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Amazon Has 'Destroyed' US Retail Industry: Mnuchin

 In a first, China has more companies on Fortune Global 500 list than the US

 Want to Know How Complicated Our Tax System Is? Check Out the IRS's "Taxpayer Roadmap"

 How 2 Women Used Sex, Activism, and Title IX To Scam a Harvard Professor Out of His House, Job, and Money

Dumbest law prof ever? 

 A Federal Court Takes on Title IX

 New Baltimore deputy police commissioner robbed at gunpoint near Patterson Park

 IT’S OFFICIAL: DEMOCRATS DISLIKE OUR COUNTRY

 MUELLER’S TESTIMONY BOMBED [UPDATED

 Schiff: Mueller investigation showed Trump's 'disloyalty to country'

What??? Muerller asserted there was no Trump-Russia collusion. The Clinton-Russia angle was never explored.

 Rep. Ratcliffe to Mueller: You Didn't Follow Special Counsel Rules, You Wrote About Decisions That Weren't Reached

Cool video too

Christopher Guest has made some iconic, quirky moves. AVI reminded me about A Mighty Wind, a faux documentary about a 1960s folk group. It's only a satire if you want to think of it that way. As with Guest's hilarious This is Spinal Tap, all of the dialog is improvised, and all music is written by the actors.

Both movies - or all of Guest's movies - are good for a rainy day. 

Why is airport food so expensive? The reasons you pay a massive markup on a water bottle are more complex than you might think.

 Amazon Plows Into Real Estate Market With Realogy Pact To Transform Homebuying Process

 Alibaba brings e-commerce platform to US businesses

We’re Saved: S. Korea Cuts Down 2 Million Trees, Replaces Them With Solar Panels

Disabled students proliferate 

 When Trans Activism Empowers Sexual Harassment

 Title IX policies have ‘anti-male bias’ and treat students accused of sexual assault unfairly, lawsuit alleges

The Minimum Wage Is Not About Helping the Poor - A boon to organized labor.

THE U.S. COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS STRIKES AGAIN - The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has issued a report on school discipline.The report claims that students of all races misbehave in school at the same rate...

Chicago Mayor Delusional About City’s Violence

 Bernie Sanders’s Campaign Hit With … Federal Labor Complaint

 NAACP Delegates Call for Trump Impeachment

Byron York: Democrats think they've got a slam dunk obstruction case against Trump. They don't.

 Robert Mueller soon may be exposed as the 'magician of omission' on Russia

 Welcoming Boris Johnson

 European Union: A Massive Expansion Of Top-Down Powers

 I hate The Catcher in the Rye

Me too 

 Lead Ammo, the Top Threat to Condors, Is Now Outlawed in California

 The “Blood” In The Impossible Burger Is A Horror Show

Yuk 

The Yaniv scandal is the end-product of trans activism - Does inclusivity mean the Canadian state should compel women to handle a penis?

" She’s expending mental energy on grocery lists. Someone bring medals, big ones."

Returning Due Process to Campus - The latest federal court decision in a campus sexual assault case is a reminder that accused students deserve a fair hearing.

 Turning the tide against campus kangaroo ‘rape’ courts

 Wealthy New Yorkers are ditching city’s high taxes for Miami

David Warren:  I have no objection to anyone who would send astronauts to distant orbs, so long as his recruits know what they’re doing, and the entrepreneur has the means to pay.

The disability culture

 Wendy Davis: I’m Running for Congress Again So ‘Our Children . . . Can Live’

Excuse me?

 Sen. Warren: ‘These Are Hard Times for Our Country’ At Peak Of Booming Economy

"Me telling you to 'Go back where you came from. Did I say that? Is it on video?.... I called you a lazy b-i-t-c-h. That's the worst thing I said."

 Is Erica Thomas a Hate Crime Hoaxer?

Um, obviously. I feel sorry for that Cuban immigrant 

 Democrat Presidential Candidates Push Erica Thomas 'Hate Hoax'

 CBP: Over 1,000 African migrants arrested near Mexican border

 Congo Invades Buffalo

The Democrats are The Party Of The Wealthy!

Report: Comey Was Secretly Trying To Build Case Against Trump, IG Investigation Found

 Did the Brits Collude on Trump-Russia?

The Right’s Demographic Challenge Is Real - The future is being written today.

 'You could attribute a Mother Teresa quote' to Trump and students would say it's hateful

 Ivanka Trump Buys Daughter A White Dog, Internet Calls Her Racist

And if a black dog, she'd be a slave-owner 

 Cory Booker: Donald Trump Is ‘Worse Than A Racist’…

 The Attack On Orleans: When World War I Hit Cape Cod

 Report: Facebook classified biology as hate speech because Zuckerberg is transitioning

 How The Left Turned Words Into “Violence” And Violence Into “Justice”

 'Noose' Which Sent UMich Dean On Racism Tirade Turns Out To Be Fishing Knot Practice

If You Want to Know Why Senator Romney Isn't President...

VDH:  The Left Is Shrieking That America Was Always Hopelessly Flawed So They Can Remake It

 America’s Nationalist Awakening

 ADL Chief Attacks President Trump... Again

 If Trump Isn’t This Clever, Then He’s The Luckiest President In History

 Newt Gingrich: Trump vs. Omar, AOC and more – Why 2020 will be all about patriotism vs. racism

What racism? 

Kotkin:  The Tech Oligarchs Are Going to Destroy Democracy — Unless We Stop Them

Nothing new about calling Repubs evil 

Dress and comportment are important for men and women in careers and in regular life. The "suit does not make the man," but dressing right for the occasion matters a lot to other people. First impressions are everything. Of course, you have to have more to offer than your presentation, but it matters all along the way until you have fulfilled your dreams.  Then you can do whatever the heck you you want. Flip flops and t-shirt, Unless you are in the rag trade. 

If you look and behave like a professional, you can become one. Assuming some cleverness and, like the car below, attractiveness isn't enuf but it's a good start. Easy things for a career: Fitness, good clothing, agreeable attitude, even if fake.

Addendum: Scott Adams says good shoes are the most important part. Maybe, but good hair might be equally so.

For the ladies, Nora Gardner - Wardrobe Panic Eliminated 

Mrs. BD is car shopping. Has in mind a fun car that is happy with mud, gravel, rutty dirt roads, and sand, but which loves a road. Better off-road than Range Rover? Gee, I am suprised. Argue with me, but I think Range Rover is for driving kids to school in the rain, then stopping off at yoga class. While the door handle falls off. 

How about this one? My theory is if you buy it in red, it's a cop magnet.

Every guy's dream: A gal with a heat wave

Simple, light, and good

From Nice, of course, as its name indicates. A charming Riviera town. I would go back there anytime.

Good fun: The Week in Pictures

He works in an Amazon warehouse 

Sounds like a good job for fitness 

 This little-known inventor has probably saved your life

 Hospital staff blamed for not realizing “man” was pregnant

Psychiatric diagnoses are 'useless,' experts say

Related, How scientific is psychiatric diagnosis? 

Related, Yale Prof says Trump's brain rapidly deteriorating 

 It's Un-American To Be Anti-Free Speech: Protect The Right To Criticize The Government

 Portland and the Evolution of Mob Rule

  Even Mexicans Are Sick Of Illegal Aliens Invading Their Country

Re Bernie, irony can be pretty ironic sometimes.

 AP’s tweet on the 50th anniversary of Ted Kennedy leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to die gets a BRUTALLY honest rewrite

Related, the famous Volkswagen photo 

 Why The Democratic Debates Are Starting To Feel Like A Reality Show

" The dot coms and academics of San Francisco and Boston, the financial firms of New York and the lobbyists of Washington D.C. will pick the Democrat nominee. But will they pick the president?"

At this point, Google has the power to elect a president