There’s a viral deal going around TwiXter that asks, “using a GIF, show a movie you’ve seen at least seven times.” I, of course, chose the greatest film in cinematic history, but it made me wonder what other films I’ve seen that many times. I don’t have an exact view count on any of these, but know I watched them over and over and over.

Here’s what I came up with, in rough order of when they came out:

Eighty years ago, America rapidly mobilized to simultaneously defeat both Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. But could we do it again today?

Did you check a weather app today? Use a credit card? Turn on your GPS? If so, you’re living in a world made possible by a technology we too often take for granted: satellites.

According to today’s Hamasophiles, Gaza’s leadership is justified in their terror attacks against Israel because “Zionists stole their land.” Before that, the British “stole their land,” which they seem to forget.

Of course, the Brits stole the land from the Ottoman Empire in the first world war. Well, kind of. The sultan decided the region wasn’t populated enough, so he imported Arab Muslims from other regions, such as Yemen and Syria, creating many of today’s “Palestinians.” In other words, Gaza’s ancestors stole it from the Arabs, Jews, and Christians who already lived in the region.

The Ottomans stole it from the Egyptian Mamluks, who inherited it from Egypt’s Ayyubids, who had stolen it from Frankish Crusaders. Those short-lived Christian rulers had stolen it from Fatimid Caliphate, which was preceded by several other caliphates. Which had stolen it from the Byzantine/Roman Empire.

Anxiety is one of the most common psychological afflictions in America. But a surprising amount of research suggests that it doesn’t have to be. We can’t make anxiety disappear — but we might be able to transform it into a kind of superpower.

From the Democratic side of the House, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) argues to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), a move supported by Ilhan Omar (D–MN).

Eight Republicans joined with House Democrats to remove Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) as Speaker by a vote of 216-210. This is the first time a Speaker has been ousted in US history. No work can proceed in the lower chamber until a new speaker is elected.

Many people take the connection between climate change and extreme weather events — wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. — for granted. But the actual scientific data … tells a more complicated story.

My daughter ran over a bit of metallic debris on the freeway, so I’m back at the tire shop getting a replacement. Not that I mind. I’ve loved tire stores since a Discount Tire in north Phoenix was a final stop on my Arizona Republic paper route. Back in the wayback ago, I’d need to stop by each week to collect my $1.35. The staff would joke, insult, and plead poverty before turning over the blood money along with a big, fat tip.

Something about the tire-shop smell always puts me in a better mood. Purchasing a new set of tires is one of the best olfactory retail experiences available.

Maybe it’s just a guy thing, but repair shops are the only aromatherapy I want. Shoe repair/leather stores are awesome. Lawnmower repair shops provide a nice cut grass and gasoline combo, like the first day of summer. I’ll never turn down a visit to the lumberyard. (And don’t get me started on Hoppe’s No. 9; it should be a cologne.)

A college education is supposed to be the gateway to opportunity. These days, however, it often seems like higher education means lots of debt with little upside. How did we let college get so expensive?

Our friends at Kite and Key have created another great (and counterintuitive) video.

Thursday morning, I had one of the best culinary experiences of my life. After picking up my youngest from the airport, I drove through a little joint called Taquitos Jalisco to grab some food before heading home. You can order whatever you want as a breakfast burrito, so I got egg, chorizo, cheese, and hash browns.

¡Válgame Dios!

It was amazing. So amazing, I think I heard angels singing in Spanish. Religions have been founded over less. And I’ve spent the last 24 hours thinking about that blessed burrito. The chorizo spice. The creaminess of the eggs and cheese. The crunch of the hash browns. All wrapped in a fresh flour tortilla and topped with red salsa.

Why is it, Friends and Fellow Citizens, that you are here assembled? Why is it, that, entering upon the sixty-second year of our national existence, you have honored with an invitation to address you from this place, a fellow citizen of a former age, bearing in the records of his memory, the warm and vivid affections which attached him, at the distance of a full half century, to your town, and to your forefathers, then the cherished associates of his youthful days?

…Are you then assembled here, my brethren, children of those who declared your National Independence, in sorrow or in joy? In gratitude for blessings enjoyed, or in affliction for blessings lost? In exultation at the energies of your fathers, or in shame and confusion of face at your own degeneracy from their virtues? Forgive the apparent rudeness of these enquiries:—they are not addressed to you under the influence of a doubt what your answer to them will be. You are not here to unite in echoes of mutual gratulation for the separation of your forefathers from their kindred freemen of the British Islands. You are not here even to commorate the mere accidental incident, that, in the annual revolution of the earth in her orbit round the sun, this was the birthday of the Nation. You are here, to pause a moment and take breath, in the ceaseless and rapid race of time;—to look back and forward;—to take your point of departure from the ever memorable transactions of the day of which this is the anniversary, and while offering your tribute of thanksgiving to the Creator of all worlds, for the bounties of his Providence lavished upon your fathers and upon you, by the dispensations of that day, and while recording with filial piety upon your memories, the grateful affections of your hearts to the good name, the sufferings, and the services of that age, to turn your final reflections inward upon yourselves, and to say:—These are the glories of a generation past away,—what are the duties which they devolve upon us?