Clearing Off The Desk -- October 31, 2021

Lana Del Rey: wow, wow, wow -- on the front page of National Review's online magazine.  Amazing.

US equity markets hit all-time highs; caps a winning October.

Speed: a reader sent me an interesting article on methamphetamine. An article in Dynomight had more background. Two things:

• see if you can come up with the 30-second soundbite why things suddenly got worse? It might surprise you.
• what product might you have in your house right now that (legally) contains metamphetamine? This will surprise you, unless you already know.

Canines: move over Taylor Swift. Country-western singer Eric Church is out-touring Taylor Swift despite Covid-19. How does he do it? Link to The WSJ. 

Global warming: the left's climate humiliation. They were expecting mandates, but they will have to settle for more corporate welfare. By the way, even Greta is skipping COP26 this year. She has moved on: to vaccine inequality. LOL. Link to The WSJ. Apparently her gig was getting stale. Looking for a new line. And then this: the empty spectacle of the UN climate-change summit: nothing will get done.

Glasgow: diesel generators will provide the electricity to charge twenty-six EVs.

MLB's worst nightmare: one of the following will get the trophy -- link here to The WSJ:

• the Houston Astro sign-stealing cheaters; or
• the Atlanta Braves: chop, chop; and the city from which the "woke" commissioner moved the All-Star Game to all-white Denver

Bitcoin, Texas-style: link to CNBC. From a reader, thank you. Key words:

• Rockdale, TX, population, 5,600; rural Texas; 
• it may be rural, but it's only an hour northeast of Austin, TX
  
• Bitdeer: a firm spun off from Chinese bitcoin mining giant Bitmain; steeped in mystery; hates visitors;
• Rio Blackchain: one of the biggest publicly-traded mining companies in America; transparent; loves visitors;
• both are tenants of property once occupied by Alcoa

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