• Inside the Fall of the CDC (ProPublica) How the Trump administration politicized the center into irrelevance.
• Girl, 8, pulls a 1,500-year-old sword from a lake in Sweden (BBC) I think that means that she is queen of the Geats.
• Bot orders $18,752 of McSundaes every 30 min. to find if machines are working (Ars Technica) Seriously, if this is where our intellect is applied, we are doomed.
• 1986 MIKOYAN MIG 29 Jets for sale – 2374614 (Trade-a-Plane) Only $4,650,000.00.  Such a deal.  Hanukah is coming up, folks. 
• Health Agency Halts Coronavirus Ad Campaign, Leaving Santa Claus in the Cold (WSJ) Yes, their magic bullet against Covid was ……… Santa Claus.  The stupid, it burns.
• Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police (New York Times) It’s a good thing when the watchmen are watched.
• How one teacher’s Black Lives Matter lesson divided a small Wisconsin town (NBC News) It’s really pretty simple.  Bigots want to fire a teacher for discussing racism.

You may recall that I posted a rather long, and very amusing video about the abuse of DMCA in the wolf porn fanfic community? 

Well, the crazy-ass author Addison Cain goes after Lindsay Ellis with ……… MORE DMCA complaints.

I do not know if there is a Nobel Prize for lameness, but her DMCA complaints were so lame that Youtube chose to disregard them.

That is seriously lame.

In any case, we get another long, and intensely amusing video from Ms. Ellis about this. (I want that hat)