Walter Masterson joined a group of mostly male forced-birthers led by the creepy Father Fidelis Moscinski protesting outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in New York. Masterson brought along a copy of a Jordan Peterson book and told the men that if they read it they would never get a woman pregnant because women would refuse to have sex with them. — Read the rest

The Washington Post reports that a third of Twitter's top 100 advertisers haven't placed ads on Twitter in over two weeks. Among the companies that don't want their brand associated with Musk's trollish behavior are Jeep, Mars, Merck, Kellogg, Verizon, and Boston Beer. — Read the rest

Celebrate the extremely brief Twitter renaissance of scurvy crank Jordan Peterson with this performance of Radiohead's Creep by "Kermit the Frog", which is to say Rich Alvarez.

As long as Joe Rogan remains profitable for his publisher Spotify he'll have a platform there to spread racism, make fun of people's medical conditions, and promote quack Covid-19 nostrums.

Here he is on his podcast talking about Angela Jolie after learning she was diagnosed with Bell's Palsy, a facial paralysis condition:

There's a rule.

Anne Innis Dagg was the first female biologist to study giraffes; while all the men who preceded her had observed firsthand that male giraffes are super queer (their primary form of play is a game dubbed "penis fencing," which is exactly what it sounds like), only Dagg was willing to write it down and publish it.

In May 2018, Google faced a series of public resignations and scandals over a secret internal project to supply AI tools to the Pentagon's drone warfare project; then, in August 2018, scandal hit again with the news that Google was secretly developing a censoring, surveilling Chinese search-tool; then came the news that the company had secretly paid Android founder Andy Rubin $90m to quietly leave the company after credible accusations of sexual abuse and assault.

"The honorable Nancy Pelosi of California, having received the majority of the votes cast is duly elected the representative for the 116th Congress."

And after those words were spoken, cheers and clapping and a standing ovation for the Speaker-Elect.

Stephen Canfield and his colleagues at WeTransfer curated a stunning online experience inspired by the Voyager Golden Record, the iconic message for extraterrestrials launched into space on a phonograph record 40 years ago. My friends Tim Daly and Lawrence Azerrad and I co-produced the first ever vinyl release of the Voyager Record this year and we were honored to help with WeTransfer's effort, titled A Message from Earth. — Read the rest

Strata-East Records was a pioneering record label founded in 1971 that went deep down the post-bop, spiritual jazz path most famously explored by John Coltrane on his iconic 1964 work "A Love Supreme." Strata-East was a radical label, featuring radical sounds by the likes of Gil Scott-Heron, label founders Charles Tolliver and Stanley Cowell, Clifford Jordan, Pharaoh Sanders, Cecil McBee, Sonny Fortune, Shirley Scott, and other greats. — Read the rest

As Xeni wrote, yesterday's vote to de-fund the NSA's warrantless dragnet surveillance came within a whisker of passing. 205 Reps voted in favor of asserting innocent Americans' right not to be spied upon; 217 voted against, and 12 abstained — enough to have carried the day. — Read the rest

The town of Silver Spring, Maryland, gave $100,000,000 to a private developer to rehabilitate its downtown. Now the developer says that the whole downtown is a private mall, and has banned photography there.

Jordan sez, "The DC Rights Flickr group made good on its promise to stand up for photographers' rights in Silver Spring, MD. — Read the rest

Jordan says:

Security guards in a Silver Springs business district are enforcing a "no photography" policy, under the false claim that the street in question is private property. The Peterson Company, which manages the buildings on this DC-area street, claims the right to protect their brand.