WHEN DID THE NEW YORK TIMES get taken over by the National Lampoon? I don't think it was the National Lampoon; it had to have been MAD Magazine.

THINK OF IT as a first-hand tour of the inside of a jail: Journalists shouldn't be exempt from the law.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: A lying quartet (of Obama toadies). And that's a far-to-polite description of Susan Rice, James Comey, John Brennan, and James Clapper.

I can only wonder why Hanson didn't make it a quintet with the addition of former UN ambassador Samantha Power.

LEBRON JAMES on why Ohio voted for Trump: Lack of education.

Especially if their collegiate degrees were in the liberal arts....

NEW YALE COLLEGE celebrates 'transgressive gender expression', calls its students 'lemurs'.

Regarding my earlier post about bringing back insane asylums, I have to admit we've probably already done so....

A MARINE'S LETTER to the National Football League. Well said, sir. And thank you for your service.

TRUMP IS CORRECT: NFL teams can legally fire players for their conduct.

And Greg Jarrett is also correct:

Don’t expect NFL owners to do the right thing by firing players. They’ve been coddling them for years, paying lavish salaries and tolerating misbehavior that is now endemic in football. Along the way, owners have become rich beyond imagination. The players run the teams, not the owners.

But we the people have the final say - with our wallets. Enough wallet closures and they'll begin to pay attention.

SPEAKER PAUL RYAN will not allow Congressional action on national concealed carry reciprocity to move bills forward.... The reason given is Ryan thinks the timing isn’t right to consider H.R. 2909, the D.C. Personal Protection Reciprocity Act, a supplement to state reciprocity provisions of H.R. 38.

So when will the timing be right?

RANDOM THOUGHT: Back in the 1950's when I first started reading science fiction I never dreamed I'd actually be living in Heinlein's "crazy years".

MORE PROOF THAT CALIFORNIANS ARE EFFIN' NUTS: Coffee sold in California could carry cancer warning labels.

Here's the kicker:

The lawyer taking on Big Coffee said the larger goal is to motivate the industry to remove the chemical from coffee, which would also benefit his own three-cup-a-day fix.

"I'm addicted — like two-thirds of the population," attorney Raphael Metzger said. "I would like the industry to get acrylamide out of the coffee so my addiction doesn't force me to ingest it."

He's crazy an addict, so rather than quit his addiction he wants to make his craziness addiction safe.

I'd say we need to bring back insane asylums, but a wall around California should be sufficient....