NARRATIVE POLICING: We’re apparently now making Alec Baldwin the victim in the “Rust” shooting. Well, someone is. We spent some time this weekend with Hollywood friends who know about this stuff and they were much less charitable toward Baldwin.

OPEN THREAD: Cool on it.

I HAD MISSED THIS, BUT I’M SURE IT’S NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT: Australia’s central bank loses yield control as bonds melt down. “Australia’s central bank on Friday lost all control of the yield target key to its stimulus policy as bonds suffered their biggest shellacking in decades and markets howled for rate hikes as soon as April. An already torrid week for debt got even worse when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) again declined to defend its 0.1% target for the key April 2024 bond , even though its yield was all the way up at 0.58%. Scenting capitulation, speculators sent the yield sky-rocketing to 0.75% while yields on three-year bonds recorded their biggest monthly increase since 1994.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Hyten blasts ‘unbelievably’ slow DoD bureaucracy as China advances space weapons.

IT’S AN ALL-STAR PANEL: Don’t Miss TTAG’s Postgame Analysis of the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment Case Arguments on November 3.

DO TELL:

I love the lack of sympathy for Slate’s viewpoint.

UPDATE:

MEDIA MYTH ALERT TURNS 12: Recalling memorable myth-busting posts.

HANNAH COX: If You’re Aghast at What Fauci Does to Dogs, You Should See What the Government Does to People.

MARK PULLIAM: Do Parents Have Rights? School boards are now in the culture war while progressive advocates falsely cry wolf to thwart reform.

I’M GUESSING IT’S MORE STAFFING THAN WEATHER, AND I’M GUESSING I KNOW WHAT THE STAFFING PROBLEM IS: American Airlines cancels more than 1,600 weekend flights, citing weather and staffing. “The disruptions were similar in their initial cause and size to problems suffered in early October by Southwest Airlines, and they raised ominous questions about whether major airlines are prepared for the busy upcoming holiday travel period.”

Totally, completely unrelated: Southwest Airlines apologizes for pilot’s “Let’s Go Brandon” remark.

KAROL MARKOWICZ: Biden administration’s new gender equity plan is an insult to women. “Michelle Obama applauded it: ‘It’s about making sure that every single person can reach their full potential — in our country and around the world.’ That seems ambitious for an administration struggling to get milk on supermarket shelves.”

Ouch.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Framers Knew the Risks of Keeping and Bearing Arms are Far Outweighed by the Benefits.

GET READY FOR THE HOLIDAYS: Tramontina 80114/535DS Professional Aluminum Nonstick Restaurant Fry Pan, 10″, NSF-Certified. #CommissionEarned

EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS CALL YOUR OFFICE: ‘New hidden world’ discovered in Earth’s inner core.

HMM: How foodborne diseases protect the gut’s nervous system.

JOSH BLACKMAN: In common discourse, the phrase “public health” is a term of art that means, “Shut up and conform.” After nearly two years of the pandemic, I am quite tired of judges using the mantra “public health” as a justification for absolute obsequiousness.

COLOR ME SKEPTICAL: COVID-19 vaccines offer more protection than past infection, CDC says.

Flashback: Yale Study Shows Natural Immunity Protects Against COVID Three Times Longer Than Vaccine.

Related: “The natural immune protection that develops after a SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield against the Delta variant of the pandemic coronavirus than two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.”

Plus: Vaccinating people who have had covid-19: why doesn’t natural immunity count in the US?

THE HORROR…THE HORROR: Trump Does ‘Tomahawk Chop’ At World Series and The Left Flips Out.

HEH: Trump Does ‘Tomahawk Chop’ At World Series and The Left Flips Out.

THIS IS CNN: Southwest Airlines Pilot Says ‘Let’s Go Brandon.’ CNN Analyst Likens Remark To ‘Long Live ISIS.’

More here: “Criticizing a U.S. president (even in a wink wink vulgar way) is not the same as praising a terrorist group that murders innocents, suicide bombs civilians, enslaves women, attempts genocide against religious minorities, & crucifies its enemies. You… you understand that, right?”

At the moment, the answer seems to be that no, former FBI special agent turned CNN analyst Asha Rangappa apparently does not.

ALBERT SPEER GOES TO HOLLYWOOD:

Speer is handsome, charming, cultured, sophisticated, multi-lingual, well-spoken—a real smoothie. AND a very smooth liar.

I thought that Nazis were hot-tempered sadists, degenerates, predators, envious and greedy riff-raff, with cold, cold hearts, maimed perhaps, by cruel, authoritarian parents, a la Alice Miller. Hitler was a Rasputin-like madman, not a son of wealth and culture as Speer was.

I’ve taught Abnormal Psychology and no diagnostic category can convey the level of Speer’s self-regard and amorality. Sociopathic serial killer will not do. Dangerous Freak of Nature, while not a diagnostic category, is more like it.

Speer was the highest-ranking Nazi and one of Hitler’s closest confidantes. Of his meeting with Hitler he says: “It was love at first sight.”

And yet, Speer insists that he was “not guilty.” In fact, he likened himself to Oedipus. “I did not know what crimes I have committed.

Read the whole thing.

GOODER AND HARDER, MANHATTAN:

● NYC firehouses already shutting down over vaccine mandate.

● New York City’s looming COVID garbage problem.

● NYPD’s Largest Union Plans to Sue City Over COVID Vaccine Mandate.

HALLOWEEN READING: Keto After 50: A Complete Plan For Staying Healthy, Eating Well, and Losing Weight. #CommissionEarned

IBRAM X. KENDI ACCIDENTALLY UNDERMINES HIS VIEWS ON WHITE PRIVILEGE AND SYSTEMIC RACISM IN NOW-DELETED TWEET:

START BY CLOSING 95% OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: University leaders call for ‘Great Transition’ of society for ‘planetary health.’

The crises are always changing, but the solutions are always the same.