"I WOULD MUCH RATHER BE DOING WORK:" How welfare hurts those it's supposed to help.

HEH: “[I]t takes a special kind of academic fathead to ruin Thin Mints. But we have people up to it.”

THOSE DOCTORS telling you to drink skim milk were probably wrong. More succinctly -- and accurately, any advice derived from a goverment-funded study is probably wrong.

CONGRATULATIONS ARE ON ORDER: Life Fellow G. David Forney Jr. will receive the 2016 IEEE Medal of Honor “for pioneering contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and the development of reliable high-speed data communications.”

A well-deserved (and overdue) honor. What's interesting to me is that Forney's doctoral dissertation Concatenated Codes (1966) was a precursor to my own dissertation, Concatenated Convolutional Codes (1978), where I investigated the same error-correcting structures applied to convolutional (trellis) codes.

MELANIA TRUMP for First Lady: "She is beautiful, intelligent, speaks five languages, and will represent the nation well. Best of all, she won't put 20 friends on the White House payroll."

SANDERS TO CHARITIES: Drop dead.

After all, who needs charities when you have socialism?

UPDATE: more here.

WHO'S PULLING DONALD TRUMP'S STRINGS? The answer is here.

DILBERT: Millennial Madness.

THE LEFT lets the veil drop. It's about control, not compassion.