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Late Night With In The Mailbox: 12.16.22

Posted on | December 17, 2022 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts, also, maybe, a book post.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

…and now, a little chillwave.

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Ronna McDaniels Squandering Money at the RNC, Giant Berlin Aquarium Bursts, and Don’t Cry For Me John Boehner
Twitchy: Elon Musk Trolls The Press On Freedom Of Speech, Tucker Carlson Roasts Adam Kinzinger For Fury Over Catturd Meme, and Super “Patriot” Ex-LTC Vindman DEMANDS Elon Musk Explain Himself
Louder With Crowder:  Elon Musk hops on Spaces, informs whiny woke journalists they aren’t special and the rules apply to them too, also, Elon Musk lays out his reasons for suspending alleged ‘journalists’ from Twitter
Vox Popoli:  Free Speech Was Always Fake, also, We Don’t KNOW It Was the Vaxx
According To Hoyt: A Forgotten Sale And An HR Complaint, Comfort and Safety, and Hurty Speech
Monster Hunter Nation: WriterDojo S3 E22: Titles (& Why We Suck At Them)
Stoic Observations: The Subway Bike Story
Gab News: Musk Is In Over His Head

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: The Cathedral Turns Torquemada On Elon Musk, also, Congress Wages Total War on America’s Interests
American Greatness: First-Ever Emmy Awards for Children Heavily Pushes LGBT Content, also, Senate Votes Against Measure to Reinstate Troops Kicked Out over COVID Vaccines
American Thinker: Creative Historical Interpretations Are Not History, also, What the ‘Respect for Marriage Act’ Really Respects
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Climate Cult Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban dictatorship thanks the U.S. for $2 million in aid with no strings attached, Cuban priest speaks out, condemns the lack of religious freedom in Cuba, New study claims small number of Cuban natives survived Spain’s genocidal massacres, and Surprise! Havana Cuba wins major prize: ‘Slowest Internet on Planet Earth’
Baldilocks: Why Firefly Got Shot Down
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For December 16, 2022
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches oceanography satellite, Ingenuity completes 36th flight; preps for its 37th, Astronomers determine that two super-Earths are not as rocky as previously believed, and The edge of the Martian south pole ice cap
Cafe Hayek: How ‘Nature’ Has Fallen, also, Daniele Struppa on the ‘Degrowth’ Paper
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: If It Wasn’t For Double Standards
Don Surber: “You’re not special because you’re a journalist.”, also, 249 years ago, the Boston Tea Party begat a revolution
First Street Journal: Killadelphia, also, I take no joy in seeing Washington Post employees getting laid off
Gates Of Vienna: Solipsism in the 21st Century, Get Vaxed or Get Brain Damage!, and And Unto Us a Vax is Given
The Geller Report: Twitter Suspends Reporters from CNN, NYT, WaPo for ‘Doxxing’ Musk’s Family, also, Hear Freedom Ring! Pamela Geller is Back on Twitter
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, The Wheel of Karma, Yelling, “Theatre!” at a Crowded Fire, and I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
Hollywood In Toto: Dozed and Confused Shares Laughs, Hope and a Classic Roger Ebert Story, Right-leaning Private American gets canceled by Kickstarter, Daily Kos, and Kirk Cameron Mulls Lawsuits Against Drag Queen-Friendly Libraries
The Lid: Happy Birthday Bill of Rights, also, Majority of Democrats Are Saying ‘No’ to Biden 2024
Legal Insurrection: STEM Is DEI-ing, How to Fight Critical Race Theory Legally and Successfully, Five Left-Wing Activists Arrested for Domestic Terrorism in Georgia, #TwitterFiles Part Six: “Twitter’s contact with the FBI was constant and pervasive, as if it were a subsidiary”, and Yeshiva University Must Recognize LGBTQ Club, Appeals Court Rules
Nebraska Energy Observer: Twitter, Free Speech, and the Wonder of the Internet
Outkick: Fan Denies Threatening Draymond Green, Says Police Back Him Up, Miami Redhawks Honor Mike Leach With Pirate-Inspired Decal During Bahamas Bowl, SMU Surprised To See All The Wives Of BYU Players At Bowl Game: ‘That’s Different’, Trent Dilfer Spends Day 1 On Job Showing UAB Cheerleader His Super Bowl Ring At Bahamas Bowl, and Aaron Rodgers’ Alleged Girlfriend, Blu of Earth, Is Stuck In Peru & It Might Be Over Between These Two
Power Line: A Twitter Files footnote, An Updated Lexicon, and Elon Agonistes [Updated]
Shark Tank: Rep. Byron Donalds Calls Out Murder Turtle For Omnibus Spending Compromise
Shot In The Dark: It Seems Appropriate, also, The Real Authoritarians Debate Part I – Defining The Terms
The Political Hat: 12 Posts of Christmas, 2022 (Day 4)
This Ain’t Hell: U.S. Army to train 500 Ukrainian troops a month in Germany starting in January 2023, CDC removes pro-gun findings under pressure from Gun Control groups, ‘Survivor’ Winner’s Class Act, Russian troll strikes Valor Guardians!, and Valor Friday
Transterrestrial Musings: California’s “Assault Weapons” Ban, Try, Try Again, Silicon-Valley Fraudsters, Ron DeSantis, and Brian Binnie
Victory Girls: Twitter Is Just The Tip Of The Big Tech Leviathan
Volokh Conspiracy: An Assessment of the Oral Argument in 303 Creative
Watts Up With That: Elevated Living Standards Contradict Climate Doomsayers, also, Claim: Computer Models Predict a Third of Vertebrates will Die by 2100
Weasel Zippers: Biden: U.S. Taxpayers To Pay South Africa $8 Billion To Shut Down Their Coal Power Plants, Providence To Fix Racism With $10 Million Payout For Slavery Reparations, Special K Claims The Trump Administration “Completely Gutted” The Immigration System, and Iran Halts Funding For Palestinian Terror Groups… Joe Biden, Not So Much
The Federalist: No, It’s Not ‘Fair-Minded’ To Defend ‘Journalists’ Who Use Twitter To Dox Their Political Enemies, Fight ‘Zuckbucks’ With Laws, Not Lawsuits, Is HBO’s White Lotus A Reactionary Masterpiece?, EXCLUSIVE: West Virginia Treasurer Riley Moore Joins Calls For BlackRock CEO Larry Fink To Resign, and Leftists Call Free Speech ‘Violence’ To Mute Critics Of Barbaric Transgender Surgeries For Kids
Mark Steyn: You Gotta Have Heart!

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