WELCOME TO THE PARTY, PAL, MA’AM, ER… LADY, ER… PERSON OF HERETOFORE AMAZING IGNORANCE, CONSIDERING YOUR DEGREE:  The History of Women in Sci-Fi Isn’t What You Think.

Also, on the contraire: those of us who think, let alone those who love the genre always knew better.  But deprecating the achievements of true pioneers is the only way for the current, lackluster darlings of the establishment to claim they’re storming the ramparts.  Yep. My field is just like journalism. And the reckoning? Some would say it’s already in progress.

IF THIS ALLEVIATES NEED OF A COLONOSCOPY … MUCH, MUCH FASTER PLEASE:  This ‘ping pong’ pill swells up in your stomach to detect cancer.

OKAY, IN SITUATIONS LIKE THIS THERE IS REALLY ONLY ONE RELEVANT QUESTION: She’s from Florida, isn’t she? Because I think we found the natural mate of Florida Man.  Woman arrested for masturbating in public continued in cop car.

DEAR WILLHELM, STOP PLAYING WITH AMAZON. SOME OF US NEED IT A WHILE LONGER:  De Blasio on Amazon HQ: Must ‘Hold Their Feet to the Fire’ on Progressive Values.

WHICH COULD BE AN ISOLATED THING EXCEPT FOR VIRGINIA TRYING TO FOLLOW SUIT:  The Murderous State of New York.

Look, guys, the first of our inalienable rights is the right to life. You give anyone, mother, doctor or state the right to destroy an individual at birth, our Constitution is moot.

LOOK, IT’S NOT A SLIPPERY SLOPE. IT’S A LONG MARCH:  Our Calhoun moment.

BUT THE THING IS, YOU SEE, THAT WHAT CAN’T GO ON, WON’T GO ON:  If You HAVE TO Learn to Code.

WHICH IS THE COMPANION PIECE TO THIS:  The Liberation Won’t Be On The Payroll.

WITHOUT ELECTORAL FRAUD, THESE SAD MADMEN WOULD HAVE NOTHING:  The Liberals’ Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year.

I LIKE ENM.  IT SO CLEARLY STANDS FOR ENEMY:  Crime and Credibility.

Which is why the Washington Post is dying in the dark. Because there are none so blind as those who refuse to see.

OKAY, SO LET’S COUNT THE CRAZY: 1-VERY FEW PEOPLE EVER HAD HEARD OF THIS MAN. SO UNLESS HE HAD “GAY” STAMPED ON HIS FOREHEAD, THEY WOULDN’T BE SHOUTING “HOMOPHOBIC” ANYTHING; 2-MAGA IS NOT SOMETHING ANYONE SHOUTS EVER. NO, SERIOUSLY. WHO THE HECK YELLS MAGA, MUCH LESS SAYS SOMETHING LIKE “MAGA COUNTRY” WHILE ATTACKING SOMEONE; 3-THE CHANCES OF THE PERPS LURKING IN SUBZERO WEATHER IN AN AFFLUENT SECTION OF CHICAGO, CARRYING A ROPE AND AN “UNKNOWN CHEMICAL” ON THE OFF-CHANCE OF RUNNING INTO THE BLACK GAY ACTOR OF A LITTLE KNOWN SERIES ARE… WELL, NOT IMPOSSIBLE. ABOUT THE SAME AS CONFISCATION OF WEALTH LEADING TO NATIONAL PROSPERITY: You believe Jussie Smollet?  Well, the wealthy nation of Venezuela agrees.  Jussie Smollett Story Enters Twilight Zone.

TO LOWER THE BAR ANY FURTHER WOULD REQUIRE AN ENTRENCHING TOOL: De Blasio’s empty boasts about graduation rates.

I’M HOPEFULLY BACK TO REGULAR POSTING. I’VE BEEN FIGHTING OFF ZOMBIE VIRUS FROM HECK. YOU KILL IT AND IT COMES BACK. MEANWHILE…  I, like the majority of Americans, didn’t really watch the Superbowl, but my husband likes keeping up with it, so he’d now and then come in and look at the stream, while I was working on something different.  Which enabled to me to catch some commercial bragging about how their players pursued social justice.  And then there was the Washington Post commercial. Washington Post union leader blasts company for high-dollar Super Bowl ad.

It amuses me that the outrage is how much they paid, and not how blatantly stupid it was.

Dear Washington Post.  yes, democracy dies and darkness.  But the majority of the public has seen you holding the pillow over democracy’s face to make sure it dies. And once we’ve seen it we can’t unseen it. Soon your only function will be stocking the bathrooms at CNN after they stop being able to afford toilet paper and before they fold.

Enjoy the ride.

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.