#Lexplains: Michigan history for #ElectionDay

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#Lexplains extra | Halloween 2016

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#Lexplains the #POTUS Petsitting vote test

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Welcome! Tell me: Can you extend a mea culpa to someone you've only just met?

"So, Lex," you may wonder. "I'm checking this out because of you speaking at TEDxDetroit. It appears that you posted over 500 times on this blog, but then you did a dead stop, only to start up just a bit more than 23 months to the date of your last post."

"Dude. WTF?"

Well, the video culmination of what tripped me up, shut me down, and sent me to the wonderfully ADHD-fueled world of Twitter follows. I shall tell the entire story in the near future. In the meantime, welcome (back) to LexKuhne.com's "60SecondBlog."

Since I need to post something, howzabout some funny friends' videos?

Forget it that it's funny, but Mr. J. Chris Newberg's "Morningwood" could air on pretty much any decent college station:



And my new BFF, the adorable and funny Jordan Elizabeth:

Why is a public service "socialism" only when you object to it?: Non Sequitur of the Day

I'd been thinking along these lines, and then Nicholas Kristoff wrote it in the NYT:

"If they object so passionately to “socialized health,” why don’t they block their 911 service to socialized police and fire services, disconnect themselves from socialized sewers and avoid socialized interstate highways?"

And this. . . this. . . is so hi-larious:

There's a fine line between smarmy hypocrisy and bat-shit crazy

We've mentioned in the past an animus toward the Republican wingut Congressman from Detroit's western suburbs, Thaddeus McCotter.

While he touts his supposed deficit hawkishness (to various degrees of failure), his new deficit building initiative is "HAPPY."

"HAPPY" is proposed to be an annual $3,500 per household deduction for pet expenses.

Now, I love my pets to an extreme, and I certainly respect understand pandering for votes on the backs of a huge special interest group.

However, this kind of political hypocrisy is just . . . a bitch. Get it? Ahhh-hahahahahaha.

Cheers to NPR's ATC for the lead. Thad's interview pandering follows:

Foodies and Gardeners Haunt My Dreams Edition: Non Sequitur of the Day

"Martha Washington Asparagus."

Why?

Just . . . because. . . now I can.

Non Sequitur of the Day: Football Phrase Co-opting Edition

As we've discussed, words mean something. So, it always interests me when a usage seemingly comes out of nowhere to be everywhere.

Today's example: "Pick six."

The phrase originally meant this.

And it has now begun to mean this.

(An all-too-rare Detroit Lions' example can be found here).

Happy Dual Purpose Holiday: Who knew that turkeys were Italian?

To my fellow Americans -- especially on the East Coast, and super especially, Italians on the East Coast (though this suggests you might want to re-think that) -- Happy Columbus Day.

To my fellow North Americans my near and dear Canadian friends, Happy Thanksgiving.

Alas, without access to Canuckian cable, we in The D can no longer watch the traditional holiday CFL doubleheader games.

So, back to work, eh?