FROM BLAKE SMITH, THE POOR CHILD WHO IS IN THE HABIT OF HAVING RAMBLING CONVERSATIONS WITH ME AT MY KITCHEN TABLE, AND IS THEREFORE DESTINED TO WRITE SOME VERY ODD STUFF:  The Hartington Inheritance (The Hartington Series Book 1).

In a future organized on the principles of those ancient and respected social philosophers Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer…

Almira Hartington was heir to the largest fortune in the galaxy, amassed by her father during his time as a director of the Andromeda Company. But when Sir Josiah commits suicide, Almira discovers that she and her siblings are penniless. All three of them must learn to work if they wish to eat, and are quickly scattered to the far reaches of the universe. Almira stubbornly remains on-planet, determined to remain respectable despite the sneers of her former friends.

Sir Percy Wallingham pities the new Lady Hartington. But the lady’s family will take care of her, surely? It’s only after he encounters Almira in her new circumstances that he realizes the extent of her troubles and is determined to help her if he can. He doesn’t know that a scandal is brewing around Sir Josiah’s death and Almira’s exile from society. But it could cost him his life, and the lady he has come to love.

THE FLAGELLANTS NEVER WENT AWAY. THEY BECAME THE TASTE ARBITERS OF SCIENCE FICTION.  AND THEY SURE ARE WINNING THE FUTURE (WTF, REALLY!):  Message Received.

THE LEFT INSISTS WE ALL FIGHT THOSE INVISIBLE UNKNOWABLE EVILS OF PATRIARCHY, PRIVILEGE AND MICRO AGGRESSIONS.  IS IT ANY SURPRISE THE RESULT IS HYSTERIA? The Evil Clowns.

NAH. THEY’RE INCAPABLE OF LEARNING:  What Big Media Learned This Week.

OKAY. SOMETHING VERY WEIRD IS GOING ON HERE. INTERMITTENTLY, LINDSAY GRAHAM IS BEING REPLACED WITH SOMEONE MUCH MORE INTERESTING. AFTER WHICH HE SUBDUES THE REPLACEMENT, LOCKS HIM IN THE BASEMENT. ONLY FOR THE REPLACEMENT TO EMERGE AGAIN A FEW DAYS LATER.  I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU GUYS, BUT I’M FOR THE BASED LINDSAY GRAHAM CLONE: Sen. Lindsey Graham Demands Answers From FBI on Roger Stone Raid.

IF THEY DIDN’T HAVE DOUBLE STANDARDS, THEY’D HAVE NO STANDARDS AT ALL:  Sen. Sherrod Brown Complains That Trump Rips Babies from Families on Same Day His Party Pushes for Infanticide.

IMPOSSIBLE. THEIR PARENTS WERE ALREADY DESTROYED BY PINBALL! Internet destroying nation’s youths!!!

NO. I BELIEVE THEY SAID “HOLD MY BEER AND WATCH THIS.”  New York Passes Evil Abortion Law, Virginia Legislature Says ‘It’s Our Turn!’

Look, reasonable people can disagree on first trimester abortion, but this? This makes a baby’s humanity dependent on being wanted by his mother AT THAT MOMENT. Had a baby the wrong sex? (And even with ultra sounds, they only figured out younger son was a boy three days before birth. Not that we cared, but we’d been assuming girl till then from what they’d told us.) Oops, wrong for mommy’s mental health, therefore baby must be murdered.  Evil.  Unmitigated evil. It makes a baby’s humanity conditional on a parent’s say so, and therefore it makes all humanity conditional. How many of us were unexpected or even unwanted children? Do you want this law?

AH, YES, THE ONLY THING WORSE THAN BEING A STRAIGHT WHITE MALE IS BEING A GAY MINORITY WHO IS NOT A LIBERAL. OR REALLY BEING ANYONE THE LEFT THINK NATURALLY “BELONGS” IN THEIR PLANTATION WHO IS NOT A LIBERAL. THEY’LL GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO DESTROY YOU: Trump stiffs Feinstein and Harris on judges. . .mostly.

DUH: Amazingly, Economy Didn’t Care About “Shutdown”.

It’s almost like the government produces nothing.

IMPORTANT POINTS PARTICULARLY FOR WANNA BE WRITERS:  ‘Trust me’, said the author.

OOOH EARLY ENTRANT:  ‘Serenity’ Kicks of Worst of 2019 Race.

ANSWER UNCLEAR. SHAKE THE MAGIC EIGHT BALL:  Can the Republic Survive the Mainstream Media?

On the good side they are losing power and reach.  Perhaps even fast enough.

YOU SHOULD READ THIS:  I know you may be sick of hearing about the Covington affair, but please read what VDH has to say about it.

IT DESERVES A RANT:  The Old Man Who Fell At Walmart – Rant Alert!

NAUSEATING SHEEP:  American stooges for Venezuela’s dictator.

I’M 99% SURE THAT OCCASIONAL CORTEX IS IMPERVIOUS TO ANY TEACHING:  What science could teach Ocasio-Cortez about climate change.

WHICH TYPE OF CANCER? BECAUSE THEY’RE NOT ALL THE SAME THING, NOR DO THEY ALL REACT TO THE SAME THINGS:  We’ll have a cure for cancer within a year, scientists claim.

OH PLEASE. IF IT’S IN LISBON IT’S NOT ONE OF PORTUGAL’S BEST RESTAURANTS.  AS FOR ROMAN CEMETERIES, YOU CAN’T DIG A FOUNDATION WITHOUT CUTTING INTO ONE. SMART HOMEOWNERS DO THE EQUIVALENT OF SHOOT SHOVEL AND SHUT UP, (OMITTING THE SHOOTING, UNLESS WHAT YOU FOUND IS HISTORICAL ZOMBIES.)  PORTUGAL IS MOSTLY BUILT ON PORTUGAL. YOU CAN’T MOVE FOR DEAD PEOPLE:  Roman cemetery found next to one of Portugal’s best restaurants.

IT’S EASY: DON’T BE TRENDY:  Here’s how to stop fitness trends from ruining your body.

FROM MARGARET BALL:  A Revolution of Rubies.

The CIA has embraced mathemagics, but only as a new way of doing the same old thing: Planting bugs. Thalia and the rest of the Center for Applied Topology’s research fellows have been dispatched across Europe with the mission of attending embassy parties, and teleporting back in later to plant bugs.

Unfortunately, academics are the worst possible variable in the equations of diplomats and spies. The resulting hijinks, escapades, and misunderstandings end up with Thalia on one side of a Central Asian revolution, and her husband, case officer Brad Lensky, on the other… And if they can’t figure out a solution, the entire country may go under water!

SO ON TOP OF EVERYTHING ELSE, THEY’RE TORMENTED WITH THE AWFUL FEELING SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE IS HAVING FUN WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION:  The Left Are Annoying Puritans.

Or maybe they hate beautiful human bodies because they are almost to the last one sad, twisted ugly creatures.  And that’s just on the inside.

THEY SPENT A CENTURY MARCHING THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS AND TECHNOLOGY HAS TAKEN THEIR MEGAPHONES AWAY; THEY SPENT A CENTURY TRYING TO PROVE COMMUNISM WORKED, AND ALL THEY GOT FOR IT WAS CORPSES; THEY THOUGHT THEY COULD NOW TAKE AMERICA AND THIS TIME WOULD WORK, AND 2016 HAPPENED.  THE AMAZING THING IS THAT THEY AREN’T CRAZIER. PEOPLE GO A LITTLE WEIRD WHEN THEIR CHERISHED PROPHECIES FAIL:  What Has Happened to the Left?

Oh, and the fact the media is on their side and hasn’t reined them in for at least 50 years makes everything even worse. Their reality check bounced and no one noticed.  And now they can’t find reality with two hands and a seeing eye alligator.

NEVER FORGET:  Holocaust Remembrance Day.

THE SAME RULES ACROSS THE DIVIDE:  A Thought Experiment.