SIGH:  Failed YouTuber Matt Jarbo Takes Swipe at Critical Drinker in a Desperate Bid For Relevance.

NOT UNREASONABLE:  Residency Period For Naturalization In Japan To Double To 10 Years Effective April 1.

I BELIEVE A FELLOW NAMED KIPLING SAID THE SAME A WHILE BACK:  The Laws of Economics Always Win.

ANOTHER NUT:  Megyn Kelly KNOWS Who Pushed Trump Into Iran War .

I’M LIKING RUBIO:  Marco Rubio Schools Journalist on Cuba and Communism.

NOT AS CLEAR CUT AS THE LEFT WOULD HAVE US BELIEVE:  Birthright Citizenship: The Deep Dive.

THE OLD AND THE DUMB:  No bosses.

LIFE IS SHORT:  Carpe Memes.

I READ THIS A FEW YEARS AGO AND AM RE-READING. It holds up:   Christopher DiGrazia The Director’s Cut.

“I wanted a job. I got a murder.”

When makeup artist Toby Swanson joined the Fox Film Corporation in 1914, he hoped to sneak a kiss from the studio’s newest star, the seductive vamp Theda Bara. But when a scene goes horribly wrong, Bara’s film is cancelled and her dreams of stardom crushed. Unless. . .she can prove that what looks like an accident is really murder.

So together, Theda and Toby dive into showbiz New York, from dancing with a young Rudy Valentino to sharing the vaudeville stage with Sophie Tucker and learning lockpicking secrets from Harry Houdini, all leading up to a mysterious church crypt with a deadly secret.

AT A TIME WHEN THE PUBLIC IS SHOWING GREATER INTEREST IN THE CHURCH THE CoE IS TAKING NO CHANCES:  Installed today, a feminist archbishop to lead the Church of Disney, Gaia, Marx and Pride.

A TRAGIC VICTIM OF MAD SPOTLIGHT DISEASE, COMPELLED BY FORCES BEYOND HIS CONTROL TO RUN FOR ANY SPOTLIGHT:  Joe Kent Reportedly Wanted to Testify in the Trial of Charlie Kirk’s Assassin. This Story Is Nuts.

ISN’T THAT TEMU OBAMA’S TRADEMARK? EVERGREEN HEADLINE:  Hakeem Jeffries Was Asked the an Easy Question. He Failed Miserably Answering It.

MY FACE REMAINS SUPER-SHOCKED:  Brother, sister indicted in alleged IED plot at Florida Air Force base tied to Iran war; 1 suspect in China. The device was planted at MacDill Air Force Base, headquarters to CENTCOM and the US military’s special ops.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED. BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE:  Gee, more approved fraud in MN.

ALSO GOOD:  Trump Directs DHS Secretary Mullin to Pay TSA Agents.

GOOD:  Operation Box Cutter: Historic FBI Strike on China-to-Cartel Fentanyl Pipeline.

THESE DAYS, FORTUNATELY, THE INTERNET IS FOREVER:  “Instead of the unsinkable battleship we have the unsinkable Military Expert …”

THE ECONOMIST IS ON MESCALINE:  The Mullah Regime of Iran is in very deep trouble. Any critical thinker can see that.

X-cancel.

WE NEED MORE OF EVERYTHING!  Up-arm the Fleet? With What?

HOW MUCH OF WHAT WE’RE SAYING IS MISDIRECTION:  Also, Don Lemon is Still a loser:  Iran Strikes: Day 27.

GOOD LUCK ON THAT APOLOGY:  Eighth Circuit backs Trump on alien detention [With Comments].

FRANCIS AND I AGREED IT WAS TIME TO RERUN HIS POSTS ON ECONOMICS:  Something about Money (and cake) – Francis Turner – A blast from the past from December 2014.

FROM HOLLY CHISM:  Light Up the Night.

Dane Crockford is tired. Tired of the green energy crapping out and leaving his wife Rose gasping for breath when their air conditioning dies, tired of trying to hide his use of his own solar panels from the nationalized electrical company, and tired of worrying about his daughter and son-in-law, trapped in an abusive indenture program to pay off their student loans. He’s not the only one, either. Everyone in his home town is in a similar situation, many of them with their children doing dangerous jobs without pay to offset crippling student debt. So when his grandson Toby accidentally discovers an energy generation method that isn’t wholly owned by the federal government, he jumps on the possibility of building something that works, in spite of and around the federal monopoly.

But what the monopoly doesn’t realize is that their grip on Dane, and on his home town, is far less secure than they think. When they disconnect his house from the power grid, they have nothing to hold over him, to force him to work for small rebates on his monthly bill. The utility has unleashed the power of a cranky old man with a rare skill, and they’ve got no idea that they’ve tossed the pebble that starts an avalanche.

“Holly Chism is one of the great, unappreciated authors of our generation. Her work reminds me a lot of Clifford Simak’s.” – Sarah A Hoyt, author of Darkship Thieves

INTERESTING:  Riley Webber: A Western Ronin with Feathers. Today we interview Riley Webber, creator and animator of Rip the Falcon, regarding his animated series!

MEH – JOHN BRENNAN’S STILL COUNTING THE STRAWBERRIES:  Ex-CIA Director John Brennan slammed for saying he believes Iran more than Trump: ‘Terrorists over the USA’.