In The Mailbox: 11.27.19

Posted on | November 27, 2019 | 3 Comments

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ammo.com: Thanksgiving: The Forgotten History of America’s Thanksgiving and What It Commemorates
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #817
EBL: A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, also, Elizabeth Warren’s Support Is Collapsing
Twitchy: The Atlantic Suggests Meeting Your Imperfect Trump-Supporting Relatives At Their Level This Thanksgiving
Louder With Crowder: Some Liberals Now Saying Santa Claus Should Be Female Or Gender-Neutral. We Need A New Plague.
Vox Popoli: Don’t Support Those Who Hate You

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Adam Piggott: Friday Hawt Chicks & Links – The Secret Source Edition, also, Podcast #126 – The Maserati Episode
American Greatness: Federal Judge Blocks Trump Rule Requiring Immigrants To Pay For Their Own Healthcare, also, The Indispensable Tucker Carlson
American Power: How Republicans Won Phase One Of Impeachment, also, Rain & Snow For Thanksgiving
American Thinker: The Climate Con, also, President Trump Is Scoring With Black Voters, And Democrats Are Terrified
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday, also, Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: Thanksgiving, 20 Years Ago – A Little Cuban Boy Floating Alone In The Florida Straits Is Rescued, also, Chile’s Pinochet Ranks Rather High Compared To His Contemporaries
Baldilocks: California Transformed, Part I
BattleSwarm: Dispatches From A Non-Genocide, also, How Boeing Lost Its Bearings
Cafe Hayek: And I Can Fly By Twirling My Tongue, also, Busting The Myth Of Libertarian Atomism
Camp of the Saints: Bring Me The Head Of Donald Trump & The Killer Elite
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday, also, Where Would We Bury All The Bodies?
Da Tech Guy: Welcome To The Age Of Criminals, also, The Pentagon’s Vast All-Wing Conspiracy – Plunder
Don Surber: Schwab Inc. Leaving San Fran For Texas, also, NYT Says 7% Of Hillary Voters Now Support Trump
First Street Journal: Wasn’t Much of A Sacrifice
Fred On Everything: A User’s Guide To The Supervision Of Morning
The Geller Report: Shocking UK CCTV Footage Of Muslim Terrorist Stabbing Train Commuters, also, Over 100,000 DCA Applicants Arrested For Murder, Rape, & DUI
Hogewash: Shameless Commerce, also, Slow Blogging
Hollywood In Toto: Reality Is Proving No Safe Spaces Point, And It’s Frightening, also, Everything Wrong With Borat’s Fake News Screed
Joe For America: Shocking Court Testimony Accuses Rep. Omar Of Selling Intel To Qatar, also, Obama Throws Biden Under The Bus
JustOneMinute: Not The Bombshell I Was Waiting For, also, Trench Warfare
Legal Insurrection: Elizabeth Warren – Peaked Too Soon, Or Just A Bad Candidate? also, The Reported Violent Racist Physical Assault You Probably Never Heard About
Michelle Malkin: Fight For The Freedom To Question Vaccines
The PanAm Post: Bolivia’s Five Lessons For Mexico & Latin America, also, Corruption Ideology Threatens To Infiltrate OAS
Power Line: Has Nuclear’s Time Come? also, Are House Democrats Getting Cold Feet?
Shot In The Dark: Tear Down This Wall, also, It ~~Could Happen~~ Is Happening Here
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday – Resolved That Government Is Not The Solution, It Is The Problem, also, All Your Data Are Belong To Us (Us Being Google)
This Ain’t Hell: Fake SEAL Charged With Defrauding VA Of Over $300K, also, Schlitt For Brains
Victory Girls: Daily Show Stunt Shows Black Community Divide, also, Minor League Baseball Doesn’t Need Bernie Sanders
Volokh Conspiracy: Hamilton On Impeachment, also, The Bolton Subpoena
Weasel Zippers: Man Finds Out It’s A Bad Idea To Punch A Cop, also, Bloomberg Flashback – Taxing The Poor Is A Good Thing
Megan McArdle: How Can Republicans Defend Trump? Because Of The Clintons, also, My Uber Driver Reminded Me Of how Thanksgiving Brings Us Together. So I’m Tabling The Politics.
Mark Steyn: Grapefruit Of Wrath, also, Good Sports

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Category: Linkagery

Rule 5 Wednesday: Busy In The Kitchen

Posted on | November 27, 2019 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Oh, the embarrassment. Laid low for most of this past week by a strain of flu that this season’s shot didn’t block. Well, better late than never, and since most of us have our minds on cooking (or eating, at least) it seemed appropriate to introduce a playful chef from the mobile game Fate/Grand Order, Tamamo Cat. Here we see her wielding her chosen weapons in the kitchen.

A saucy catgirl; quite a cutup!

Ninety Miles From Tyranny opens up with Hot Pick of the Late Night, The 90 Miles Mystery Boxes #810 & #811, and Morning Mistress. At Animal Magnetism, it’s Rule Five On The Other Foot Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL brings us Car Models, Michelle Malkin, Kathy Scruggs, Hunter Biden’s Baby Mama, Vintage Women & Race Cars, Dolly Parton, Vintage Thanksgiving, and Fibonacci Day.

A View From The Beach has From Jolly Old England, Camilla Luddington, Like They Don’t Have Bigger Problems, What, No More Red Apples?, Another Water Bottle Wednesday, Get Woke, Go Broke, Monday Morning Russiagate, Some Warm Milk for Monday Morning, Perhaps She Should Try Venezuela, and Scooter Won’t Let Me Sing, Sang Taylor Hatefully.

Proof Positive’s Vintage Babe of the Week is Brigitte Bardot, Bacon Time has Rule 5 Impeachment Exit Strategy, and at Nitzakhon (The Redpilled Jew) it’s Women Waiting In The Hotel Room.

Category: Rule 5

Hereditary Genius

Posted on | November 27, 2019 | Comments Off on Hereditary Genius

These two portraits, of my 19-year-old son Emerson and my 17-year-old daughter Reagan, were taken Tuesday by my brother Kirby McCain. If you’ll click on the images you can see the photos full-size. Emerson is home for Thanksgiving from college, where he is a member of the acrobatics team and also president of the freshman class. Reagan, now a junior at her Christian school, is president of the student assembly, was awarded most valuable midfielder on the girl’s soccer team, and has recently been inducted into the National Honor Society. So our two youngest are not merely good-looking kids, but actually good kids.

In 1869, Sir Francis Galton published Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences. the first attempt to examine scientifically the role of ancestry in human intelligence. A cousin of Charles Darwin, Galton believed he could show that “genius,” as he called it, was largely a matter of heredity, thus favoring nature over nurture in explaining the development of extraordinary ability. Galton’s book was the original seed of a controversy that has raged ever since, with opponents seeking to discredit the idea of natural (hereditary) ability in favor of an environmental (nurture) explanation of human differences.

Of course, Charles Murray (co-author of The Bell Curve) is nowadays considered a Thought Criminal for daring to cite evidence in favor of the hereditary propositions first made by Galton, and it is strange to me, as a conservative Christian, to see mobs of militant atheists protesting campus appearances by Murray, who is accused of “racism” for applying to human life the evolutionary theories of Darwinism. What explains the Left’s rage against the idea of inherited ability? First, and most obviously, we are cursed by the Shadow of Hitler’s Ghost. The Nazi regime, with its fanatical belief in Aryan superiority and its sinister hatred of Jews, imprinted a perhaps indelible stain on what is sometimes called “eugenics.” Since World War II, any discussion of human heredity is likely to be denounced as a “neo-Nazi pseudo-science” if the discussion tends toward the view that variations in ability can be explained by genetics. Yet if Charles Murray has advocated any sort of Third Reich-style government coercion, I must have missed it (in fact, Murray calls himself a libertarian), but the way the Left has smeared him, you might be forgiven for thinking Murray was a latter-day Adolf Eichmann.

The second reason why Murray is so demonized, however, is that The Bell Curve is an implicit criticism of a modern liberal worldview that I have called The Contraceptive Culture. Our educational elite have diligently propagated this worldview, in which sex is radically separated from its natural function, i.e., reproduction. The feminist devotion to “choice” and the Planned Parenthood-sponsored celebrations of “safe sex” amount to a curriculum of voluntary sterility, teaching young people to view sex strictly as hedonistic pleasure-seeking, and to develop a contemptuous attitude toward sex in its biological purpose of procreation.

Few Americans have noticed how the promotion of so-called “safe sex” has suffused our culture with an anti-natal ideology. Whereas previous generations thought of pregnancy as a natural (and generally desirable) consequence of sexual intercourse, younger Americans have been indoctrinated to believe that pregnancy is a rare and catastrophic event. While the disciples of “pro-sex” feminism encourage rampant promiscuity, and the LGBTQ lobby advocates the avoidance of heterosexuality, it has become unsual (and unpopular) to encourage young people to think of sex in terms of making babies. The “safe sex” ideology is anti-marriage, anti-motherhood and anti-family. Therefore, Murray’s writings (not only in The Bell Curve, but also in his 1984 classic Losing Ground and his forthcoming book Human Diversity) are decidedly in contradiction of what “educated” young people are supposed to believe about sexual behavior. No college student today is supposed to consider their inherited traits as a biological legacy bequeathed to them by generations of their ancestors, nor is it permissible for them to contemplate their sexual behavior in its procreative possibilities as a gift to future generations. And so angry mobs of “progressive” students turn out to disrupt any event which brings Charles Murray to the university campus, because his work calls attention to biological realities that students have been taught to ignore. But I digress . . .

As a father, I take pride in my children’s outstanding qualities, seeing in them a reflection of myself. If I have accomplished nothing else in my life, certainly I have done OK in the procreation department, with six fine children and four grandchildren, with our fifth grandchild (our oldest daughter’s second child) due to be born any day now. And the excellent portraits of our two youngest children, taken by their Uncle Kirby, show both his photography skill and their remarkable good looks.

Since October, Kirby has been living with us, getting medical treatment for his high blood pressure, which resulted in the suspension of his DOT certification as a long-haul trucker. Today, Kirby has an appointment at the Veteran’s Administration hospital, and I hope readers who have enjoyed this tale of Hereditary Genius will be kind enough to send Kirby money via PayPal. Whatever you can give — $5, $10, $20 — would be appreciated. He’s also got a GoFundMe account, if you would rather contribute that way. Thanks in advance, and may God bless you.

Category: Family

The Present Crisis

Posted on | November 26, 2019 | Comments Off on The Present Crisis

“The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards. And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence.
“It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”
— Sam Adams, 1771

That warning from one of our nation’s greatest Patriot forefathers is quoted in the final chapter of my good friend Robert Belvedere’s new book, On the Causes and Effects of the Present Crisis in America.

Bob was kind enough to send me not one, but two copies — one for my brother Kirby — and I must say that I am impressed. The Present Crisis is a valuable book in that it looks beyond the day-to-day partisan conflicts that consume so much of our attention, bringing into view the deeper and more fundamental roots of our social disorder. The author writes in a deliberately old-fashioned style, recalling the 18th-century English prose of our Founding Fathers such as Sam Adams. The failure of our education system to teach America’s young people their own history is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that almost no one under 40 today knows anything about Sam Adams except as a popular brand of beer.

It could be argued that no one man was more responsible for inspiring our War of Independence than Sam Adams, whom Winston Churchill (in his History of the English Speaking Peoples) identifies as the foremost of American radicals during the years when our colonial ancestors began to resent the British Crown’s encroachment of their liberties. The case that Adams made (unfortunately one little appreciated by our ignorant youth) is that the rights which Americans were willing to fight and die for were not intellectual abstractions, but rather an inheritance their English forebears had bequeathed to them, rights won “with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood.” It is this “fair Inheritance” which recent generations have voluntarily forfeited in pursuit of theoretical notions of “equality” and “social justice.” But I digress . . .

Bob Belvedere’s book is one that I’m sure our readers will want to buy, perhaps as a gift for a young person who needs to cure their ignorance.

Category: Books, History

Authorities: Remains of Aniah Blanchard Found; Two More Suspects Charged

Posted on | November 25, 2019 | 1 Comment

Aniah Blanchard (front center) with her family.

We reported earlier this month on the disappearance of Aniah Blanchard, a 19-year-old college student who was reportedly abducted in Auburn, Alabama, on Oct. 23. Blanchard is the step-daughter of UFC fighter Walt Harris, and on Nov. 7, police arrested suspect Ibraheem Yazeed, 29, who had fled to Pensacola, Florida. As I reported on Nov. 9 (“Why Wasn’t Ibraheem Yazid in Jail?”), the suspect had a lengthy record of violent crime and yet had been released on bail after a near-fatal attack on an elderly man in January. On the night she went missing, Aniah reportedly told a friend that she was going to meet a guy she had connected with via a dating app, and now police say they have recovered her remains about 30 miles from where she disappeared:

Human remains believed to be those of a missing Alabama college student were found today in Macon County, officials said.
“I can confirm that human remains have been found in Macon County and we have good reason to believe they are that of Aniah Blanchard,” Lee County District Attorney Brandon Hughes said.
Hughes also confirmed that a man named David Johnson Jr. was arrested in Montgomery on a charge of hindering prosecution. He is being held on $7,500 bond at the Montgomery County Jail.
“During the course of the ongoing investigation into the disappearance of Aniah Blanchard, investigators obtained information regarding the possible location of a body,” a statement from Auburn police read.
“On November 25, 2019, at approximately 10:45 a.m., Auburn Police, along with members of the Task Force, Lee County DA’s Office, U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, ALEA and Montgomery County Sheriff Office, responded to a wooded area in the 38,000 block of County Road 2 in Shorter, Alabama.
“After a brief search by Investigators they located what appeared to be human remains several feet into the woodline. A complete investigation is underway by ALEA and Auburn Police to determine the identity and how the victim came to be at that location. The examination will explore if the remains are those of Aniah Blanchard who went missing on October 24, 2019.
“The case remains under investigation by the Auburn Police Division.”
Macon County Sheriff Andre Brunson said the remains were found in a rural area near New Hope Baptist Church. . . .
Also today, a suspect in the kidnapping of Blanchard, Antwain “Squirmy” Fisher, 35, had his first appearance in court.
Fisher is accused of helping Ibraheem Yazeed, 29, kidnap Blanchard by providing “material assistance to Yazeed by providing transportation to Yazeed, and disposing of evidence,’’ according to court records made public Monday. . . .
According to an affidavit by Auburn police Det. Josh Mixon, Blanchard was last seen by a family member the evening of Oct. 23 at a residence in the 1000 block of Alan Avenue in Auburn. . . .
Charging documents against Yazeed state that blood evidence was discovered in the passenger’s compartment of the vehicle and was “indicative of someone suffering a life-threatening injury.” The evidence was submitted to the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences and confirmed to be that of Blanchard.
Video evidence from the convenience store at 1599 South College Street placed both Blanchard and Yazeed at the store during the same time. “This was the last time she was seen,” Mixon wrote. A witness later identified Yazeed as the individual.

More “violence against women” feminists will ignore, for some reason.

Category: Alabama, Violence Against Women

Is This the Kanye Factor?

Posted on | November 25, 2019 | 1 Comment

Let’s not over-interpret these numbers:

A pair of recent polls show that 34 percent of black likely voters approve of President Donald Trump’s presidency, a stunning development that could have a massive impact on his re-election campaign in 2020.
A Rasmussen poll released Friday showed black likely voter approval of Trump at 34 percent. An Emerson Poll showed 34.5 percent approval by the same demographic.
“Boom,” wrote black author and Trump supporter Deneen Borelli on Twitter, calling the results “Democrats worst nightmare.”
The Trump campaign celebrated the news.
“It might shock Democrats that support for President Trump is rising with Black Americans but it shouldn’t,” Trump campaign Principal Deputy Communications Director Erin Perrine said to Breitbart News. “Blacks are more prosperous than ever because of President Trump with record-low unemployment and rising paychecks.”
The polling bump only bolstered the Trump campaign’s decision to launch a “Black Voices for Trump” political coalition in November.
“We’re going to campaign for every last African American vote in 2020,” Trump said in a speech, launching the group with black supporters in Atlanta, Georgia.
Perrine said the news would energize the coalition going into the president’s re-election effort for 2020.
“The Black Voices for Trump coalition will help get the facts and truth out there about the strength of America for Blacks under President Trump,” she said.

The Trump campaign has made a commitment to winning over black voters in 2020, an effort unprecedented in recent Republican campaign history, and we must keep in mind that it is not necessary for Trump to win a majority of black votes to have a huge impact. For decades, the GOP has suffered from an image problem on race issues, and too many Republican consultants have been averse to making a real effort to fix that problem. In district after district, state after state, election after election, Democrats just assumed that they would win 90-95% of the black vote, which enabled them to win offices in close elections where a majority of white voters went for the Republican candidate. If Trump can get to double digits — 12%-15% — with black voters in 2020, that would probably doom the Democrats in states like Florida and North Carolina. And having stronger black support will also help Trump with the kind of suburban white women who don’t want to be perceived as “racist” for voting Republican. Polls show increasing opposition to the Democrats’ impeachment witch-hunt, and it’s entirely possible — I mean, a long shot, but you can’t rule it out — that Trump could win a 1972-style landslide.

Keep in mind you have four white people — Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg — currently leading the polls among Democratic presidential candidates. The only black candidate with a chance, Kamala Harris, is at 4% nationally and has gone “all-in” on winning the Iowa caucuses. But three of the four most recent Iowa polls show Buttigieg leading, while Harris is in sixth place in the RCP average of Iowa polls. In other words, Iowa Democrats support the gay white mayor over the black female Senator, and do you think this makes black Democrats happy? You ain’t been paying attention to social media, then, because they’re angry as hell. Black Democrats hate Buttigieg.

Maybe it’s just a coincidence that Kanye West, said to be a Trump supporter, released an album entitled “Follow God” that zoomed to the top of the charts. I mean, Democrats might be getting ready to nominate this gay white guy, and here the multi-platinum black rapper who (allegedly) supports Trump is throwing down some Jesus on the people?

All we can do is pray. And maybe you could hit my tip jar?

Category: Donald Trump, Polls

Climate Change Cult Update

Posted on | November 24, 2019 | 2 Comments

Our educational institutions, the major media, and every candidate for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination are in unanimous agreement: Climate change is a “crisis” that requires drastic measures. We must do something — something very expensive, involving untold trillions of dollars of taxpayer money — and do it immediately, or else global warming will make Earth uninhabitable, a lifeless desert planet.

I have never believed this crap, but there are plenty of allegedly intelligent people who believe it with the certainty that a 17th-century Puritan believed in Original Sin, and so these zealots engage in all kinds of bizarre behavior, like giving money to the Pete Buttigieg campaign, or engaging in ridiculous protest stunts:

Spectators rushed the field to stage a climate change protest at halftime of Saturday’s Harvard-Yale game, delaying the start of the second half by nearly an hour and causing the game to finish in near-darkness.
The 136th edition of The Game between the Ivy League rivals went to halftime around 1:40 p.m. ET, and students from both schools occupied midfield after the Yale band finished performing.
Most protesters left after about an hour when they were escorted off by police, who then told about two dozen who remained they were under arrest. The field was ultimately cleared, and the game resumed at 2:48 p.m. ET.
However, the delay led to an issue for the game’s finish because the Yale Bowl lacks stadium lights, and sunset in New Haven, Connecticut, was set for 4:26 p.m. on Saturday.
The darkness problem was compounded as the game went to double overtime, but Yale ultimately got a stop to win 50-43 — and secure a share of the Ivy League title — at 4:38 p.m., before it became too dark to play.
In a statement, the Ivy League referred to the protest as “regrettable.” Yale said that while it “stands firmly for the right to free expression,” it had issues with how the protesters went about their demonstration.
“The exercise of free expression on campus is subject to general conditions, and we do not allow disruption of university events,” Yale said in its own statement.

File this under the category of “Things That Never Happen in Tuscaloosa.” You have to be rich to attend an Ivy League school — it’s $72,100 a year at Yale, $69,607 at Harvard — and only rich kids can afford the luxury of devoting their lives to idiot causes like “climate change.” And I will say, furthermore, that “climate change” is an obsession only for white people. The autistic Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg is the perfect poster child for this movement, which is whiter than a meeting of the Stephen Colbert Fan Club. Like, go down to West Baltimore and ask some of the brothers their opinions about climate change. That will be a rather short conversation ending with a suggestion that you “get the f–k outta my neighbhood, cracker.”

Speaking of people you wouldn’t want in your neighborhood . . .

You might be wondering what this weird scene has to do with climate change. You should ask Wes Siler (the guy on the left), because that’s his girlfriend Virginia McQueen on the right (next to their dog), and the guy in the middle is Kevin Hutzler, a researcher for Amazon Studios. Hutzler’s gay, so I don’t suppose he has any interest in Siler’s girlfriend, but maybe there’s an innocuous explanation behind this. Siler is a longtime outdoors writer, who once made a startling confession:

Scouts doesn’t dictate which god you have to believe in, just that you do need to believe in one. Anecdotally, I’ve seen more and more parents voice this as a reason why they haven’t encouraged their kids to participate in Scouting. In my own experience, it creates a dilemma for non-religious Scouts. The Scout Law requires Scouts to tell the truth, yet as an atheist, I lied through omission both when I attained the Eagle rank and when I became an Assistant Scoutmaster as an adult.

Would you let your 12-year-old son go camping with Wes Siler? Probably not, but that still doesn’t explain the climate change angle:

How crazy can white liberals get? We now know the answer:

On Thursday, 38-year-old lifestyle columnist Wes Siler wrote on Outside Magazine’s website seemingly bragging about getting a vasectomy to stop global warming — “Getting one was, by far, the most powerful personal action I could take for our planet.” What a hero!
Captain Planet explained he’s “always struggled to combine the idea of personal responsibility with the overwhelming need for human society to address the threat posed by climate change,” hence going under the knife. “With a sudden focus on responsible decision-making, it no longer made sense to leave hypothetical future offspring up to chance,” he said.
After getting engaged, Siler saw wildfires in California and floods in the Mississippi River basin and worried this “might be the new normal” and that “the future might be worse than any of us currently fear.” That, and, “of course, the whole Donald Trump thing” made him question, “Is this a world we want to bring kids into? Is this a world it’s responsible to bring kids into?” . . .
Wanting to “make a meaningful impact” on global warming, Siler and his fiancée agreed not to have kids. He thought about giving up his 15 mpg pickup truck, but calculated “it’s nowhere near the carbon emissions I’ll save by skipping becoming a daddy.” He futher claimed, “Any other action we could take, even all the actions we could ever possibly add up together, pale in comparison” to remaining childless because “two people deciding to make fewer humans eliminates the entire cycle of consumption that would fuel that kid’s life.” . . .
Buying into the liberal fallacy that “there are simply too many humans on this planet,” Siles lectures that “it’s the human conflict created by dwindling resources needed to sustain the population that stands to really change life on this planet.” . . .
Because of all this, he finally made an appointment to get a vasectomy. “I was afraid of getting my scrotum operated on, but the procedure ended up being quicker and less invasive than most dental appointments,” Siler said candidly, as if selling the procedure. . . .
Calling forgoing children “the absolute biggest difference we can make,” he concluded, “We need fewer humans, and getting there voluntarily will be an awful lot less painful than doing it with war, famine, and natural disaster.”

Crazy? Yes. But should we encourage this? Absolutely!

Nothing could make me happier than knowing that my grandchildren (our fifth is due next month) will not have to share the planet with the offspring of pretentious white liberal creeps like Wes Siler.

So if white liberals stop having babies, then maybe my grandchildren will get into Harvard. Thanks a lot, Mister Sperm-Free Lifestyle!

Wait a minute. What’s this email in my inbox? Something from The Darwin Awards Committee? Hang on. Let me check . . .

Oh, we have a winner! Congratulations, Wes Siler!