MORE GOOD POINTS:  The free market is a discovery engine that is constantly trying to find its way to optimal profits – thus, optimal allocation of capital, because nobody wants to spend more money to make money than they have to. Investors have exactly the same kind of knowledge problem scientists do. They perform experiments by putting their capital into business ventures, chasing the highest possible return on that capital.

And for those lost without x.

EATING THE INVADERS IS NOT ENCOURAGED WHEN THEY’RE HUMAN, BUT CARP ARE TASTY:  Chef urges people to eat massive fish wreaking havoc on US waterways: ‘The very first time in this country’.

HE MAKES SOME GOOD POINTS:  In my previous intelligence analyses on Antifa I observed that they are an organization designed to run the Maoist/Castroite playbook of terror and assassination ramping up to armed insurgency and revolution. This is confirmed by Antifa’s own propaganda.

And since it’s been demanded I no longer refer to y’all as “the x-less”: This is for the poor x-deprived crowd.

Also since apparently we are in deep schoolmarm territory on the right all of a sudden, which moniker is preferred: LackTweet, Xdeprived, Noxfactor, No-x-ious, Twitterloss, Missing-X?   I wouldn’t want to accidentally make a joke and offend someone. Forfend the thought. We must be serious. Serious I say.

It’s not that I have anything against those who aren’t on X. I have good friends who refuse to get an account for reasons ranging  from “would eat my life” to “the idiots banned me.” And that’s okay. Which is why I provide the xcancel links. My pique… kind of, since I’m giggling through it is about someone coming to my blog, on purpose, to complain about my using x-less.  If that’s SUCH a problem, I can certainly be more obnoxious. The truth, ladies and gentlemen are that times of upheaval and worry are far too serious to get through without humor. And I feel certain Benjamin Franklin would already have come up with a far more offensive quip.

IT MIGHT ALREADY BE AVAILABLE TO YOU IF YOU’RE ON THE EAST COAST:  No Man’s Land: Volume 3 (Chronicles of Lost Elly).  With this the whole book is out, finally, and I understand “Tolkien problems” (I.e. book too big to print in one volume.)  My first readers don’t advise buying it and reading it right now, unless you have to be up all night for some reason.

Charlie Martin’s review (because the most comprehensive.)

Volume 3
Skip’s idea of crisis management?
Stress baking. While he’s kneading away his anxiety, Eerlen Troz is fighting for his life—and his unborn child’s—in an ancient and familiar battle.
When saving Eerlen’s life requires forging an unexpected blood brotherhood, it creates something neither person anticipated: a memory bond between two worlds.
Through shared consciousness, they uncover a conspiracy that threatens not just Elly, but the entire Star Empire.
The plot runs deeper than anyone imagined. Lives, fortunes, and freedom itself hang in the balance. But exposing the truth means surviving long enough to tell it—and their enemies have other plans. Two minds. One mission. A universe-spanning conspiracy that someone will kill to protect.
When the fate of worlds rests on an unlikely brotherhood forged in blood and baked goods.

ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

Today’s is exceptionally good.

WELL…    The Saint Genesius Fellowship – Our Answer to the MacArthur Genius Grant

(SNIFF-SNIFF) IS THAT THE STENCH OF DESPERATION?  Chuck Schumer invokes Epstein firestorm as he rips GOP leadership for shutdown.

FUNNY (BUT NOT AH!AH!) THE WAY FAR LEFTISTS SUCK UP TO THIRD WORLD TYRANTS:  Zohran Mamdani flashes beaming smile in pic with Uganda bigwig who pushed law to jail gay people for life.

WHAT JOB CRITERIA DID THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND USE? Is feminist Archbishop Sarah really the best man for the job?

DOES THIS NATION NOT REALIZE THE RISK OF SATISFIED CONSUMERS?   Trump Derangement Syndrome: Leftist Is Alarmed Prices at Costco Are Coming Down.

DOES THE 2ND AMENDMENT COVER THOSE?  New Jersey man arrested for having Molotov cocktail outside DC church during high profile mass.

WHAT HE SAID:  Victor Davis Hanson just coined the PERFECT term for leftist mayors like Karen Bass—those trying to block federal government operations in their cities. “They’re really neo-confederate nullificationists.”

And for the X-less.

BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BRIBE ILLEGALS TO VOTE THE WAY AMERICANS WON’T:  Why the Shutdown?

I DON’T KNOW WHETHER TO ADMIRE THEIR HISTORICAL IGNORANCE OR THEIR CHUTZPAH:  Confederate theater.

NATURE IS HEALING:  Global Warming Cooldown: Net-Zero Banking Alliance Melts Away after Member Exodus.

PRETTY MUCH IMMEDIATELY AFTER:  When the “Right To Die” becomes the “Duty To Die”.

IT’S A RACE BETWEEN CHINA INFLICTING ITSELF ON THE WORLD OR COLLAPSING TO THE POINT IT CAN’T:  Taiwan tracking China activity but cannot say if there will be more drills post-national day.

OH, COLORADO:  They Let Out Murderers but Keep Me Here: Colorado Political Prisoner Tina Peters Sends Letter Pleading for US Marshals to Save Her.

FUNNY:  ICE video goes viral as agency uses cart to wheel Portland protester into custody: ‘Refuse to walk? We’ll give you a ride’.

WE INTERRUPT YOUR SUNDAY FOR NEWS YOU CAN USE:  Get Your Windows 11 License While It’s Still Free (even if you plan to stay on Windows 10).

HOW INDIE WRITERS CAN GET EBOOKS IN LIBRARIES:  OverDrive for Library Books.

LIBS DON’T DO GRATITUDE:  Joy Reid launches profane tirade against JD Vance over veep’s advice to be grateful to the US.

WORST … SO FAR (WHAT’S THE OVER UNDER ON HOW LONG UNTIL THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND RE-BRANDS AS THE MOSQUE OF ENGLAND?):  The worst speech in modern British political history.

STUPID REALITY, REFUSING TO CONFORM TO OUR DELUSIONS!  The climate scaremongers: The Arctic ice that just won’t melt.

IN OTHER NEWS FIRE IS HOT, WATER WET:  Qatar Is Bankrolling Global Terror—and It’s a Direct Threat to the West.