Regret has no regrets.

Using dynamic scoring, the Joint Committee on Taxation says the GOP’s tax bill will cost America about a trillion dollars. Some Republicans consider that a bit of a snag. 1/15

The Irish Stock Exchange was sold for $163 million—about the same as what some top bankers were paid last year. 2/15

Wisconsin sold 10 hunting licenses to infants over the last two weeks. Fifty-two went to children under the age of five. 3/15

Obama will lunch this weekend with France’s Macron, albeit privately, not to annoy Trump. Obama recently met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Modi. 4/15

The White House and CNN are feuding over a Christmas party. 5/15

Net neutrality needs to be fought upstream—by increasing people’s choice of ISPs or offering access publicly. 6/15

The "DARVO" system—deny, attack, reverse victim and offender—is how the President and other sexual harassers/assaulters defeat their accusers. 7/15

NPR asks Paul Ryan if there’s a difference between Moore’s accusers and Trump’s accusers. Ryan says he doesn’t know. 8/15

“Pundits have been quick to pronounce that men such as Weiner aren’t sex addicts; they make choices. But neither analysis seems entirely adequate. The question I find myself wanting to ask is: What happened to these men?” Until men see women as human beings rather than “ego salves and receptacles,” the floodgates are open. 9/15

Headline of the week: “Prehistoric Women Were Strong as Hell.” 10/15

An Indian writer, rejected endlessly by publications, changed his name to "Regret." He doesn't regret it. 11/15

Here's a Japanese home built around a climbable bookshelf. 12/15

Short film: In The Monolith we see how New York City painter Gwyneth Leech turns the construction blocking her studio’s view into art itself. 13/15

Edvard Munch, painter of "The Scream," really enjoyed taking selfies. 14/15

“She took on the meat of the course with calm determination, to the extent that calmness can be attributed to a woman punching aside heavy, rubbery poles at a rate of more than one a second, while pogoing from side to side in flat light down a wall of rutted ice.” A fun profile of Miaela Shiffrin, the prodigal slalom skier you’ve never heard, who’s shooting for Olympic gold. 15/15


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