Ben Franklin made up 200 terms for being wasted.

500K people live in a country that doesn’t exist.

German Court Orders Volkswagen to Rehire Suspected ISIS Recruiter Who Told Coworkers They’d ‘All Die.’

JOHN HAWKINS: Seven Brutal Truths That Will Make Your Life Better If You Accept Them.

WITH SOCIAL MEDIA DYING, some people are returning to the blogosphere. More like this, please!  I still remember my leftwing onlaws telling me blogs were dead - 7 years ago.

THE NEWEST DISPATCH OF THE CULTURE WARS. IT’S NOT JUST SF, THEY’RE COMING FOR EVERYONE:  Cultural Bifurcation.  (Long but good.)

of COURSE it does:  New Evidence Indicates You Were Right All Along

#JOURNALISM: Another Day, Another Case Study on Media Bias.

ELIMINATIONIST RHETORIC: Denver Post Runs Letter to the Editor Demanding Trump’s Execution.

CNN’S ALISYN CAMEROTA TO RICK SANTORUM: ‘DO YOU GET DIZZY LIVING IN UPSIDE-DOWN WORLD?’  As predicted by the Onion, which used Camerota’s face yesterday below the headline, “CNN Anchors Speechless After Guest Goes On Long, Coherent Thought.”

PAR FOR THE COURSE: Former New Yorker “Fact-checker” who misidentified ICE agent’s ‘Nazi’ tattoo hired by Media Matters to research alt-right.

EXPLODING MORE FAKE NEWS: Maddow is wrong. The White House didn’t edit a video or a transcript to remove a question posed to Putin.

SCANDAL: CNN ‘Catches’ Trump Asking Politely For A Coke.

SOME INCONVENIENT TRUTHS ABOUT RECYCLING.

Shocking study reveals 90% of global plastic waste comes from just TEN rivers in Asia and Africa. So while woke Westerners are beating us over the head about straws and grocery bags, the real source of the problem is elsewhere.

WHY? SCIENCE IS NOT FAITH:  Elizabeth Warren: EPA Administrator Must Believe in Climate Change.

BECAUSE IT’S NO FUN GETTING THERE WITHOUT GIVING THE GOVERNMENT MORE POWER: U.S. CO2 Levels Drop Again — So Why Aren’t Green Groups Rejoicing?

SLATE: Climate Is ‘Complicated’ and ‘Influenced by Many Factors.’ “Is the Left finally backing down from the climate panic?”

It's NOT new!  The Problem with “Fake News”

SPOILER: IT’S NOT. Communism sent millions to their deaths – so why is it cool to wear it on your T shirt?

THEY HAD A TIME MACHINE AND THEY STILL LOST THE COLD WAR? Article in The Root claims “Soviet” hackers changed votes in 2016 election.

Idiot of the Week: White People Have No Culture.

Frenzied, Angry Mob Turns on Reporters in a Dangerous Physical Altercation. “You may not remember it. No president was asked about it. No Democrat candidate was made to disown it. It didn’t get much press. Not like this week’s mob.”

NOW THAT’S OLD SCHOOL-STYLE “PROGRESSIVISM:” Dem candidate Scott Wallace funded population control groups fighting “irresponsible breeding” (#PA01).

Former Obama “Science Czar” John Holdren and Ruth Bader Ginsburg could not be reached for comment.

and a DAMNED fine year

The Top 10 Films of 1958

my list

                                                                                                  my rank

 Sucker for New Orleans movies (Buccaneer and Creole), Ross Martin was in Colossus, but otherwise my list isn't bad - except for Auntie Mame!

IT’S NOT JUST TARANTINO: HOLLYWOOD’S HISTORY OF DEFENDING CHILD RAPIST ROMAN POLANSKI.

Exit quote: “Hollywood has the best moral compass, because it has compassion” — Harvey Weinstein, 2009.

PAUL RAHE: Do the Democrats Want a Civil War? We Need to Know.

Related: The Passionate Intensity of the Worst.

SURE. CRAZY PEOPLE WANT CRAZY THINGS. IT’S AXIOMATIC:  New York Times Editors Want Dems to Go Full Godfather on the GOP.

THE DEMOCRATS’ CLIMATE OF HATE: 14 Times Republican Officials Were Viciously Harassed, Threatened With Death: In the past couple of months, Republicans and government officials who work for President Trump have received death threats, been run out of restaurants and stores, and followed to their cars.

THE LEFT’S CULTURE OF HATE: Antifa groups tweet threats, smears targeting GOP.

The Left Has a ‘Fetish’ For Trump’s Death.  We’ve seen this movie before, of course.

HEY, WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT? OH, WAIT. . . Taxing Remittances Can Build The Wall.

WEIRD HOW A PEACEFUL SOCIETY CHANGES WHEN IT IMPORTS A BUNCH OF PEOPLE FROM VIOLENT SOCIETIES: Sweden’s violent reality is undoing a peaceful self-image.

VIDEO: Students shocked that Obama also sent troops to border.

JOHN HAWKINS: Seven Truths Liberals Will Never Acknowledge About Illegal Immigration.

THAT WAS DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP: Flashback: Both Hillary And Obama Advocated Separating Migrant Families, Strict Border Control.

WHEN YOU’RE A DEM AND CNN IS CALLING OUT YOUR BULLSHIT: CNN To Dem Senator: Did You Object When Obama Kept Unaccompanied Illegal Kids In Cages?