AND SPEAKING OF MIRRORS:  The Left and the Mirror.

SO, WITHOUT NUMBER GAMES, IT WILL KILL AS MANY PEOPLE AS A BAD FLU SEASON?  Updates on CCP Virus: UK Study Finds New Variant May Be More Deadly.

Thanks muchly. The human species has survived worse.

WASTEFUL AND CRIMINALLY STUPID:  $32 Billion for Public Transit in COVID-19 Relief Bill Wasteful: Researcher.

This was not a real virus emergency. Had this been a real virus emergency, though, public transit systems would rapidly have become what’s known as “virus transmission centers.”  Well, in countries that use them. The US, by and large doesn’t, with notable exceptions like NYC where Billy the Red and Fredo’s Brother reduced the number of trains, so they could pack people in and maximize infections.

BECAUSE THEY DON’T OWN MIRRORS:  Tossing Hitler Around Like Candy.

SURE. DESTROYING UBER IS WHAT THEY INTEND:  The Democrats Just Reintroduced a Labor Law that Would Destroy Uber—And It Could Actually Pass This Time.

But the left doesn’t get — and probably never will — unintended consequences.  This will also kill most of the arts. HARD. And a lot of things like, people who read books to make audio books.
The left has this dream that they can take us, kicking and screaming to the 30s. the 1930s.  And they’re not going to let tech, reality or sanity stand in their way.
This is going to end badly. For them.

OR A SAD ONE, OR A RAGEY ONE:  Be A Happy Warrior.

Just don’t cower under the bed. Not if you care what comes after us.

HEY, NOW, I DIDN’T KNOW MY ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT SITUATION HAD HISTORICAL PRECEDENTS!  The Thirty Tyrants.

Don’t tell dad I didn’t spot the parallel. He’d probably disown me. Or laugh at me.
Seriously, the next year or (tops) two are going to suck. But they’re going to suck far worse for them than for us. And in the end we win, they lose. Most of what they’ve done for the last year amounts to a messy, public suicide. They keep twisting the knife in their own guts, while thinking they’re hurting us.

PROOF POSITIVE THAT ALEXANDRIA OCCASIONAL CORTEX IS NOT THE STUPIDEST HUMAN BEING ALIVE: Yeah, I know, I was surprised too.

Here at Puppy Blending HeadquartersTM we have only two questions: a) What if we followed velvet instead? b) How does this man stay alive?  You’d think once having inhaled, he’d forget to exhale, right?

Exit stage right singing Knights in White Satin.

I COULDN’T LET VALENTINE’S DAY PASS: Without telling you this.  (And if you’re not a Jane Austen fan, relax. We geeks are giggling, but not at you.  And believe it or not this is not an insult.)

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I find you tolerable!

FROM PAM UPHOFF:  Destroyer.

Ice is back!

And back in trouble.

His mission–sabotage the Cyborg Empire–goes awry when the Cyborgs discover his dimensional gate, and Gior, the obnoxious young woman with the rare talent of being able to manipulate dimensional phenomena, is forced to close that gate moments before the Cyborgs capture her.

Now Ice is not just marooned in enemy territory, he needs to rescue Gior quickly, before they get a control chip into her brain.

NOW? THEY’LL GET WHAT THEY DESERVE:  Hollywood Sold Its Soul to China … Now What?

The ridiculous assumption that SOMEHOW China’s market was their for the plucking was always a mirage. As it is for Nike, and all the other brands.
Stupidity should hurt. Heinlein said it was the only capital crime. They get what they deserve.

CHINA SURE IS GETTING WHAT IT PAID FOR:  Biden Administration Drops Trump Plan to Track Campus ‘Confucius Institutes’.

WHEN LEFTISTS SCARE THE LEFT, THERE’S TUMBRILS ON THE HORIZON:  France sees foreign threat: “out-of-control woke leftism of American campuses and its attendant cancel culture”.

WHICH IN TURN ARE CIRCLING AT RELATIVISTIC SPEED:  Psaki Circles Back To The School Opening Goalposts.

WHICH IS PRECISELY THE INTENT:  New “Gun Trafficking” Bill Could Cripple Legal Firearms Market.

They’ll make us all criminals, because criminals are easier to scared.

THAT IS BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHAT THEY PLAN: Today’s blacklisted American: Disney fires actress for noting the Nazis killed Jews.

And they want to continue believing they’re on the side of angels, despite the horrors they intend.

HYPOCRISY IS WHAT THEY HAVE:  Criminal Justice Reform And The Hypocrisy Of The Left.

They’re going to stick with it.

CCP HAS SUCCESSFULLY SCRUBBED ALL EVIDENCE FROM THE WUHAN INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY:  World Health Organization: China’s Denials of a Lab Leak Resolve the Issue for Us.

THE LAWS OF PHYSICS ARE SEXIST. REEEEE!  Study: Smaller cars may be why crashes injure women more.

THE NEWS THAT WASN’T FIT TO PRINT:  NY Times spikes column that criticized paper’s handling of N-word controversy.

BEHOLD! MY FACE! HOW SHOCKED!  Biden administration opens Texas tent city to detain migrants.

Single adult Mexican citizens accounted for more than 37,000 CBP encounters, a 119 percent increase from this time last year, according to the agency.

Amid the surge, a new “soft-sided facility” was established this week by the agency in Donna, Texas, to hold individuals originally staying at the Centralized Processing Center in McAllen, Texas.

The Donna facility is “weatherproof, climate-controlled, and provide[s] ample areas for eating, sleeping, and personal hygiene,” CBP said in a statement Tuesday.

The agency went on to call the Donna location “a considerable upgrade from previous soft-sided facilities,” touting its 160,000 square feet of covered area.

Oh. So, Trump had tent cities but the FICUS (Fraud In Chief of the US) has “soft sided facilities” and they’re a “considerable upgrade” because there’s more of them.  Say no more.
Dear media, proctological exams are not — repeat not — supposed to be performed with one’s tongue.

FOR THE AWKWARD MOMENT: Diamond Hands.

YEAH, ABOUT THAT:  Baby Yoda Cries.

FROM KAL SPRIGGS:  The Fallen Race.

Humanity has fallen.

Earth has become a charnel house, the bones of twelve billion inhabitants moldering in ruined and gutted cities, victims of their own governments. Earth’s remaining colonies are besieged. On two sides, aliens bent on the eradication of humanity continue their unstoppable march, capturing world after world.

Baron Lucius Giovanni, Captain of the War Shrike, finds himself in a position to stand and fight. The son of a renegade officer and a social outcast himself, he nevertheless refuses to give up. Lucius has few resources: a forgotten colony in a backwater of space, his ship and crew, and the rumors of a lost fleet that might hold the key to the survival of the human race. He’ll take on pirates, aliens, and his own treacherous allies in a bid to save humanity.

Lucius will not give up. He will not go quietly into the night. He will stand against humanity’s foes and he will prove that while humanity may have fallen, they will rise once again.

EVEN RATS LIKE PRIVATE WHEELS:  Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats.