Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt
April 1, 2026
OUR STAUNCHEST ALLIES: But idiomatically it should say “beside Israel” not “with”! What is true is that the United States is going to war WITH Israel, not FOR it.
WHAT’S AT STAKE MIGHT WELL BE THE REPUBLIC: Have you heard of the Chinese surrogate baby farms in California? Because it’s only going to get more so. SCOTUS To Hear Birthright Citizenship Case: What’s At Stake .
GOOD: Defanging the Mullahs.
IF IT HAD ANY CHANCE OF STANDING. PASS THE SAVE ACT! Trump Signs Executive Order Limiting Mail-In Ballots.
OTHER PLACES THERE ARE WEIRD BOOMS. I’M SURE SOME NATURAL PHENOMENON, BUT… Mysterious Nighttime Hum Haunts Communities in New Jersey, Ohio, and Connecticut.
NEW PROBLEMS REQUIRE NEW SOLUTIONS: AI and Cyber Security.
VERY FEW PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THIS: Deadly Palm Sunday attack hits Nigeria, death toll uncertain.
HUMANS ARE NOT MERELY UNITS OF PRODUCTION: It’s Not Logical.
March 31, 2026

Alice is the Imperial Princess Regnant of the Galactic Empire. At 22, she has been thrust into power after her father (the Emperor) and her two older brothers have all died in various ways. Her Imperial Chancellor, Lord Rupert, does everything he can to support her, but has somewhat different ideas about how the Empire should be run than did his late Emperor.
Alice has one major problem: She cannot be crowned Empress Regnant until she marries and produces an heir.
But Alice, being kept busy three days a week by interminable audiences with petitioners, and the rest of the week with what she terms “mostly busy work”, has no real way to meet young men — well, reasonably eligible young men, anyway, and of her own age — with whom she might eventually take up and form a household. And she chafes at the necessity of trying to rule, hands-on, an Empire so huge it cannot be truly ruled by any one person to begin with.
She just wants to leave people alone, as her father and his predecessors did for centuries.
Then, into her life walks the Crown Prince of a planet many, many parsecs away from the Capital Planet…and her life begins to take on a life of its own…
WHEREAS GEORGE FLOYD MURALS ARE UNIFYING? IF HOLDING POLITICAL AUTHORITY ACCOUNTABLE IS ‘DIVISIVE’ I’M PROUD TO BE DIVISIVE: Providence mayor calls mural of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska ‘divisive’ after train stabbing death.
GOVERNMENT KNOWS WHAT THE PUBLIC THINKS OF IMMIGRANTS AND DOESN’T CARE: City rides roughshod over migrant concerns.
KEEP THIS POLITICO STORY AROUND IN CASE YOU EVER ACCIDENTALLY INGEST POISON AND NEED TO INDUCE VOMIT: Politico Embarasses Itself With Fawning Story About Rahm Emanuel’s Dietary Habits.
I DON’T THINK HE TAKES NONSENSE FROM ANYONE: Tom Homan Wasn’t Taking Any Nonsense From These Sunday Talk Show Hosts.
WE NEED TO MAKE ‘MAYBE YOU NEED TO WRITE IT DOWN’ A THING: HILARIOUS! Rubio to George Stephanopoulos: Maybe You Need to Write It Down.
MOCK THEM, MOCK THEM MERCILESSLY: How These Patriots Responded to the Dems’ ‘No Kings’ Protests Was Fantastic.
WE CAN’T REBUILD COUNTRIES: The collapse of the Afghan National Army in 2021 was inevitable.
Some cultures are not fixable. And we can’t go around opening up canned sun on everyone.
WELL. BLESS HER HEART: Newsom’s Wife Brought Children to Red States to See Racism, Sexism, and Bullying Firsthand.
I’M SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED THAT ZHOU BI-DEN WOULD DO THAT: Vance says Biden admin ‘turned off’ anti-fraud protections, debuts new task force with focus on Somali schemes.
THOSE IDEAS DEPEND ON GOVERNMENT, SO YOU’RE MAKING OTHER PEOPLE PAY FOR THEM: Motherhood Is Not Rational. And some ideas to improve it.
While I understand society needs kids… can we just facilitate allowing as many people as possible to work from home? Because that’s how I managed to be a working stay-at-home mom. And how my mother managed it. And my grandmother managed. And now tech allows us to have a whole lot of women (though of course, not all) work from home, if middle-management will only allow it.