BUT… BUT… BUT… SOCIAL JUSTICE: Arab-American group may have violated nonprofit ethics law: watchdog.

AND THAT IS ONLY THE DIRECT SPENDING TO PAYOFF OBAMA’S BACKER… ER, PROMOTE THE AWFUL TASTING DOG FOOD:Obama admin spent $77M to hype ObamaCare in 2016.

IT’S SO CUTE CHUCKIE THINKS THE TSA KEEPS US SAFE: Schumer: Mexico border wall could weaken airport security.

MUCH FASTER PLEASE:Thousands of people could live in space colonies orbiting the Earth in 20 years, expert claims.

AND THIS IS WHY THEY CAN’T HAVE OUR GUNS: Not even if they ask(ed) politely.

WHEN THEY’RE RIGHT, THEY’RE RIGHT:Even the Chinese agree: U.S. media biased for Hillary Clinton.

THE PERILS OF BEING A BRAND BEFORE PUBERTY:Burned by fallen princesses, Disney is training stars to avoid scandal.

I’M SO OLD I REMEMBER WHEN JAPAN WAS THE FUTURE:Cuddling, robots and holograms are replacing sex in Japan.

IN THE EMAIL FROM JOHN VAN STRY:Days of Future Past – Part 2: Present Tense.

WELL, THEY DO SET PARTS OF THEM FREE: ‘Feminists’ are confusing nudity with liberation.

PRODUCTIVITY MATTERS? WHO’D HAVE THUNK IT:Being an introvert in the office may not be a bad thing after all.

I SEE WHAT THEY DID THERE: When the Obama admin asked Bush-era U.S. attorneys to resign in 2009, Politico reported on it as a procedural “replacement” process. When Trump’s team did the same thing in 2017, the same outlet reported they were “ousting” those attorneys.

FEMINISM, LIKE HER BREASTS, ARE JUST THINGS TO SHOW OFF, TO ADVANCE HER CAREER:Emma Watson Reveals Her Breasts – and the Problem with Feminism.

OF COURSE THEY DO:Facebook and Twitter censor Jihad Watch, block thousands from reading it.

MUCH ADO ABOUT BUSINESS AS USUAL:US-AttorneyGate: Bharara, the press, and the president.

GOVERNMENT HATES COMPETITION:Activists Seek to Increase Government Scrutiny Over Homeschool Families.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED:FACT CHECK: Cory Booker Is Neither a ‘Truth-Teller’ Nor a ‘Determined Purveyor of The Truth’.

I REISSUED ANOTHER BOOK: Many years ago, I was writing the Musketeer’s Mystery series.  This series, inexplicably (!) didn’t survive some very odd marketing choices, such as having the first book out of print when the second and third came out, or having the cover of the third virtually identical to the first.  It survived even worse having the title logic broken and the fourth book having “the Musketeer’s” removed from the title.  (I have since reissued the series, and they’re doing fine even though book six is way overdue.)

The publisher, in a fit of the same brilliance responsible for the rousing commercial success of the first series, asked me to come up with a “craft” mystery proposal, in place of the sixth musketeer book.

This was somewhat of a quandary, since at the time, with two small children, my only craft was writing.  And though craft mysteries — what replaced cozies when the publishers arbitrarily declared them dead — were not my primary mystery reading, I’d read a few.  I know they were supposed to involve craft shows and the like, none of which I knew anything about.

In despair I turned to the only craft I’d really done since getting married: rehabilitating and refinishing furniture (because mathematician and writer money does not stretch that far.)  The result was Dipped Stripped and Dead, QUITE the silliest book I ever wrote.

And it sold.  Boy did it sell.  So I signed a contract for two more books.  Then when renewal came around I set the price so high they wouldn’t buy anymore, and waited for rights to revert.  (By then indie publishing was a thing, and I knew it.)

They finally have, and I just re-released the second book, A French Polished Murder. 

In a couple of weeks I’ll release the third, and then the fourth should be ready to go.  Again, these are VERY silly books.  But maybe silly is what we need just now.  (BTW the books are under Elise Hyatt, as the publishing house explained they wanted a “less ethnic” name than… Sarah A. Hoyt.  It is reasoning like this on the part of traditional publishing that made indie the success it is!)  And yes, there will be trade paperback versions in a couple of weeks.

THE WAR AGAINST THE PEOPLE’S LEGITIMATE CHOICE: The War Against Trump.

PITZER COLLEGE SHAMED: For not teaching their students anything about real history or culture, only Marxist catch phrases.  (For those following along at home, hoop hearings have existed in every human culture going back way into pre-history.)  #Stupidityappropriation

BECAUSE IT WAS MARXIST WOMEN’S DAY:It’s Women’s Day, so why am I at work?

IS YOUR FAVORITE INSTITUTION JUST A HUSK OF ITS FORMER SELF? Marxism: the Bug Wearing an Edgar Suit

SURE, BUT IT’S NOT AS IF THEY’RE A REPUTABLE NEWSPAPER:Did the New York Times already tell us Trump was ‘wiretapped’?

WHY NOT, SINCE THEY’LL NEVER PAY THEM BACK, ANYWAY:College kids are using student loans for wild spring break trips.

HIS FAMILIARITY WITH A CHICKEN’S END PRODUCT EXPLAINS WHY HE UNDERSTANDS HOLLYWOOD:The Surprising Lessons My Family Learned from Raising Chickens.