TERRY TEACHOUT: Muddling Through Somehow. “And what kind of Christmas are we going to have in 2019? The very finest kind, of course—because we’ll be spending it together. Not so long ago, we were both singletons, but we found one another against all odds, and since then we’ve learned over and over again that nothing in the world is more important to us than our abiding love.”
The ICU is not the place to spend Christmas Eve, but there is hope and joy there, too, sometimes.
OPEN THREAD: Eggnog all around.
SURE, JUST LIKE PROJECT 1619 GOT EVERYTHING RIGHT. Surely People Will Remember Me, Ebenezer Scrooge, As the Christmas-Loving Man I Became.
THE BAD NEWS FOR THEM IS, THEY STOLE THEIR TECH FROM BOEING: China Prepping for Comeback Launch of Heavy-Lift Long March 5 Rocket Friday.
OVERINCARCERATION VERSUS UNDERINCARCERATION: Maybe I’m just a mean old Scrooge to think so, but it seems to me Paul Mirengoff has got a point here.
(Here’s what I’ve written in the past about the notion that modern police practices and high incarceration rates are a nefarious plots to hurt African Americans.)
ANALYSIS: TRUE. The demand for white supremacists vastly exceeds the supply.
VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Recalling the Battle of the Bulge.
KURT SCHLICHTER: Shhhhh…Just Let the Democrats Schiff Themselves.
LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES: Nashville In Receivership? Wait, How? Not enough pedal pubs and bachelorette parties, that’s their problem.
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL FROM AL SHARPTON! Sharpton Claims Trump-Supporting Evangelicals Would ‘Sell out Jesus’ (Video).
AND EVEN THOUGH IT’S AN AUDI, IT’S PROBABLY MORE RELIABLE THAN THE LAMBORGHINI: The 2020 Audi RS Q8 is Like a Lamborghini Urus, Minus the Bull. Though given the commonalities, maybe not.
A VERY LIBERTARIAN CHRISTMAS:
DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: Texas resident grabs his shotgun and shoots, kills 3 home invaders.
THE CASE FOR CREATING CONSTITUTIONAL SMALL CLAIMS COURT. I’d be happy if regular courts would just enforce the Constitution.
MAYOR MIKE TAKING THAT “TOUGH ON CRIME” THING TO ITS LOGICAL CONCLUSION: Mike Bloomberg Exploited Prison Labor to Make 2020 Presidential Campaign Phone Calls.
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STOKING THE WOKE: The 1619 Project is the 2019 Project — and the 2020 Project.
And because it’s still the New York Times in the 21st Century: Historians Rip Into The New York Times After It Refuses To Address Requests For Corrections To The ‘1619 Project.’
I THINK I WAS IN THE HOT TUB WHEN THEY HANDED THOSE OUT: A Doctor Explains How the ‘Hercules Gene’ Could Help Elite Powerlifters. I mean, I’m reasonably strong — for a law professor — but sadly I seem to have no particular genetic gift. Hall’s record deadlift is just about exactly three times my best effort.
HUH: Amazon is struggling to hold on to the pilots who ship your packages. “Amazon’s promise of one-day shipping has led it to increasingly rely on its own air cargo division, Amazon Air. But as the number of shipments pushed through the cargo arm multiplies, the pilots who fly those packages continue to voice that they are overworked and underpaid.”
Sounds like they need more pilots, and in terms of pay and sheer numbers that’s not really an area where anyone should scrimp.
AT AMAZON, Kindle Books galore!
AND DESPITE 24/7 ENEMY AIR ACTION: Trump’s Approval Higher Than Obama’s At Same Point In Presidency Despite Impeachment.
NEWS YOU CAN USE: Everything you need to know about microneedling with PRP. I have a doc friend who does a lot of PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) procedures — though not microneedling as far as I know — and thinks PRP is very effective.
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