THE PAST IS ANOTHER COUNTRY, BUT WE DON’T NEED ROSE-COLORED GLASSES TO VIEW IT: When Bad Words Are Said to Good Children.
Archive for 2016
December 24, 2016
IN THE EMAIL FROM JOHN VAN STRY: Loose Ends (The Hammer Commission Book 3).
WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY, THEY FIRST MAKE MAD: Defeated Democrats’ new attack line: The Electoral College is racist.
USDA, LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE: All in all you’re just another brick in the wall. USDA Demands Holiday Snacks (and Parents) Be Removed From Schools.
RE-BALANCING THE SCALES: Toughness and sensitivity, crunchiness and sogginess.
FROM ALMA BOYKIN: A Carpathian Campaign: The Powers Book 1. I haven’t read it yet, but Alma is a regular on my blog, and some of my friends have already read this book and love it.
THIS WOMAN BELONGS IN AMERICA: Danish student faces six months in prison as she goes on trial for fighting ISIS in Syria. Or at least she belongs in a country that doesn’t treat her this way.
December 23, 2016
GERMANY HAS REALLY AWFUL POLITICIANS RIGHT NOW: ‘He’s more concerned about Facebook comments than catching a terrorist’: German politician faces resignation calls after preventing police sharing image of Berlin truck killer. “It has been alleged that Steffen, who is head of the judicial authority in Hamburg, prevented the pictures being circulated because he feared sharing images of Islamist terror suspects will incite racial hatred.”
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ON HIS WAY OUT THE DOOR, Obama Sticks It To Israel.
NOBODY TELL NOTORIOUS ROBOPHOBE MATTHEW YGLESIAS: The ‘2016 Robot Revolution’ and all the insane new things that robots have done this year.
GLEN ROSE, TX COURTHOUSE THIS WEEK:
Merry Christmas Eve Eve to all Insta-readers.
QUESTION ASKED: Who Needs Wine Tasting When You Can Get Beer Flights?
It’s always amazing to walk into a beer-focused bar and see 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, or more beers on the menu. Long walls of taps are exciting, but can also be intimidating. What should you try? How many can you try? Can you get an Uber home? Well, many bars are now providing you with a solution: beer flights!
Common in wine bars for a long time, you can now enjoy beer in the same way, with just a little bit of each. The sampler glasses of four or so ounces allow you to pick out a few you want to try without having to worry about whether you can get home. It’s a wonderful thing for someone like me who gets paid to drink beer and tell you all about it.
Embracing the healing power of “and.”
NORAD UPDATE: Still tracking Santa.
VIDEO: This C-130 landing on an aircraft carrier will make you rethink physics. “Flatley and crew successfully proceeded to perform 29 touch-and-go landings, 21 unarrested full-stop landings, and 21 unassisted takeoffs at 85,000 pounds up to 121,000 pounds. The result went beyond anyone’s expectations.”
MY USA TODAY COLUMN is a bit more personal than usual: Finding the good in my dad’s final days.
2016 CAN’T CONCLUDE FAST ENOUGH: Carrie Fisher, 60, suffers massive heart attack on a 11-hour flight: Star given CPR after she ‘stopped breathing for ten minutes.’
UNION: RADIO CITY ROCKETTES CAN’T BOYCOTT TRUMP INAUGURAL.
On the other hand, regarding the special snowflake Rockette emotionally triggered by having to be employed at an event she doesn’t approve of, Ace of Spades writes, “It might even just be Trump who excuses her — because who wants a potential saboteur on stage?”
FAKE NEWS: “President Obama will be remembered as a thoughtful and dignified president who led a scrupulously honest administration that achieved major changes.”
—“Was Barack Obama Bad for Democrats?”, Stanley B. Greenberg and Anna Greenberg, the New York Times, today.
The victims of Fast & Furious, Benghazi, the IRS scandals, and those who liked their plans but couldn’t keep their plans – plus the potential victims of helping Iran acquire the bomb could not be reached for comment.
YOU GET A GUN! YOU GET A GUN! YOU GET A GUN! Ohio Gov. Kasich Signs the ‘Guns Everywhere’ Bill.