LECKBAND TEMP CHALLENGE 

When I saw Norfolk's temp on wunderground.com at 8:08 CST this morning, I thought we had a pretty good chance of winning the temp challenge. I was wrong, but I'll still publish the results.

#1, Eagan, MN, 2

#2, Ventura, IA, 6

#3, Norfolk, NE, 11

#4, Lincoln, NE, 12

#5, BALMIEST LECKBAND, Beatrice, NE, 13

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

"White Castle confirms that its 6 billionth burger has been sold at retail." Fox News Online. When I student-taught in Detroit, my host family extolled the virtues of White Castle, which I had never heard of. We occasionally ate at White Castle when we lived in Chicago. Their burgers were pretty cheap, & we would sometimes order a bag of "belly busters." The last time I had White Castle was in the Twin Cities. Nathan & I were headed on a fishing expedition, & I treated lunch. I would not have to eat there again.

Last night Lois & I ate at The Pier Seafood Restaurant in downtown Norfolk. It specializes in Mexican seafood, & I've wanted to eat there for some time. We shared an order of crab dip. Lois had a shrimp quesadilla, & I had shrimp fajitas. Here's what was really cool. They were playing a Toby Mac CD, so Lois asked our waiter who the Toby Mac Fan was. He said that he & his family were big fans. In fact, he & his wife were going to a Toby Mac concert in Omaha next THU. It just so happens that Lois is taking Brianna to the same concert. How cool is that?

"Doritos cuts number of chips in each bag, blames Bidenflation." Drudge Report

HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH

"1 in 3 Americans take pain meds every day." Drudge. I used to take a lot of pain meds because of back pain. Now I only take Extra-Strength Tylenol because of the DDD in my neck. My P.A. recently told me to take more Tylenol--at least for the time being--because of my bruised ribs. Just thought you'd like to know.

THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE FLORIDA

"FL school kid sad he has to wait until 4th grade to be indoctrinated by trans ideology." Babylon Bee

DEPT. OF SHAMELESS JOKE-STEALING *

* Compliments of Reader's Digest, Nov. 2021

You can learn a lot about kids from their parents

> My daughter had a complete existential breakdown one day when she found out that she was going to have to pee every day of her life."

> After a typical rapid-fire question session with our 5-year-old, my wife wondered why she asks so many questions. Her response:  "Well, I don't know everything."

WHAT IS A WOMAN?

"Anyone who cannot answer this question is worse than useless to the cause of women’s rights." Madeleine Kearns, National Review Online

"The LGBT lobby does not believe in democracy or debate. They believe that all dissent is "hate speech," and any opposition to their treacherous goals leads to youth suicide and emotional torture. They fight dirty, always assuming the worst of their opponents and always engaging in character assassination." Tim Graham, Townhall

OIL

"The other day, Biden declared that there was nothing his administration had done to raise prices or restrict drilling. Actually, there have been plenty of regulatory measures taken and offshore leases curtailed. More importantly, Biden declared war on fossil fuels . . . In a strange bit of optics, as the president was suspending Russian oil imports last week, he requested $2.6 billion for "gender equality" globally. He's causing American energy price increases and wasting billions on nonsense. Now, he wants to blame the Russian oil imports for high gas prices, which were high before the ban . . . 

"If Biden were to commit to tapping our oil reserves and expanding domestic energy production, oil markets would respond rapidly, just as they did in 2008. Instead, even now, his administration dogmatically demands Americans switch to electric vehicles and get off fossil fuels. His administration continually signals that they will put the fossil fuel industry out of business. They thereby disincentivize investments in oil and gas, driving up costs on the American people. Decline is a choice, and it is one Biden's administration is making on the backs of the American middle class." Erick Erickson, Townhall