IF YOU DON’T WANT PASSENGERS TO ACT LIKE ANIMALS, DON’T TREAT THEM LIKE ANIMALS: Throwing Punches and Opening Emergency Doors: Airline Passengers Are Still Losing It.

The Federal Aviation Administration has recorded nearly 2,000 reports of such incidents so far this year, up 71% from 2019’s full-year tally, though lower than 2021’s unprecedented peak of 5,973 incidents. . . .

Some attribute the increase in troublesome behavior to a higher prevalence of prescription medication that has mixed badly with the reintroduction of alcohol on flights. Others say passengers are still rusty and nervous after an extended break from flying, or overwhelmed by the stresses of full planes and delays.

When flying was more civilized so were passengers.

SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Study shows sex could be a better predictor of sports performance than gender identity.

BUT THEN AND NOW, HIS HAIR GEL WAS PERFECT: Gavin Newsom’s 10-year plan to end San Francisco homelessness marks 20-year anniversary.

FROM RACONTEUR PRESS:  Space Cowboys 404: Cow Not Found.

#CommissionEarned

Why Cowboys in Space? Because as humanity moves closer to the stars, the need for freedom, exploration, and the wide open ranges goes with them.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE! Jesse Singal: It’s Almost 2024 And Doctors Are Still Misleading The Public About Youth Gender Medicine: A sloppy article in ‘Pediatrics’ shows, once again, that major medical institutions have failed the public on this issue.

They’ve failed the public on a lot of issues.

SOMETHING NOT POLITICS:  Spectacular 2,300-year-old wall mosaic found in archaeological dig in Rome.

IT’S AN INVASION. START TREATING IT AS SUCH:  19,400 Illegal Migrants Apprehended Just this Week in Arizona’s Tucson Sector.

DIRTY WORK, BUT VERY NEEDED:  IDF Eliminated Over 8,000 Gaza Terrorists Since October 7.

OR YOU COULD STOP PAYING ATTENTION TO AP:  Bipartisan House Coalition Urges AP to Change Stylebook Rule Advising Against ‘Terrorist’ Term for Hamas.

WELL, IF NOT TO STEAL AS MUCH AS THEY WANTED, WHY WOULD THEY HAVE PERFORMED THEIR COLOR REVOLUTION?  Sen. Rand Paul’s Annual Festivus Report on Government Waste Tops $900B for 2023.

THE TRAUMA IS PART OF THEIR STRATEGY:  Freed teen hostage whose dad and sister were killed by Hamas feared rape, torture and death.

VERDICT FIRST, TRIAL AFTERWARD: IT’S TRADITION IN PROGRESSIVE CULTURE:  Revealed: Harvard cleared Claudine Gay of plagiarism BEFORE investigating her — and its lawyers falsely claimed her work was ‘properly cited’.

SUDDENLY THAT ‘SANCTUARY CITY’ PITCH TURNS INTO A SCREWBALL:  Migrants at NYC’s Floyd Bennett Field are begging for money, food at furious locals’ doorsteps: ‘Invasion’.

IN FAIRNESS, COMPETENCY WAS NEVER A BIG DEAL IN HIS ADMINISTRATION:  Obama secretly pushed Harvard to keep president Claudine Gay despite campus antisemitism, plagiarism controversies: report.

UNCLE JOE DID IT IN THE DINING ROOM WITH THE INK WELL:  Biden dined, telephoned, emailed Hunter’s cash cronies.

MIGHT AS WELL – THERE’S NOT GOING TO BE ANY LEGISLATION GETTING PAST THE DEM SENATE AND WHITE HOUSE:  GOP to begin impeachment against Mayorkas after latest bad border numbers.

BITE ME – THEIR CURE IS WORSE THAN THEIR BITE:  The climate scaremongers: Mosquito Fever.

THE SALE POST ROLLED OVER. EVERYTHING 99C:  On Sale.

WISDOM FROM THE MOUTHS OF POP CELEBRITIES:  Powerline’s John Hinderaker has declared Taylor Swift his “Woman of the Year.”  I can’t name a single song by Ms. Swift, but I agree with him that the following paragraph from a profile in the Wall Street Journal is a gem:

“I’m a big advocate for not hiding your enthusiasm for things,” she said last year in her New York University commencement address.  “Never be ashamed of trying.  Effortlessness is a myth.  The people who wanted it the least were the ones I wanted to date and be friends with in high school.  The people who want it the most are the people I now hire to work for my company.”

Repeat it to your children:  Effortlessness is a myth.  Make sure they understand it while they are still young.

GOOD:

It remains to be seen if they can save their own skins by throwing her to the wolves, but I think it is possible they will try it.

— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) December 23, 2023

OPEN THREAD: The days are getting longer now.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: To win the new space race, NASA and the DoD need to shift their collaboration into high gear.

I BLAME ARMADILLOS AND OTHER INVADERS: Leprosy Is on The Rise in Florida, Scientists Report.

NO WONDER THEY WERE SO CRANKY: Joint Diseases Plagued the Ice Age’s Fierce Predators: Sabertooth Cats and Dire Wolves.

Also that cold weather probably aggravated their rheumatism.

PROBABLY SHOULDN’T HAVE STARTED THAT WAR: Gaza, smashed by Israeli strikes, sees new threat: Disease. After the FA, the FO.