THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS for anti-gun freaks grieving over the death of their narrative.

SURPRISED? Screaming helplessly at the sky fails to remove President Trump from office.

Now they can go back to their safe spaces, crayons, Play-Do, and fluffy toy animals....

POWERLINE'S Week in Pictures is especially good this week. Here's my favorite:

Now you know why unicorns are extinct.

Go see the rest - and be sure to vote on your choice for America's first female President.

USA TODAY confirms why media and gun tutorials are a toxic mix.

IT'LL BE A LONG HARD SLOG: Undoing the dis-education of millennials.

It's not 'education'; it's indoctrination.

AUTUMN LEAVES, November 12:

Well, it looks like leaf-fall is complete. I'll keep going for another week or two, but what's left today is mostly evergreens, emply branches, and lots of future mulch. Here's the deck view this week:

It's cool and overcast today, so rather drab, and the winds and rain over the last week have pretty well cleared the trees of leaves. Now the driveway view:

It's much the same as last week, only more drab. The driveway was completely covered in leaves until I blew them off yesterday.

The pond view is slightly different from last week, taken higher up the hill because the stairs are pretty slippery with wet leaves.

There has been little change in color, and the leaves are much thicker on the ground than last week. Next week should be about the same, hopefully sunnier, though.

HEH: Are liberals making a case for mandatory church attendance?

I agree that it would probably be more effective than gun control.

RANDOM THOUGHT: America is still a 2-party political system. It's just that the parties are now Socialist (formerly Democrat) and Democrat (formerly Republican). There is no longer a conservative political party.