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For which they will no doubt be criticized by the Usual Activists.

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

Have a brewski and see what develops.

Texans.

America used to be full of people like this. Now, not so much.

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Sometimes the old ways are best.

Kevin Williamson points out the good news.

There’s more to life than a good income — but it’s a lot easier to get the rest of that stuff right with a good income.

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More than you ever wanted to know.

Or maybe not….

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You know, as you do.

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And then she can get ordained in the Universal Life Church. Win-win!

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The application claims that a room-temperature superconductor can be built using a wire with an insulator core and an aluminum PZT (lead zirconate titanate) coating deposited by vacuum evaporation with a thickness of the London penetration depth and polarized after deposition.

An electromagnetic coil is circumferentially positioned around the coating such that when the coil is activated with a pulsed current, a non-linear vibration is induced, enabling room temperature superconductivity.

We have the technology.

The Cookery Monster.

Megan McArdle, in addition to being an ace political writer, has for years done an annual Christmas article on what new stuff she’s found for kitchen use. I’ve followed it for years, to my profit.

Well, it looks as if she’s decided to get serious and start a cooking blog, which I intend to follow.

Highly recommended.

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Those marijuana munchies will do it to you.

Police in Houston, Texas, said the “concerned citizen” contacted them after he found the overweight mammal crammed inside a tiny cage.

Officers initially assumed the caller had smoked too much cannabis and was hallucinating, but soon discovered his report was entirely grounded in reality.

Any police officer who thinks that weed is hallucinogenic needs to go for re-training.

“Finding a forever home for a tiger is not easy,” she said. “I tried to explain to people it’s a lot like having a child.”

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By reforming its criminal justice system, Texas has sensibly and carefully reduced its prison population, cut state spending, and expanded prisoners’ access to drug- and mental-health treatment and to education programs—all of which have reduced crime and recidivism rates and improved people’s lives.

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Now, Texas is once again leading on key issues by analyzing and reconsidering some of its laws that hinder Texans’ ability to pursue a livelihood, a right guaranteed to all Texans by both the state and federal constitutions. Many of those laws carry criminal penalties for those who violate them.

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Rush Limbaugh led off his show today with this — it’s pretty funny.

Of course, the Democrats on this committee are trying to set up a ‘perjury trap’ for the AG nominee, and he is leading them around the maypole while enjoying himself doing it.

UPDATE: Rep Nadler Won’t Clarify His Questions, Demands An Answer Anyway — Whitaker Fights Back

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Watching the GIF of the camper unfolding is vaguely disturbing.

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Sometimes toxic masculinity is all you’ve got.

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Debby Witt, a kindred soul.

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Dynamite drumming.

My favorite comedian.

In case you don’t recognize the name, this is the guy who wrote the Chik-Fil-A song.

‘Nuff said….

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The Squatty Potty is pretty simple. It’s designed so that your body is better configured for pooping. You’ll poop faster and easier and your colon will thank you for it. The reduced straining can help heal hemorrhoids and prevent other issues in that neck of the woods. This can also be used as a toilet training aid for toddlers.

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Ha!

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Compiled by David Director Friedman, some of these are very subtle. But if you think about it you can figure it out. Hint: Each one illustrates a basic principle of economics.

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Dude, a man’s gotta have priorities, you know?

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that there even was a ‘National Fast Food Day’.

Of course, the burgers aren’t ‘free’ but come when you purchase another item AND go through their app — if their app is like every other fast food app, signing up will give them your e-mail and phone number.

Is that worth a ‘free’ burger? Obviously it is — to them. What do they know that you don’t?

Remember: If you aren’t paying for a product, then you’re the product.

Martinmas was what the Pilgrims were celebrating when they did what we now celebrate as Thanksgiving.

They didn’t call it Martinmas, of course, being Protestants and not having any truck with that Papist flummery. Nevertheless, it’s the traditional English kill-the-stock-we-can’t-feed-over-the-winter-and-hey-here’s-lot’s-o’-meat-so-let’s-pig-out time. So enjoy.

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Funny how that works.

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Urrah!

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And there you have it.

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Steve looked at each phone screen, pulled his round-rim glasses up so they rested on his forehead, stared again closely, then put his glasses back down and returned each phone to the table in front of him. Then he expressed himself. I was left wishing I had a plastic bag in my pocket to clean up my work.

I went back to comb through fonts with colleagues, and in a couple of days, we discovered Helvetica Neue. This Neue (German for “new”) version had subtle improvements that made every letter look perfectly sharp on the new screen. Steve approved it on sight.

So I guess he was right.

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Authorities said the makeshift weapons were created by Gregory Rodvelt, who was forced to forfeit his property as part of an elder abuse case involving his mother.

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Hey, the money was just sitting there.

I wonder whether anybody has done a serious study of how much excess rich-boy cash is soaked up and taken out of the economy by ‘supermodels’. (Nobody seems to be a just plain model any more. Kind of like ‘far-right’ that way.) Seems as if there ought to be a PhD thesis or two in there somewhere.

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And about time, too.

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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.