It's about the infrastructure, stupid! Tonight's State of the Union address is rumored to be heavy on the infrastructure spending rhetoric. At Reason, Christian Britschgi observes "The point of infrastructure spending is to build infrastructure, not create jobs." Amen.

PC Loadletter? What does that even mean? Ever wanted to destroy some of your office equipment? The government has likely beat you to it, as Atlas Obscura reports. They tested filing cabinets, houses, cars, trucks, and safes to see how they'd fare against nuclear weapons.

The Breakdown Of Institutional Power. No spoilers, no teases. Read Katherine Miller's latest. 

Drugs out the wazoo. Imagine a town in West Virginia. It has has a population of about 3,000 people. Now, consider that drug companies have shipped 20 million pain pills to that town's handful of pharmacies. Absolutely crazy.

Is Trump already better than Reagan? That's what the Examiner's Philip Wegmann observes:

But before the coronation of the orange conservative begins, two things are worth noting. First, a couple hundred well-meaning wonks in Washington don’t bestow legacy. History does. To be sure, Trump has exceeded the Right’s expectations by enacting much of the conservative policy on the Heritage wish list. But there is plenty of time on the clock and reason for concern as the populist president goes bipartisan. Only when his term ends can the responsible bestowing of superlatives begin.

A note to the babysitter. As a new parent who recently went through the childcare rigamarole, this McSweeney's item is hilarious, and hits a little close to home.

—Jim Swift, Deputy Online Editor

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