TRUMP DECLARES CLOCKS WILL FALL BACK TO 2017 THIS YEAR GRANTING HIM EXTRA TIME IN OFFICE.

Note to Snopes, the Washington Post and the New York Times: This is from the Babylon Bee, so it’s satire. As for everyone else: “Daylight Saving Time ends this Sunday, November 3, at 2 A.M., so prepare Saturday evening to ‘fall back’ by setting your clocks back one hour. Here’s everything there is to know about Daylight Saving—from a brief history of why we observe this practice to the never-ending debate about changing the clocks twice a year!”

21st CENTURY HEADLINES: Navy ‘Doomsday’ plane built to withstand nuclear attack grounded after striking single bird.

QUESTION ASKED: Where is Elizabeth Warren Going to Get $20 Trillion in New Taxes?

SOMEONE SET UP US THE WIGWAM: Elizabeth Warren Asked What Will Happen To Health Insurance Workers Under Medicare-For-All, Claims They’ll Work In Car Insurance.

OR YOU COULD JUST, YOU KNOW, GO TO THE GYM: The Project Body Love Podcast Is Required Listening If You Deal With Negative Self-Talk. But hey, even some people who work out have negativity issues.

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THIS IS CNN: Asthma patients could slash their carbon footprint by switching to ‘greener’ inhalers.

CNN’s gotta doxx somebody. Apparently, this week, it’s those of us who have asthma.

For those of us who are quite happy with our current inhalers, this seems more like a push from CNN to force doctors into proscribing non-aerosol inhalers, as part of the left’s “ban all the things” mentality.

But if the situation is that grim, why isn’t WarnerMedia, which is owned by AT&T and whose assets include CNN, Turner Broadcasting System, HBO, Warner Brothers movies and DC Comics, voluntarily closing up shop to slash their own carbon footprint? As Glenn likes to say, I’ll believe global warming is a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis act like it’s a crisis themselves.

BLUE ON BLUE: Nancy Pelosi Is Worried 2020 Candidates Are on Wrong Track. “Speaker Nancy Pelosi is issuing a pointed message to Democrats running for president in 2020: Those liberal ideas that fire up the party’s base are a big loser when it comes to beating President Donald Trump.”

HECK, I’D BE HAPPY IF OUR SCHOOLS JUST TAUGHT PATRIOTISM: Russian children will be taught how to assemble AK-47s as part of patriotism lessons in schools. But the gun part would be nice too. I’d start with AR-15s, but I’d teach the AK assembly as well. You never know: You might need to use the commies’ guns after you kill them.

THUGS GONNA DO THUG STUFF: Antifa shows up to Andy Ngo’s house in Andy Ngo masks on Halloween. I used to get angry at this stuff, but now I just thank them for their get-out-the-vote efforts on behalf of Trump 2020.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100,000 a year: But fewer students are paying the full tuition. Is widespread discounting helping more people afford higher education, or just making it more complicated? It’s price discrimination.

RICHARD FERNANDEZ: How the World to the Dark Tower Came.

Knowledge inequality makes “magical” solutions inevitable because an ever smaller fraction of the public know how things work or are paid for.  Healthcare woes?  Medicare for all. Housing crisis?  Make affordable housing a “right”.  Students choking under loans?  Write it off.  Graduates without literacy or numeracy?  Teach Woke Math.

Fix the wildfires by tightly regulating development sounds like a solution.  Following Arthur C. Clarke’s famous adage that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” many things are now solved by linguistic legerdemain.  Ever since Apollo politicians have been invoking associative magic as political spells:

“Nothing is impossible in this age of miracles. If we can put a man on the Moon, we surely are capable of seeing that our temporary surplus agricultural products are placed in many hungry stomachs of the world.” …

Nixon’s Democratic opponent, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, used the phrase in his standard stump speech: “If we can put a man on the Moon, certainly we can afford to put man on his feet on Earth.”

Sending a spacecraft to the lunar surface and solving homelessness might be different problems but with a few similes and metaphors they can be ‘magically’ connected and thus solved.

Read the whole thing.

SKYNET SMILES: A ROBOT ON THE ISIS RAID.

REVIEW: ROOM 237 SHINES A LIGHT ON OBSESSIVES.

What you see here is what you see from most conspiracy theorists: an attempt to impose order on randomness. Like those obsessed with Dark Side of Oz—the theory that Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon is secretly a soundtrack for The Wizard of Oz—our Shining fans are trying to make the world cohere and use coincidences, real and imagined, to make it so.

You see similar efforts when our speakers try to excuse random continuity errors—chairs that go missing from shot to shot, that sort of thing—as deliberate ploys by Kubrick to add deeper meaning to the proceedings. I can see some of those prone to conspiracism looking at these sequences and sagely nodding their head. I can also see Stanley Kubrick, a noted obsessive in his own right, watching Room 237 and muttering under his breath “Shit. I thought I caught all those screwups.”

What you find time and again are Ascher’s interview subjects finding themselves in Kubrick’s work: consider the professor of history who focuses on the Holocaust reading the film as a comment on the Nazi’s killing of the Jews, or the man who lived near Lake Calumet deciding that the inclusion of Calumet baking powder in two key shots means that it’s a film about the slaughter of the Indians.

Read the whole thing. I know I enjoyed the review, if only to point out to my wife that there are far crazier Kubrick obsessives than me.

Related: Scooby-Doo with better CGI: Shining “sort-of-sequel” Doctor Sleep reviewed.

GOOD: Tissue-sealing tape could replace surgical sutures.

SADLY, YOU’RE GONNA NEED A SMALLER BLOG: Here’s what Blade Runner got right about the year 2019.

Related: The curse of Blade Runner’s adverts.

OLD AND BUSTED: “Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past.”

The New Hotness? Climate scientist Andrew Cuomo reminds rapt MSNBC anchors that we didn’t have hurricanes, superstorms, or tornadoes until global warming came along (video).

THE POWER LINE WEEK IN PICTURES: Media Blowout Edition.

ROGER SIMON: Dems’ Impeachment Charade a Disaster for Them, Not the American People.

Meanwhile, if you watched Trump in Tupelo Friday night, you know the people are with him, just as they were in Dallas and Minneapolis a week or two back.  No one ever has had a grass roots response like that. And power, as we used to say back in the day, belongs to the people.

The deep state — the instigators of all this, from the fake Russia probe though Kavanaugh and now the risible Ukraine nonsense–made a big mistake in their approach. (And considering they’re in a large part CIA, that’s worrying.) It would have been smarter psychologically to have embraced Trump from the start, rather than try to subvert him.  He’s certainly favorably disposed to praise.  Then they could have coopted him.  But they bollicked up the entire thing and alienated a huge swath of the republic in the process.  After 2020, more of the deep staters will be gone. — and they know it (hence the panic).  Good for us.  Keep up the fight.  And, as you know, never give up. Pessimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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LARGEST CHILD SACRIFICE GRAVEYARD STRIKES HUGE BLOW TO NATIVE AMERICAN INNOCENCE MYTH.

Every Columbus Day, liberals insist that the story of European colonization is a simple narrative of good versus evil: horrible Europeans came upon innocent Native Americans, introducing slavery, exploitation, and oppression. A massive archaeological discovery blows one of many gaping holes in this narrative. While Europeans did indeed do horrible things, the natives weren’t exactly innocent.

Two hundred and fifty skeletons of children between the ages of 4 and 14 have been unearthed at Huanchaco, Peru, in what experts say is likely the world’s largest child sacrifice site. Huanchaco is a site of the Chimú culture (1200-1400), a predecessor to the mighty Inca Empire, which also carried out child sacrifices.

‘This is the biggest site where the remains of sacrificed children have been found,” the excavation’s chief archaeologist, Feren Castillo, told AFP in August. “There isn’t another like it anywhere else in the world.”

Flashback: Dances With Myths.

SEGREGATION TODAY, SEGREGATION TOMORROW, SEGREGATION FOREVER! Historically black colleges succeed because they don’t let in ‘racist’ people, president says.

From George Wallace to Woke in 50 years.

APRÈS HILL, LE DELUGE: After Katie Hill, media grapples with possible onslaught of nude photos.

Katie Hill may be the first millennial member of Congress whose career was upended after the publication of intimate and embarrassing photos, but she’s not likely to be the last.

“There is an entire generation of Americans who have been taking selfies and images of themselves in various contexts, whether at parties or in intimate relationships with consenting adults,” MSNBC host Chris Hayes said this week. “There’s going to be a generation of members of Congress and politicians where there are thousands of images just around.”

That’s absolutely true, but as Jim Treacher wrote on Thursday, “Note the narrative being spun around Hill’s ignominious fall from grace: She’s resigning over something she claims she didn’t do, because everybody saw her naked. She’s innocent, so she’s fighting back by running away. She’s a strong, independent woman, which is why she’s a helpless victim of the patriarchy. Don’t have sex with people who work for you and you won’t have to leave Congress. Seems pretty simple to me, but then, I’m just a dumb blogger.”

Related: Katie Hill’s Defenders Have It Wrong: Male Politicians’ Extramarital Affairs Have Repeatedly Cost Them Their Jobs.

LEFTISM AS A CULTURE OF VIOLENCE: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Student caught on video throwing away conservative group’s signs.