A SMALL MEASURE OF SANITY: Texas House passes bill legalizing lemonade stands run by children. Glad that it happened, sad that it’s necessary.

SKID ROAD: HOW CALIFORNIA’S ARMY OF HOMELESS HAS TURNED THE STATE’S RICHEST BOULEVARDS INTO RV PARKS AS EXORBITANT RENTS FORCE FAMILIES AND FULL-TIME WORKERS TO LIVE ON FOUR WHEELS:

● California has seen a proliferation in RV and vehicle living in some of the state’s most expensive areas and cities, such as Palo Alto, in recent years

● The rise of mobile homes lining streets has been fueled by excessive rents and house prices, though numbers are hard to pin down.

Some numbers are easier to pin down than others: The median sales price of a home in Palo Alto? $2,400,000.

As Victor Davis Hanson wrote in 2016, “In a word, [California] is now a medieval place of lords and peasants—and few in between.”

Complete with the return of medieval diseases, to boot.

OUR COCKTAIL THIS WEEKEND IS THE MUELLER REPORT:  It costs millions to make, takes two years to be served. Rumors and expectations about it are stoked to fever pitch. Arrives as an empty glass.  Every news source claims it’s the finest Russian Vodka. Rachel Maddow most affected.

LEFTISTS ARE VERY BIG ON PUNISHING PEOPLE THEY DISAGREE WITH: San Antonio Violates the First Amendment to Punish Chick-fil-A.

CONOR FRIEDERSDORF: Chelsea Clinton in the Hall of Mirrors: Once callout culture takes hold, it never ends.

Maybe the proper response to “callout culture” is “Fuck Off culture.” Conor isn’t willing to go that far. Yet.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? FOURTEEN YEAR OLD BOYS ARE NOT EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS.  TEACH WOMEN NOT TO TREAT MALES AS OBJECTS:  Woman had sex with teen while boyfriend was in jail to counter depression: cops.

SO YOU’RE SAYING EVERYTHING’S GOING AS PLANNED? 9 Years Into Common Core, Test Scores Are Down, Indoctrination Up.

I DON’T THINK PREGNANCIES WORK THAT WAY, EVEN FOR TWINS:  Twins married to another set of twins plan to synchronize pregnancies.

THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUDDUP:  Vegan YouTube star accidentally exposes herself as a fraud.

OF COURSE OCCASIONAL CORTEX OH, PARDON ME, OCCASIONAL CORTEX FULL STOP (WELL SHE DID SAY THAT’S WHAT HER NAME IS. FROM NOW ON AND FOREVER, SHE’LL BE REPRESENTATIVE FULL STOP TO ME.  AND PLEASE LET’S STOP. BECAUSE WE CAN’T TAKE ANYMORE LIKE HER.) NEVER HAD A MIND TO LOSE:  After AOC Chases Amazon Jobs Away, Some New Yorkers Begin to Understand Socialism.

SERIOUSLY, THEY’VE LOST THEIR MINDS:  New Zealand Bookstore Disappears From Facebook, Twitter After Banning Jordan Peterson Book.

IN A SIGN OF HOW THE LEFT IS NOW COMPLETELY INCAPABLE OF THINKING, THEY ARE INCAPABLE OF DISTINGUISHING THEIR PROCLAIMED ENEMIES FROM EACH OTHER. AND ALL OF US ARE SUDDENLY WHITE SUPREMACIST. INCLUDING PEOPLE WHO AREN’T WHITE. DO YOU KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT’S GOING TO BE TO APPLY CULT DEPROGRAMMING TO THAT MANY PEOPLE:  University in the UK Cancels Jordan Peterson’s Visiting Fellowship for Not Being Inclusive.

ONE OF THOSE BORING NOVELS WHERE NOTHING HAPPENS AND THE AUTHOR CONTINUOUSLY PREACHES HIS POV. YOU’RE BORED REGRETFUL ABOUT THE MONEY SPENT AND YET ALL OF THE INTELLIGENTSIA TELLS YOU THAT YOU’RE EXPECTED TO THINK IT’S SOMEHOW DEEPLY SIGNIFICANT:  End of the Mueller affair.

OH DEAR LORD:  United Airlines Goes Wheels-Up Woke.

AGAIN, I SAY IF THE MOST INTERESTING THING ABOUT A CANDIDATE TO YOU IS HIS/HER SKIN COLOR OR WHAT IS BETWEEN HIS/HER LEGS, YOU SHOULD BE DISQUALIFIED FROM VOTING FOR REASON OF IMMATURITY. YOU MIGHT NEVER BE MATURE ENOUGH, THOUGH WITH TIME, EFFORT AND PERHAPS THERAPY YOU MIGHT COME TO UNDERSTAND THAT POLITICS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH GENETICS, NOR EVEN WITH WHOM ONE SLEEPS WITH, AND THAT IN DECISIONS RELATING TO THE BODY POLITIC ONE IS SUPPOSED TO USE THIS THING CALLED LOGIC. START BY LOOKING IT UP, BUTTERCUP:  Shrill Fat Woman Shouts Her Abortion on Hulu.

MENTAL ILLNESS AS ENTERTAINMENT AND POLITICS:  Shrill Fat Woman Shouts Her Abortion on Hulu.

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ALL BECAUSE DEMOCRATS COULDN’T ACCEPT AN ELECTION RESULT:

FOREIGN INTERFERENCE: Sanders campaign hit with complaint over illegal alien staffers.

OPEN THREAD: ‘Nuff said.

A SETI SEARCH for Bracewell probes in the solar system. I suspect that they would be undetectable with current technology.

GOOD NEWS FOR THE COUNTRY IS BAD NEWS FOR THE LEFT: Rachel Maddow Appears to Hold Back Tears Reporting on Mueller Probe Ending.

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): She was crying in Knoxville. If I’d known where she was, I’d have dropped by the studio with a towel. That’s the same studio I use for my satellite hits.

#FIGHTFOR15: Baristas beware: A robot that makes gourmet cups of coffee has arrived.

Earlier: Minimum Wage Boosts Are Great—For Robots.

The real minimum wage is always zero.™

ROGER SIMON: The American Media Destroyed Themselves over the Mueller Investigation.

UPDATE: Matt Taibbi (!) agrees. “Nobody wants to hear this, but news that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is headed home without issuing new charges is a death-blow for the reputation of the American news media. . . . Nothing Trump is accused of from now on by the press will be believed by huge chunks of the population, a group that (perhaps thanks to this story) is now larger than his original base. As Baker notes, a full 50.3% of respondents in a poll conducted this month said they agree with Trump the Mueller probe is a ‘witch hunt.'”

Related: Mueller Orders Trump To Sit On Scale To See If He Weighs The Same As A Duck.

CHRISTCHURCH SHOOTER had a firearms license, had been personally vetted by police. A friend writes, “Authorities making everyone else pay for their own incompetence…”