AND AGAIN BEHOLD HOW SHOCKED MY FACE IS:  Impeachment poll flips as Independent support for the inquiry takes a nosedive.

THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE!  Netanyahu’s Indictment Is a Fraud.

ONE LAST ONE FROM JERRY POURNELLE:  The Best of Jerry Pournelle.

SHORT STORIES BY A MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION! Includes over a dozen stories by SF legend Jerry Pournelle, and remebrances by Pournelle collaborators and admirers.

For the better part of five decades, Jerry Pournelle’s name has been synonymous with hard-hitting science fiction. His Falkenberg’s Legion stories and Janissaries series helped define the military sf genre, as did his work as editor on the There Will Be War series of anthologies. With frequent collaborator Larry Niven, he co-wrote the genre-defining first contact novel The Mote in God’s Eye, which was praised by Robert A. Heinlein as “possibly the greatest science fiction novel I have ever read.”

Now, for the first time, all of Pournelle’s best short work has been collected in a single volume. Herein you will find over a dozen short stories, each with a new introduction by editor and longtime Pournelle assistant John F. Carr, as well as essays and remembrances by Pournelle collaborators and admirers.

BEHOLD! MY SHOCKED FACE!  In Spite of Recent Polling Surges, Pete Buttigieg Not Doing Well With Black, Hispanic Voters.

NEVER MIND THE CIRCENSES, KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE PANEM:  While you were watching Gordon Sondland, Trump flipped the 11th Circuit.

WE SHOULD CONSIDER HANGING COMMUNISTS, CUTTING THEM DOWN WHILE STILL LIVING AND BURNING THEIR ENTRAILS BEFORE THEIR EYES, TOO. BUT WE WON’T BECAUSE WE’RE DECENT HUMAN BEINGS. SANDERS, OTOH:  Sanders: We Should Consider ‘Prosecuting’ Fossil Fuel Executives .

SO WE’RE GOING WITH ALFRED E. NEUMAN, IS THAT THE IDEA? IN WHOSE UNIVERSE?  Dems Let Iowa Frontrunner Coast in Fourth Debate.

NO. WE HAVEN’T. THEY HAVE. THERE’S NO LAW SAYING WE HAVE TO FOLLOW THEM INTO SEMANTIC INSANITY:  We have crossed the border into a place where the words “man” and “woman” have no biological meaning.

DEAR LORD. I’VE BEEN SO BUSY I MISSED NATIONAL AMMO DAY. WELL, FORTUNATELY YOU CAN ALWAYS MAKE IT UP:  It’s Here.

WELL, IT WOULD SOLVE THE PUBLIC SANITATION PROBLEM…  Promises, Promises.

HE WON’T KILL HIMSELF UNLESS HE KNOWS SOMETHING TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE CLINTONS, OF COURSE:  Prince Andrew departs from public life as he prepares to give evidence to Epstein investigation in US.

ALL I KNOW IS PRINCE ANDREW WON’T KILL HIMSELF:  Andrew and Epstein: Semantics In Defense of Deviants.

YESTERDAY I SHOCKED MY FAMILY BY SAYING “SWALWELL’S FART HAS ITS OWN TWITTER ACCOUNT. I LOVE THIS COUNTRY SO MUCH.”  YOU SEE THEY HAVE NO CLUE HOW SPECIAL THE US IS. WE DON’T BOW BEFORE OUR BETTERS. WE HAVE NO BETTERS. THIS ARTICLE IS ALSO HIGHLY AMUSING TO ME:  The Fart Heard ‘Round the World.

Representative Swalwell, no gas snek!

HOT AIR AND MALODOROUS, AS THOUGH SWALWELL WERE IN THE ROOM, IN FACT:   Sondland And The Quid Pro Quo That Wasn’t.

SOCIALISM IS DEATH. THE WAYS IN WHICH IT’S DEATH VARY. BUT IT’S ALWAYS DEATH, FAST OR SLOW, EITHER TO THE HELPLESS OF BY MAKING PEOPLE GIVE UP ON HAVING BABIES, OR BY DESTROYING INNOVATION THAT WOULD HAVE SAVED OR IMPROVED LIVES. SOCIALISM IS DEATH. ALWAYS:  One Child Nation: China Shock Doc You Must See.

FROM MONALISA FOSTER:  Ravages of Honor.

Riveting characters in a gripping tale of interstellar intrigue, love, and impossible choices.

With one act of defiance, Syteria holds the fate of two empires in her hands, but she does not know it.
A stranger in a strange land, she must survive, adapt, thrive.
Only then can she free herself. Only then can her sacrifice and rebellion bear fruit.
An epic story about the price of honor, power, and freedom.

IT ISN’T AS IF GOOGLE HAS A HISTORY OF TAKING PEOPLE’S PRIVATE DATA AND EXPLOITING IT. OH, WAIT:  Google defends amassing health data on millions of people.

I’LL BELIEVE IT WHEN I SEE IT:  ‘Invisibility shield’ right out of Harry Potter is in the works.

IN WHAT UNIVERSE IS THIS EVEN CONTROVERSIAL?  It’s OK To Be White.

FOR MY ENTIRE LIFE THE LEFT HAS BEEN PERFECT GENTLEMEN AND FOUGHT BY MARQUIS THE QUEENSBURY RULES WHILE THE LEFT BROUGHT IN THE BRASS KNUCKLES AND THE KNIVES. TRUMP, SAY WHAT YOU WILL, IS A BARE KNUCKLE FIGHTER. WE MIGHT NOT HAVE WANTED HIM, BUT WE NEEDED HIM:  Gentlemen and gentlewomen vs. Trump.

AND THE MOB HAS PROVEN IT WILL NEVER BE HAPPY:  Chick-fil-A Submits to Woke Mob UPDATED.

OH, DEAR LORD:  Today’s Liberal Media Fail.

BUTBUTBUTBUT! ORANGE MAN BAD!  The Trump Administration Is Right: Israeli Settlements Do Not Violate International Law.

AND YET, LIKE THE ENERGIZER BUNNY IT WILL JUST MINDLESSLY MARCH ON:   Volker, Morrison Testimony Completely Vindicate Trump, Destroy Democratic Case For Impeachment.

WITH THANKSGIVING BEING SO LATE THIS YEAR, HOW ABOUT A NICE THANKSGIVING SHORT STORY, TO GET YOU IN THE MOOD?  An American Thanksgiving.

It is Thanksgiving Day, 1865, and Margaret Browne isn’t feeling very thankful. The war is over, and her grown-up sons have returned from the fighting, but her beloved husband remains absent, last seen a captive in a notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The Browne family muddles through their uncertain path, lost without their leader, but when everything begins to go wrong all at once, Margaret must hold together the farm and her family, and turn a disaster into a true day of thanks-giving.