Applesauce - Lesser Helmsman seems surprised at limits on his powers;
PERRspectives - GOP tax plan gives double dose of pain to blue states;
The Rude Pundit - do you want the Night King to turn us into the Army of the Dead?
The Sherman Oaks Review of Books - letters to Kellyanne Conway from summer camp;
Zandar versus The Stupid - running government as His corporation.
Steve in Manhattan blogs at Stinque and suggests trying this mapo tofu recipe he worked up.
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