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 ‘blackout’ of electric grid could last 3 days to 2 years, impact 40 million.

The federal government is escalating its warnings about threats to the U.S. electric grid, the latest in a just-released congressional report that indicates a national blackout from a solar storm hit could last from three days to two years, impacting some 40 million.

The Government Accountability Office, Congress’ auditor, also said that the national electric grid system is still in need of protection from solar weather and a nuclear attack.

“When the space weather is severe enough, it can cause a large-scale geomagnetic disturbances that could disrupt the reliable operation of the U.S. electric power grid,” said the GAO report titled, Critical Infrastructure Protection: Protecting the Electric Grid from Geomagnetic Disturbances.

The system should be harder, less centralized, and more resilient.

NY TIMES REMINDED OF THE NAZIS AS ‘FAR RIGHT’ POUNCES ON GERMAN FAKE NEWS REPORTER.

Nazis are only “the far right” if you share the same ideology as Joseph Stalin — whom the Times believes was the Bob Guccione of Gorky Park.

RUSSIAN COLLUSION, BEFORE TRUMP LOWERED THE TONE OF OUR POLITICS: Eliot Spitzer snuck me into his apartment in a suitcase: ex-mistress.

Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer used to smuggle his Russian-escort mistress into the luxury Upper East Side home he shared with his wife — by stuffing her inside a piece of luggage, she told The Post.

“He used to sneak me into his Fifth Avenue apartment in a black suitcase . . . when his wife was away,’’ Svetlana Travis Zakharova told The Post in an exclusive interview.

“My knees would be up by my face. When the doorman would ask if he could help, Eliot would say, ‘No, thanks.’ ” . . .

She said their relationship lasted so long because the pinstripe-loving former politician was a “sexual deviant’’ — and “his wife and other girlfriends wouldn’t do things.

“He complained about [another girlfriend] — he said she was annoying,’’ Zakharova said.

At one point, the gal pal “wanted him to reverse his vasectomy. He told her he would, but he didn’t.”

Zakharova said the hot-to-trot ex-gov loved sex toys, “but he wouldn’t go to the store because he was afraid of being recognized.

“He used to make me buy sex toys, dildos . . . and long-term [erection] gel . . . a leash with a choker . . . I would throw them out after we used them and then buy new ones the next time we were together,’’ she said.

“We were seeing each other four times a week’’ for sex, said Zakharova, who has previously described leading Spitzer around on a black leash during their bedroom games.

“He would tie me up and call me names — ‘a b—h.’ He would say, ‘I’m going to kill you.’

Democrats respect women.

A LESS THAN POSITIVE REVIEW: Sen. Ben Sasse’s big book of shopworn platitudes.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: Ours To Reason Why.

If there’s one good thing about the political crisis triggered Trump’s decision to withdraw from Syria it’s been to make people realize the US is there. As Seth Harp in the New Yorker noted, it has done everything possible to conceal that fact. . . .

Perhaps more people than were ever aware of the combat presence in Syria are outraged the US is leaving it and that is a good thing. The lack of awareness was the result of the breakdown of the national security debate and the abdication by Congress of its role in war making. The public is now like a man waking up in a strange city with a 3 week growth of beard with no memory of how he got there.

As the Los Angeles Times noted the US inherited a whole bunch of shadow wars from the past administrations. “Before he took office in 2008, Barack Obama vowed to end America’s grueling conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. During his second term, he pledged to take the country off what he called a permanent war footing. … U.S. military forces have been at war for all eight years of Obama’s tenure, the first two-term president with that distinction. He launched airstrikes or military raids in at least seven countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.”

But they all went into the back pages.

Well, they sat awkwardly with that Nobel Peace Prize.

IT’S SATIRE, BUT IS IT REALLY? Mueller Orders Trump To Sit On Scale To See If He Weighs The Same As A Duck.