YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG*: Four People Who Are Far More Stressed Than You This Season.

* At least I certainly hope so.

EATING INVASIVE SPECIES: Chefs seek to put iguana on menu.

Hey, it worked with lionfish.

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Merry Christmas Edition:

This is an ecumenical interfaith site, but I don’t care. If you’re sensitive, head to your safe space now. Because I’m going to say it, “loud and proud” as they used to say in certain San Francisco neighborhoods: Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah too, because on college campuses that’s even worse than Marry Christmas.

Those who haven’t vaporishly collapsed into their favorite fainting couches, read the whole thing.

IMMIGRATION WITHOUT ASSIMILATION: Sweden’s Parallel Society. “The on-the-ground reality I witnessed in some parts of Sweden stood in stark contrast to the egalitarian utopia I had been sold by American progressives. How did Sweden, on the whole a prosperous and peaceful nation, also develop parallel, segregated societies afflicted by criminality and violence? The starkest reminder of this reality are the numerous grenade explosions and gun murders that have become a regular occurrence across some sections of society. In fact, Sweden’s homicide rate is now above the Western European average.”

I’M EXPECTING AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Earthquake That Wrecked Tennessee in 1811 Will Happen Again, Expert Says.

Tennessee hasn’t had a series of catastrophic earthquakes in more than 200 years, but experts say if such a thing happened before then it will most certainly happen again.

Officials with the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency say they’ve spent decades planning for it and say it’s best for other Tennesseans to do the same.

“At that time, the 1811 and 1812 earthquakes formed Reelfoot Lake. The shaking rang church bells in Boston,” said TEMA spokesman Dean Flener.

“In 1811 and 1812 we didn’t have as many people living there as we do now — especially in Memphis. This will affect the entire central part of the United States, if not the entire country if we have a 7.0 magnitude earthquake along the New Madrid Fault line.”

TEMA officials train for such a quake and have emergency plans to mobilize resources and list which federal government or state resources they have at their disposal, Flener told The Tennessee Star.

They also have a plan to check roads, bridges, and interstates, Flener said.

If the big one hits then Tennessee residents, Flener went on to say, need to plan for getting cut off from the rest of the world. That means having five to 10 days’ worth of food and water, backup generators for cell phones, cash on hand, and an emergency supply of medicine, among other things.

“We do encourage homeowners to go in and secure bookcases and tall heavy objects to the walls in their homes. A lot of times it’s not the earthquakes that causes injuries and death it’s the stuff that falls off the walls,” Flener said.

“We tell people the Drop Cover Hold On Technique is the best way to protect yourself during an earthquake. Drop down, get under something heavy and sturdy and hold on until the shaking stops. Don’t run outside because you can be hit by falling glass, especially if you live in a city. If you run out and you feel the shaking in downtown Memphis you’ll run out in the middle of Poplar downtown and could be hit with falling debris.”

I have a backup generator that uses natural gas, and a backup backup generator that uses gasoline. (In lieu of storing gas for it, I have a siphon pump for the car tanks). Plus a couple of inverters, large and small. I keep some food, water, and supplies, and a crowbar, in an outbuilding where they won’t be buried if the house falls down. These are also precautions against the more-likely threat of a tornado, of course.

Thoughts on earthquake preparation, here. But everyone, everywhere, should be prepared for disasters.

And note Insta-Readers’ real-life stories here and here.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Facing Campus Protests, ‘Hamilton’ Will Relocate Puerto Rico Run.

REASON TV: A Very Libertarian Christmas (Video):

Exit quote: “Listen kiddo, you’re getting older and it’s time we had a talk: There’s no such thing as Sanders — the man is real, but the policies are just fantasy. It’s something that we made up so that kids and college sophomores would have something to get excited about.”

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Der Spiegel Reporter Was a Rotten Apple, and CNN Went Bananas for Him.

HYPOCRISY, THY NAME IS PLANNED PARENTHOOD: Capital Research Center’s Michael Watson goes beyond the unexpected New York Times expose earlier this week to shine additional light on the abortion mill’s “un-progressive labor practices.”

SHOCKING NEWS: Survey: Profs out of step with everyday Americans on Trump’s foreign policy.

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20 YEARS AGO, TENNESSEANS SURROUNDED THE STATE CAPITOL AND BLOCKED AN INCOME TAX, SO HE HAS A POINT:

JUST THINK OF THE MEDIA AS DEMOCRATIC PARTY OPERATIVES WITH CHYRONS AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Stephen Miller Hands Wolf Blitzer His Butt As He Tries To Shill For Congressional Democrats.

ROGER KIMBALL: The so-called ‘adults’ in the Trump administration are surprisingly childish. I would say that the so-called ‘adults’ in our society generally are surprisingly childish.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Students Petition to Ban ‘Offensive’ Evolutionary Psychologist.

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FULLY LOADED: USS Truman underway with a deck packed with aircraft.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Miserable Twitter Troll Doxes Everyone Who Donated to #GoFundTheWall.

Somebody’s angling for a sweet gig at CNN…

WE SHOULD BE HARDENING OUR SYSTEMS: GAO: Solar storm ‘bl