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Back in the heyday of the Ivy League Look, when a boy was going steady he’d remove the locker loop on the back of his oxford-cloth buttondown, signalling to other females that he was spoken for.

And how did a female student signal she was taken? By wearing her boyfriend’s college scarf. The practice was especially popular at the two schools that most set the style in campus fashion: Princeton and Vassar.

The illustration does indeed feature a Princeton scarf, presumably on a Vassar girl.

Sometimes the old ways are best.

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I am not making this up.

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Specifically tailored with the urban cyclist in mind, the Levi’s Commuter Trucker Jacket was designed for getting around the city. The jacket features articulated shoulders to provide extra room to maneuver, reflectors, and a dropped hem to keep you covered as you ride. You can easily access your digital world because Jacquard technology is woven right into the sleeve.

Tiny electronics contained in the flexible snap tag connect the Jacquard Threads in the jacket’s cuff to your mobile device. The snap tag lets you know about incoming information, like a phone call, by giving you light and haptic feedback. Inspired by a strap that you would see on a cuff, it looks and feels like it’s a part of the jacket. The tag also houses the battery which can last up to 2 weeks between USB charges.

We have the technology.

Update: Google and Levi’s first smart jacket is a wash  Oops.

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Imagine that.

Hopefully he gets a piece of the action.

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Popular musician Robert Ritchie, also known as “Kid Rock,” is leading the GOP’s U.S. Senate race in Michigan, according to a poll released Friday.

The poll reportedly showed Ritchie leading other candidates in the Republican primary. This poll comes as Ritchie continues hinting at officially announcing his Senate bid against Michigan Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow, but has yet to do so.

Ritchie has more support in the Republican primary than every other candidate combined, with a 29 percent lead over the potential candidates, according to the poll. Pollsters also said that Ritchie looks strong among supporters of Trump.

You know what day it is.

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In addition to being a person of great common sense, Scott Adams is a very original thinker and loves to turn the world upside down just to see what will fall out.

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And rightly so.

I should get paid more than my ugly brother, and this has proven to be the case.

Of course, I’m a lawyer and he’s not, so this example is not ‘on all fours’ (as we lawyers say), but the underlying principle is still the same.

Watch it.

We have the technology.

Lion of the Blogosphere lays down some inconvenient truth.

If you want to be rescued from a flood, it’s a lot better to have prole Texans for neighbors than lesbian college professors from San Francisco.

I am pretty sure that the volunteer rescuers are primarily Trump voters.

As am I.

Give generously.

Hopefully none of your money will find its way to the SPLC.

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A few games ago, Tebow was waiting for his turn at bat when Seth Bosch, a 10-year-old boy with a tumor behind his right eye, walked down to the edge of the stands to see his hero close up. Tebow came over to shake hands, the youngster was overcome with emotion and went crying back to his family.

Like Babe Ruth, who was known for visiting for sick children in the hospital and then swatting home runs for them, Tebow soon blasted a pitch out of the ball park. The blast electrified the stadium in St. Lucie, Fla.

Ya gotta have heart.

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I’m on it.

Buy it.

Highly recommended.

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I predict that this will end badly.

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“I Believe if you work your butt off and pay your taxes, you should be able to easily understand and navigate the laws, tax codes, health care and anything else the government puts in place that affects us all,” Rock said in the attached image on the tweet.

So I guess he’s a Republican.

I’d vote for him. (Against Stabenow? I’d vote for a rock.)

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The ‘Loaded Bacon & Cheese Basket of Fries’ will do what it says on the tin, giving the chain’s famous french fries a gluttonous makeover by drenching them in cheese sauce and bacon.

Only $3.99. Me want.

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The company announced plans to roll out automated kiosks and mobile pay options at all of its U.S. locations in late 2016. Roughly 500 restaurants in Florida, New York and California now have the automated ordering stations, and restaurants in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C., will be outfitted in 2017, according to CNNMoney.

Customers place their order at touch screens and receive a number with a “digital locator,” which then notifies staff to where the customer is sitting. Once the order is ready to serve, an employee delivers the food to the customer’s table.

What a great idea! This entirely eliminates the need for any McDonalds employee to be even minimally competent in speaking or understanding English. Let’s open the borders!

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Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah tweeted pictures of bacon to PETA Thursday in response to a message the animal rights group sent challenging bacon-eaters to defend their dietary choices.

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An astonishing effort.

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PillPack is trying to solve the problem of drug adherence by simplifying your medicine cabinet. Medication arrives in the mail presorted into clear plastic packets, each marked in a large font with vital information: day, time, pills inside, dosages. These are ordered chronologically in a roll that slots into the dispenser. Let’s say you need to take four different pills in the morning and two others in the afternoon every day: Those pills would be sorted into two tear-off packets: one marked 8am, followed immediately by the 2pm packet.

A great idea. The only question is how this squares with people’s insurance plans.

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Interview with Michael Ruhlman, whose books you need to read (he’s one of my Recommended Writers).

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If you’re looking to stage a march or rally and need fake protesters to legitimize your cause, a company now exists solely to provide you with as many actors as you require.

Crowds on Demand provides its clients with people who will form protests, flash mobs, rallies, paparazzi events and other inventive stunts. The company serves every major U.S city, metro area and small city, and executes clients’ specific plans or provides strategies for more general plans.

“We can organize rallies and get media attention for your causes and candidates,” the Crowds on Demand website claims. “We also assist individuals, companies and political organizations with protests and picketing campaigns. We’ve protested governments, corporations and everything in between.”

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Which he immediately donated to the Federal government, I assume. Oh, wait….

Sometimes it is good to be the socialist, at least when there are other socialists willing to give you money.

Feel the Bern!

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By definition, diners are everyday and utilitarian, the no-frills, functional restaurant where nearly everyone can afford a meal. For decades, pulling up a seat or a stool and ordering a cup of coffee at these supremely democratic spaces has been a staple of the American diet, as well as the country’s pop culture.

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City sculptor Alex Gardega — seething over the “Fearless Girl” statue being placed across from Wall Street’s “Charging Bull” — has decided to retaliate with a work of his own.

Gardega created a statue of a small dog, titled “Pissing Pug,” and his sloppily crafted pooch takes direct aim at “Fearless Girl” — or, at least, at her left leg.

“This is corporate nonsense,” Gardega told The Post of “Fearless Girl,” saying it was put opposite artist Arturo Di Modica’s famed bull as a publicity stunt by a Boston-based financial firm.

Now that’s comedy.

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“What keeps you awake at night?” CBS “Face the Nation” host John Dickerson asked Mattis.

“Nothing,” a stonefaced Mattis responded. “I keep other people awake at night.”

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A 13-year-old boy from Texas won a national math competition on Monday with an answer rooted in probabilities — and a dash of farming.

The boy, Luke Robitaille, took less than a second to buzz in at the Raytheon Mathcounts National Competition with the correct answer.

Euless is a suburb of Fort Worth. Note that he was homeschooled.

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Having bestowed the presidency on a candidate who described their country as a “hellhole” besieged by multitudes trying to get into it, Americans need an antidote for social hypochondria. Fortunately, one has arrived from Don Boudreaux, an economist at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center and proprietor of the indispensable blog Cafe Hayek.

He has good news: You are as rich as John D. Rockefeller. Richer, actually.

Lileks.

“While the plane is preparing for takeoff, please pretend to pay attention to the flight attendant with the game smile, going through the safety instructions. It’s humiliating for her, standing in the aisle showing you how to put on a seat belt like it’s 1962. She could put this around her neck and pull the strap until she’s blue and you wouldn’t notice.

“Whoever makes eye contact with her gets a free drink. Anyone? No? Well, thank you for choosing to fly with us today, even though we know it had everything to do with price and nothing to do with the brand we spend millions promoting. Do you even know which airline you’re on? No.

“When we’ve reached cruising altitude we will be coming by with small pieces of shellac painted to look like pretzels.”

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A pizza joint in Portland Oregon has created the world’s cheesiest pizza using a total of 101 different cheese varieties.

And hipsters all over the globe start hyperventilating.

It is, of course, GMO-free. Sorry about the gluten — it’s that crust thing.

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While many overdue woman resort to spicy food, sex, pineapple and bouncing on an exercise ball, the Buffalo Wing Pizza at Hawthorne’s New York Pizza and Bar in Charlotte, North Carolina has reportedly sent “multiple women” into labour, reports local news outlet Charlotte Five.

The paper spoke to three women who all gave birth to their children shortly after sampling the pizza which they did from hearing on the local grapevine that it was the place to visit if you were desperate to push your baby out.

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Well, for one thing, it’s full of people who ‘self-identify’ as Christians. Funny how that works.

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Science marches on.

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Boycotts only work when you’ve got a lot of people behind you. AstroTurf don’t count.

Walter Olson reminds us.

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Not every black American is Al Sharpton.

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And why not?

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Well, if I’m going to win something, it might as well be something good.

Joel Kotkin lays it out.

At its current rate of growth, Houston could replace Chicago as the nation’s third-largest city by 2030.

Why would anyone move to Houston? Start with the economic record.

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And about time, too.

Watching Donald Trump deal with the DemLegHump Media has been one of the most entertaining experiences in my sixty-odd years on this planet. It’s like watching a really, really good matador work a clever-but-not-clever-enough bull through its paces in the ring. Every Republican President since Nixon has gone into the arena and done his best, but wound up on the horns eventually. Every one — until now.

Scott Adams has done yeoman work playing Ernest Hemingway for us, pointing out the finer points of the process, but you don’t need to be an expert to appreciate a job well done.

Every day, sometimes multiple times during the day, Donald Trump (or one of his crew) walks up to the media bull and boots it in the butt. We then step back and watch it run around in circles and jump up and down, sweating and snorting and pawing and bleeding into the sand. Then it happens again. And again. You begin to wonder how long the beast is going to last. It never seems to learn.

Donald Trump appreciates, as has no Republican politician before him, that the public image of the Presidency is all about Narratives. Narratives are not about truth, but about persuasion. The DemLegHump Media have had a monopoly on creating public narratives since Vietnam went sour, and they are so accustomed to getting their way (in service to the Democrat party) that they don’t know how to react to somebody who is even better at it than they are. In military strategy terms, he has gotten inside of their decision loop and is leading them on a merry chase, all the while laughing maniacally. ‘Run run run/As fast as you can/You can’t catch me/I’m the Gingerbread Man!’

I keep expecting some cartoonist (yeah, Ramirez, I’m looking at you) to do a panel where Trump is shining a laser pointer on the floor while a bunch of cats labelled ‘ABC’, ‘NBC’, ‘AP’, ‘NYT’, and ‘WP’ run around attempting to catch it, with the caption ‘Hate the media? No, no, no. I LOVE the media. They’re so cute!’

Pass the popcorn. It’s going to be a fun four years.

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Left-Wing Rude doesn’t work the way it used to.

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It’s called ‘plasmaphoresis’ and I did it as a graduate student. It’s a great way to make money for students and other people with more time than cash. That and my Reserve drill pay paid my living expenses.