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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