Archive for 2021

GOOD: After a year of pandemic, state legislatures look to strip Governors of emergency powers. “And this issue is not a strict red-blue divide. New York, a deep blue state, is looking to cabin the authorities exercised by Governor Cuomo.”

Well, Cuomo.

Related: Rand Paul, Ron Wyden Want To End Endless National Emergencies. “Under a bill the two senators reintroduced on Friday, all presidential emergency declarations would expire after 72 hours unless Congress votes to allow them to continue.”

OKAY, SO YEAH, THIS IS A ROMANCE: But the writer is a Heinlein fan (no, not me. there’s more than one woman in the world who loves Heinlein. Though I have read some other of the author’s work, and she does have…. commonalities with me.  Or reads as a much younger me, if you prefer) and though I haven’t read it yet, friends tell me it’s fun.  And frankly, right now, we all need some escapism. I don’t know. Download a preview and see what you think.

FROM C. V. WALTER:  The Alien’s Accidental Bride (Alien Brides Book 1)

Molly was no stranger to life’s little detours. After the last upheaval, she left her family’s law firm to become a maintenance technician on the Space Station Bradbury 12. When an accident knocks her off her feet, she’s going to have to draw on all her resilience to get back up. First, though, she’s going to have to figure out how to talk to the big, blue alien trying to help her.

There wasn’t supposed to be a space station where Mintonar’s ship emerged from the galactic bridge. As far as they knew, there wasn’t supposed to be intelligent life on the planet, either. Proof of how wrong they were is laying in his Medical Bay and it’s his job to save her. When he touches her, his life turns upside down and his mission suddenly includes figuring out why everything inside him insists she’s his mate. And convincing her of the same thing, especially when they don’t even speak the same language.

SHE’S RIGHT, YOU KNOW?  Goals.

IT’S NOT UNCONSCIOUS. OUR LEFT WENT MAOIST SOMETIME IN THE 90s:  Joe Biden: Unconscious Maoist.

You’d know that, if you read a lot of fluffy entertainment put out by the trad pub houses.  Cozy mysteries extolled Mao (and went against the wall) and sf/f talked of the great Chinese future.  Yeah. The Soviet Union fell and they switched their totalitarian crush to China. Which none of them understands is pretty much a beautiful lacquered vase…. all cracked under the lacquer.

THEY’RE NOT WRONG ABOUT WHERE WE ARE:  The Last Stop Before Thermopylae.

They’re insanely wrong about the solution. Getting the right to act like the left doesn’t solve anything, and might not even be possible. Beyond that, the current “elite” is that ONLY in their minds. They seized all the levers and positions of symbolic power, and they think that makes them special. But they’re a cargo cult following what has worked in other countries and not realizing culture matters. (Partly because they don’t understand what culture is.)
They’re best comparable to a dog who’s caught the bumper of a car and is holding on for dear life and not realizing it’s not winning. The left doesn’t even know where food comes from. And they’re quite unaware of the depth breadth and sheer contrariness of the “flyover states.” They got nothing.
As for normal people not being ready.  Oh, we’re ready. We lived through 2020. We know how desperate and crazy they are. And we’ve had just.About.Enough.
Yes, it’s late. It’s too late for everything they suggest. But it’s okay, because none of it would have worked, anyway.
They are however right about how messy it’s about to get.

IT’S ALL THESE INCOMPETENT CLOWNS HAVE:  Distractions.

OPEN THREAD: Don’t worry, be happy.

AFTER THE LEFTIST REIGN OF TERROR, the Deluge. “That, my friends, is the light of the end of the tunnel. Just as the monarchy famously exclaimed, ‘after us, the deluge,’ in an apparent reference to the knowledge that the people would rise up following their reign, a right-wing populist deluge is destined to follow the current reign of terror. It may also happen much sooner than any of us anticipate.”