UM… NO: Why You Should Stop Sleeping Late On The Weekends.

IT’S ALSO BY AND LARGE TIRESOME AND FULL OF PSEUDO SERIOUSNESS: Stop Writing Dystopian Sci-Fi—It’s Making Us All Fear Technology.  There is a right way to write the end of the world with HOPE and faith in humanity. I recommend a shot of Ringo’s Black Tide Rising.  And call us in the morning.

HE EXPECTED A FAIR FIGHT WITH A CLINTON: For this alone, he should be judged mentally incompetent for the presidency.

WHICH PART OF WE THE PEOPLE DO YOU THINK THEY DON’T GET? Illinois just quietly passed a law that makes it a felony to record the police without consent.  Very simple, all government and government employees should understand, yes, we are INDEED the boss of you.  That’s why this is America.

WELL, THEN, ABOUT TIME: Plutonium-238 Is Produced In America For The First Time In Almost 30 Years.

THE TIMES WE LIVE IN:So depressing it’s almost funny.

YOU’RE NOT FAT: You’re a victim of FGF21 mutation.

AND NOW FOR THE REAL CRISIS! Tutu makers are in dangerously short supply, says London’s Royal Opera House.

IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE ORGANIZED TO BE AN INVASION: Wave of refugees to Europe an “organized invasion” says Czech PM.

SMILE WHEN YOU SAY THAT TO A GUY HOLDING A CABER: Scotland’s national dish is an ‘imposter’ and was invented by Vikings, claims master butcher.

WHEN BRITS STOP BEING POLITE: (Britain’s)Defense secretary Michael Fallon: suspend the human rights act to protect our troops.

IT’S TIME TO PLAY GUESS THAT PARTY: Pornographic email scandal ripples through Pennsylvania politics.

CONTEMPLATING: The Unbearable Lightness of Neil deGrasse Tyson.

HE GOT WHAT HE DESERVED: ‘MUSLIM PRANKSTER’ Shot After Throwing Fake ‘Backpack Bomb’ at Wrong Dude in Video Prank. In fact, my comment after viewing one of their videos a while back was that if someone had done this to me I would have shot him.

UPDATE: Bob Owens says it’s not true. It will be, if they keep it up. And US imitators are likely to have shorter lifespans.

New prank video fun: Throwing pig carcasses into mosques. For the lulz! Although that wouldn’t put anyone in fear of death or great bodily injury, I predict that media would treat a violent reaction as completely understandable.

AT AMAZON, Year-End Deals on Everything!

HMM: Jim Webb Attacks Clinton With Eye on Independent Run. “The lengthy condemnation on Facebook, which said, among other things that ‘Clinton should be called to account for her inept leadership that brought about the chaos in Libya,’ came just days before the end of the year, which his team had previously told CNN would be reasonable time for them to make a decision about an independent bid.”

A Trump-Webb 2016 fusion ticket?

SHOCKER: CBS Muslim Panel Accidentally Includes Professional Leftist Obama Operative.

I’D BE HAPPIER IF WE JUST HAD A TAX CODE THAT MADE SENSE: Small Businesses Get a Permanent Tax Break on Buying Equipment.

THE PROBLEM WITH SELF-DRIVING CARS: Who Controls The Code? That’s actually the problem with practically everything nowadays.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, LEGAL EDUCATION EDITION: Law School Tuition Still Too High.

STAR WARS: THE PREMAKE. “This is Star Wars: A New Hope recreated shot-for-shot using only footage from media made before 1977.” Basically, it’s Star Wars using the various films that George Lucas was drawing on. (Via Matt Dessem.)

BUILDING A BERLIN WALL OF REGULATIONS: After Tearing Up First Amendment, IRS Can Tear Up Passports.

We are the only major nation in the world greedy enough to force our citizenry to pay taxes when they live and work outside “the Land of the increasingly less Free.”

But beware: Beginning next year, those living in states that haven’t upgraded their state IDs as federally mandated may need passports to fly domestically.

So if the IRS has an issue with you, you may find yourself kept off the jet that was supposed to take you to spend Thanksgiving with your folks.

Without freedom of movement, this simply isn’t a free country. Standing at the Berlin Wall in 1963, President Kennedy said, “Freedom has many difficulties, and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in, to prevent them from leaving us.”

That has changed. This new rule could well be called “The IRS Wall,” and its express purpose is “to keep our people in” — that is, until they’ve emptied their pockets to the satisfaction of Uncle Sam.

The excuse for the Berlin wall, of course, was that escapees were running out on a debt to the state.

WEALTH AND POVERTY: Poor nations are poor because of the lack of capitalism, not because of it.

Related: “We find a robust positive relationship between the number of years spent as a European colony and current GDP per capita.”

Plus: “So the issue here is not just that the criticism of cultural appropriation is historically illiterate. It’s deeply ironic.”

WILL SPEAKER RYAN HAVE A PRIMARY OPPONENT IN 2016? “It’s a long shot to unseat him. But so was David Brat’s shot at beating Eric Cantor.”

HUFFINGTON POST: TURN OFF YOUR CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. “Huffpo implies that Christians should turn off their Christmas lights because the total amount of energy expended by Americans for Christmas lights supersedes the energy use of countries with lousy economies, as reported in a study proffered by the Center for Global Development.”

I’ll shut off my Christmas lights just as soon as the Huffington Post and its parent company AOL shuts down all of their entire air conditioned server farms. Deal?