Zip-Store.

Wardrobe Dryer.

ReLeaf leaf scoops.

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…leftists who are too obsessed with global warming to want to reproduce. Hey, if that’s what it takes, we probably should be grateful. NPR asks the question–seriously, as far as I can tell–“Should We Be Having Kids In The Age Of Climate Change?”

We certainly ought to encourage ‘progressives’ not to have children.

The problem is, once they get an idea into their heads, they won’t rest until you go along with it (by force of government if necessary).

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Yalies have been saying that for over a century.

Joe Bob Briggs reads the tea-leaves.

I should have waited four more days so that I could read the column by Jim Rutenberg in The New York Times explaining that there’s no media bias because all the rules of journalism have changed.

Damn, Jim, if you’d told me in advance, I could have saved Taki some money.

I learned from this article that the way it works now is, if you’re a working reporter and you think Donald Trump is a demagogue, “you have to throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part of the past half-century, if not longer, and approach it in a way you’ve never approached anything in your career.” You have to “move closer than you’ve ever been to being oppositional.”

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U.S. District Judge Sean Cox threw out a lawsuit the federal government brought against a Detroit-area funeral home over the firing of a transgender employee. His Thursday ruling said the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission failed to accommodate the religious beliefs of the funeral home’s owner, who said he feared violating “God’s commands” by permitting one of his directors, a biological male, to wear a skirt-suit while ministering to grieving customers.

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But you knew that.

Steve Sailer is not afraid to ask the obvious questions.

Why do people say things like “talent must be distributed equally” when all the evidence of our eyes from watching the Olympics is that talent is not distributed equally? Instead, talent is distributed in complex patterns by nature, which are in turn made even more complex by nurture.

Because ‘progressives’ are all about Must Be Distributed Equally, and if it isn’t so, they strive to make it so — and where they can’t make it so (Hello, Nature!) they just assume it (because wishing will make it true).

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Hey. Priorities.

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One of the best send-ups of SWPL life I’ve ever read.

Your wifi enabled coffee maker downloads the perfect instructions to brew a cup of Blue Bottle?—?and you don’t have to do anything. The Roomba purrs in the background while you continue to read from your smartphone. You see a few articles about Trump and how crazy he is?—?somehow this comforts you.

You decide to share an article about Brexit from The Atlantic, which will somehow shed light to all your friends as to why it happened. The article is 1,000 words long?—?you only read half of it, but that’s good enough. It captures all the arguments you’ve been wanting to make for the past two months to your friends. Will this be the Facebook post that finally spurns your friends into action? You realize your Facebook friends all agree with your political views and social views already.

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After six years, the United Nations has finally admitted it deserves at least some blame for the death of thousands of Hatians in a 2010 cholera epidemic.

Despite the admission, the U.N. says it deserves no legal liability for the deaths, and will continue to avoid making reparations.

Remind me why we have a United Nations? Seems as if everything they touch turns to shit.

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And the beast begins to devour itself.

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My, what a surprise! Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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I’m still not shopping at Target.

Pakistani man ‘slits second wife’s throat in honour killing’ 15 years after murdering first wife

At least 6 dead, more than 200 wounded in bombings targeting Turkish police

Anjem Choudary: How hate preacher was finally caught for supporting Isis after 20 years of spreading extremism in UK

US Military Says There Are 80,000 Iranian-Backed Fighters In Iraq

Turkey Has Actively Supported Islamic Terrorists For Years, German Intel Reveals

The Islamic State’s Genocide in Northern Iraq Continues

US Declares Victory On ISIS-Held City, Continues Bombing It

Obama’s Rules Of Engagement Let 200 ISIS Fighters Go Scot-Free

Anjem Choudary inspired terrorists around the world – and the media shares some of the blame

Isis-supporting preacher Anjem Choudary’s influence ‘could increase in prison’

Report: Pro-Palestinian Group Compiling Names Of U.S. Jewish College Students

Refugee who came to Maine died fighting for ISIS

Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary guilty of inviting support for ISIS

The Syrian American doctors in Aleppo who are fighting to save lives in the midst of civil war

Shafik Rehman: 81-year-old British journalist facing death penalty in Bangladesh ‘could die within months’

Anjem Choudary verdict: YouTube and Twitter refused to delete radical preacher’s extremist posts, court hears

Anjem Choudary: Radical preacher found guilty of inviting support for Isis

Turkey accused of legalising sex with children

ISIS vs. Al Qaida: Battle of the Terrorist Brands

UK Court: Islamist Preacher Guilty Of Supporting ISIS

Leaked Isis documents reveal recruits have poor grasp of Islamic faith

Jordanian writer held over Facebook cartoon deemed ‘offensive to Islam’

Sharia law reinforces separation and alienation in multicultural Britain

Report: More Than 1,000 Known Child Marriages in Germany

Syrian Rebels Retake ISIS’s Main Recruiting Center

Poll Finds That Not Very Many People Want Syrians In The US. Funny how that works.

ISIS Fighters Read ‘Islam For Dummies’ Before Heading To Syria

Detainee Transferred By Obama Admin Linked To New ISIS Cell In Italy

Turkey ‘Allows Sex with Children under the Age of 15,’ Causing Row

ISIS gets know-nothing recruits and rejoices

Germany Now Has More Than 1,000 Documented Child Marriages

Boko Haram release new video showing kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls

Children as young as seven ‘sexually assaulted’ in Greek refugee camps

Imam, associate shot dead outside New York City mosque

Samia Shahid murder: Ex-husband admits ‘honour killing’ of British woman in Pakistan

Isis: Incredible photos show civilians celebrating freedom in Syria by cutting beards and burning burqas

War against Isis: More than 2,000 civilians freed as militants driven out of Syrian city of Manbij

Isis ‘jihadi brides’ trying to radicalise girls and encourage UK terror attacks online as they remain trapped in Syria

Arrests of UN-linked agency officials for Hamas ties calls US funding into question

American University of Afghanistan Closed After Professor Kidnappings

Isis leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan ‘killed by US drone’

Isis’ British brides: What we know about the girls and women still in Syria after the death of Kadiza Sultana

Syria war: Children among civilians killed in new air strikes on hospital and market in Aleppo province

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Just in case you were wondering. I know I was.

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And yet Trump is the new Hitler.

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What do these presidents have in common? Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy. When I saw that question posed by University of California Irvine neuroscientist James Fallon, my response was that they were the three most popular presidents of the 20th century.

They all had fascist inclinations and increased the footprint of the Federal government on daily life, precisely because of that popularity.

Now what about Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush? All markedly less popular – each lost his bid for re-election.What I didn’t know is that biographers of each president had been asked to rate their subjects on a standardized assessment of psychopathic traits. Those first three super-popular presidents ranked No. 1, 2, and 3; they were America’s most psychopathic presidents. The three who couldn’t win a second term ranked among the least psychopathic.

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Practice saying “My candidate is a psychopath. And that’s okay.”

I’d really rather not.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb points out why modern life sucks.

T he best example I know that gives insights into the functioning of a complex system is with the following situation. It suffices for an intransigent minority –a certain type of intransigent minorities –to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences. Further, an optical illusion comes with the dominance of the minority: a naive observer would be under the impression that the choices and preferences are those of the majority. If it seems absurd, it is because our scientific intuitions aren’t calibrated for that (fughedabout scientific and academic intuitions and snap judgments; they don’t work and your standard intellectualization fails with complex systems, though not your grandmothers’ wisdom).

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Well, everybody at the New Yorker knows he loves it, whether he actually said it or not.

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On CNN New Day Wednesday morning, Chris Cuomo brought up the video of Sylville Smith’s sister, calling for violence in the suburbs getting widespread attention, though the initial part of her message calling for nonviolence in their community, was. “That part of the bite was not widely used,” Cuomo said, conveniently leaving out that CNN was the one who left out the rest of the soundbite, initially.

Well, we’ll just gloss over that part.

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Martin Reynolds, the fellowship director, spoke to this me over the phone Wednesday afternoon. When asked whether white journalists should bother applying to the program, Reynolds pointed to the fact the grant is for journalists of color. Asked what “colors” specifically, Reynolds said racial and ethnic minorities.

I pointed out that I am Argentine and asked whether this would allow me to qualify for this opportunity. Reynolds then asked if I was a “white male” and I responded in the affirmative, but pointed out that I’m still an ethnic minority. Reynolds then said that people “understand” if they operate within a “community of color.” The fellowship director said that he doesn’t require a photo of the applicant to check their color because he trusts their “integrity.”

When asked if the program is discriminatory, Reynolds said “no.” He viewed the program as necessary to cover a disparity in journalism. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race in employment.

Just in case you were wondering why ‘journalism’ is so defective.

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Think of it as evolution in action.

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A team that included Nobel Prize-winning chemist Professor Brian Kobilka, of Stanford University in the US discovered the drug called PZM21 after evaluating some three million different compounds.

Morphine, derived from the opium poppy, works by acting on a receptor in the brain that reduces pains, but it also affects a different receptor that can lead to fatal breathing problems in the event of an overdose.

But PZM21, which so far has only been tested on mice, appears to act on the first receptor to about the same level as morphine without significantly changing the second one.

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Maybe God is just pissed off at California. Can’t think why.

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They got some serious kite-flyers down there.

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What business is that of the government?

“Of the many challenges facing the NPS in the 21st century, the lack of ethnic and racial diversity among the visiting population may be the most critical,” the NPS said in a grant announcement posted on the government’s grant website Wednesday.

Perhaps without ‘ethnic and racial diversity’ we’ll have more forest fires? This makes no sense.

White people are twice as likely to visit parks as black people, the document states. Park visitors are predominately white, and minorities make up only 22 percent of park visitors, even though minorities make up 37 percent of the U.S. population, according to research conducted by the NPS in 2008 and 2009.

Maybe the don’t like tramping around in the woods. Maybe somebody ought to ask some black people and find out why they’re not conforming to the SWPL ideal.

U.S. parks reflect America’s racist roots, according to KangJae Lee, assistant teaching professor at the University of Missouri.

There you have it. Blacks don’t go tramping around in the woods because white people are racist. It’s all clear to me now.

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I solve this problem by not traveling. That might not work for everybody.

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Thank God for those strict gun control laws in D.C. or the place would turn into another Texas.

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The chairman of the Arlington Fire District board said he’s reached out to Chief Tory Gallante to discuss the possibility of a compromise about the use of American flags on fire trucks.

American flags were removed from three Arlington Fire District trucks Tuesday, sparking heated discussion on social media and disappointment from union members.

What possible reason could there be to REMOVE American flags from fire trucks? In fargin Poughkeepsie?

Arlington Fire Commissioner Chairman Jim Beretta said the board majority feel the flags are a “liability during normal operations for our people and other motorists,” and that the board had not been consulted before the flags were mounted.

How could American flags be a liability during normal operations for fire trucks in an American city?

Two board members “had no problem with it as long as it was safe and not in the way of operations,” Beretta added. Three board members “did have a problem with it for normal operations, citing liability and distraction to other motorists.”

And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

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Because we really don’t have enough lesbian farmers in this country, don’t you know.

The agency is working with singer and LGBT activist Cyndi Lauper for a “day of conversation” about the struggles of gay and transgender individuals in rural America. The agency says its wants to change the perception of what it means to be a farmer in America away from the “white, rich male.”

At your expense, of course. No doubt you missed the part of the Constitution where that was one of the delegated powers to the Federal government.

“The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Civil Rights, in collaboration with the National Center for Lesbian Rights and The True Colors Fund, will engage with LGBT rural communities across the country to host the LGBT Rural Summit Series,” the USDA said. “Each series will offer a unique opportunity for USDA and other federal agencies to share information relating to policies, programs, and services that exist to protect, promote and strengthen LGBT rural communities.”

I am not making this up.

“Contrary to widely held myths that the LGBT community is largely living in affluent metropolitan areas, studies show a very different and more realistic picture of the LGBT community,” the USDA said. “For a number of reasons, many people in the LGBT community choose to live, work, and raise their families in the rural communities that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is proud to serve.”

Perhaps that’s because ‘affluent metropolitan areas’ are behavioral sinks in which no rational adult would want to live or raise kids.

The agency said nearly 10 percent of all same-sex couples in the United States live in rural areas and are “actually more likely to be families of color and raising children.”

How microscopic a part of the population is represented by 10% of an already negligible portion of the population is left as an exercise for the reader. But no victim class is too small to be ignored by the people spending YOUR tax money.

“We are trying very hard to change people’s mindsets,” Davis said. “When [people] hear ‘rural America,’ I don’t want them to think that means one type of person: a white, rich male.”

Although ‘progressives’ and the Drive-By Media expend millions of dollars every year pounding that message into people’s brains.

“You do have gay farmers who are growing your food,” said Marcus Hollan. “You have lesbian agricultural teachers in your high schools and your colleges teaching youth. It’s time we start recognizing them but also celebrating them.”

That’s like recognizing and celebrating the Zika virus. The zombies have taken over the police department.

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YoutubeIn the wake of the publication of a major interview with Juanita Broaddrick, a lot of left-leaning writers are soberly re-examining her decades’ old rape accusation against Bill Clinton—which seems to grow less plausible (or perhaps less important) in their eyes, the more it threatens Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid.

“While I (sort of? am leaning toward?) believe Juanita Broaddrick, her characterization of Hillary Clinton sounds irrational, maybe induced from PTSD,” writes Wonkette’s Rebecca Schoenkopf. Schoenkopf deserves credit for admitting a startling truth: her tribe is generally much less likely than this to agonize over accepting the victim’s narrative. “Why did Juanita Broaddrick change her story? ask people who otherwise would automatically answer ‘rape survivors do that sometimes,'” notes Schoenkopf.

Steve Sailer is the man to whom the news wouldn’t be the news without the news.

A black cop shot an armed black criminal and much passive-voice news reporting ensued.

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To calm tensions, the dead man’s sister went before the cameras and called for peace in the black community in a memorable speech:

Burnin’ down shit ain’t going to help nothin’! Y’all burnin’ down shit we need in our community. Take that shit to the suburbs. Burn that shit down! We need our shit! We need our weaves. I don’t wear it. But we need it.

The respectable press edited the sister’s lament that “We need our weaves” down to “Don’t bring violence here.”

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Not a happy time.

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“Santelle’s actions exhibit a disregard for safeguarding the department’s role as a non-partisan institution,” the IG said. “Santelle’s deliberate indifference to the effect his actions could have on the U.S. Attorney’s Office was particularly concerning, given that he was a 30-year career employee and the recipient of clear and repeated guidance from the department on such matters.”

Santelle retired from the DOJ in July, 2015, during the IG’s probe of his political activity and his alleged misuse of a government credit card. No charges have been filed against him and he has not received other employment-related penalties.

Democrats investigating Democrats: Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail.

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Some animals are more equal than others.

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Notably missing from the current discussion of Obamacare is any sign of disappointment, let alone panic, from the Democrats. The ACA was supposed to be Barack Obama’s signature legislative achievement. Doesn’t he care that the program that bears his name is falling apart? Seemingly not.

Likewise with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and the other Democrats who pushed Obamacare through Congress without a single Republican vote. Pretty much everything they said about the ACA has been proved wrong. Do they mind? They don’t appear to.

Democrats don’t expect to be punished for inflicting an expensive, failed program on the American people. Instead, they believe they will be rewarded. As Obamacare continues its slow-motion collapse, they will shift to Plan B. “We tried the market-based approach,” they will say, “and it didn’t work. Now there is only one alternative left: single payer health coverage.” At that point, with the government already dominating health care through Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare, and with genuinely free and private health care a dwindling remnant of the industry, they think the road to socialized medicine, the holy grail of modern leftism, will be open.

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Well. There it is.

No wonder birthrates in First World nations are dropping like a stone.

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So much for ‘safe spaces’.

Well, girls, you wanted ‘diversity’, and you’re getting it, good and hard.

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Good luck with that.

America Rising Squared (AR2) called members of 350 Action, an anti-fracking group co-founded by environmentalist Bill McKibben, “despicable.” They chased after Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte while she was running a 5K in New Hampshire.

They posted a video on YouTube titled, “Kelly Ayotte Can’t Run From Her Trump Problem,” along with a description reading: “350 Action made clear that Kelly Ayotte can’t support for a climate denying racist while pretending to be a ‘green’ candidate.”

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One year has passed since the Environmental Protection Agency caused a discharge of 3 million gallons of toxic water into the Animas River, and no one has been held accountable, although private parties have been criminally prosecuted under similar circumstances in the past.

Democrats investigating Democrats: Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail.

The Navajo Nation’s lawsuit claims that the EPA “failed to prepare for known risks of a mine blowout;” that workers for the EPA “‘recklessly’ burrowed into the Gold King Mine;” and that the agency has responded to the nation’s requests to provide compensation for the economic and environmental harms of the spill “with resistance, delays, and second-guessing.”

The EPA commissioned a report on the spill from the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation, which was released last October. That report stated that an EPA backhoe operator hit a spring, causing the spill, but the report did not say who was responsible or why that happened.

Of course not.

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In the land of NeverTrump, it turns out one American is more reviled than Donald Trump. This would be the Donald Trump voter.

Lincoln famously described government as of, by, and for the people. Even so, the people are now getting a hard lesson about what happens when they reject the advice of their betters and go with a nominee of their own choosing. What happens is an outpouring of condescension and contempt.

This contempt is most naked on the left. No surprise here, for two reasons. First, since at least Woodrow Wilson progressives have always preferred rule by a technocratic elite over democracy. Second, today’s Democratic Party routinely portrays its Republican Party rivals as an assortment of nasty ists (racists, sexists, nativists, etc.) making war on minorities, women, foreigners and innocent goatherds who somehow end up in Guantanamo.

Thus Mr. Trump confirms to many on the left what they have always told themselves about the GOP. A New York Times writer put it this way: “Donald Trump’s supporters know exactly what he stands for: hatred of immigrants, racial superiority, a sneering disregard of the basic civility that binds a society.”

Still, the contempt for the great Republican unwashed does not emanate exclusively from liberals or Democrats. Thanks to Mr. Trump’s run for office, it is now ascendant in conservative and Republican quarters as well.

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Gee, thanks, Barry. Well, at least it’s better than the nothing that Hillary plans to give them.

Obama administration efforts to train laid-off coal miners and their spouses for the “jobs of the future” are turning out to be somewhat of a double-edged sword.

A new report by the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank found some coal miners have successfully gotten jobs in other industries, but the report also hints that those re-employed miners are making way less than before.

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Nearly half a million Palestinians are currently able to take advantage of the temporary amnesty the Department of Homeland Security has extended to Syrian refugees.

Two weeks ago, DHS secretary Jeh Johnson announced that Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Syrians has been extended until March 31, 2018. TPS allows for individuals present in the U.S legally or illegally to be free of risk from deportation, receive welfare, work permits, drivers licenses and social security.

What could go wrong?

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I’ll bet you thought that knothole was just there by accident, didn’t you.

NEH announced a total of $79 million in grants to humanities programs across the country this year. “Through films, original research, and new intellectual insights, our grants strengthen the nation’s cultural fabric and identity,” William D. Adams, chairman of NEH, said in the grant announcement.

Or, alternatively, they just waste shitloads of YOUR money.

We report, you decide.

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Funny how the people who are so hot to have government in charge of our health care don’t like it when they take charge of recreational drugs.

Geez, make up your minds.

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is finalizing a rule stipulating that homeless shelters must allow transgender women to stay in women’s areas and transgender men to stay in areas designated for men—setting off “a firestorm [that pits] LGBT groups against religious organizations that operate many homeless shelters,” The Hill reports. Meanwhile, the Obama administration is introducing a rule guaranteeing that transgender people can use bathrooms consistent with their gender, rather than biological sex, when in federal buildings. The new regulation, which will be posted in the Federal Register this week, covers 9,200 properties owned by the General Services Administration (GSA), including federal courthouses, Social Security offices, and other spaces across the country.

Let us sit back and watch our civilization crumble into a vast seething mass of quarreling special interest groups, all supported at taxpayer expense.

None. Not gonna happen. I don’t indulge in sweat myself, and see no purpose in watching other people do so.

No, not even women’s volleyball. Gave that up long ago.

I can, however, reveal the origins of the sport of curling. It came about because of golf.

God came to visit Scotland one day and watched a bunch of people playing golf.

He said, ‘That has got to be the damnedest silliest game that a human being could devise.’

The Scots, just to prove Him wrong, thereupon invented curling.

True story.

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Probably trying to do the tar-and-feathers thing (too many American movies, maybe?) and screwed it up, as Arabs tend to do.

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Bayh loudly announced in 2010 he would not seek re-election after two terms because of supposed hyper-partisan gridlock due to the “distorting influence of money in politics.”

Almost immediately upon leaving office he reportedly proceeded to help rich folks do the alleged distorting. Within weeks of leaving the Senate, according to the Indianapolis Star, he joined a huge private equity company and quickly became partner at the Washington powerhouse law firm McGuire Woods. He has since amassed “lucrative corporate board appointments” earning “at least $3.7 million in cash, stock awards and other compensation.”

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But after announcing his new Senate run last month, Bayh suddenly went native. When a local Indiana television reporter asked when he was coming home, Bayh insisted, “I never left.”

Really?

Hey, if Hillary Clinton, raised in Chicago and living in Arkansas before trailing Bill to D.C., can be a Senator from New York, anything is possible.