Naw, nothin'... Jus' hay fever. Spring, y'know, pollen. I always get a little moist 'n runny this time of year.

Tell us again how we're supposed to make a choice of either of these baboons.

Sorry, link.

When is $15 million $60 grand?

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/436299/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-debt-forgiveness

I wonder how that's going to play out when the debtors receive their 1099-C Cancellation of Debt forms, the amount of which may become taxable income.

Remember when food deserts was a thing?

The theory was simple: poor people simply lacked easy access to healthy food options. If you put fruits, vegetables, and whole grains in front of them, they would soon be singing the praises of Michael Pollan, too. And voila: no more obesity epidemic in these neighborhoods.

But of course things didn't work out that way. As many business owners in these neighborhoods and other food-desert skeptics have pointed out, the problem wasn't that they simply hadn't thought to offer more wholesome items. The problem was that these items just didn't sell. You can lead human beings to Whole Foods, but you can't make them buy organic kale there.

http://reason.com/blog/2016/06/13/500-million-later-usda-on-food-deserts

A handy reference guide:

https://popehat.com/2016/06/11/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-the-first-amendment/

Good news on the endangered species front:

http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/06/11/an-endangered-species-we-should-all-be-happy-about/

Never heard of it, sounds nasty.

On the food desert thing, IRA, the best analysis I saw talked about changing what was served in the schools. People all over the US get a lot of their eating habits from schools. A free breakfast and lunch for twelve years has an effect. And what do schools serve? Microwave crap. They don't want to hire actual chefs so they buy premade frozen food from Sysco any idiot can reheat in a microwave. Is it any surprise people keep eating what they were raised on?

But remember, Hillary's home brew server was unhackable:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-penetrated-dnc-stole-opposition-research-on-trump/2016/06/14/cf006cb4-316e-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html

Collect all seven.

Next...

Won't be able to do this next year

https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6ozs42mjuErXU9hK/giphy.gif

Lookidat smile on 'er!

Guys, I'm not saying I approve, just that I understand.




In the fantasy realm where my impulses are made law, the kid would do a year or so for Dad's "20 minutes" thing.