Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
The growing patchwork of state internet sales taxes that has emerged since the landmark 2018 Supreme Court decision regarding out-of-state online sellers has hamstrung small businesses with costly compliance burdens. Halstead Bead Inc. an online jewelry supply store in Prescott, Arizona, has found complying with the online sales tax vexing. “It’s been quite challenging,” said … Read more
To speed up clothes drying and prevent lint build-up, install a smooth metal dryer vent. These step-by-step directions walk you through the tough parts. Rigid metal vents are safer than flexible plastic and metal types, which catch more lint, require more cleaning and can retard airflow. Even worse, flexible ducts are easily crushed, which blocks … Read more
If you think every item sold at a home center meets your local building code, think again. There are national, state and local codes and home centers don’t limit their offerings to only what is building code compliant in your local area. It’s up to you to know which products meet code and which ones … Read more
As older adults age into later life, they often face disruptive changes that make their dwellings, neighborhoods and communities seem less appealing. When they retire and seek new leisure, volunteer or career activities, they may be disappointed by what is available nearby. After their children depart, older adults may feel that their homes are uncomfortably … Read more
Most of us have our own life experiences to draw from when thinking about school, but things have changed a little (or a lot!) since we were last in a classroom. Imagine your neighbor Caroline said her son loves the magnet elementary school he switched to in August. You might be perplexed as images of … Read more
Another World Hijab Day (WHD) is fast upon us — the eighth since Bronx resident Nazma Khan founded the event in 2013. The protest-cum-demonstration every February 1st seeks to “foster religious tolerance and understanding by inviting women (non-Hijabi Muslims/non-Muslims) to experience the hijab for one day.” The goal of diminishing bullying and prejudice is admirable, … Read more
Kim Anderson approached her husband one day with an idea that caught him by surprise: “Why don’t we just pay off our house?” At the time, Kim was a stay-at-home wife who wasn’t involved very much in the couple’s finances, but her husband quickly got on board when they sat down together and made a … Read more
Until the late 1980s—shortly after Russell Baker showed his kids the old America—Main Street in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania had five department stores, including a Sears, a Montgomery Ward, a J. C. Penney, a Woolworth’s, and an independent, Racusin’s. Perhaps as those national chains had moved in, in the early 20th-century, locals worried about the invaders. But … Read more
Like all the best con artists, Randy Constant was a charmer, hard not to like. Big hearted. Good listener. You’d never have guessed that the father of three, grandfather of five was a liar, cheat and serial philanderer who masterminded one of the biggest and longest-running frauds in the history of American agriculture. “He was … Read more
Balance is required of us.We may prefer Thomistic formulations, Carmelite spirituality, charismatic worship, or the traditional Latin Mass. Such things are legitimate matters for discussion; we ought not to feel threatened by what the Church currently deems to be legitimate diversity. Discovering the range and limits of diversity is an ongoing matter for the Church; … Read more
CVS receipts are known for being absurdly long — a fact that has inspired a thousand memes and the disapproval of some people over how wasteful they are. Now, an Etsy seller has created a real-life meme in the form of a scarf that looks like one of those mile-long CVS receipts. Take a look … Read more
What’s really driving dollar-store bans? Could it be a simple lack of empathy? . . . Should city governments dictate where you can shop for food? If your neighbors see a need for a store, and happily patronize it, should outsiders shut down that option? These are the battle lines of the emerging movement against … Read more
Auto-centric life maximizes social alienation, destroys public space, and lays waste to the once glorious American landscape. . . . [Harvard Professor Alex] Krieger for one, at least, showed an interest in the New Urbanist movement, attending some of the early conferences, and now declares in this new book that its founders “deserve enormous respect … Read more
People replacing doorbells with cameras to deter package theft is a bad thing, and if you’ve any doubt, here’s a recent New York Times think-piece headline on the subject: “The Policing of the American Porch.” Ah, for the carefree, innocent days of a better nation, with its unpoliced porches. A nobler time before the rank … Read more
Nick Sandmann, who was the subject of a defamatory media firestorm during last year’s March for Life, returned to D.C. one year later. “I will never pass on an opportunity to March for Life,” Sandmann wrote on Twitter. Sandmann, along with other students from Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky, was approached by an activist … Read more
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Our abortion regime depends on lie after lie: the lie that an unborn child is something other than a living member of the human species; the lie that the Constitution excludes them from the possibility of protection; the lie that abortion is necessary for women to flourish. The March for Life is also a March … Read more
Not content with stifling dissent at overwhelmingly leftist law schools, the progressive legal establishment is now threatening to trample conservative judges’ freedom of association. Their proposal should be shot down, and its remains should be buried. The proposal comes from the Committee on Codes of Conduct of the Judicial Conference of the United States. It … Read more
New laboratory tests commissioned by EWG have for the first time found the toxic fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS in the drinking water of dozens of U.S. cities, including major metropolitan areas. The results confirm that the number of Americans exposed to PFAS from contaminated tap water has been dramatically underestimated by previous studies, both … Read more
President Trump will deliver an in-person speech on Friday at the March for Life, an annual rally held in Washington protesting the legalization of abortion. Trump will be the first president in history to appear at the march, one of the highest-profile events of the anti-abortion movement. March for Life is in its 47th year, … Read more
The website landing page is finally live!! —> www.buttermeatco.com The online store will launch in spring 2020. There’s a lot more work ahead to educate and delight customers. The shop in Perry is opening next Saturday 2/1/2020?!?! Thankful Number One Sons (Caitlin) will be making a visit to help kick things off. Jamie is on … Read more
Reporters and editors at the largest news outlets overwhelmingly dislike and distrust the people demonstrating against Virginia’s proposed gun restrictions. This is clear as day, and every journalist, center-left media critic, and media defender would do well to admit as much. The media elite hate guns, favor gun control, and bear disdain or at least … Read more
In the years after World War II, flush with cash and optimism, American planners “skipped the messy iterations” of gradual urban and suburban growth, Charles L. Marohn Jr. explains. Instead, they subsidized ambitious new developments and saddled them with codes aimed at keeping them static. After all, once you’ve figured out the perfect design, why … Read more
You remember about a year ago, when [Nick] Sandmann and his Catholic school classmates traveled to Washington, D.C., to join the annual March for Life rally on Capitol Hill. Sandmann was photographed smiling at a Native American. With one mighty flatulent blast, outlets like CNN imagined Sandmann, wearing his MAGA cap, as the distillation of … Read more
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