Fair question.

Michael Jackson leading a Cub Scout troop on an overnight camping expedition.

Dick Cheney on a hunting trip.

Jussie Smollett's account of how he was assaulted by two white MAGA hat-wearing thugs in sub-zero weather with a noose and a bottle of bleach.

Show of hands: How many recognize the meaning of this diagram?

Cool, but if your neighbor had one, you'd knock over his trash cans every week. And buy him new ones for the weekends.

Also— Did Widmark have other facial expressions, or just the one?

https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/1204550607417286656

https://freebeacon.com/issues/biden-paid-women-less-than-men-in-each-of-his-35-years-as-senator/

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/351201/

Oh.

Cruz: “A lawyer at the FBI creates fraudulent evidence, alters an email that is in turn used as the basis for a sworn statement to the court that the court relies on. Am I stating that accurately?"

Horowitz: "That's correct. That's what occurred"

https://twitter.com/RepMarkMeadows/status/1204847596017205249

Trust once broken is difficult to regain.

The raw (unadjusted) data from three Indian Ocean gauges – Aden, Karachi and Mumbai – showed that local sea level trends in the last 140 years had been very gently rising, neutral or negative (ie sea levels had fallen).

But after the evidence had been adjusted by tidal records gatekeepers at the global databank Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) it suddenly showed a sharp and dramatic rise.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2017/12/06/tidalgate-climate-alarmists-caught-faking-sea-level-rise/

Democrats unveiled their articles of impeachment against President Trump, but one of the charges seems to have backfired. The suggestion that Trump obstructed Congress turned out to be a far more popular idea than Democrats had predicted.

https://babylonbee.com/news/trumps-popularity-rises-after-revelation-he-obstructed-congress

Teachers like these are rare to find:

https://mobile.twitter.com/its_riccaa/status/1204834518089289729

Keeping your ships afloat might be harder than it looks.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russias-only-aircraft-carrier-admiral-kuznetsov-has-erupted-flames

Academic thinking. Or "I can't be broke, I still have checks!"

In a November interview with National Education Association president Lily Eskelsen García, the Massachusetts senator said, "The way I see it, there's always, c'mon, there's always money. It's there. Are we going to spend the money on defense or are we going to spend the money on our children?"

https://freebeacon.com/politics/warren-pressed-on-spending-theres-always-money/

Marriage and Pregnancy Reduce Crime

'the meaning of this diagram?'

I think it's an example of 'dead evidence' (had to look up the phrase, TBH). RAF planes planes were armored in the spots that weren't hit by bullets (see illustration), saving weight but still protecting the plane's most vulnerable spots.

Gog earns a Free Drink ticket for Amy's holiday bash at the Hyatt in Santa Monica next weekend.