The Pentagon announced that a U.S. fighter jet has shot down a “high-altitude object” in Alaskan airspace Friday, marking the second such encounter in a week after the plodding cross-country flight by a suspected Chinese spy balloon. Officials say the object was roughly the size of a car, making it much smaller than the Chinese airship shot down Saturday. Well then, I guess when it comes down to shooting down “unidentified high-altitude objects,” size doesn’t matter. Gee, I wonder what the hell it was that was flying so high above Alaska? The way I see it, it could only be one of two things - Elon Musk’s car, or Sarah Palin’s ego. We can only hope it wasn’t Santa, on some kind of a test run. Otherwise, Christmas ’23 is all shot to hell. Meanwhile, Republicans are up in arms about the matter, first complaining about the cost of shooting it down, and then claiming President Biden shot the thing down way too soon. Now, while I’m certainly no Repub...