RE-BALANCING THE SCALES: Toughness and sensitivity, crunchiness and sogginess.

FROM ALMA BOYKIN: A Carpathian Campaign: The Powers Book 1.  I haven’t read it yet, but Alma is a regular on my blog, and some of my friends have already read this book and love it.

THIS WOMAN BELONGS IN AMERICA: Danish student faces six months in prison as she goes on trial for fighting ISIS in Syria. Or at least she belongs in a country that doesn’t treat her this way.

OH, YEAH, THIS IS STILL ON SALE FOR 99c, THOUGH GOING OFF SOON: Sword And Blood.

For those unsure about it, here’s a prequel short story, for free, on my blog: First Blood.

And for those waiting for the sequel, it is coming.  I just got a whole lot of traditional work sent my way, so the indie stuff has to wait a couple/three more months.

GUNS, IS THERE ANYTHING THEY CAN’T DO? Here’s How Guns Are Helping Rebuild A Marine Veteran’s Home.

THEY SO COMPLETELY SUPPRESS THE VOICING OF OPINIONS WITH WHICH THEY DON’T AGREE THAT IT’S A SHOCK TO FIND THEY STILL EXIST: Freakout on the left.

IF ONLY THEY ACTUALLY REMOVED THESE NONSENSICAL HECTORING BUMPER STICKERS (hint, guys, only one of those symbols has a problem with every other symbol on that pseudo-enlightened “message”): Massive Recall Issued for Ineffective “COEXIST” Bumper Stickers.

YOU CALL IT BIZARRE, I CALL IT A VIEW FROM ANOTHER TIME STREAM: Bizarre Paintings Of Mecha Robots And Werewolves Attacking East European Peasants Of The Early 20th Century.

FEDERAL POLICY MAKING A PROBLEM WORSE?  THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE! (Or totally expected.  It’s one of the two.)How the feds are fueling America’s opioid disaster.

WHEN DID ACCURACY BECOME OPTIONAL: Trump must get the 2020 census right.

CHILDREN AND THE SQUEAMISH AVERT YOUR EYES: This airplane meal leaves little to the imagination.

TRUMP DID SAY WE WOULD GET SICK OF WINNING.  I DON’T THINK THIS IS WHAT HE MEANT, AND I’M NOT SICK YET: The Wonderful Gloom of the Left.

AS LONG AS HE DOESN’T TRANSFORM US INTO SOCIALISTS, I’M COOL: Will Trump Be the Transformative President Obama Wanted to Be?

OF COURSE THEY ARE: NY State Employee Demands Death For Trump Supporters, And His Bosses Seem Cool With That.

REMEMBER, IF YOUR SCHADENFREUDE LASTS FOR OVER A MONTH…. OH, WAIT, IT’S GOING TO BE AT LEAST FOUR YEARS, ISN’T IT? The Associated Press did all it could to elect Hillary Clinton, but today it (almost) gave up the ghost. 

LOOKING BEHIND THE CURTAIN: How an Omaha Indian became a symbol of the American dream.

Joseph was one of a delegation of Omahas who went to Washington in 1861. What he found there surprised him but also made him hopeful. “The whites,” he told his tribe members when he returned, “were not great and powerful because of any magic power, but because they all worked and sent their children to school.”

SO, YOU KNOW, INA  TIME OF REAL SEXISM WOMEN COULD SUCCEED. NOW THEY ARE FRAGILE FLOWERS AND NEED SAFE ROOMS: How a Scottish maid became an acclaimed Harvard astronomer.

SO THIS IS WHAT CRAZY LOOKS LIKE? I’m a scientist who has gotten death threats. I fear what may happen under Trump.

READ TWO HEINLEINS AND CALL ME IN THE MORNING: ‘Book Doctors’ Say What You Need Is a Good Read.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ENTRUST YOUR VITAL RESOURCE POLICY TO A CULT: Now power firms could raise bills by £30 a year to prevent blackouts: Report also suggests industry could return to a three-day week because of a lack of electricity .

OF COURSE HE DID: Obama Hits Golf Course After Briefed on Berlin Truck Attack.

GRANDMA GOT RUN OVER BY THE TRUMP TRAIN: ‘Faithless Electors’ so far Refusing to Vote for Hillary Clinton, Not Donald Trump.

REMEMBERING THE GREATS: An Interview with Poul Anderson. Minicon 10, Minneapolis, MN, April 18-20, 1975

HE’S A SURVIVOR: A Bizarre New Species Of Fish Has Been Discovered At A Record Depth .

WELL, I CERTAINLY THINK THIS IS A GOOD WAY TO HONOR OBAMA: New Species of 2016.

As US President Barack Obama prepares to leave the White House, he can rest assured that his name will live on in a new genus of parasitic flatworm, which infects turtles in Malaysia. The proposed name: Baracktrema obamai.