838: On the Road to Baku. The scars of 2020. @VDHanson

Published: Dec. 11, 2020, 4:34 a.m.

Image: Giant killer hornet reaches US shores. Here: a defensive ball of Japanese honey bees (Apis cerana japonica)in which two hornets (Vespa simillima xanthoptera)are engulfed, incapacitated, heated and eventually killed; this sort of defense is also used against the Asian giant hornet.  Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan.   Victor Davis Hanson: @VDHanson; Hoover Institution, and The Case for Trump,in re:  FDA votes to approve the vaccine as early as Friday. It won’t heal the disunity. Pfizer said it wouldn't play politics—but withheld its announcement till four days after the election. Hunter Biden. The Chinese espionage news, with Eric Swalwell.  The whole landscape seems to be [of a piece]. The virus is dangerous to 1% of the population, yet the whole country is locked up, will be for a year.        Children are inheriting zoom screens and cancel culture. I’m grandfather to a special-needs child who’s regressed years in these months.  We’ve paid a terrible price in the novel voting. The scars of 2020.  We can heal, but we elected someone whose supporters don’t think he can [perform his duties].  ... Permissions:  Takahashi grants permission --This file is licensed under the Creative Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons) Attribution-Share Alike 2.1 Japan (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.1/jp/deed.en) license. You are free:to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the workto remix – to adapt the workUnder the following conditions:attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-considerations/compatible-licenses) as the original. I, the copyright holder of this work,  Takahashi (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Takahashi) , hereby publish it under the following licenses:  Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:GNU_Free_Documentation_License) , Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Free_Software_Foundation) ; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:GNU_Free_Documentation_License,_version_1.2) . .