Ozone hole improving, flipping public opinion, AI acting as an attorney in the courtroom, more woke censorship, raising a lion to shoot it, giant Stone Mountain racist scupture, the Pentagon cannot self-audit, anti-depressants and pacebo – maybe the same thing, chemical imbalance theory BS

Obits for Jeff Beck, Jerry Lee Lewis, Gaylord Perry, look back on bio lab & delta smelt, ChatGPT test drive by us, GB&U, The Intercept looks at US communications at start of Covid pandemic, Chinese resurgence of same

New revelations on ancient concrete, AG Rob Bonta suing over insuin price gouging, disables journalist Peter Pischke essay on continued opiod restictions per CDC, deep dive into The Week, GB&U, George Santos – astounding liar and Congressman, Kevin McCarthy – subpoena dodger and House Speaker, combo desk and exercise bike, marijuana tax revenue, Ugandan farmer with 12 wives and 558 grandkids now in favor of birth control

Einstein wisecrack, Dave Barry 2022 year in review, loonie column on why voter supression is no big, more Delta smelt woes despite temporary slowing of delta pumps, laughable Stanford PC language guidelines gets laughed at, the CES in Las Vegas just keeps making our lives better – talking dog devices, AI based baby stroller, South African aloe vera mistaken for aliens

Archival items: a 2002 look at aspiring NATO members, a 2007 look at Chairman Mao, 2011 Mental Floss look at dictator bad ideas, 2012 obit of Daniel Kaminsky, 2001 obit of Ramsey Clark, 2005 essay – was modern art a CIA weapon?, SNR article on home heating by burning food (corn) in a stove, 2009 Mental Floss piece – Voltaire vs Rousseau