There are some crazy things in here.

In Hollywood and maybe DC, this is a crisis. Hard to see how it's playing out in Kansas City.

Seekers, do not consume soft drinks, sodas, or pop.

In any number of his illuminating speeches, Robert Lustig says that as a doctor, he'd rather people drank alcohol, which will eventually put you to sleep, whereas your body's feedback loop for artificial sweeteners is unstoppable.

On a lighter note:

https://mobile.twitter.com/schinako

This user posts rabbit-themed wallpaper art that you can use for your desktop/smartphone.

> On a lighter note:

I totally got that.

Bad morning in Los Angeles. Crazy bad.

Really bad morning in L.A. I can see this from the roof of my spanky sex palace: It's baaaaadd

It's almost dawn. I just took a picture with the cell phone. I'll try to post links

Magnetic slime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oevYHizoxLg

Carney is on the other side of the mountains.

Okay, here you go. Click the pic to see it all

Professional efforts are certainly available online by now.

Actually, real socialism was tried. Once. Plymouth colony. Result: death and starvation. They switched to a more capitalistic approach and prospered.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/12/todays-laugh-real-socialism.php

Condolences to our Francophile hostess in this hour of her grief.

Cosh lays it out for the rest of us.

I saw one of his movies about 15 years ago. Like all French films, it was... Okay.

Damn, Crid, I've been following that stuff. The Sonoma County fires, and now this. Are you in Ventura County?

And the hits, they keep a comin'!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-gossip-editor-dylan-howard-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-20171205-story.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/people/terrifying-humiliating-male-models-accuse-fashion-photographer/

Bicycle lanes, what are they good for?

As a City of London report acknowledged last year, “The most significant impact on the City’s road network in the last 12 months has been the construction and subsequent operation of TfL’s cycle super highway … areas of traffic congestion can frequently be found on those roads.” As Lord Nigel Lawson put it in a parliamentary debate on bicycles, cycle lanes have done more damage to London than “almost anything since the Blitz.”

http://business.financialpost.com/opinion/lawrence-solomon-ban-the-bike-how-cities-made-a-huge-mistake-in-promoting-cycling

Flynn and the prosecution.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/282605/

> Ventura County?

Naw, WLA close to SM. There was some smoke yesterday, but the wind that kicked up the fires blew it out over the ocean after a couple hours. I'm too poor to be in danger. You know because you lived here, right? Mountain property costs money.

Crid, I've never lived in L.A.,, but I have been there a lot, and my brother lived in Eagle Rock for a couple of years. That said, I had to look at a map yesterday to see where Sylmar was. SoCal is a big place.

Jockeying for position on the social justice totem pole.

The report is unflinching in its portrayal of Charlottesville police standing behind barricades and failing to intervene in the face of multiple crimes. The “one instance” that represents an exception is captured on page 128. A photo shows Lt. Joe Hatter, head of the department’s investigative unit, towering over a scrawny, banner-waving white supremacist whom he had just rescued from a mob.

As the report details, the armed militias that featured so heavily in press coverage at the time, and were wrongly assumed to be aligned with the white nationalists, closed in to give the officer cover while he intervened and generally acted to protect members of the public regardless of affiliation.

Two officers were recorded discussing the incident on their body-cam mikes: “I like those militia guys,” said one. His colleague replied, “Yeah, they’re doing a good job.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-free-speech-lost-in-charlottesville-1512519529?shareToken=st3b81a97bb2024310a3a6e91779e1c94c&reflink=article_email_share

Well, I'll be. I didn't think this would happen. Is Franken done?

Al Franken’s firewall of support in the Senate has begun to collapse. Until today, none of his fellow Democrats in the upper chamber suggested that Franken should resign, including Kirsten Gillibrand, who publicly endorsed an Ethics Committee probe instead. After a seventh accuser came forward this morning, Gillibrand has reversed herself and now wants Franken to resign immediately:

https://hotair.com/archives/2017/12/06/dam-breaking-multiple-senate-dems-call-franken-resign/

Abortion industry Perv-O-Rama.

Illusion.

https://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/04/rape-case-usc-student-dismissed-judge-sees-security-video/

Another false accusation falls apart

A case of admittedly temporary winning.

LOL @ "abortion industry" Operation Rescue link.

Here's some info for you anti-liberty anti-women anti-freedom no-choice women-are-chattel perverts:

"The current Operation Rescue is run by Troy Newman, who ran a California-based offshoot group called Operation Rescue West before moving his operation to Wichita in 2002 and changing its name. Newman moved his group to Wichita specifically to target Dr. George Tiller, one of few abortion providers to offer the procedure at a later point in pregnancy; Tiller was shot dead in his church by a anti-choice extremist in 2009."

Since we're being all batshit-crazy lets-go-murder-a-doctor hyperbolic.

The West

https://twitter.com/WNYC/status/938455096337289216

I'm so proud of Trump:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/06/trump-officially-recognizes-jerusalem-as-israels-capital-orders-us-embassy-move.html

Smart bag restrictions on airlines. Seems wise.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/05/technology/smart-bag-limits/index.html

I'm not sure it is possible for one person to catalog all the rot coming out of the Weinsteinian Matrix. The linked NYTimes article might be a start.

The 8,000-word story, published Tuesday evening, attempts to pin down who knew what and when about Weinstein’s alleged misconduct. According to the Times, at least eight agents at Creative Artists Agency were aware that Weinstein had sexually harassed or threatened female clients, yet the agency continued to do business with him and send actresses to meet with him.

http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/harvey-weinstein-caa-national-enquirer-web-of-complicity-1202631580/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/05/us/harvey-weinstein-complicity.html

Conyers the third got busted for domestic abuse back in February. Hopefully the Conyers nephew is...better at life, if they want to keep the congressional seat in the family.

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/938518811396984832

If they boot Franken, the Conyers clan won't feel so singled out...

Oh yeah! House approves concealed-carry reciprocity -

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/06/house-passes-gun-reciprocity-faces-challenge-in-senate-from-dems-and-gun-control-advocates.html

Sex in the office:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/books/lorin-stein-resigns-the-paris-review.html

More big names going down tomorrow.

Trump asks Saudi Arabia to allow immediate aid to Yemen

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-yemen/trump-asks-saudi-arabia-to-allow-immediate-aid-to-yemen-idUSKBN1E02X4

Snorting meth to lose weight? You might want to rethink that plan.

“The meth doesn’t make me crazy man, the lizard people are real!”

But you will lose the weight Gog. And everyone knows lizard people are just mole people in costumes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urglg3WimHA

Naw, they are producers

"lizard people are just mole people in costumes"

Thanks Ben, that's a perfect example of why I visit this blog: the collective wisdom of the community.