It’s about the infrastructure, stupid! Tonight’s State of the Union address is rumored to be heavy on the infrastructure spending rhetoric. At Reason, Christian Britschgi observes “The point of infrastructure spending is to build infrastructure, not create jobs.” Amen.
PC Loadletter? What does that even mean? Ever wanted to destroy some of your office equipment? The government has likely beat you to it, as Atlas Obscura reports. They tested filing cabinets, houses, cars, trucks, and safes to see how they’d fare against nuclear weapons.
The Breakdown Of Institutional Power. No spoilers, no teases. Read Katherine Miller’s latest.
Drugs out the wazoo. Imagine a town in West Virginia. It has has a population of about 3,000 people. Now, consider that drug companies have shipped 20 million pain pills to that town’s handful of pharmacies. Absolutely crazy.
Is Trump already better than Reagan? That’s what the Examiner‘s Philip Wegmann observes:
A note to the babysitter. As a new parent who recently went through the childcare rigamarole, this McSweeney’s item is hilarious, and hits a little close to home.
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