UNPATRIOTIC MILLIONAIRES: Obama-Endorsing WaPo Rushes To Pay Dividends Before Obama Tax Increase Kicks In.

BT: Love, Peace, and Grease.

STEALTH LEGISLATION: Legislators Hope To Slip Farm Subsidies And Food Stamps Into Fiscal Cliff Deal.

A READER REQUEST: Sallie Heitsman writes: “I remember you had a recommendation for RC helicopters. My 10 year old is requesting one for Christmas….can you steer me in the right direction? Gratitude abounds.”

Here you are. They’re loads of fun — I bought one, and gave one to my brother!

THE BAND AND RONNIE HAWKINS: Who Do You Love?

JAMES TARANTO: “We are beginning to doubt whether Bashar Assad is a genuine reformer.” Plus, a mention of Anna Wintour’s Duranty Award.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: What Not to Do at Bedtime: 6 Bad Behaviors That Can Steal Your Sleep.

AT AMAZON, bestsellers in Cookbooks, Food & Wine.

DEATH BY ALGORITHM: West Point Code Shows Which Terrorists Should Disappear First. “It’s an algorithm that identifies which people in a terror network really matter, like the mid-level players, who connect smaller cells with the larger militant group. Remove those people, either by drone or by capture, and it concentrates power and authority in the hands of one man. Remove that man, and you’ve broken the organization.”

These sorts of technologies seem particularly prone to political abuse, no?

MEANWHILE, IRONICALLY, AMERICANS ARE GETTING FATTER: Japan’s Dying Sport of Sumo.

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: Twilight Of The Blue States.

EXTREME HOARDING: Woman has nearly 100 dead cats in refrigerator.

JUNO REACTOR: Pistolero.

AT AMAZON, Digital Deals.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: Woman Sues Over Her Roommate’s Sexcapades.

SO YESTERDAY I ASKED WHY MEN FAVOR POT LEGALIZATION BY BIG MARGINS, WHILE WOMEN OPPOSE IT: Reader Jane Vawter responded: “Women don’t like pot for the most part. It’s a man drug. What they really don’t like is a useless, stoned man…pot makes you stupid, poor company and a poor provider.”

CONFESSIONS OF A SYRIAN SNIPER: A Rebel Gunman in Aleppo and His Conscience.

ROGER SIMON: Stop Bitching And Whining.

The Insta-Wife: Hey, not so fast! Well, bitching and whining has worked pretty well as a strategy for lefties. As for being better than them — it’s important to be good enough. And that’s enough.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: What To Do If You’re Pushed Onto The Subway Tracks.

READER BOOK PLUG: Reader Melanie Haslam (who says she’s “no relation to the Knoxville Haslams”) asks me to plug her grandfather’s book, The Laurel Canyon Ghost. Done!

NOT JUST FOR TEXTING: 1 in 3 middle-schoolers uses smart phones for homework.

THE PLIGHT OF THE ALPHA FEMALE: “Women remain scarce in the most elite positions. And it’s by choice.”

THE KLF: Brownsville Turnaround On The Tex-Mex Border. You’ll hear a reference to “Comandante Glenn Reynolds” at around 0:48.

DUANE EDDY: Rebel Rouser.