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YES, THIS IS THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE JONESTOWN MASSACRE:  Just ghastly. Earlier (From Ed): JIM JONES & HARVEY MILK: THE SECRET HISTORY: Daniel Flynn’s new book Cult City reveals how 1970s San Francisco led to Jonestown.

21ST CENTURY SEXISM: Many Ways to Be a Girl, but One Way to Be a Boy: The New Gender Rules. “Boys seem to have been largely left out of the conversation about gender equality. Even as girls’ options have opened up, boys’ lives are still constricted.”

RIP: “Pablo Ferro, who designed the title sequences for classic films like Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Dr. Strangelove,’ ‘Bullitt,’ ‘Men In Black,’ and ‘A Clockwork Orange,’ has died from complications from pneumonia in Sedona, Ariz. He was 83.”…

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SARAH HOYT: The Past is Another Country — A Crappy One. As PJ O’Rourke once wrote, “In general, life is better than it ever has been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were…

#BELIEVEALLWOMEN: She Claimed He Broke Into Her House And Assaulted Her. A Selfie Proved She Lied.

PAUL MIRENGOFF: Another baseless shot at Matt Whitaker. “Shugerman provides no evidence that Whitaker is other than a fine lawyer and a capable administrator. He simply assumes the Post’s editors and readers will nod in agreement with his string of insults…

JANN WENNER BECAME A REPUBLICAN SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED: ● Shot: Why Republicans Still Reject the Science of Global Warming. —Headline, Rolling Stone, November 3rd, 2016. ● Chaser: Wenner’s Gulfstream II jet seated ten people and featured a…

BRENDA SNIPES SUBMITS HER RESIGNATION AS BROWARD ELECTIONS SUPERVISOR. And so, as she flies the blue lady of the skies into the sunset, we say “aloha!”, Five O’clock Brenda, and return to our duties.  Let me remind you, the Weblog is open twenty-four…

CLARICE FELDMAN: Then They Came For The White Women. “With the women should vote for a woman (Hillary) and white men are all rapists (Kavanaugh) tactics having failed, the left is now turning against white women as the enemy.”

OPEN THREAD: Comport yourselves with dignity.

IT WAS MORE A CASE OF SUICIDE: Stormy Daniels: Politics and Donald Trump Have ‘Completely Destroyed’ My Career. But you know, when you get in bed with Michael Avenatti, there’s not going to be a happy ending.

GENTLEMEN, YOU CAN’T SHOW YOUR WORK HERE, THIS IS A NEWS SHOW! On Meet the Press, Dan Crenshaw has a simple but brutal question for media who say Trump ‘undermines democracy:’ As for the undermining of democracy, Crenshaw’s simple question was: “Like…

TO BE FAIR, SHE’S ONLY BEING ALLOWED TO BECAUSE THE CLINTONS AREN’T USEFUL TO THE DEMOCRATS ANYMORE: Monica Lewinsky has finally turned the tables on the Clintons.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE. Not The Babylon Bee: Christian At UC-Berkeley Harassed, Denounced For Saying There Are Two Sexes. Jean-Luc Picard could not be reached for comment.

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN! Michael Walsh on “The Late Great (Again) Planet Earth:” God knows whom or what the poor sods living in the ruins of the Roman Empire in the 6th century blamed for the weather — probably God, possible cow farts — but…

YOU WANT KOSHER?  WE’VE GOT KOSHER:  The market provides what the public wants.

PAULINE KAEL JUST CALLED, AND SAID YOU’RE TRAPPED WAAAAY TOO DEEP IN YOUR OWN BUBBLE. Newsweek reporter: Almost everyone I’ve ever heard of who owns an AR-15 is a mass murderer. By the way, if [Nina] Burleigh’s name rings a bell, it’s because the tweet…

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, JUST LOWER THE DRINKING AGE! Teens are now getting drunk on boiled tampon juice.

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: Do Not Fear the Dark Matter Hurricane (The Dark Matter Hurricane Is Good).

NOW THIS IS INTERESTING AND DANGEROUS: Russian history buffs find a WW II improvised minefield near a major road. A group of Russian history buffs was surprised to find a reminder of Soviet resistance to the Nazi invasion in the form of an improvised minefield…

FASTER, PLEASE: Bioreactor device helps regrow legs on frogs.

THUS IGNORING THE ADVICE OF A LEGENDARY COMMUNITY ORGANIZER WHO ONCE SAID, AT A CERTAIN POINT YOU’VE MADE ENOUGH MONEY: The Obamas are on Their Way to Becoming a ‘Billion Dollar Brand.’

ANOTHER PROGRESSIVE MYTH DEBUNKED: What the Prescription Drug Debate Gets Wrong. If we want new drugs for Alzheimer’s and the other ravages of old age, the last thing we need is European-style price controls at the pharmacy. But that’s the dream of…

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NEWS YOU CAN USE: The Current State of U.S. Midterm Elections as of November 18, 2018.

CAMILLE PAGLIA: “The headlong rush to judgment by so many well-educated, middle-class women in the #MeToo movement has been startling and dismaying. Their elevation of emotion and group solidarity over fact and logic has resurrected damaging stereotypes of…

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