WHAT HAPPENED? A horrible candidate lost. And she was - and remains - the best pick on the Democrats' used car candidate lot.

Odds are that when the 2020 models are announced the 2016 models will still be the better picks....

YOU DON'T SAY: "It’s almost like 'access to health care' isn’t a guarantee of better health." Medicare is great for the providers (unless you're actually a physician); for the patients (me), not so much.

OUCH!

REMEMBER, THAT SWORD HAS TWO EDGES: St. Louis officers chant ‘whose streets, our streets’ while arresting protesters.

Or as Kurt Schlicter writes, “Since they [the Left] are establishing new rules, there’s nothing wrong with applying them to our advantage.”

TECHNOLOGY: The future of computing depends on making it reversible.

[T]he most fundamental laws of physics are reversible, meaning that if you had complete knowledge of the state of a closed system at some time, you could always—at least in principle—run the laws of physics in reverse and determine the system’s exact state at any previous time.

To better see that, consider a game of billiards—an ideal one with no friction. If you were to make a movie of the balls bouncing off one another and the bumpers, the movie would look normal whether you ran it backward or forward: The collision physics would be the same, and you could work out the future configuration of the balls from their past configuration or vice versa equally easily.

The same fundamental reversibility holds for quantum-scale physics. As a consequence, you can’t have a situation in which two different detailed states of any physical system evolve into the exact same state at some later time, because that would make it impossible to determine the earlier state from the later one. In other words, at the lowest level in physics, information cannot be destroyed.

The reversibility of physics means that we can never truly erase information in a computer. Whenever we overwrite a bit of information with a new value, the previous information may be lost for all practical purposes, but it hasn’t really been physically destroyed. Instead it has been pushed out into the machine’s thermal environment, where it becomes entropy—in essence, randomized information—and manifests as heat.

A conventional computer is, essentially, an expensive electric heater that happens to perform a small amount of computation as a side effect.

So -- global warming, sorry, climate change is caused by cell phones?

HURRICANE HARVEY RECOVERY shows the Social Justice Warriors’ worldview is warped.

“In a little while, when the media, politicians, race pimps and academics go back to telling us ‘who we are,’ remember what you saw in Houston.”

And most recently, in Florida.

JOURNALISM'S MAN OF THE YEAR: an editor who actually edits. (Edits opinion out of news stories, not in....)

DOES EVERYTHING have to be ruined by Democrats and their blasted bigotry?

On the bright side, it's good of progressives to remind me that I really don't want to support their bigotry....

WHO'D'VE THUNK IT? Record-low ratings for Hollywood’s Trump hate fest.

THEY'RE BACK: Those wonderful Church bulletins.

The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.

Scouts are saving aluminium cans, bottles and other items to be recycled. Proceeds will be used to cripple children.

The sermon this morning: 'Jesus Walks on the Water.'The sermon tonight: 'Searching for Jesus.'

Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Bring your husbands.

Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.

Miss Charlene Mason sang 'I will not pass this way again,' giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.

For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

Next Thursday there will be try-outs for the choir. They need all the help they can get.

Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.

At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be 'What Is Hell?' Come early and listen to our choir practice.

Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.

Please place your donation in the envelope along with the deceased person you want remembered.

The church will host an evening of fine dining, super entertainment and gracious hostility.

Pot-luck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.

The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.

This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.

The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the Congregation would lend him their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.

Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 pm. Please use the back door.

The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 pm The congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.

Weight Watchers will meet at 7 pm at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.

The Associate Minister unveiled the church's new campaign slogan last Sunday: ‘I Upped My Pledge – Up Yours.'

From my email.

NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER: boy mowing White House lawn sends bad signal on child labor.

No, it's a bad signal for union labor....

CHEAPER, LIGHTER, QUIETER: the electrification of flight is at hand.

BRIBES -- er, incentives -- for Amazon. Pick the city you hate the most to 'win'.

RURAL LIVES MATTER: Finally, some commonsense western fire policies.

THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION WARNS PROGRESSIVES: We're coming for you.

Progressives responded, predictably, by accusing the NRA of 'inciting violence.' If by 'inciting violence' progressives mean encouraging Americans to vote them out of office, then yes, we're inciting violence.

More.

SOMEONE ELSE’S COMPUTER: the prehistory of cloud computing.

On a personal level, one of my graduate student colleagues ran a small time-sharing service out of his home while we were both pursuing our doctorates; his service evolved to become AICS Research, which he ran until his untimely death in 2009.

COP HATER BENCHED: Professor put on leave for 'future dead cops' tweet.

Leave without pay pending firing, I hope.

EXPECT THE LEFT TO IMMEDIATELY DEMAND A BAN OF URINALS: Standing up to pee gives boys an unfair advantage in physics.

LOOKING AROUND OUTSIDE THIS MORNING, I've decided it time to start my annual "Autumn Leaves" series of posts. Here's the first:

The first view is looking north from the carport deck. The pond is barely visible above the stair rail, but it will become more visible as winter takes hold.

These next two are roughly the same view, the first taken from the loft window and the second from the terrace two levels down. From the loft view you can see that one of the trees has pretty well lost all its leaves.

Here are two more pond views; one from our 'coffee bench' about 1/3 of the way down the stairs to the pond, the other from the final turn to the water showing the dock and Waterbug paddle boat.

And finally a view down the driveway to Arapaho Walk. I'll continue posting every week until the trees are bare.

DON SURBER: "he {Trump] is Batman battling The Joker (mass media) and The Penguin (National Review)."

Heh.