FINALLY: A [small] victory for the forces of good.

TRUMP'S TRUE CRIME: He made people laugh at Congress.

Yes. Now join him. Mock them. Mercilessly.

TAKE THE TIME TO WATCH: Donald Trump, Commander Brexiteer:



It's worth every minute.

GOOD GUY GAL WITH A GUN kills armed burglar with AR-15 rifle.

CNN CHIEF MEDIA CORRESPONDENT BRIAN STELTER has demonstrated yet again why he is perhaps the most indispensable name in cable news.

WELL, YES: California's wonky insurance and land use regulations make the state's wildfires deadlier and more destructive.

On the brighter side, Mother Nature's earthquakes should put out the fires as California slides off into the Pacific ocean....

ER, IF MEN COULD GET PREGNANT THEY'D BE WOMEN: "Virginia Senate Minority Leader Dick Saslaw told Democratic voters on Sunday that the U.S. would have more abortion clinics than Starbucks in the U.S. if men could get pregnant."

I got out of Virginia just in time.

UPDATE: I got out of Virginia just in time.

SECOND UPDATE: I knew I got out of Virginia just in time.

THE GRAND LIE of Elizabeth Warren's healthcare plan.

ELIZABETH WARREN answers the big question.

HEH: Texas is luring jobs away from California with promises of electricity.

California plans to fight back. It’s now working on a wall to keep people and jobs from leaving California. The planned wall should extend along the entire California border, except for the southern part.

AN OPEN LETTER to Elizabeth Warren.

Read the entire letter.

FORMER TIME EDITOR AND CEO OF CONSTITUTION CENTER(!) wants to cancel the First Amendment and pass hate speech laws.

From the same jackasses who once heralded 'many truths' and morphed it into 'my truth' now have gone to 'my truth is the only truth'....

THE COMING WAR over kinky Katie Hill's congressional seat.

I don't much give a damn about her sex life, but the fact that she distributed those photos to where they could be posted on the internet for all to see tells me all I need - or want - to know about her character.

And it's a character that I most emphatically don't want in a congresscritter - or any other position of power over others.

NEW YORK GOV. ANDREW CUOMO: ‘We didn’t have hurricanes’ before climate change.

Color me surprised. I guess all those storms I lived through as a kid in south and central Texas (and my wife lived through as a kid in Florida) were just high winds and heavy rain....

MORE EDUCATION NOTES: Univesity cuts humanities budget even as it employs 15 people with the title of Vice President or higher.

Stability will be achieved when there's one student, one Vice President. Faculty? Who needs faculty when you have administriviators?

I have to admit, though, that I'm not disappointed with cutting the humanities budget since it typically includes all the 'victim studies' majors.

IT'S TIME TO TAKE EDUCATION BACK FROM THE LIBERALS: First Common Core high school grads worst-prepared for college in 15 years.

More here and here.

Initially I was a supporter of Common Core; then the 'educationalists' hijacked it. I still think there's a need for a minimum standard of what a citizen should know (by educational [grade?] level) to be able to effectively participate in American society. I'd suggest those standards be limited to English (first), history (American), civics and government (American), math (last) - and rigorously limited to verifiable fact, not current 'opinion'. Every other subject should be taught (or not) at local discretion.

To achieve that goal I'd let (demand) that any government-provided money follow the child to wherever the parents choose.

FALLING LEAVES, EPISODE VIII: Here's the usual first picture of the pond, and my, how the leaves have fallen since last week.

Fall has definitely fallen in north Georgia. There's still green visible, but the green is all pine. Not much brown either; those leaves are all on the ground.

This second picture is one I rarely attempt; it's the steep slope on the south side of the house. It's so heavily covered with brush that visibility is practically nil, even in winter.

But the cold and high winds earlier in the week have pretty much killed off/cleared the brush enough that you can almost see the creek down below.

This final picture is of the north side of the house.

Like the previous picture, the cold and winds have pretty much killed off and cleared the brush, although I did do a lot of brush cutting last year.

Last week's pictures are here.

FLORIDA MAN is alive and (un)well in Boston.

Somehow I don't think Dyson had this in mind for its vacuum cleaners....

AMMO GRRRLL: What the heck! Another birthday?

I can relate, as my kids will attest.

OH, MY: Beto O’Rourke drops out of race to spend more time taking guns from his family.

There's satire; then there's satire.