WITH KAYCE EZELL, C.V. WALTER, CEDAR SANDERSON AND OTHERS:  Fanta-Fly Postcards.

The time to write is now. The time available to write is also now, and that’s a bit limiting if you only think in terms of a novel at a hundred thousand words or more. Because you don’t need that many words, or that much time, to tell a story.

While at Fantasci in North Carolina, The Three Moms of the Apocalypse issued a challenge. Let your imagination soar and tell a story in exactly 50 words.

WHAT DID SOCIALISTS USE BEFORE CANDLES?  Germany’s Federal Network Agency Plans To Ration Electricity As Electric Power Crisis Heightens.

YES: Climate Change Weekly #471: Special Edition: The Republican Debt Ceiling Bill Deserves the People’s Support.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  FBI Office Handling The Hunter Biden Investigation Failed The Russia-Hoax Test.

WE’VE NOTICED:  Most Migrants Are Still Released Into the Country After Apprehension.

DO THEY GET THEIR FAVORITE TEDDY BEAR TOO?  State Department Offers Counseling To Misgendered Employees Triggered By Email Pronoun Debacle .

Stop the nonsense and grow up.

BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE!  Durham: FBI Dropped 4 Different Probes into Clinton Family Ahead of 2016.

OH. THEY THINK TRUCKERS ARE ON THE SIDE OF THOSE WHO WANT TO STOP FOSSIL FUELS AND TRAVEL? CUTE:  AOC’s call for trucker boycott of Florida an embarrassing flop.

Hey, (very) Occasional Cortex, stop drinking your own ink.

UNDER WHATEVER COVER, IT’S ALWAYS EUGENICS WITH THESE CREATURES:  In Canada, many see poverty and homelessness as good reasons to die.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  The Trump Rape Accusation: A Team Effort.

THIS IS NEWS?  How Biden’s Reckless Border Policies Are Ruining America.

CATASTROPHIC CHANGE HURTS:  Staying Alive.

THE CLOWNS SELF-NOSE:  Wired Magazine Gets Roasted for Cringeworthy Puff Piece on Pete Buttigieg.

AS I’VE SAID, NO EXCUSES, NO PROMISES OF REFORM. ARRESTS, PUNISHMENT, DISBANDING AND MAYBE REFORMING UNDER A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LEADERSHIP:  FBI targeted whistleblowers. Burn it all down.

That is by the way, the soft landing. If they keep tap dancing around the truth and thinking they’re getting away with it? This is not a threat. I have no intention of doing anything. It’s a prediction from how these things have gone in history: If they avoid the soft landing and think they won?  #Teamheadsonpikes always wins in those situations.

I’M GOING TO GO WITH COMMUNISTS, WHICH ARE ARTIFICIAL STUPIDITY:  What is The Bigger Threat to Humanity: Artificial Intelligence or Climate Change?

TELLING US THEY FIXED THE PROBLEMS IS NOT ENOUGH. UNLESS THERE ARE TRIALS AND PEOPLE GOING TO JAIL, THEY DIDN’T FIX THE PROBLEMS:  FBI improperly used warrantless search powers more than 278,000 times in 2021, FISA court filing reveals.

Disband. Salt the Earth.

OPEN THREAD: You know what to do.

A GOOD PROBLEM TO HAVE: Space Force looks at options for relieving Cape Canaveral launch congestion.

LAWYER: Woman Has ‘Receipts’ in Viral Citi Bike Incident, Media Will Be Held Accountable. “We saw how mania and media worked in the case of the Covington kids, where there’s a dogpile to get someone because it fits the political beliefs of the media. It’s shameful that people fall on people in stories like this when they don’t know the facts and try to ruin others. And yes, usually they aren’t held to account. But it sounds like this time, just like with Covington kid Nick Sandmann, they just might be.”

FASTER, PLEASE: Researchers Discover New Way To Fight the Aging Process. “Researchers at the University of Cologne have found that a protein complex impedes the repair of genomic damage in human cells, mice, and the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Furthermore, they were able to successfully obstruct this complex with a pharmaceutical agent for the first time.”