THIS IS SARAH HOYT:  My blog attracts any number of regular readers/commenters who are also writers, and I give them at least a day a month to publicize their own works.  This is that post.  Some people have things for free or discounted and while I haven’t read these books, I know some of them are doing quite well.  So if you feel like supporting indie publishing (another form of new media) give these books a look.  Thank you to Glenn for allowing me to link these posts here.

“I LIKED THAT THEY FIGHT.”

CAPTAIN’S JOURNAL: The Wrong Way To Argue About Assault Weapons.

Personally, I hope the Dems push an assault-weapon ban hard. Last time they did it, it cost them the Congress.

JUST DON’T MAKE INCONVENIENT EXTRAPOLATIONS TO THE USA: Germany in the 1930s vs. Egypt in the 2010s. Egypt needs ruthless liberal democrats if it is to survive.

OVERLY-ATTACHED PARENTING? Mayim Bialik Announces Divorce, But Not Due To The Children In Her Bed. “The thirty-six-year old actor announced on her website that her marriage to Michael Stone was over. It’s very sad news for the couple, but I’m not sure why she feels the need to defend attachment parenting in her statement. Just because Mayim Bialik is divorcing, I don’t think most people would jump to the conclusion it’s because the couple co-sleeps with their children or that Mayim practiced prolonged nursing.”

THE AWFUL PROBLEM POSED BY THOSE alluring older men.

CYBER MONDAY IS TOMORROW, but the Cyber Monday Deals are up early tonight!

WHAT A DEMOGRAPHIC COLLAPSE LOOKS LIKE: “Last year, for the first time, sales of adult diapers in Japan exceeded those for babies.”

UPDATE: Maybe it’s not as bad as it looks: Reader Mike Henderson reminds me of this story linked on InstaPundit last month: Wearing Adult Diapers Is A Trend For Women In Japan. Well, maybe it’s just differently bad. . . .

AT AMAZON, Black Friday deals on Shoes, Boots & Slippers. For men, women & children.

THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED (CONT’D): Super Gonorrhea Bugs Spur New Treatment Regimen in Europe. “Zithromax or a generic version of the antibiotic pill should be added to the standard treatment for gonorrhea to fight multidrug-resistant strains of the sexually transmitted bacterium, doctors in Europe said. New European guidelines for sexually transmitted infections recommend giving azithromycin as well as the injected medicine ceftriaxone, which is beginning to lose its potency against gonorrhea. The guidelines also recommend patients be tested after finishing a course of treatment to check they are cured.”

Plus this: “Gonorrhea now poses a potential public health disaster, with a very real threat that it may soon be untreatable in certain circumstances.”

CLAUDIA ROSETT: “Here it comes again — another United Nations-sponsored grab to control the Internet.”

THE TRANSITIVE LAW: Liberals hate Wal-Mart >> Wal-Mart helps the poor = Liberals hate the poor.

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JOHN STOSSEL: The “fiscal cliff” is less frightening than the bankruptcy cliff.

GENETICS: Does being fat make you more jolly? “David Meyre of McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and his colleagues found that a gene mutation associated with obesity is also associated with an 8 per cent decrease in the risk of depression.” On the other hand: “Obesity is a risk factor for depression, and vice versa.”

AT AMAZON, Black Friday deals in Watches.

Also, jewelry.

PROGRESS: Bionic Eye Lets A Blind Person “See” Braille.

LAST MANGO IN PARIS: Goodbye, Petrodollar — Hello Agri-Dollar?

A PHYSICIAN’S NEW REALITY: Patients Ask Me To Break The Law. “Ironically, but expectedly, the ones who do this now are likely to have supported Obamacare.”

SCIENCE: Neurons Can Talk Without Sharing Synapses.

AMAZON KINDLES as cheap as $69.

CANCER: How New Genetic Tests Are Saving Lives.

ED DRISCOLL INTERVIEWS: Rob Long, James Lileks, and Roman Genn, from the 2012 National Review Cruise.

WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Yes, you can balance the budget without raising taxes. “Liberal columnists love to point out that the top marginal rate on personal income was 91 percent in the 1950s and in the early 1960s. But the tax code back then was also chock-full of loopholes and benefits that let top earners escape such stifling tax burdens. As high as top marginal rates were, taxes as a percentage of GDP never rose above 19 percent, and in fact fell as low as 14.5 percent.”