SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:55 P.M. ET: 

GOOD COMPANIES – FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES:  Several major firms are resisting calls from director Judd Apatow and other Twitter liberals to boycott Tucker Carlson’s TV show because he opposes illegal immigration.  Pacific Life, Indeed.com, IHOP and several other companies did pull their ads from the Fox News Channel show “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” but the resisters include such major firms as Farmer’s Insurance, Mitsubishi and John Deere.  In a statement to the Daily Beast, Farmers Insurance said it “invests in advertising across a broad range of networks and programs that reflect the diversity of opinions and viewpoints found across the nation.”  When Farmers advertisers on political shows, the company explained, it “should not be construed to be an endorsement of any kind as to a show’s content or the individuals appearing on the show.”  The Japanese auto and ship giant concurred, telling the Beast that “our advertising media spend is determined based on demographics and psychographics, not politics.”   Glad to see some corporations are actually resisting political correctness, rather than joining it.

WHAT HARVARD ACCEPTS – FROM THE NEW YORK POST:   Parkland shooting survivor and anti-gun activist David Hogg is heading to Harvard.  The graduate of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — where 17 students were shot and killed in February — took to Twitter to share the news of his acceptance.  “Thank you all for the well wishes, I’ll be attending Harvard in the fall with a planned major in Political Science,” Hogg tweeted Saturday morning.  Hogg and other Parkland survivors were launched into the national spotlight as they fought for gun control after the shooting.  Jaclyn Corin, another Parkland survivor, tweeted this week that she was also accepted into Harvard.  He turned into a little demagogue after the shooting, exploiting the event for his own political future.   He is vicious.  I guess, though, that if you take the "correct" position on gun control, fair Harvard will accept you. 

THE ETERNAL QUEST – FROM CBS LOCAL:  PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Could the secret to eternal youth be found in blood transfusions from young people? Some claim that transfusions with “young blood” from teenagers can reverse the aging process.  It’s being tested in patients over the age of 35 as part of a clinical trial called ambrosia, where people paid $8,000 to get the rich growth factors found in bloods plasma platelets.  Dr. Jesse Karmazin said.  Results of the trial have not been published.  Dr. Karmazin, who plans to open a business selling young blood, says patients who’ve had it say they feel amazing, and he says he’s seen evidence of reversing the aging process in rats.  “Their brains are younger, their hearts. Their hair, if it was gray, it turns dark again,” he said.  There has also been encouraging Alzheimer’s research using young blood at Stanford University.  “We found that it was safe and feasible to administer infusions of young plasma weekly,” Dr. Sharon Shaw, an Alzheimer’s researcher at Stanford, said. Dr. Shaw is a researcher who says they have seen evidence of improvement in functional ability.  “It’s all very exciting that there can be components in blood that can be healing,” Dr. Shaw said.  I wonder if we can give "old" blood to Democratic members of Congress, so they can stop acting like teenagers.  Just askin'.

December 22, 2018