I�m not as ready for this as I sound. Experts around the country are  complaining that we aren�t listening to them when they tell us what is  going to happen. Can anybody come up with a reason why that might be so?  I love baseball, but the steroids argument is getting weird. It has  skewed what we think we saw. And the #warwithoutend or declaration that we were told is over, isn�t.

Sometimes I miss California. No, really, sometimes I do. And then�  California calls me and I remember why I not only don�t really miss it, I  yearn for the day when our divorce is 100% complete. Peter Strzok has  been fired by the FBI. Standby for Talking heads telling you why this is  both good and bad and bi-partisan and political. But there is really  bad news today. We�re about to lose a musical icon.

I will be gone all of the next  week, on a vacation that is shaping up to be EPIC. Two full days in Yellowstone.  A full day in Little Piney Creek, another full day at Little Big Horn, and then,  the cherry on top, we will be travelling to a remote part of Eastern Montana to  visit  my favorite paleontologist at an actual dinosaur dig!

Can you tell that I am jazzed  about the trip?

The Peoples Demokratick Republick  of Kalifornia informed my last Friday that there were very upset that I had not  paid my vehicle registration for 2017. In fact, the DMV was so upset that they  requested that the Franchise Tax Board track me down and  threaten to take legal action against me to force me to pay the  registration fees.

Now... I will say this: the FTB  folks are a lot more reasonable and friendly to talk to than the DMV. Once they  realized what was actually going on, they were actually sort of apologetic.  Except they were insistent on one thing: That I personally call the DMV and tell  them that I moved a while ago. I'll get right on that...

Speaking of the DMV, they made  the news a lot on Friday, with three separate stories. First up, the DMV lines  are so long that people are resorting to  stealing license plates rather than wait. second, the State Legislature  seemingly doesn't think that the lines are bad enough to  warrant an audit. thirdly, it turns out the reason the Legislators don't  care about the lines is because they personally  don't have to stand in them. You know, like the little people they  serve. Good news! The press is now letting us know that  we should be upset about the whole thing...

Once upon a time, the Supreme  Court was asked to stop something that had already happened from happening.  Yesterday, the Attorney Virtue Signaling General of Washington State  asked the Federal courts to stop something from happening that already  happened. It won't work. It cannot work. But it's something, so like a straw  ban, we're gonna do it, because it's "something..."

Star Trek: Discovery is going to destroy Mr. Spock by making him "not entirely the Spock who has been formed  enough to be the Spock that we know from TOS. There's a lot of story about who  Spock was before he becomes the Spock that is the yin-yang to Kirk... we have an  opportunity to present a version of Spock that's both totally consistent with  the Spock everyone knows but very, very different.

In Tacoma, a bunch of perverts  were  arrested for trying to use Social Media to have sex with little kids. Of  course, that's already illegal, but there's no Attorney Virtue Signaling General  proposing injunctions to stop it. I wonder why not?

And the City of Seattle,  beautiful as it is, has a homeless problem. The problem isn't what they think  that it is, but that hasn't stopped them from threatening  to fine their shelters - which they fund - for not meeting "unrealistic"  (the correct term is "impossible") goals of "exiting" people from homelessness.

Dave often says that liberty and freedom are NOT the same thing. Here�s why he says that...