IT WAS A MATTER OF TIME:  San Francisco goes full Mao, forces Asian-American rapper to issue groveling apology for criticizing mayor.

HEY, IF YOU THINK HISTORY HAS AN ARROW, IF YOU THINK YOU’VE BEAT US, THIS ONE IS FOR YOU:  We Rise, Undaunted.

SHOT:  A Question of Balance.

CHASER:  In 2024, the Tension Between Macroculture and Microculture Will Turn into War.

FROM RADIO FREE COLORADO, IN EXILE, THIS ONE GOES OUT TO ALL YOU FELLOW COLD WAR CHILDREN OUT THERE: There’s nothing that 2024 can throw at us worse than the ‘mutual assured destruction’ they told us was inevitable before we were adults.  Europe – The Final Countdown.

And yet, here we are. Sursum corda!

INTERESTING STUFF:  December 28, 2023 Quick space links.

GOOD:  Today’s blacklisted American wins $185K settlement from college that fired him.

PLAYING WITH FIRE, NEAR GASOLINE PUMPS:  Maine Secretary of State Determines Trump Ineligible for Primary Ballot Under the 14th Amendment.

And they’re doing it for idiotic virtue signal. They expect the kind of Twitter story that ends with “And everybody cheered.” Morons. No. sorry, Nematodes. No, wait. Rocks, aspiring to be nematodes.  With apologies to the smarter variety of rocks.

YOU KNOW WHEN ISRAEL SHOULD TALK CEASE FIRE? AFTER HAM-ASS UTTERLY SURRENDERS AND CRUCIFIES THEIR EVIL LEADERS THEMSELVES:  “The Times viewed photographs of one woman’s corpse … with dozens of nails driven into her thighs and groin”.

I GUESS SHE DIDN’T MEET ANY ‘INNOCENT CIVILIANS’ DURING HER TIME IN GAZA:  Freed Israeli hostage Mia Schem ‘went through holocaust’ in Hamas captivity in Gaza: ‘Everyone over there is a terrorist’.

THAT SEEMS ALMIGHTY PRECOCIOUS – IT’S BEEN 7 YEARS SINCE KERRY HAD ANY PROMINENCE (OBAMA’S SECRETARY OF STATE; THIS CURRENT CLIMATE AMBASSADORSHIP GIG IS TWADDLE):  Nikki Haley dissed by 9-year-old at NH town hall: You’re ‘the new John Kerry’.

THEY’RE PLAYING WITH FIRE, IN THE ARMORY; THEY’RE TAP-DANCING ON THE POWDER BARREL; AND THEY’RE SOOOO PROUD OF THEMSELVES:  Colorado puts Trump back on 2024 GOP primary ballot while ruling is appealed.

FUN ACTIVITIES FOR UNEMPLOYED KREMLINOLOGISTS:  How Trump family Christmas photo reveals Barron is set for new public role: source.

ANALYZE QUICKLY, THERE’S NO TIME TO WASTE:  Israel forces are analyzing intelligence windfall gathered since the invasion of Gaza.

FUNNY HOW THE MEANING OF ‘COOPERATED WITH AUTHORITIES’ SO OFTEN MEANS “SUPPORTED THE NARRATIVE”:  Jan. 6 rioter who was sentenced in secret provided information to authorities, unsealed papers say.

NATIONALIZING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WORKS AS WELL AS WITH ANY OTHER KIND OF PROPERTY:  Cutting-edge drugs could vanish under Biden’s unprecedented move to seize patents.

AND THAT, FRIENDS, EXPLAINS THE HOSTILITY TO FAITH AND FAMILY:  Riley Gaines credits faith, family for courage to speak out on transgender athletes.

SCENARIOS? ARE THOSE LIKE COMPUTER MODELS?  AI saves far more lives than it takes — for now.

HOW WE GOT ABOARD THIS HANDBASKET TO HE[CK], A REVIEW:  A beginners’ guide to the Great Covid Con, Part 1: Could it happen again?

A beginners’ guide to the Great Covid Con, Part 2: The fraudulent excess deaths of 2020.

A beginners’ guide to the Great Covid Con, Part 3: Manufacturing excess deaths

BUT BUT BUT I THOUGHT THE — BAD MODEL — SCIENCE WAS SETTLED!  Research Finds Higher Likelihood Of Extreme Snowfall. And: Greening Africa.

ACADEMIA, PUBLISHING, ENTERTAINMENT, NEWS, THEY WERE ALL INFECTED WITH THIS EVEN FORTY YEARS AGO. THEY ALL FELL VICTIMS TO THE LEFT’S PREFERENTIAL HIRING OF FELLOW-TRAVELERS:  All I feel is fury at the bankruptcy of academia decades ago.

I’ve been fighting this a long time. So it’s others. It’s time the culture in general became aware of it.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO HATE THE MEDIA ENOUGH?  This is why you don’t hate the media enough.

BEING CALLED “HITLER” BY ERDOGAN IS LIKE BEING CALLED “UGLY” BY FRANKENSTEIN’S MONSTER:  Netanyahu slams Turkish President Erdogan for Kurdish ‘genocide’ after Hitler comparison.

AS A FORMER COLORADAN I CAN UNDERSTAND THE IMPULSE, BUT IT’S MY UNDERSTANDING THE LAW NOT BEING APPLIED TO PEOPLE WHO STAB NON-TOURISTS EITHER:  Deranged attacker accused of stabbing teen tourists at Grand Central had been cut loose by NYC judge over prosecutors’ pleas.

On the serious side: is this what we’re doing now? Really?

AS PRECISE AS NECESSARY CONSIDERING YOU CAN THROW A ROCK ANYWHERE IN GAZA AND HIT A HAMAS MEMBER:  Israel says its air campaign in Gaza is precise while targeting Hamas.

HARVARD IS FOR PARIAHS NOW:  Austrian business school cuts ties with Harvard in solidarity with Jewish students.