JESSE SINGAL: On Teachers Letting Kids Transition Gender While Keeping It A Secret From Their Parents.

I have a simple solution: Teachers and administrators shall be personally liable, with no applicable governmental immunity, for damage done to children due to negligence, malfeasance, or misfeasance, but no such liability shall apply to any circumstance about which parents have been fully informed.

TO A SPEEDY RECOVERY: Damar Hamlin Addresses Fans in Video: ‘God Using Me as a Vessel.’

MARK JUDGE: Jazz and democracy: Remembering the great Stanley Crouch.

SO THE UNITED STATES WILL BECOME LIKE CUBA, WITH ANCIENT CARS, LOVINGLY MAINTAINED FOR LACK OF ANY OTHER OPTIONS: Chris Reed: I’m going to still drive the same vehicle I am now in 2040. I won’t be alone. “Unless EVs plunge in cost — a past prediction that’s never panned out — many Californians will use their durable fossil-fuel cars as long as possible.”

ROGER SIMON: Djokovic Defeats Pfizer and Moderna in Straight Sets.

Stefanos Tsitsipas is one terrific tennis player, although Novak Djokovicwas battling more than the young Greek when he won his 10th Australian Open and 22nd Grand Slam in straight sets on Jan. 29.

On the other side of the court were Pfizer, Moderna, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Biden administration, and a whole host of others who have been urging—even worse, requiring—us to take the mRNA shots for the past couple of years because the Serb is, almost indisputably, the most famously unvaccinated person against COVID-19 on the planet.

At the same time, the argument is approaching indisputable that he’s not only the GOAT [greatest of all time] of tennis—something I subscribe to, having been a fan and mediocre player for 70 years and having watched everyone from Rod Laver onward— but arguably the most incredible athlete in any sport in this century.

Singles tennis in our time has become one of the most physically and strategically demanding sports. Many of the younger players range from 6-foot-5 to 7-foot-plus and wouldn’t seem out of place in the NBA finals. But unlike the basketball players, they get no respite in a five-set match. They’re on their own.

Yet Djokovic is doing all this, beating them all, at the age of 35, with no end in sight.

What does this all mean? Few, if any, of us could emulate his rigid gluten-free, vegetarian diet or keep up with his mind-and-body-boggling exercise program. (Watch it on YouTube and try to keep your mouth from dropping open.)

And Djokovic, by himself, doesn’t mean the vaccines (or shots, as they really are) are bad. . . .

In his continuing duel for the most Grand Slam victories with Rafael Nadal, he’s at a handicap. Djokovic is allowed to play virtually everywhere but not, as of now, in the United States. That means no U.S. Open and also no Indian Wells and Miami 1000 tournaments—the second level in tennis below Slam events—that are coming in the spring.

They will all take place without the man who would have been seeded No. 1, putting an asterisk next to the tournaments for all time, just as there should clearly be asterisks next to last year’s Australian Open and U.S. Open, both which, it is a safe bet, Djokovic would have won as well.

As a huge tennis fan, when I lived in Los Angeles, I attended the Indian Wells tournament many times. This year, I was planning to make it to the Miami tournament for the first time.

No dice. I’m not going to any tennis tournament in which the greatest of all time isn’t allowed to play. I hope other fans will join me in my boycott. The players too might want to follow suit.

More importantly, I have learned over the last couple of years how correct that old ’60s feminist apothegm—“our bodies, ourselves”—really was. Too bad its inventors have flip-flopped on the issue. I’m planning on sticking with it.

So, apparently, does Novak Djokovic.

I wonder how many others will feel this way.

FASTER, PLEASE: Cancer Vaccine Created via CRISPR Prevents and Stops Brain Tumors. “Glioblastoma, also called glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), is the most common cancer that originates in the brain. Cancer of the brain and nervous system accounted for over 250,000 deaths worldwide in 2020, according to Global Cancer Statistics (GLOBOCAN). Glioblastoma is an incurable disease with poor overall survival and a high rate of recurrence that forms from glial cells that surround and support neurons. It is one of the most treatment-resistant, complex, and deadliest types of cancer.”

BEN BARTEE: Transes Wear Mental Illnesses Like Fashion Accessories.

WHAT’S A KUSTODIAN? It’s actually an obscure detail from history that can clarify whether Jesus’ Resurrection is a fairy tale or reasonable conclusion from the available evidence. Has to do with the military disciple of Roman Legion guard units.

It’s also the first of a series of HillFaith video ads launched today that will be appearing in media outlets frequented by congressional aides. Yes, that’s me in the short video and, as should quickly be obvious, I’m a gumshoe reporter, not a smooth-talking video pro. Contrary to McCluhan, at least in this case, the message is the message, not the medium.

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THE NEW SPACE RACE: This Rare Asteroid May Be Worth 70,000 Times the Global Economy. Now NASA Is Sending a Spaceship to Explore It.

The space agency decided back in 2017 that humankind would benefit from a closer look at 16 Psyche. The Psyche mission was initially slated to take place at the end of 2022 but was delayed due to “development problems.” NASA is now planning to launch the Psyche spacecraft this October. The vessel should reach the ultra-valuable asteroid in August 2029.
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The metal-rich asteroid is about the size of Massachusetts and shaped somewhat like a potato, according to astronomers. Its average diameter is about 140 miles—or roughly the distance between Los Angeles and San Diego. The asteroid orbits between Mars and Jupiter at a distance ranging from 235 million to 309 million miles from the Sun.

A study published by The Planetary Science Journal in 2020 suggests that Psyche is made almost entirely of iron and nickel.

If Psyche turns out to be as metals-rich as we think, it might not be too outlandish to say that whoever controls Psyche will control the solar system.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘How to be a B*tch’ course offered at Westminster College.

THIS WILL END BADLY: Trans Prisoner Who Stalked 13-Year-Old Girl Transferred to Women’s Prison.

THE NEW DARK AGES: New feminist chemistry class teaches that science is racist. Why is the state of North Carolina funding anti-science propaganda? I thought we were supposed to believe in science.

MICHAEL WALSH: To Save America, Abolish the Civil Service.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Consumers could be in a ‘world of hurt’ if Biden doesn’t act soon, former Walmart CEO warns. “Food costs have gone up 23% in the last two years. So now, wages have gone up 17% at Walmart, 25% at Delta for pilots, 25% for the rail industry. And wage increases like that sort of counteract the employment layoffs that we’re starting to see. And so there’s a lot going on.”

Previously: Why Team Biden might be purposefully grinding down the middle class.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: You Will Be Forced to Care — Gay Hockey Edition. “There is no level of capitulation that is satisfactory for those who want to be permanently aggrieved. It’s not just that we will be made to care, but that we’ll be made to care with rules that are ever-changing.”

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THE LONG MARCH CONTINUES: Left-wing Activists Pressure American Bar Association Not To Adopt Widely-Accepted IHRA Definition of Antisemitism.

I CERTAINLY HOPE NOT: A Catastrophic Mutating Event Will Strike the World in 2 Years, Report Says.

“The most striking finding that we’ve found,” WEF managing director Jeremy Jurgens said during a presentation highlighting the WEF Global Security Outlook Report 2023, “is that 93 percent of cyber leaders, and 86 percent of cyber business leaders, believe that the geopolitical instability makes a catastrophic cyber event likely in the next two years. This far exceeds anything that we’ve see in previous surveys.”

Add in the extreme unpredictability of these events—Jurgens cited a cyberattack recently aimed at shutting down Ukranian military abilities that unexpectedly also closed off parts of electricity production across Europe—and the global challenges are only growing.

“This is a global threat,” Jürgen Stock, Secretary-General of Interpol, said during the presentation. “It calls for a global response and enhanced and coordinated action.” He said the increased profits that the multiple bad “actors” reap from cybercrime should encourage world leaders to work together to make it a priority as they face “new sophisticated tools.”

It sounds a little too much like Robert Harris’ The Second Sleep.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Army spied on lockdown critics: Sceptics, including our own Peter Hitchens, long suspected they were under surveillance. Now we’ve obtained official records that prove they were right all along.

Our elites view any disagreement as a treasonous challenge. That’s not how elites behave in civilized societies, but we don’t have civilized elites.