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When Good Enough Is Good Enough 0
Stuart Brotman points explains how the perfect is the enemy of the good. Here’s a bit; follow the link for the evidence.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
The edit:
Give me your tired, your poor,.
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
“It’s Not Easy Being Green” 0
A little while ago, Tucker Carlson aired his sorrow that Mars has changed the look if the green M&M in its commercials to be “less sexy.”
A former green M&M (that is, a woman who performed as a green M&M in on-street ad campaigns) explains why she favors the change. A snippet:
It would not shock me if Carlson is out on 42nd Street right now pawing some former coworker of mine trying to get one last grope in before it’s too late.
“Let Them Eat Cake” 0
The Orlando Sentinel’s Scott Maxwell excoriates a proposed law designed to perpetuate poor pay and poverty in Florida.
Just as Stupid as You Thought They Were 0
Truckers who need to check their GPS locations.
A Tune for the Times 0
From the Youtube page:
Trump loves to “go with a winner”, and he sees Vladimir Putin as a HUGE winner of late, making major real estate acquisitions with very little investment of his own, just as Trump always did. Trump can’t help but envy Putin’s incredible ability to skip legalities and jump right to the ‘moving-in’ stage. That, and Putin’s ability to look good shirtless give Trump a major case of “nipple envy”, but in a really wholesome, Christian sort of way.
A Fifth Columnist 0
Margaret Sullivan profiles an American Quisling.









