Neighbours are watching. Do you cut your power use?

Tim Blair is running a poll.  Help out, go vote.

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“WTF. I take a nap on a Friday afternoon and have a quiet evening with the wife and you guys let Bill Clinton become president again???”

That’s “DaveW,” commenting at Althouse.

Other experessions of amazement:

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Silent night?

...and abuncha wags in the U.K. want to mess with your mind (or at least the pop charts...):

A motley crew [oh, har-de-har! - o.g.] of musicians backed by a Facebook campaign are plotting to hijack the poor beleaguered Christmas number one with a four-minute recording of silence.

Following last year’s triumphant, internet-bolstered, telly-talent-compo-orthodoxy-upending ascendance of the gleefully inappropriate and profanity-sprinkled Killing in the Name by Rage Against The Machine to the once-sacred top spot, a campaign is under way to get a charity recording of avant garde composer John Cage's 4'33" to the lofty position for 25 December.

Meanwhile over at Roseholme, Roberta produces a generic carol, guaranteed to offend no one.

Now, who’s up for a chorus of Deck Us All With Boston Charlie?

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“There’s even a coupon...”

How to solve the healthcare problem:  Merge the TSA with the DHHS.

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Ain’t it da trut’!

No outfit is complete without cat hair.

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New librarian-blog

(via: Charles G. Hill, who often seems to have read the entire internet.)

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Smitty gets called up

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“...This is the first year I have EVER pounded in signs. I love it.”

David Kirkham:

As fast as we can put up these Matheson = Pelosi signs they tear them out...  Every morning I drive by and the Republican signs are knocked over and I pound them back in.  Someone has a special dislike for the Matheson = Pelosi signs as they are invariably STOLEN.

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Gallery of Halloween advice

From Patrick, LabRat, Old NFO, and (for the psycho) Stingray.

And Brigid has a tale of ghosts.  And another of Zombie Spiders.

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Death of the social contract

Karl Denninger:

Our society relies on the general premise that you can walk from the grocery store door to your car, and from your car into your apartment, in reasonable safety. That's part of the unwritten social contract that binds all of us together.

Nobody passed a law to make it thus - those laws were all passed for other reasons (e.g. "no murdering, no raping, no pillaging") - but the general agreement among the population that these laws apply to everyone, and the people who disobey them will be punished, is why you can, in fact, walk from your car to your apartment with a reasonable expectation that you'll get there without any extra holes added to your body.

If this element of reasonable expectation is lost, we have instant madness.

Once the population gets into its head that the very legal code that says you can't steal someone's house by lying about debts in court only applies to them, and not to banks, we're not far from the general population deciding that the rest of the law doesn't apply either - and if the banks aren't going to play it legal and straight neither will they.

Society cannot survive in its present form if that decision is taken by even a tiny percentage of the population.

Not dead yet, but gravely ill.  RTWT

HT:  “fairwhether,” in the comments at ++undead

Related:  More stuff that’s only “for the little people”

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