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Yeah, Obama affects me that way too,

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One of the few times that politics turns into entertainment.

I’d love to have that guy as my Congressman.

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Today’s entertainment.

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I am not making this up.

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They know good food when they see it.

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Elizabeth Warren, eat your heart out.

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This looks as if it could prove very interesting. God knows public schools need some kind of a re-boot. Let’s hope it works.

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The seventies were the high point of rock music. Everything has been downhill since then.

I love this kind of musical analysis. I could never do what these guys do, but I like to know how they did it because that way I appreciate it more.

I realized a long time ago that all of my favorite groups have one word names: Yes, Rush, Chicago, Kansas, Boston, Genesis, Journey, Aerosmith, Queen, Eagles, Heart, Foreigner, Styx, Santana …. I may have missed one or two.

The only exception is Moody Blues, but they were exceptional in every way.

UPDATE: My wife reminds me that I am also fond of Fleetwood Mac (classic), so that’s another exception.

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Sort of shoots the ‘all white people are racist’ Narrative right square in the butt.

If black people are willing to make the effort, white people will go out of their way to support them. It’s just that simple.

I’m curious as to how many of his friends will criticize him for ‘acting white’.

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And the revolt continues….

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An amazing feat.

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Texas yields to no one in the amount of bad taste we can raise when the (blue) chips are down.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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Trump’s people aren’t just going to lie down and take the Left’s crap the way Republicans are accustomed to doing.

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Chick-Fil-A…
I could eat there seven times a day….

The New York Times has to admit the truth, and it burrrrrrns. But they do manage to report it without using the word ‘Trump’, except in an embedded link to a story about what a degenerate tweeter Trump is.

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To understand the evolution of macaroni and cheese is to realize that pursuit of the “cheapest protein possible” has been a longstanding quest of the American food system.

I am a big fan of mac & cheese, with tuna and peans and mushrooms to make a quick and tasty meal.

(Thanks to Debby Witt, a kindred soul.)

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My parents had a set of these, which is probably responsible for my being an insufferable intellectual snob.

They were the first hard-cover books I bought when got a job out of high school.

I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

I didn’t, either, and I’m a veteran.

Well, go punch a liberal fascist or something to celebrate.

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Anyone who works in the $200 billion digital advertising industry should be scared of people like Mark Drobnak, because the ad blocker he uses is way more powerful than yours. The college freshman says it feels as though everyone at Rochester Institute of Technology, from his roommate to his professors, has installed some way to ward off online ads. Drobnak is one of the die-hards who goes further, working with a handful of comrades to build what they call “a black hole for advertisements.” His parents say the one he built them works great.

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Only a few years ago, even people who hated ads saw ad-blocking software as akin to stealing. But online advertising has grown so predatory that while blocking is estimated to cost publishers billions of lost revenue a year, it’s started to seem less like robbery than self-defense: Ads slow devices, eat up data plans, and sometimes deliver malware. Meanwhile, the industry is building ever-more-detailed dossiers on every user based on web habits.

I don’t mind ads. What I mind are ads that move (distracting you from what you came for), ads that block your view (the very definition of assholery), and ads that try to persuade you that you have some sort of computer virus that you can’t get rid of unless you ‘call the number on your screen’.

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But you have to remember that Trump has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his first year in office.

Be sure to remember that.

April Diary.

In case you need a Derb fix. I know I did.

Don’t forget the Support John Derbyshire link over there on the right.

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The most fun thing about SOFIC is trying to figure out which of its 11,000 attendees can kill you with his bare hands. The second most fun thing about SOFIC is the expo floor: 95,000 square feet of tanks, radios, rovers, ropes, tactical wet suits, parachute simulators, carbon-fiber rifles, search-and-rescue Sea-Doos, underwater breathing apparatuses, “pyrotechnic products” that look uncomfortably like cartoon bombs, and at least one snow motorcycle. It’s like the annual sales conference for James Bond’s Q Branch: The CIA has a booth. So do General Dynamics, Glock, and Raytheon. There are photos of airplanes for sale. Planes!

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As do I.

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The material created by Professor Eugene Chen has many of the same characteristics of everyday plastics, including strength, durability and heat resistance.

However, unlike conventional plastics it can be converted back to the molecules that form its building blocks with ease.

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Well, good. I guess the brownshirts of the Left aren’t as important as they thought they are.

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The US Navy Seals just rolled out an unrecognizable new boat to help them out in future conflicts. Photos of the watercraft are scant for obvious reasons but the current images available to the public are pretty unbelievable.

I want one.

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President Donald Trump has signed off on a pardon for I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, who was convicted in 2007 of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements.

Good Bush ought to have done this and didn’t have the courage.

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Here’s hoping.

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Meet Jack Mauch, the newest member of our growing family of “Craftsmanship’s Young Turks.” At age 32, Mauch is already creating breathtaking examples of craftsmanship in everything from furniture-making to ceramics and metalwork.

‘Astonishing’ is totally inadequate.

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Don’t say we never have any good news here.

Have Tillerson track him down and waste him in a rogue CIA operation. It’s too good an opportunity to waste.

UPDATE: Matt Damon Denies He’s Leaving The Country Because Of Donald Trump  Well, shucks.

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The Mayor of New York has conceded defeat to Texas, admitting the Southern US state produces a better barbecue.

During a discussion at the South by Southwest Festival in the Lone Star state, Austin mayor Steve Adler goaded Bill de Blasio on the topic by asking, “Oh, New York has a barbecue?”

To which the Mayor of New York responded, “We do not have as good as barbecue as you.

That’s a no-brainer.

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Cryptocurrency mining takes a lot of energy, and anything that uses that much energy generates a lot of heat, which is why cooling systems are so important for computers using high-end graphics cards. But what if instead of cooling down your mining rig, you found another use for all that excess heat — like, say, heating your entire home?

Qarnot’s QC-1 “crypto heater” looks to do just that, combining a cryptocurrency mining rig with a wall-mounted radiator to heat your home and earn you some of that sweet, sweet digital money at the same time (via TechCrunch).

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It’s nice to see that the spirit of adventure still exists in America.

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The U.S. Army West Point academy has posthumously appointed fallen Parkland JRTOC student Peter Wang to its class of 2025, Brittany Wallman of the Florida Sun-Sentinel reports.

UPDATE: US Army Awards Medal Of Heroism To Student Who Lost His Life Saving Others In Florida School Shooting

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

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And rightly so.

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Zackary Walls and Colton Haab, two Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps members, saved countless lives with quick thinking and a little bit of kevlar during Wednesday’s horrific attack on Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

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And remember that ‘on’ is pronounced ‘own’.

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Of course, if you’ve been following Scott’s Periscopes, you already know this.

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You deserve a break today….

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That’s a lot of crumbs, Nancy.

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And the Trump just keeps on winning….

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Yale man. Just sayin’.

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And the wins just keep on coming.

Even hipsters get the word — eventually.

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Works for me. I’d still like to see him in the Senate, though. That would be entertaining.

Steven Hayward connects the dots.

Further to my post earlier today about how the corporate tax cut is extending benefits immediately to workers and consumers, Yahoo finance has put together a rundown of the 81 companies that have announced bonuses or new employee benefits because of the tax change.

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Some of us are very fortunate in our parents.