CULTURE SHOCK in small-town America. Or for me, why I'l never move back to a city.

SHORT COMMENTS on 24 wannabe Presidents.

NOTHING MORE THAT A TAX GRAB: Andrew Yang's 'Freedom Dividend'. Sure, you'll get some money, but the governing class will get something much more valuable - control.

STEVEN HAYWARD: Axioms and animadversions (third bullet).

Listening to the metaphysicians of the Democratic Party handing out fundamental human rights like Halloween candy summons to mind another axiom from Burke: “What is the use of discussing a man’s abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician, rather than the professor of metaphysics.”

For 'professor of metaphysics' read 'Democrat presidential candidate'.

The second bullet is simply the Law of Large Numbers writ in political terms. Voter fraud may be effective at the (very) local level; not at state or national levels. The chief effect (i.e., 'Russian collusion') is to sow discontent with the process.

And Google is at least as guilty, if not more so, than the Russians.

IS THIS THE STRATEGY behind Austin's mad homeless camping policy?

If so - and I suggest it is - it only confirms Democrat/progressive hypocrisy.

GLENN REYNOLDS: Make the Supreme Court lots bigger.

I could perhaps consider Reynolds' suggestion if the 50 justices to be appointed to the new Court were (a) not lawyers and (b) term-limited. There is, after all, no Constitutional requirement that Justices be lawyers.

RANDOM THOUGHT on 'gun free zone' signs. They might as well be replaced with 'target rich environment' signs.

Those, at least, would be more accurate.

FROM JAIL? Michael Avenatti is still considering a 2020 Presidential run.

Or to avoid jail?

REAL VEGGIE BURGERS: Innovative new process converts vegetables into meat by feeding them to cows.

Yes, Snopes, of course it's the Babylon Bee.

EARNESTLY STUPID, PART II: Professor demands ADA bar dentists from helping ICE.

And the children. But never mind that; it's more important to hate Trump.

POWERLINE'S WEEK IN PICTURES, dark psychic forces edition, posted yesterday. To my mind it's not as good as usual - I had a hard time finding a favorite - but I think that's because it's really, really hard to find anything funny about a political Left that is so aggressively, earnestly stupid.

That said, here's my favorite:

Now go see the rest.

DON'T THEY REMEMBER HE'S THEIR MESSIAH? Obama frustrated that Democrat presidential field keeps criticizing him.

Don Surber has more.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ on the sinking ship that is Baltimore.

“SHE WENT BACK WITH ME”: Omar and Pelosi mock Trump in Africa.

But did they learn anything? Or fix Africa?

Obviously not.

VERIFIED DEPLORABLE: T’was a Nice Republic, While It Lasted.

Heh.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: Republicans want government as we know it 'dismantled'.

Damned straight. We want it returned to 'We, the People'.