I FOR ONE AM RELIEVED; WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO THE COTTAGE INDUSTRY OF NESSIE SOUVENIRS?  The Loch Ness Monster isn’t dead after all.

AS PROMISED, A COMPLETE FREE SHORT STORY IN THE DARKSHIPS UNIVERSE ON MY BLOG: Lost and Found. Yes, I’m sure there are typos.  There always are.  I actually need copy editors, because I’ll read what I think I wrote.  I’ll have it copy edited and give away the mobi file later, promise.

TOMORROW IS LAUNCH DAY FOR MY BOOK.  WAIT, WAIT, PROPERLY DONE — CLEARS THROAT — FROM SARAH A. HOYT, THE LATEST IN HER DARKSHIP SAGA, AND, ACCORDING TO HER, HER BEST BOOK TO DATE: Darkship Revenge.  Coff.  It is a book about… motherhood.  Okay, okay, there are explosions, fights and adventure.  It is still a book about parents and children.  Possibly the most ‘splody book about parents and children you will ever read.

Tomorrow there will be a free short story in the world on my blog. I’ll post a link here!

MEN NOW CONSIDERED GUILTY EVEN AFTER PROVEN INNOCENT: This law would require stylists to look for signs of domestic abuse.

DOUBLE THEIR MINIMUM WAGE: When money is imaginary, I don’t think this will solve their problem. Maduro tries to mollify angry Venezuelans with a minimum wage increase.  …. Speaking of victims of communism.

AS IF AIR TRAVEL WEREN’T SUFFICIENTLY OFF-PUTTING: Sex in airports is more common than on planes: survey.

WHEN PROTECTING BECOMES TREATING LIKE CHILDREN: UK Student Group: Ban Cheering, Clapping So Deaf Are Not Excluded.

CAVEAT EMPTOR: Why You Should Never Take It At Face Value.

ALSO FROM THE LIBERTY ZONE: Also with a language warning, but if you read it and tell me the language isn’t warranted, we can’t be friends anymore. Why Return the Child?

SAME THEME FROM THE LIBERTY ZONE, WHICH MEANS IT’S MORE COLORFUL.  YEAH COLORFUL:  (Okay, for the naive among you, that IS a language warning.) The Independent Goes Full Retard.

LYING ABOUT TRUMP IS BECOMING AN HABIT: Trump Trance Strikes Again: Trump Says ‘Senate Rules,’ Left Hears ‘Constitution’.

HOLD THE CRIMINALS ACCOUNTABLE: Remember the VICTIMS of Communism on May Day!

YOU KNOW YOU’RE DOING THAT WRONG, RIGHT? Someone Is Going Around Shaving Other People’s Cats in Virginia.

OBAMACARE HAS ACHIEVED ITS PURPOSE:The health care industry is bound to collapse soon, experts say.

IN THE EMAIL FROM CEDAR SANDERSON: Tanager’s Fledglings (The Tanager Book 1).

FROM KIM DU TOIT, PRAISE FOR AN ARCHETYPE OF MANHOOD: Dinner Guest Extraordinaire.

MEN AND WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT. IF THEY WEREN’T THERE WOULD BE NO POINT TO GAY RIGHTS OR TO ANYONE BEING GAY: We are different long before we are born.  The hormone baths in the womb create different brains, different muscles, different bone. Not superior, not inferior, but different. Transitioning doesn’t change all that.  Transitioning in the current state of the art is at best cosmetic.  There are some people whom the cosmetic helps, psychologically, but to pretend cosmetic, superficial change goes all the way down is “politically correct”, a term invented by Mao Zedong to signify something patently false that ideology dictated be “true.” In other words it is believing ideology over our lying eyes. New Zealand Transgender Weightlifter Shatters Records.

WITH SO MANY COLLAPSES, I EXPECTED MORE RUBBLE AROUND HERE:President Trump Declares Loyalty Day: Collapse of Democracy Imminent.

BECAUSE CE N’EST PAS LEUR METIER? Why Gwyneth Paltrow and Other Celebrities Shouldn’t Be Your Source for Science. They’re hired to speak lines someone else writes and to do it with conviction.  This might qualify them for politics, but not for science.

REMEMBER THE FATHER OF THIS COUNTRY WAS A FARMER:From Farm to Space: A Lost Cultural Myth.

PERSONAL AMBITION IS NOT A MANDATE; GREED IS NOT A VOCATION: Hillary’s presidential bid was doomed from the beginning.

THIS IS A VERY SCARY IDEA FOR SOMEONE WHOSE IMMUNE SYSTEM IS AS MESSED AS MINE! Scientists Find Link between Immune System, Memory and Structure of Brain.

UNIDENTIFIED FLYING MICROBES: (I’m sorry.  I denounce myself!) ISS investigation aims to identify unknown microbes in space.

ALL THOSE LEGS, AND MILLIONS OF YEARS BEFORE BUTTER WAS INVENTED! Tokummia katalepsis: Cambrian Marine Predator Had More Than 50 Legs, Can Opener-Like Pincers.

AND AN IDIOTIC RELIGION AT THAT: AGW: when a scientific theory becomes a religion…