Wednesday roundup

Hell hath frozen over: Jennifer Rubin is spot-on.

...“creative destruction,” the rise and fall of businesses and entire industries, which is an intrinsic part of a dynamic free market. If you’re not a hard-core Libertarian, the average conservative has considered the solution to this problem to be a safety net and tax, education and other policies that allow workers to rebound; it has never been to halt the marketplace or shift to a government-planned economy... The coal town is depopulated? Yes, that’s sad, but why are they not moving — as immigrants do — to where the jobs are?

You don't have to agree with everything Hillary Clinton has ever said or done, or every position she holds now, to acknowledge that she's a lot better than just "not Trump."

It was a refugee who took the photo of the bowl of Skittles. 

Well, apparently I've been ahead of my time in balking at turning over $10/day for lunch. That's $2,500 a year, people--more than what either of my trips to the Southern Hemisphere this year cost. I guess I am--as that dude I went out with the other night puts it--"frugal."