LECKBAND TEMP CHALLENGE

When I saw our temperature early this morning, I felt that Norfolk would easily win today's temp challenge. I was wrong. Ratings based on wunderground at 6:59a.

• 1st place, Garrison, IA, 9 degrees
• 2nd place tie, Norfolk, NE, Ventura, IA, 11 degrees
• 4th place, Eagan, MN, 14 degrees
• 5th place, Beatrice, NE, 15 degrees
• 6th place, Balmiest Leckbands, Lincoln, NE, 16 degrees

CRIMINAL MINDS

"Police say man brought fast food to escapees. A Louisiana man has been arrested after renting a motel room for 7 jail escapees & buying them sausage biscuits." --Omaha World Herald, 11/15

DEPT. OF SHAMELESS JOKE-STEALING

"My wife found out I was cheating on her after she found all the letters I was hiding...She got so mad & said she's never gonna play Scrabble with me ever again." --Reader's Digest, July/Aug 2019

SOCIALISM

Add up a lost generation of woke and broke college graduates, waves of impoverished immigrants without much knowledge of American economic traditions, wealthy advocates of boutique socialism, and asleep-at-the-wheel Republicans, and it becomes clear why historically destructive socialism is suddenly seen as cool.

Regrettably, sometimes the naïve and disaffected must relearn that their pie-in-the sky socialist medicine is far worse than the perceived malady of inequality.

And unfortunately, when socialists gain power, they don’t destroy just themselves. They usually take everyone else down with them as well. --Victor Davis Hanson, National Review Online