HEADLINE OF THE DAY: FDA Fast-Tracks New Alzheimer’s Drug in Boost to Biden’s Reelection Bid.

SOD OFF, SWAMPY: Biden Admin Considers Nationwide Ban on Racist Gas Stoves.

They’ll force us to put all our energy needs onto a grid with a single point of failure. When the power goes out, you can still cook on a gas stove — and in a real pinch, warm at least a small part of the house with it.

Besides, if the would-be world-savers were serious about clean electricity, they’d be building nuclear plants left and right.

What they’re really serious about is enforced dependency and scarcity.

Related (From Ed): No word if “Dr.” Jill has any comments on this issue:

YES: With A DVD Player And Paperbacks, Anybody Can Beat Big Tech Censors.

Our lives have been entirely saturated by entities wishing to regulate our thoughts and lifestyles. They use complex algorithms on the devices they sell to us to harvest our data and control what information we see, hear, and access and then turn around to sell us more crap with the intention of further regulating and monitoring our behavior. The more dependent we grow on tech companies, and we grow more dependent with each passing day, the more power they have over us.

But there is one crucial way you can fight back. Buy and use physical media.

Something like a physical family Bible, instead of a digital version that your family can pass around on a tablet, can’t be further altered and has the added benefit of being imbued with generational sentimentality. Similarly, a physical photo album, albeit bulkier, isn’t stored in the cloud and can’t have its content scoured over by high-tech sensors as easily as an iPhone’s camera reel can.

When it comes to entertainment, a pre-existing DVD version of “Fight Club” wouldn’t include a fabricated ending created by the Chinese government, “The Simspons” season three box set wouldn’t have memory-holed Michael Jackon’s guest appearance, and pre-21st-century printings of Mark Twain’s books will maintain the integrity of the author’s satire while digital versions censor it to account for modern sensibilities.

I’ve been doing this for years.

VODKAPUNDIT PRESENTS YOUR WEEKLY INSANITY WRAP: Brazil Is Trump’s Fault and So Is Literally Everything Else. “You know what’s Trump’s fault? The violent protests in Brazil, where they do political violence with the same enthusiasm and frequency as they play soccer.”

Plus:

• Biden mistakes Salvation Army for SEAL Team Six
• Climate change beats women
• The happiest dog in the world

So much more at the link, you’d have to be crazy to miss it.

USING AI TO DETECT AI: Was this written by a robot? These tools help detect AI-generated text.

Teachers, heads up.

STILL MORE VIOLENT THAN MOST JAN6 PROTESTORS CURRENTLY IN JAIL: Leftist Privilege? Jury Dismisses Charge Against Self-Described ‘Idiot’ Who Threw Cans at Ted Cruz.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE IS RESTING COMFORTABLY: Plant-based plastics may not be as eco-friendly as they seem. “It would take an astounding amount of land and water to grow enough plants to replace traditional plastics — plus energy is needed to produce and ship it all.”

We’d all be a lot better off if we didn’t devote so much time, energy, and creativity to solving problems that aren’t problems.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Eggs Are $8 but White House Wants You to Know Inflation Is Gone. “The real problem here is that we, the people, pay our elected officials and bureaucrats in Washington far too much money. Even the ones who don’t arrive with a lot of personal assets or wealth get comfy pretty quickly.”

THEY NEED TO MAKE A PUBLIC APOLOGY: Crocs Shoes Silently Scrub Social Media After Drag Sponsorship Criticism. “At the end of December, the billion-dollar shoe brand, Crocs, announced its sponsorship of a kids drag fashion show for the RuPaul’s Drag Convention in London this past weekend. After ample backlash condemning the grooming behavior of the company, Crocs Europe silently deleted all signs of sponsorship.”

BUT HOW ARE THEY DOING WITH REGULAR EDUCATION? UK Schools ‘Re-Educating’ Students ‘Brainwashed’ by Andrew Tate.

THEY SHOULD BUY MORE: Canada on Monday announced plans to buy 88 F-35A Joint Strike Fighters for CA$19 billion (U.S. $14 billion). “The fifth-generation fighters will replace Canada’s current fleet of CF-18 Hornets, the Royal Canadian Air Force’s version of the F/A-18, Anand said. Canada expects the full F-35 fleet to be delivered in time for the service to phase the older fighters out by the end of 2032.”

THERE’S NO MONEY IN LETTING KIDS BE KIDS: New Medical Advice for Fat Kids Urges Drugs and Surgery Over Diet and Exercise.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT (FOR OUR VIP SUPPORTERS): A Tasty Movie Review: ‘The Menu.’ “A pointedly satiric love-hate letter to fine dining… It’s a real joy to be treated as an intelligent viewer for a change, instead of being hit over the head with a virtual frying pan at each plot point and character reveal.”

A BILLION HERE AND A BILLION THERE…: Binance Is Bleeding Assets, $12 Billion Gone In Less Than 60 Days. “The outflow of cash from Binance is worse than the CEO Changpeng Zhao indicated last month, and it’s become considerably more severe since then, a Forbes analysis shows.”

PHOTO-OP: Joe Biden Went to the Border on Sunday — Without Actually Going to the Border.

Previously:

THE DANGERS OF GROUPTHINK: Southwest Airlines pilots to disastrous bosses: It’s your education, stupid.

How many times, over the last few years, have you heard companies being described as “run by accountants”? How many times have you worked for such companies? And how many times have you considered those to be extremely well-run companies?

Oh, accountants might know how to satisfy Wall Street every three months, but do they really know how to run a business with a longer-term perspective?

I only ask because the pilots don’t think so. Nekouei describes this accountant-centric mindset as “a recipe for operational ignorance and collective groupthink. A monetization of the once vaunted Southwest culture and instead turning it into a headquarters-centric cult. A good old boys and girls network indeed.”

What happens to a company that, in Nekouei’s words, institutes “an obsessive focus on cost-control to increase shareholder return”?

Does it become a happier place to work? Does it become a place that serves customers better? Or does it become a place where the few earn untold millions while the remainder have to deal with the consequences?

I think we know the answers.

MAKE’EM PLAY BY THEIR OWN RULES: Father Legally Changes Gender to Help Win Custody of Kids, Triggers Trans Cult.

IT’S A MYSTERY: Why did Facebook reject The Spectator’s Joe Biden cover?

Mystery solved.

MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Matt Gaetz, Mad Genius.

FLASHBACK TO 2013 (VIA LAUGHINGWOLF): Just one example of how the government could lose a civil conflict.

Were an angry group of disenfranchised citizens to target in a strategic manner the substations leading to a city or geographic area—say, Albany, for example—they could put the area in the dark for as long as it took to bring the substations back online. Were they committed enough, and spread their attacks out over a wide enough area, perhaps mixing in a few tens of dozens of the residential transformers found every few hundred yards along city streets, they could overwhelm the utility companies ability to repair the damage being caused or law enforcement’s ability to stop them. The government could perhaps assign a soldier or cop for every transformer, substation and switch, but they’d run out of men long before they ran out of things they need guarded. Not that the government could even guarantee to actually protect the transformers they were guarding; a residential transformer is a big, stationary target, and the substation transformers and switches and other equipment even bigger targets. Residential transformers are easily “touched” by even a moderately competent deer hunter from hundreds of yards away, perhaps separated by roads, subdivisions, swamps or streams. Substations are a dense area target easily struck from a half-mile or more away.

Meanwhile, the lone wolves and small teams would simply shift to other targets of opportunity left unguarded by an overwhelmed and outmatched government force, of which there are many.

How many days with partial power or no power, how many nights in the dark, would it take before the local economy collapsed in the targeted area?

Read the whole thing.

CHRIS QUEEN: The Damar Hamlin Incident Has More People Talking About Prayer — and It’s a Good Thing.

A FILMLADD VIDEO: No kanYE, Hitler Didn’t Invent Highways!

VICTORIA TAFT: More Proof That Nancy Pelosi Was More Responsible for J6 Riot Than Trump. “Even after the one-sided January 6 Committee left Pelosi’s role on the cutting room floor, there’s one inescapable conclusion: If she’d done her job, there would have been no riot, no deaths of Trump supporters, no show trials, and no political prisoners sitting in solitary confinement in a D.C. gulag for two years awaiting trial.”

I’d say she performed exactly the job she set out to.

HMM: Court May Force Hunter Biden To Disclose Buyers of His Pricy Artwork.

An Arkansas court may soon force Hunter Biden to disclose the identities of the buyers of his expensive artwork, information the White House has tried to conceal as it faces accusations of influence peddling.

The recovering crack addict cited “a substantial material change” in his “financial circumstances” in a request to lower his child support payments for four-year-old Navy Joan Roberts, the New York Post reported. That request prompted Navy Joan’s mother, Lunden Roberts, a former exotic dancer at a Washington, D.C., strip club, to formally demand information about Biden’s lucrative art transactions.

“The plaintiff asked for detailed information about the defendant’s works of ‘art’ and the purchasers of the same,” Roberts’s attorney wrote in a Dec. 27 court filing.

Strange that the national press has almost entirely ignored a story involving influence peddling, a stripper, a deadbeat dad, and a President’s own unacknowledged granddaughter.

THIS IS COLORADO’S JARED POLIS, SETTING THE STAGE FOR A PRESIDENTIAL RUN: NYC, Chicago Mayors Politely Ask Democratic Governor to Stop Busing Asylum Seekers to Their Cities.

Keep an eye on Polis, he’s a slippery one like Gavin Newsom.