Category: Miscellaneous
You folks in the upper midwest, northeast, and most of Canada are no doubt used to the kind of weather that can crack your skin, chap your lips in minutes, give you nosebleeds, and turn you into a spark generator. (I remember it all too well from living in Minnesota.) Not so in this mild, soggy corner of the nation. At least not so until today. We’ve been having unusually cold, dry weather for days. Temps have barely squeaked above freezing during their daytime highs. Now, with a rising gale out of the east, we’re expecting outside humidity below 40%…
It’s the fashionable thing to say good riddance to 2016, a truly crappy year. Dave Barry joined the crowd in his usual style. (H/T jb) I don’t know, though. Like all years, it was a mix of curses and blessings, along with a lot of life-as-usual. There was, of course, that election whose sludge spread from one end of the calendar to the other. But at least we didn’t end up with the Clinton Crime Family running the country. There was terrorism and war. But when is there not? A lot of well-loved celebrities died — but then, don’t a…
2016 is finally — almost! — over. But just because this has been such a fun, fun, FUN year, they’re giving us all a little more time to enjoy it. So. What are you going to do with your extra “leap second” tonight? I think I’ll eat fried Cheerios, enter a mildly altered state, and watch Altered States (courtesy of Netflix). How ’bout you? Then here’s something sensible you can resolve to do tomorrow. This resolution will probably be even easier to break than the standard ones about losing weight, quitting bad habits, and generally being a better person.
Tomorrow, Friday, December 30, will be Digital Day at Amazon. Yes, there are too many this-and-that days for buying things. But this one is apparently designed to enable you to fill up those devices you got for Christmas at bargain rates. You may be all buyed out, and if so, peace and joy to you. But if you’re still shopping, you know where to enter the big giant store.
No, he hasn’t died. At age 86 he’s simply decided to get out of the news whirl, quit his regular column, and spend more time on photography. Is that cool, or what? Michelle Malkin says an eloquent goodbye. Yes, he’s more conservative than many of us diehard lib-anarchists would like. But overall, he was a powerful voice of common sense on economics and liberty and especially against the tomfoolery of eternal racial victimhood. He also won my heart by by being such a private person and disdaining trendy self-promotion. So farewell and enjoy being out of the news loop, Dr.…