DONALD TRUMP is fighting a culture civil war. And winning.

NOW THAT 'STORM AREA 51' has mercifully passed on, here is an interesting series of posts on that part of the Nevada desert. The first 5 or 6 links are a relatively accurate history of Area 51; the rest are mostly devoted to the various conspiracy theories surrounding the base.

AMMO GRRRLL EXPLAINS: Free Range Penis 2.0.

Dang. I spent most of 1962 through 1978 in/around various colleges, and I missed it all....

THE BABYLON BEE explains common racist hand signals.

So the University of Texas (Longhorns) are racists....

POWERLINE: Democrats play dumb.

They're not playing dumb; they are dumb.

FALLING LEAVES, EPISODE II: As I noted last week, I'll start with the downslope view of our pond, since it usually comes more and more visible as the leaves continue to fall, but I won't necessarily take the picture from the same location on our deck. Here's the pond view, taken this week from the walk down to the fire pit.

We've had a big pine tree fall during a thunderstorm, so the pond view from this vantage point is a little more open than it has in the past. (Big trees take out lots of little trees as they fall; I've still got more clean-up to do).

This next picture is my 'pit stop' picture, taken looking back toward the house and the next ridge over. The land on that side is very steep, almost impassable, and so is heavily overgrown. As winter approaches, the view will mostly just turn brownish - the foliage is so dense the next ridge is almost never visible.

My final picture this week is from along the road leading to the house; the red is the 'early bird' this year - our clear sign that Fall is coming.

Last week's pictures from around the neighborhood are here.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON explains Trump Derangement Syndrome.

IT'S NEVER OVER: "This is why [Democrats] must be systematically stripped of power, in and out of government.... They are unfit to exercise any."

WARREN V. TRUMP: My crowd is bigger than your crowd.

OOPS! MSNBC's online poll on guns didn't quite go as expected.

THE 'SQUAD' wants it's own [DC statehood] star.

If the residents of Washington DC really wanted full representation in Congress, they would do what the residents west of the Potomac did many years ago - they joined the state of Virginia and now have 2 Senators and 11 Representatives to call their own. The residents east of the Potomac could rejoin Maryland and have 2 Senators and 8 Representatives in Congress.

DC statehood is phony baloney. It's a Democrat power grab, nothing more.

MICHAEL RAMIREZ has Beto in his sights.

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS is quite simply a war on common sense.

Read it all, but to me the key element is that common sense has a demonstrable connection with the physical world; as an engineer, I would call it simply consistency with the Laws of Physics as we understand them. One does not jump from tall buildings to get to the ground quicker; one does not let small children play with sharp objects, etc., etc.

What we choose to do and choose not to do is 'common sense' in that in the physical world - it works. Political correctness lives in a reality disconnected from the physical world.

GLOBAL WARMING: the perfect Trojan horse for tyranny.

SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR: Customers at Chick-fil-A are eating their fried chicken spitefully.

Keep boycotting, warriors. I enjoy eating in an idiot-free restaurant.

MIZ MONOPOLY: Political correctness doesn't play fair.

It's also not selling well.

CALIFORNIA'S REAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS:

The Trump administration plans to deliver a notice of environmental violation to San Francisco over its homelessness problem.

President Trump said late Wednesday the notice would come from the Environmental Protection Agency. He said waste, specifically used needles, in storm sewers is contributing to ocean pollution.

“It’s a terrible situation that’s in Los Angeles and in San Francisco,” Mr. Trump told reporters on Air Force One on his flight from California to Washington. “And we’re going to be giving San Francisco, they’re in total violation, we’re going to be giving them a notice very soon.”

He added: “They have to clean it up. We can’t have our cities going to hell.”

That sounds like a problem the EPA should be dealing with.

RANDOM THOUGHT: Social Justice Warriors aren't happy unless everyone else is miserable.

So ... be happy; make a SJW miserable today.

DON'T FUCK WITH MOTHER NATURE; she is not amused.

DANG! Those SJW torpedos keep circling back. Must be a projection failure in their guidance systems....

What Trudeau should say - but can't because he is himself a social justice warrior - is this: "Those were different times. Grow up. Get over it."