CAN HE AT LEAST GIVE US AN OVER/UNDER?  Biden’s HHS Sec. Can’t Say How Many Faciliated Abortions Performed on Migrant Girls.

Given how the immigration route is a rape road? I’d guess a lot

SO HE’S SAYING THE REPUBLICANS MADE HIM DO IT? (WHAT THE HECK, IT WORKED FOR BERNIE BRO JAMES HODGKINSON):  Paul Pelosi hammer attacker David DePape launched assault because of conspiracy beliefs: defense.

COLLUSION: Were AP, Reuters, CNN and NYT Photographers Embedded With Hamas?

OPEN THREAD: Just be yourself.

DISPATCHES FROM THE NO-FUN LEAGUE: NFL Made Raiders’ Maxx Crosby Change Sobriety-Themed Facemask.

Maxx Crosby: You know, being real honest, I love the National Football League, everything we represent. But Roger Goodell, we gotta get on a call. We gotta get face to face, I want talk to you. So, they made me take my facemask off. I played the first five weeks, not one word. We play on Monday night, my face on the screen a lot — there’s too much going on, I guess, for Roger, and he sent in a nice email saying it has to go.

I’m like, Rog, what are we doing? I’m out here representing sobriety to the fullest. I got a tattoo on my neck, my hands, everywhere. So I put it on my facemask, it means a lot to me, it means a lot to all the people watching — they understand what’s going on. And, you know, it just rubbed me the wrong way. But we’re gonna have our conversation.

Roback: What does the triangle mean to you? Because everyone sees it all over you. If you’re open to telling everyone that, what does the triangle mean specifically to you?

Crosby: The triangle to me represents sobriety. It’s everything. It’s why I’m here. And why I’m doing this podcast with you. It’s why I got a beautiful daughter and family. A great fucking circle of people. It’s literally everything. If I didn’t make that decision to clean my life up and get in AA and the 12 steps, I wouldn’t be here. So that’s literally what it comes down to. It represents everything that I got going on.

Apparently, a player caught his finger in Crosby’s facemask, but still, perhaps a compromise design might work.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: U.S. Air Force X-37B spaceplane to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.

JEFF DUNETZ: Kristallnacht–The Night The Holocaust Began.

YOUTUBE STAR MR. BEAST BUILT WELLS IN AFRICA AND SOME PEOPLE ARE…ANGRY?

Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz accused Mr. Beast of having “received extremely light criticism in the past for the way you’ve monetized ‘kindness’ content that some vulnerable people found to be exploitative.”

There are two main “arguments” here, although that might be giving them too much credit.

The first is that Africa doesn’t need charity. While there is certainly a broader, nuanced conversation to be had about the systemic problems holding back progress in Africa and whether some forms of Western charity are counterproductive, it’s still just generally untrue as a matter of objective facts and statistics to claim that it doesn’t have a poverty problem.

Yet it’s also obviously untrue in the specific situations Mr. Beast was involved in — because many of the places he built these wells did not previously have clean drinking water. If he were doing something unnecessary, the actual beneficiaries wouldn’t have been so incredibly grateful.

In the same vein, if Mr. Beast’s actions “shamed the Kenyan government,” that’s actually a good thing. Kenya’s government is quite corrupt, and if so many of its people don’t have access to clean drinking water, it’s not doing its most basic job.

You know you’re over the target if you receiving flak from Taylor Lorenz.

TRIBALISM, HATRED, and a Charlottesville school board race.

RIP: Astronaut Frank Borman, commander of the first Apollo mission to the moon, has died at age 95.

Flashback: First To the Moon: Documentary Commemorates Apollo 8, First Manned Flight to Leave Earth Orbit.

HARVARD PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY SENDS A LETTER ABOUT ANTI-SEMITISM.

As President, I affirm our commitment to protecting all members of our community from harassment and marginalization, and our commitment to meeting antisemitism head-on, with the determination it demands. Let me reiterate what I and other Harvard leaders have said previously: Antisemitism has no place at Harvard. While confronting any form of hatred is daunting, the challenges we face tackling antisemitism are made all the more so by its pernicious nature and deep historical roots. But we are committed to doing the hard work to address this scourge.

As I announced in a speech on October 27, I have assembled an Antisemitism Advisory Group of trusted voices, including faculty, alumni, students, and leaders of Harvard’s Jewish community.

A friend, a Harvard alumnus from a distinguished family of Harvard alumni, shared his reply with me: “Dear President Gay: The appointment of an advisory group is cowardly, feckless and demonstrates your refusal or inability, my vote, to lead. We deserve more.”

SKYNET SMILES: Robot Dog Arrests Homeless Man in Los Angeles.

The man (who may have been homeless and simply sleeping on the bus that night) was convinced to surrender and a handgun was recovered at the scene. But just imagine what that guy must have felt like while slumbering on a city bus. He is suddenly awakened and finds the bus completely empty and there’s a robot staring him down. I’d probably surrender also.

All joking aside, this is one of the upsides to robotic technology in police work. It doesn’t have to look like Robocop. The LAPD used the technology to go into a situation where an officer might have found themself in a shootout and defused the situation and took the suspect into custody safely. And if the guy had wound up shooting holes in SPOT, they would have been out $278,000 (which was donated to them anyway), but that would still be better than a dead officer. Congratulations to all involved. Just let us know before you start installing the AI systems so we can move out of town.

We’re not quite at the L.A. depicted in Blade Runner — but we’re slowly getting there.

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: The Inflammatory Question: Red Meat Might Not Be So Bad for You After All.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: More than 1 in 4 kids in U.S. child welfare system prescribed psychotropic medication, study finds.

THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE PEOPLE RULING A SOCIETY HAVE CONTEMPT FOR IT: Barbarism Is Winning.

WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED CITIES SUCH CESSPITS OF ANTISEMITISM? New York City saw 214% increase in antisemitic crimes last month.

WAPO TOOK DOWN HAMAS CARTOON AMID STAFFERS’ ‘DEEP CONCERNS,’ INTERNAL MEMO INDICATES:

Sally Buzbee, the executive editor of the Washington Post, sent an email to staff members on Wednesday night acknowledging their “many deep concerns and conversations” about a cartoon criticizing Hamas that the newspaper earlier in the day published and then deleted.

In the email, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, Buzbee wrote:

Dear colleagues,

Given the many deep concerns and conversations today in our newsroom, I wanted to ensure everyone saw the notes sent out tonight by The Post’s opinions editor, David Shipley, to Post readers and to his staff in opinions.

My best, Sally

Buzbee forwarded an email that Shipley had sent opinions staff in which he said he had personally “taken down” the cartoon. Shipley included the full text of an editor’s note in which he publicly expressed “regret” that he had “missed something profound, and divisive” in publishing the image.

“A cartoon published by Michael Ramirez on the war in Gaza, a cartoon whose publication I approved, was seen by many readers as racist. This was not my intent. I saw the drawing as a caricature of a specific individual, the Hamas spokesperson, who celebrated the attacks on unarmed civilians in Israel,” Shipley wrote.

The cartoon depicted an individual, labeled “Hamas,” with children, a baby, and a woman strapped to his body. “How dare Israel attack civilians…,” the man said in a speech bubble.

Like the hostage posters anti-Semites are pulling down in major cities in the US and Europe, WaPo staffers don’t want to be reminded of what they actually support. Which is odd for a paper who’s slogan is “Democracy dies in darkness.”

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY:

when the dark specter of antisemitism is forever descending on Bugtussle Pennsyltucky and somehow always landing in Manhattan

— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 9, 2023

And it really is never enough, is it? The NYT Puts Out an Astonishing Statement on ‘Photojournalist’ Who Was With Hamas During Terror Attack.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Faecal transplants are just the start of a new sort of medicine.

RAVING AND DROOLING: Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters ponders whether Hamas attacks were a ‘false flag operation.’ Pink Floyd co-founder refused to condemn Hamas’ attacks as war crimes.

Which seems odd, since Hamas videotaped themselves attacking innocent Israeli citizens: The real problem is Elon letting people see what Hamas videotaped themselves doing.

NOT TO ME: Is This Custom 50-Year-Old Toyota Corolla Worth $250,000?

FEMINIST BLOG JEZEBEL SHUTTING DOWN AFTER FAILING TO FIND BUYER:

Feminist news and commentary site Jezebel is shutting its doors.

According to a memo sent to employees, Jezebel’s parent company, G/O Media, tried and failed to find a buyer for the sparky* feminist outlet.

“As of this week we are making the very, very difficult decision to suspend publication of Jezebel,” G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller wrote Thursday. “ Few decisions over the course of my career have been as excruciating, and I want to make clear this is in NO WAY a reflection on the Jezebel editorial team.”

The shutdown is part of a greater restructuring effort by the media company. Jezebel’s shuttering will leave 23 editorial staffers without a job.

The closure comes during an atmosphere of general belt-tightening in journalism and media.

* Here’s a flashback regarding how “sparky” Jezebel was:

● Shot: Feminist on Jezebel: ‘I Will Personally Be Thrilled If [then-Trump aide] Stephen Miller Dies of Covid-19.’

—NewsBusters, May 11th, 2020.

● Chaser:

● Hangover:

GREAT GIFT: RoverTac Multitool Pliers Pocket Knife Camping Tool. #CommissionEarned

SENATOR JOE MANCHIN IS EYEING THE PRESIDENCY… OF WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY. Joe Manchin’s next move: West Virginia University?

UPDATE: Manchin announces he will not seek Senate re-election.

SCATTERGUN SCIENCE: Is The Pump Action Shotgun Obsolete? “According to Tim Chandler, an instructor with 360 Performance Shooting, a properly set up Beretta 1301 semi-automatic shotgun can outlast a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun when it comes to putting tens of thousands of shotshells through each gun.”

Of course, you can. buy three 870s for the price of one Beretta 1301.