I HAVE TWO FAVORITES from this week's edition of PowerLine's Week in Pictures:

and

Now go see the rest.

IF IT'S GOOD NEWS, it's not news.

Related: Journalists give us a distorted view of reality.

TUCKER CARLSON UNDERSTANDS: "Kamala Harris embodies everything that is grating and unlikable about neoliberals -- mindless children of privilege who sneer at those below them for not obeying."

Harris for President? Snowballs have a better chance in Hell.

“THESE ARE NOT NORMAL TIMES.”

“There is (for now) no longer a Democratic Party. Instead, it is a revolutionary Jacobin movement that believes socialism is our salvation, that identity politics is our creed, that gun confiscation is our duty, that the abrupt end of fossil fuels is coming very soon, that open borders is our new demography, and that the archetypical unmarried, childless, urban hipster is our model woke citizen.”

Yes, let's ban those damn deplorables.

HEH: Elizabeth Warren admits to wearing paleface at college costume party.

Yes, Snopes, it's satire.

I'VE SAID UNKIND THINGS ABOUT COREY LEWANDOWSKI; I take them back.

BY EMBRACING MAGICAL THINKING, Democrats remind us they would rather punish society than confront criminals.

This particular post is about gun control, but it's illustrative of the liberal philosophy about nearly everything: punish the innocent to protect (avoid stigmatizing) the guilty.

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.