I’LL GIVE YOU THREE GUESSES AND THE FIRST TWO DON’T COUNT:  Biden Administration Spied on Opponents. Will Anyone be Prosecuted?

NO. THIS IS VERY MUCH WORLD WIDE:  It’s Not Just Here.

We might avoid the full insanity here. The rest of the world ain’t looking so good, though.

WE MIGHT DEVOUR THEM, MIND, BUT NOT LITERALLY:  We read history books we do not eat them.

WHY NOT BOTH?  Go look at the Village Hemmorhoid’s ‘Political Social Media Posts’.

GOOD. BRING OUT THE AUTOGYROS, WHICH AREN’T REAL HELICOPTERS:  QotD: “That wasn’t real communism …”

OH, YEAH, THE ENTIRE BOOK (YES, IT’S THREE PARTS) IS FINALLY OUT: No Man’s Land: Volume 1 (Chronicles of Lost Elly)  No Man’s Land: Volume 2 (Chronicles of Lost Elly;  No Man’s Land: Volume 3 (Chronicles of Lost Elly.

I’d say I’m not writing anything that long again, but I’m looking at Book 2, Orphans of the Stars, and the way it’s looking… well, I wouldn’t like to lie.

THERE ARE MANY THINGS WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET:  “With Manly Firmness…”

WHAT HE SAID. UNDER US LAW WE HAVE COPYRIGHT WHETHER OR NOT WE REGISTERED:  A Letter to the Judge Regarding Bartz v. Anthropic. Small publishers and indie authors are being unfairly treated by recent settlement.

I’m not a lawyer but it seems to me by the Judge doing this anthropic is laying itself open to lawsuits from small presses in a separate action. Maybe the Judge hates AI?

GEE, YA THINK? THOSE ARE ALL PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS!  Bari Weiss faces a ‘snake pit’ as she eyes overhaul of left-leaning CBS News: insiders.

ALLONS ENFANTS DE LA PATRIE:  France’s New Prime Minister Just Quit.

They can block their opponent from the polls. But they can’t make the people support their phony baloney government.

MAY WE YET, ONCE MORE, AVOID THE TRULY HORRIBLE ALTERNATIVE:  The left only has a short window remaining to stop its violence before the hammer strikes it hard.

They know getting us to respond in kind is their last chance. If they can’t get that, they’ll get the money withdrawn and lose all their power.

IT IS EXACTLY AS YOU THOUGHT:  The Left continues to Can’t Meme. I’m genuinely stumped. Trump and Vance have never claimed to 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦 immigrants. If they had, is Feminist News saying they don’t actually hate immigrants? That would rehabilitate them, wouldn’t it?

Read the whole thread.  And for those whose x up and left.

CHEAPER THAN THOSE MADE WITH SLAVE LABOR IN WEST TAIWAN:  Sharpie Found a Way to Make Pens More Cheaply—By Manufacturing Them in the U.S..

A REMINDER THE LEFT WANTS YOU, YOUR CHILDREN AND PROBABLY YOUR PETS TO DIE:  Why are so many Democrats such hateful, “I hope people die” bastards?

YES. I DO GET THAT. HAVE CONSULTED WITH YOUNGER DIL* ABOUT IT:  Conservative Speakers need to get serious about their safety.

*Her knowledge/training slightly edges out older DIL. My sons married up.

A GLIMPSE OF WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE IF WE HAD ELECTED KAMALA:  “[Starmer’s] love of football feels like something an alien would simulate, trying to blend in with our ways”

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?