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The Myths of Troy

Mass. Pot Shops Ring Up $2M-Plus in Sales in 1st Week

 Mysterious, paralyzing disease has now spread to 31 states and Canada

 Why GM CEO Mary Barra killed Chevrolet cars, approved likely plant closures

 A researcher’s claim that two CRISPR-edited baby girls have been born has been met with widespread condemnation from scientists and ethicists alike.

Different culture over there 

Lord of the Rings Slammed for Perpetuating Racism through Depiction of Orcs

We need more masculinity, not less

"Ah, another article about “strong” women. That is, women who become emotional wrecks and lose all self-control"

Unstable women are not good feminist role models. BTW, Thompson can be quite witty when he has the time. 

 ‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’

Sheesh, Polly. She should be an artist? Unleash her inner Picasso?

 Twitter Has Gone Full Trans-Activist

 On November 15, I woke up to find my Twitter account locked, on account of what the company described as “hateful conduct.”

She actually said what? 

 White Liberals Dumb Themselves Down When Talking To Blacks

Dem politicians sure do 

 Berkeley prof wants to nix student evals after white male profs score higher

 OUR ROTTEN LIBERAL ARTS COLLEGES

 Students at Williams College Demand Freedom from Speech

Except their own 

 Why do so many academics dislike the market?

New Orleans looks underground as parts of city slowly sink

 Martha McSally campaign says it's not, not, NOT her fault she lost to Kyrsten Sinema

Blaming others is neither attractive in adults or children 

 The Continuing Lunacy Of The Neocons

 If government unions have a choice, why shouldn’t workers have it too? Janus and the Free-Rider Myth

Sorry Lib Media: Bill Clinton Took 26 Junkets with Deviant Epstein—Trump Banned the Perv From Mar-a-Lago

 New York Times Columnist on Trump Supporters: ‘Maybe They’re Just Bad People’

 IT WAS A HOAX: Guardian Report Blows Up – Manafort Passport Shows NO UK TRIPS – Never Met with Assange

What's up with The Guardian?  The Guardian’s Desperate Attempt To Connect Assange To Russiagate Backfires

Libel time 

 Dershowitz: Number of ‘Credible’ Witnesses Mueller Has Are ‘Shrinking by the Day’

USA Today:  As American troops install razor wire in Arizona, images of the Berlin Wall resurface

The whole world wanted to move to the East German paradise 

 The problem with those in favor of ‘illegal’ immigration

 Poll: 7 Of 10 Mexicans Have Negative View Of Migrant Caravan Marching Through Their Country

Racists 

 What Hillary got right (and wrong) about Europe’s migrant mess

 A Sobering New Report on the State of US Military

 CNN poll reveals depth of anti-Semitism in Europe

 In Dramatic Reversal, Theresa May Will Allow Parliament To Change Brexit Deal

The great thing about the "lower body" powerlifts is that they are complex movements which train your entire body, not just legs.

I am talking about squats (barbell squats especially) and deadlifts. Here's 8 Reasons to Do Squat Exercises. Did I forget to mention that squats are hard? With weights, they are f-ing miserable. Body-weight squats are good fitness calis, but the weights are a bitch.

Lunges and step-ups are more purely leg focused, and in the calisthenic category even when done with dumbells. And the stair machines are great stressors, but mostly cardio and endurance.

I have found that doing five tough sets of barbell squats and 5 of deads (different days), plus, on different days, a set of goblet squats, of dumbell lunges, and a set of dumbell high step-ups, have improved my energy and ease of movement remarkably. Serious lifters would do those things twice weekly, but that's not me.   

I can't credit at all to those, though, because I do other sorts of workouts each week too. Still, when you see progress with the weights you know it's all working. 

 Predictably, Donald Trump was attacked both by the establishment and the media as “crude,” “unpresidential,” and “gratuitous” for a recent series of blunt and graphic statements on a variety of current policies. Oddly, the implied charge this time around was not that Trump makes up stuff, but that he said things that were factual but should not be spoken.

From Bob Dylan 2018 Is One of the Greatest Shows in History of Rock - Master paints new masterpiece every night by revisiting past in new ways.

 "Bob Dylan in 2018 demands that you be in the moment. If you go with him, you will experience 120 minutes as intense and rewarding as any Dylan-trip you ever went on as a teenager — when you first discovered the magic of his eternal poetry and his American exceptionalism..."

 Study Finds Dogs Twitching In Sleep Are Dreaming About Tearing Owners Limb From Limb

 Dozens of dead turtles wash ashore on Cape Cod

Tyler Cowen: The best book of 2018

Visit Portland! 

 The Truth About Killer Robots: the year's most terrifying documentary

 Big Tech Is In Big Trouble

 Scientists on the Verge of Genetically Engineering Babies

 Social Justice Warriors Want Women to Ditch Their High Heels

 Experts on Climate Change Assessment: ‘Every Conclusion of This Latest Government Report Is False’

 Gov. Jerry Brown okays utilities charging Californians to pay for fires utilities may have started

 The Idea That Just Won't Die: The Right Federal Program Can Solve Any Human Problem

Are Dems the snob party? 

 Trump’s critics were dead wrong about the caravan after all

 Border Patrol Chief: From What I Saw, The Caravan Members Were Not Seeking Asylum

Hoaxed: The ‘Illegal Alien Mom with Barefoot Kids’ Photo was a Setup – Another Staged #FakeNews Production

Whoopsie – MSNBC Accidentally Airs Ground Report Showing Vast Majority of Caravan are Military Aged Males…

Tear gas used once a month at border under Obama

Asia Bibi and the First Freedom: Why hasn't she been granted asylum?

Via a reader, Language Log:  It's Yankees all the way down

Quote via Moonbattery 

Walter WILLIAMS: Fruits Of College Indoctrination

 “It’s NOT OK To Be White” Says University Of Manitoba – “Reject White Interests”

Feminists’ Undue Process - Ideologues react hysterically to the Trump administration’s suggested reforms to campus-rape tribunals.

 My New Vagina Won’t Make Me Happy

 California’s forest fire tragedy……

The Anti-American Americans

 ‘We will close the Border permanently if need be’: Trump threatens decisive action if Mexico does not deport caravan migrants as hundreds storm border and guards open fire on women and children with tear gas and rubber bullets 

A recently-new song. Tough lyrics here.

All the early Roman kings
In their sharkskin suits
Bow ties and buttons
High top boots
Drivin' the spikes in
Blazin' the rails
Nailed in their coffins
In top hats and tails

Fly away, little bird
Fly away, flap your wings
Fly by night
Like the early Roman kings

My favorite is a slice of turkey, some mayo, a spoonful of cranberry sauce and a spoonful of stuffing - on white bread, It has to be white bread.

Some people like Turkey hash which is ok if you use enough black pepper. Needs a ton of fresh ground black pepper to not taste like Cardboard Hash.

(BTW, Your Dry, Stringy Turkey Is Caused By Climate Change)

What do y'all like?

 How much of your personality is genetic?

 Who’s Afraid of Ludwig Wittgenstein? Explaining the Lack of Women in Philosophy

 University Dean Resigns After Being Suspended For Tweet Questioning Kavanaugh Accuser Julie Swetnick

Harvard, Yale and CNN Get Mocked Over Ridiculous Idea To Stop Global Warming

 Obama: US Failing to Handle Climate Change Challenges Because of ‘Racism,’ ‘Mommy Issues’

 AN INDEPENDENT JUDICIARY WOULD BE WONDERFUL, BUT WE DON'T HAVE ONE

 REPORTER ASKS TRUMP ABOUT FACEBOOK BIAS – TRUMP REMINDS THEM WHERE CHUCK SCHUMER’S DAUGHTER WORKS

 WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OCASIO-CORTEZ’S GAFFES AND SARAH PALIN’S? THE MEDIA

 It Was a Team Effort! George Papadopoulos Accuses British Embassy in DC of Illicit Spying on Trump Team!

 Joe Scarborough Gives Thanks to Hillary Clinton For ‘Trying to Make This World a Better Place’

 Kunstler Exposes "The Core Truth" Of The 2016 Russia Collusion Story

 Shoehorned into the festivity of the season is the lame-duck session in congress, and one of the main events it portends is the end of Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. The Sphinx-like Mueller has maintained supernatural silence about his tendings and intentions. But if he’d uncovered anything substantial in the way of “collusion” between Mr. Trump and Russia, the public would know by now, since it would represent a signal threat to national security. So it’s hard not to conclude that he has nothing except a few Mickey Mouse “process” convictions for lying to the FBI. On the other hand, it’s quite impossible to imagine him ignoring the well-documented evidence trail of Hillary Clinton colluding with Russians to influence the 2016 contest against Mr. Trump — and to defame him after he won. There’s also the Hieronymus Bosch panorama of criminal mischief around the racketeering scheme known as the Clinton Foundation to consider. Do these venal characters get a pass on all that?

Hillary Tells Europe to ‘Get a Handle’ on Migrant Influx to Stop Right-Wing ‘Populists’ - Hillary: “If we don’t deal with the migration issue it will continue to roil the body politic”

 Tijuana Mayor Declares Crisis At Border; DHS Warns Of Criminals, Gang Members Among Caravan

“Migrants” Defy Trump At Border Or Something

John Kerry warns against mass migration 

Donald Trump's Middle Eastern Realpolitik

Re the Saudis, Scott Adams explains the difference between the child's view of the world and the leader view 

From a friend on Weds:

Bob in Waterbury (CT) last night. Beautiful new arrangements, the most mellow I've ever heard him live in 2 decades. Thoughtful on the piano.... just sharing these heartbreaking stories with us. Set list below.

Things Have Changed 
It Ain't Me Babe
Highway 61
Simple Twist of Fate
Cry Awhile
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Honest With Me
Tryin' To Get To Heaven
Scarlet Town
Pay in Blood
Make You Feel My Love
Like a Rolling Stone
Early Roman Kings
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
Love Sick
Thunder on the Mountain
Soon After Midnight
Gotta Serve Somebody
All Along the Watchtower
Blowin in the Wind

Bob does not shortchange you with songs in his almost nightly performances, even at age 77 or whatever. Here's part of a 4 year-old performance of his haunted Scarlet Town. "The seven wonders of the world are here" - genius - those wonders are everywhere: