HINT: THE BURNING IS A BAD SIGN. Your burning holiday sex questions — answered by sexologists.

NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES: I blocked schools from imposing vegetarian diets when I was health secretary, Barclay reveals.

HMM: Meet ‘anthrobots,’ tiny bio-machines built from human tracheal cells. “The researchers behind the frog embryo ‘xenobots’ are now focusing on similar automatons made from human material—with unexpected results.”

Oh, good. In the movies, stuff like this always gets “unexpected results.”

A SYNTHETIC INSURRECTION: As Many As 200 Undercover FBI Agents Involved on January 6.

DRINK WINE, EAT OLIVES AND PROSCIUTTO, SIT IN THE SUN, HAVE SEX: The Mediterranean diet isn’t just good for your health — it’s also great for your sex life.

HMM: Meta sues FTC, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ Facebook data.

THERE ARE SIDE EFFECTS: Eating beans found to improve gut health, regulate immune and inflammatory processes in colorectal cancer survivors.

MAKE THE RUBBLE BOUNCE: Elon Musk’s Lawsuit Inspires MERCILESS Thread Taking Media Matters APART and it’s a BEAUTIFUL Thing.

WELL, JONATHAN CHAIT. “Did Chait listen to the whole context of Musk’s quote? I did. And I can tell you that Musk agreed with the proposition that it’s a free market and advertisers can go where they want. He also said that X is the best platform, that he’s making it good according to his standards, which he won’t compromise, and that advertisers will lose out if they avoid it. He said he looks forward to the ongoing competition and predicts he’ll win. If Musk were threatening to sue Disney for withdrawing its ads, Chait’s argument would make more sense.”

It doesn’t have to make sense. It’s just part of an ongoing campaign by midwit journalists to convince their midwit audiences that Elon Musk isn’t as bright as they are.

Related: Meta’s Threads struggles to grow amid rivalry with Elon Musk’s X, ranking ahead of only Tumblr.

WHY IS HIGHER EDUCATION SUCH A CESSPIT OF BIGOTRY AND VIOLENCE? Images surface of pro-Palestinian UCLA students wielding knives around campus.

PROFILES IN COURAGE: Brown University President Cuts Criticism of Anti-Semitism From Speech After Pro-Palestinian Heckling.

LOL. YEAH, PRETTY MUCH.

The Westboro Baptist Church of the left. https://t.co/YKWIfm06IZ

— Josh Kraushaar (@JoshKraushaar) November 28, 2023

WELL, BIDEN: She Praised Islamic Terror Groups. Then the Biden Admin Tapped Her To Address ‘Hate and Threats of Violence.’ Palestine Legal manager Lina Assi has called Hezbollah ‘crucial and important.’

IT’S NOT THE CRIME, IT’S THE COVERUP: FBI Hiding the Ball on Communications With Twitter.

Okay, actually it’s the crime, too.

IRELAND GOES FASCIST. “Urgency to pass the anti-free speech bill increased after a Muslim immigrant stabbed three children in Dublin, and fed-up working-class Irishmen rioted.”

SOME “CEASE FIRE.” Hamas Claims Responsibility for Shooting at Jerusalem Bus Stop, 3 Dead.

I THINK PAM GELLER CALLS THEM “JEWICIDERS.” “Elon Musk is right about the Jews. Well, not all the Jews. But many of the Jewish leaders, who have repeatedly lined up behind the most noxious progressive causes, only to stand there, mouths agape as the boomerang soared right back and crashed into our faces.”

RECENT EVENTS HAVE MADE ME DOUBT THE ENTIRE WATERGATE STORY: Reevaluating the Saturday Night Massacre: Recent documents suggest it’s time to challenge the narrative.

According to Haig, Nixon was coming off two huge political victories, saving Israel from the Arab’s Oct. 6 surprise attack in the Yom Kippur War and orchestrating Spiro Agnew’s Oct. 10 resignation, followed by his nomination of Gerald Ford on Oct. 12 to be his successor as vice president. Nixon’s next move, as he saw it, was to address pending Watergate issues by firing Cox as special prosecutor and moving his Watergate Special Prosecution Force back into the Department of Justice. There, while the unit would remain intact, it would report to the career head of DOJ’s criminal division, the highly respected Henry Petersen, who had impressed Nixon in their many meetings leading up to the April resignations of two top lieutenants, H.R. Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman, and the firing of his counsel, John Dean. Kennedy Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee had taken Nixon’s idea of a special supervising prosecutor on Watergate and expanded it into what became known as Cox’s Army: 100 specially recruited partisan prosecution staff of Nixon-hating Ivy Leaguers, operating totally independent of the Department of Justice, which had promised investigations into every allegation of wrongdoing lodged against the Nixon administration since its 1969 inauguration. Watergate investigations were one thing where Nixon himself had called for a renewed investigation, but investigating every aspect of his administration by a group whose top 17 attorneys had all worked in the Kennedy-Johnson Administration, was simply unacceptable.

The plan, again according to Haig, was first to fire Cox and move the prosecution unit into the DOJ, and then to announce the Stennis Compromise, which would resolve the issue over access to the nine tapes subpoenaed by the grand jury. Richardson, however, urged reversing the timing of these two initiatives, with the idea that Cox could be maneuvered into resigning — or being fired if need be — if he refused to accept the Stennis Compromise.

The compromise was the key, which sounds absurd today, except for one thing: It was virtually an exact copy of the proposal submitted by Cox on Sept. 20. Cox’s central concept was “third-party authentication.” Nixon was adamant about not turning over the tapes themselves. What about producing word-for-word verified transcripts of relevant portions of those tapes and summaries of non-relevant portions, but not the actual tapes themselves? That way, the grand jury’s demand could be satisfied, while Nixon could still claim he had maintained the confidentiality of virtually all Oval Office conversations.

Read the whole thing.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: U.S. Suicides Reached a Record High Last Year.

I’M NOT SAYING THE FBI IS BAD AT ITS JOB, BUT AN FBI AGENT JUST GOT CARJACKED.

OPEN THREAD: Happy Friday Eve.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China is working on a design for a reusable air-launched orbital rocket.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China’s Mars Lander Detects Subsurface Geometrical Shapes in Scientific First.

WELL, YES: Bob McManus: Anti-Israel protests have a higher purpose — a complete teardown of the West. “Please don’t mistake Wednesday’s Rockefeller Center Christmas tree demonstration for just another unimaginative lashing-out by dyspeptic attention-mongering misfits. It was much more than that. . . . It was an enthusiastic endorsement of rape, torture, mutilation and kidnapping — a brutal forecast of what the Palestinian war cry ‘from the river to the sea’ really means: extermination in detail. The audacity is staggering. What happened in Midtown Wednesday night, and during the Macy’s parade Thanksgiving day and at transportation hubs, river crossings and public parks citywide for weeks now, are not protests per se. They are efforts to seduce New York into standing behind the man on the pillar — if not endorsing the October 7 slaughter explicitly, then by acquiescing in it.”

IT’S CALLED “PULLING A TORRICELLI.” Democrats have no Biden backup plan for 2024, despite age concerns. My prediction is that he’ll drop out late, and the nominee will be picked in a (formerly) smoke-filled room. This time the scent will be oat milk lattes, but otherwise it’s the same story. This is why they’re building up Newsom.