DOESN’T THIS SIMPLY ENCOURAGE BAD ECONOMIC HABITS?  Anonymous donor pays off layaway items for 200 families.

NEWS OF THE OBVIOUS:  What you eat affects your mood, scientists say.

8 ASIAN, 2 AFRICAN:  10 rivers are responsible for 90% of the plastic in the ocean.

LIKE ANYONE HAS THE TIME TO CLEAN THEIR CLOSETS:  Americans love hoarding junk.

THE WONDERS OF CHINESE COMMUNISM:  ‘Rentable parents’ will meet your teacher or significant other.

FOOLING NO ONE:  Signalling Lies.

FEMINISM!  “Biscuit Brain”, Chelsea Handler Calls Sarah Sanders a “Biscuit Face” Because Women’s Empowerment or Something.

YEAH, I REMEMBER THIS UNDER REAGAN AND BUSH AND…  The MSM seems to think it’s a good idea to give us a daily dose of “Trump’s an idiot” stories.

EGYPT IS VERY WELL IRRIGATED:  Not Just A River In Egypt.

SORRY, BUT ROFL:  Pfizer denies fumes from Viagra factory are arousing town’s males.

REALLY, MCCONNEL?  The Taxman Cometh:  Senate Bill’s Marginal Rates Could Top 100% for Some.

GOD BLESS US, EVERY ONE:  ‘A Christmas Carol’ saved Dickens from crushing debt.

HE WANTED TO MAKE HER A SURVIVOR, AND IT WORKED: SHE SURVIVED HIM:  Girl’s father tortured her for a decade to make her ‘superhuman’.

ECONOMY BOOMS, MINORITIES, WOMEN MOST AFFECTED:  The Jobs Boom.

FOR THE TIMES, THEY ARE ACHANGING:  It is No Longer the “Normal World” of Publishing.

OH, YEAH, MY FRIEND IS STILL DISSECTING HILLARY’S BOOK:  HRC: Idealism and Realism – by Amanda S. Green.

STOPPING THE OIKOPHOBES DOESN’T REQUIRE US TO FORGET.  MERELY PERSPECTIVE:  The Problem of Remembering.

WELL, THEY ROLLED LEFT. DYING COMES SHORTLY AFTER:  Big Media is circling the bowl.

WHY NOT BOTH?  Fake News: Media bias or simply ineptitude?

THEN ALL THE ASTRONAUTS END UP IN WEST VIRGINIA’S “COUNTRY ROADS”:  New spacesuits have ‘take me home’ button.

I THINK SHE’S USING IT!  Women really want Meghan Markle’s nose.

WELL, THAT EXPLAINS WHY IT’S SO HARD TO GET A RESERVATION:  London’s top-rated restaurant on TripAdvisor doesn’t exist.

FASTER, PLEASE:  Degenerative diseases could soon be a thing of the past.

AT LEAST BOOSTS THE CHANCES WE’LL BE ABLE TO COLONIZE:  New discovery boosts possibility of life on Jupiter’s moon.

IN THE EMAIL FROM CELIA HAYES:  Lone Star Glory: Continuing the Entertaining and Mostly If Not Always True Adventures of Texas Ranger Jim Reade and his Blood Brother Delaware Scout Toby … Republic of Texas (Lone Star Sons Book 2)

Time and place? The Republic of Texas, at mid-19th century
Who and what? Texas Ranger Jim Reade, and his Delaware blood brother, Toby Shaw – tasked with solving puzzles, finding the missing, guiding the clueless, and protecting the innocent!
“So,” Toby observed, an hour and a half later. “What have you seen, from this?”
The two of them stood, a few steps from a crude scarecrow cross-frame of poles, from which hung an extremely ragged linen shirt, formerly belonging to Elisha Reade – a shirt from which some small patches had been cut to mend items of a newer vintage. But there was enough of it remaining to serve, hanging from the cross-pole thrust through the sleeves, as a target for Jim’s trusty Paterson revolvers … A good few shots had been at close range. As close as the range in which Jon Knightley had exchanged – or claimed to have exchanged – revolver-fire with his wife.
“A curiosity which I had already suspected,” Jim replied. He was tired. His shoulders slumped, and his ears rang from the frequent report of his revolvers. “Jon Knightley murdered his wife – his latest wife…”

Lone Star Glory – continuing the adventures of Texas Ranger Jim Reade and his blood-brother Toby Shaw of the Delaware, in the Texas of legend!