Free-for-All Friday

Arctic Temps + Freeloaders + Shutdown + Covington Teens

Leckband Temp Challenge

Our Iowanians certainly have impressively arctic readings this morning.
> #6, Balmiest Leckbands, Norfolk, NE, 17/wind chill 5
> #5, Beatrice, NE, 16/1
> #4, Lincoln, NE, 13/0
> #3, Eagan, MN, -8/-8
> #2, Ventura, IA, -5/-19
> #1, Garrison, IA, -11/-22

Dept. of Shameless Joke-Stealing *

* Courtesy of "Laugh Lines," Reader's Digest, Dec. '18/Jan. '19

• "I hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last ten seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May?"
• "To all those who received a book from me as a Christmas present...they are due back at the library tomorrow."

Taglines

From Drudge Report, 1/25:  I didn't have time to read the articles.

* Emotional support alligator helps depression...

* Cannabis users' syndrome made woman vomit 30 times in one day...

* 50% Facebook accounts fake?...

* American Airlines kicks family off plane, citing body odor...

Political Potpourri

"But by constantly paying lip service to the president's cherished policy goal while doing nothing, Republicans made it inevitable that he would get fed up w/the delays & force a confrontation. At the very least, the congressional GOP deserves a larger portion of the blame, & its insistence that this is only a crisis now that it is not in charge should be added to the hypocrisy list alongside the Democrats' sudden moral horror of walls." [Jonah Goldberg, "Who's at Fault in the Shutdown Fight," National Review Online, 1/25]

"A day after the initial story of what happened with the Covington kids fell apart, & after Nathan Phillips was exposed as having told a number of lies about it, TMZ was still offering headline like, 'MAGA hat smirking teen offers no apology to Nathan Phillips.' Why a teen must offer an apology to a purposefully annoying adult who walks into his group banging a drum inches from his face is unclear--unless you understand that wearing that hat & smirking are the crimes here." [Kyle Smith, "Hatecrime & Facecrime," NRO, 1/25]