Dream President in All 50 States
Alabama — Bear Bryant
Alaska — Bullwinkle the Moose
Arizona — Barry Goldwater
Arkansas — Bill Clinton
California — Snoop Dogg
Colorado — Adolph Coors
Connecticut — Thurston Howell III
Delaware — Hunter Biden
Florida — Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Georgia — Jimmy Carter
Hawaii — Barack Obama
Idaho — Ernest Hemingway
Illinois — Abraham Lincoln
Indiana — John Cougar Mellencamp
Iowa — Henry Wallace
Kansas — Melissa Etheridge
Kentucky — Diane Sawyer
Louisiana — Huey Long
Maine — George Herbert Walker Bush
Maryland — John Waters
Massachusetts — Ted …
The Greatest Show on Earth
A Trump rally in Montana brings out the walking wounded and the Second Coming of William Jennings Bryan
The lean, mean Chicago machine wants to own the inside of your skull
An obsession with politics is a form of mental colonization by people who truly aren’t your friends; it’s un-American, and uncool.
You can smell what’s coming. It isn’t good, what they’re cooking up. It’s been almost a decade now, so we already know the drill: Keep quiet, do what you’re told, don’t think wrong thoughts, and make yourself as small as possible, in the hopes of maybe becoming invisible. This is plainly no recipe for free people to live by, but it’s what seems to be on the menu, today, tomorrow, three months from now, until everywhere in the country feels like the inside of a prison cell in some Latin American country. Dank, damp and dark.
At any rate, that’s the view from beneath the floppy fishing hat that I bought at the outfitting store in Livingston, before I drove out here to Bozeman. Go read Milan Kundera and Czesław Miłosz, the literary giants from the days of Soviet domination of the Eastern Bloc, and tell me that at least half of it doesn’t seem familiar.
America was never this way before. Politics was …
Agricultural Digest
While it has been common practice for many Homeowners Associations to prevent their members from raising chickens, the Missouri General Assembly has now given HOA members the freedom to choose. Based on a new law signed last month by Governor Mike Parson, HOA members will be able to have their chickens and eat them too, starting on August 28 — as long as the homeowner in question is sitting on at least one fifth of an acre. They may have up to six chickens, if they wish.
Opponents of the law say that the new provision infringes on the rights of individual communities. Elia Ellis, an attorney and the chair for the CAI Missouri Legislative Action Committee, stated: “And those communities that don't want to have those should be allowed to not have chickens.” Lawmakers anticipated the pushback, including language that provides for each community to “adopt reasonable rules, subject to applicable statutes or …
