- Amazon unveils its first self-driving convenience store.
- The depression in the blue states (And we don’t just mean they’re unhappy because Clinton lost.)
- Do not take payment in politeness, sez Wendy McElroy. Amen, sez I.
- You think U.S. universities have fallen into the hands of mad, Marxist social-justice pecksniffs? It’s actually worse in Canada. Gotta wonder where this will end. Hopefully with a lot of institutions going bust because sane people won’t send their kids there. But all too likely it’ll end with a new generation of entitled uber-authoritarians in power, purging everyone who doesn’t share whatever their view-of-the-moment might be.
- But that’s okay, sez Kevin Baker for the New Republic ’cause there’s really no such thing as a smug liberal. (Just because his family doesn’t fit the profile.)
- And even the august Fortune sez Trump is inheriting the best economy in a generation. (What, you didn’t notice that? Well then, you just have to move to Wall Street or Silicon Valley; then you’ll appreciate just now hot this economy really is, your red-state rube, you.)
- Rational Review News, the newspaper of record for the freedom movement, is holding its annual fundraiser. They accept not only PayPal and FRNS, but precious metals and various cryptocurrencies. Which is pretty cool.
- This is pretty cool, too: a thoughtful and magnanimous gesture on the part of an NFL football player.
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On the third day of Amazon’s “12 Days of Deals”: 50% off on Happy Belly nuts, big deals on Vivere hammocks and T-Fal cookware, an inflatable hot tub for just $299, and more.
“…The higher the price you have to pay, the more you will cherish it.” Lloyd C. Douglas
Those hammocks are great for anyone dealing with chronic pain! I can vouch for that personally.
I does take some practice to keep the blankets in place, though.
I left Austin, Texas, in 1983. In city government, the inmates had taken over the asylum. The city had become over-populated with Bakers.
Chris Matthews must believe that losing $40/hr jobs while creating $10/hr jobs is the sign of a healthy economy. Further, that unrepayable debt is a mere bagatelle. I’ll shun the vernacular and merely note that he needs more sennosides.
How will Amazon sell to those who don’t have smart phones? How will it handle problems with mobiles that have been lost or stolen and misused by others? Why don’t we all get a bar code embedded? That would make it simpler for Amazon (and government) to follow their products without using smart phones.
Just another example of “If we can think it up, we can and ought to do it–and be damned with the consequences.”
Our candidate was the one with the laundry list of practical, immediate ideas about how to help Americans knocked flat by the global economy, instead of some vague palaver about how one man alone could fix the modern world.
“Conservatives were fooled into voting for their man who promised to fix the world, while we liberals were wisely voting for our woman who promised to fix the world.”
Far from gloating over our social activism successes, my main preoccupation on election night was what my wife and I were going to do for health care. We’ve been on Obamacare since she lost her job over a year ago, one more downsizing victim to a merger of international conglomerates. She’s since applied to over a hundred job listings in different fields, but has managed to wrangle only a handful of interviews, and the unemployment ran out months ago. Since I am self-employed and have a pre-existing condition, I don’t know if we can replace our current health plan with anything at all, once the Affordable Care Act is repealed. We are a few years away from retirement—though now, thanks to Speaker Paul Ryan, who knows if the Medicare we paid into all these years will still exist when we get there?
“All those things that went wrong while the liberals were in charge are Ryan’s fault, now that he’s going to be Speaker of the House.”