BOOKS FOR BOYS:  What is a “Wobblegong?”

FROM SARAH A. HOYT:  Witch’s Daughter.

Some letters come from the living. Some come from the dead. This one comes with a formula that turns a rowboat into a miracle.

Seventeen-year-old Lord Michael Ainsling — youngest brother of the Duke of Darkwater, builder of mechanical marvels, survivor of fairyland — receives a letter from a man sixteen years dead. The inventor Tristram Blakley has not perished; he has been imprisoned by his own genius and begs the one mind in all of Avalon brilliant enough to understand his work to set him free. All Michael has to do is find seven missing brothers first and walk a magical path..

Fifteen-year-old Albinia Blakley has spent her whole life under her mother’s iron thumb — and her mother is a witch. The day Al finally escapes down a rope of knotted sheets, she lands in a world she doesn’t recognize, with no money, no magic kit, and no idea that the stranger who catches her is about to become her greatest ally.

Together, a girl with more secrets than she knows and a boy who builds machines that try to murder him must outwit a sorceress, navigate the treacherous courts of Fairyland, and unravel an enchantment years in the making — before a family is lost for good.

Witch’s Daughter is a gaslamp fantasy brimming with wit, warmth, and wonder, for readers who love their magic wrapped in velvet and their adventures served with morning tea.

THERAPISTS NOW ASSURE CHEATING SPOUSES THAT ‘NOBODY EXPECTS FAITHFULNESS.’:  The step-by-step murder of marriage.

SURE SEEMS LIKE IT:  Deliberately Dumbing Down.

THEY’RE CHECKING THOSE FACTS THE WAY A HOCKEY DEFENDER CHECKS A WINGER:  CBS News’ ‘Fact-Checks’ of Trump’s Address Ignore the Facts.

I DON’T BELIEVE SHE WAS ‘GLUED’ TO BEGIN WITH:  Randi Weingarten’s AFT Speech Shows She’s Really Come Unglued.

YEAH. IT SURE IS A MYSTERY:  Kathy Hochul Got Grilled on Why Everyone Is Leaving NY.

AH, THERE IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  RFK Jr. says HHS loses $100,000,000,000 a year to theft. He found some thieves would bribe poor people with flat screen TVs to get their patient numbers and enroll them in hospice. Then they would proceed to bill Medicaid “$6,000 a month FOREVER.“

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AND YET THIS AUTHORITARIAN SHITSTAIN THREW IN WITH THEM WHEN HE FIRST RAN:  Polis: Socialism ‘a Tool to Further Exploit People’.

But he sure can sniff the air and knows which way the wind is blowing.

OH, PLEASE, DO:  California State Auditor Urged to Probe Newsom-Linked No-Bid Diaper Deal.

I MEAN IT! GIVE BACK MY SHOCKED FACE:  As a former waterbomber pilot who used to lead an aerial firefighting fleet, I can tell you “send help” is an extremely dishonest framing by the Canadian government. The Canadian government routinely blocks U.S. firefighting companies from attacking fires in Canada, while aggressively sending their government-subsidized aircraft to the U.S. to earn commercial rates from the U.S. taxpayer. It’s big business for them and they run it like a Chinese protectionist racket.

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OH, HECK, JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING IS:   Olive Garden becomes unlikely face of voter ID fight after restaurant’s policy goes viral.  Conservatives from Trump to senators argue the restaurant’s photo ID policy is stricter than some voting laws.

THIS MONEY SHOULD BE CONFISCATED AND STUDENT LOANS FORGIVEN: These entities deserve no money:  US Universities Got Over $300M From Sanctioned China Entities.

WHICH OF YOU REPROBATES BORROWED THE SHOCKED FACE? Give it back. I have need of it:  $225,000,000 In ‘Hideous’ Fraud Schemes Found Across US Schools, Report Alleges.

WELL, THAT WILL STOP FRIVOLOUS H1B VISAS:  Trump administration weighs imposing $100K bonds on green card applicants.

IF YOU’RE NOT HAVING RAGE ISSUES, YOU’RE NOT FOLLOWING THE NEWS:  Fuck You, Tim Walz.

THE MEMES, THE MEMES!  Meme It Like It’s Hot.

YOU DEFINITELY SHOULD READ IT, BOTH THE REVIEW AND THE BOOK:  Review: Light Up the Night by Holly Chism.

IT ISN’T AS IF THEY HAD BETTER USES FOR THAT PROPAGANDA MONEY:  TCW’s 12 of the best: Covid scaremongering – the government’s £1bn blitz.

TO BE FAIR, IT HAS NEEDED DESTROYING FOR … MOST OF MY LIFE:  J.K. Rowling Is Absolutely Destroying Amnesty International, and We’re Enjoying It.

BRITAIN’S COMMIES WEREN’T CHANCING A NEW ‘IRON LADY’:  When Ann Widdecombe, a Catholic, charmed our Protestant hearts.

THIS IS A MAN WHO CALLED HIMSELF A COMMUNIST WHEN HE FIRST RAN:  Colorado Governor Jared Polis Jumps on the Anti-Socialist Bandwagon.

And who said, during COVID that we were a nation of laws and his executive orders were the law. PFUI.

AS IF THE COMMUNISTS HADN’T ALREADY DONE THAT:  Marco Rubio Just Delivered the Most Devastating Case Against Communism Yet.

IS THAT THE STENCH OF A DESPERATE CANDIDATE?  Abdul El-Sayed’s Latest Appeal to Voters Backfires.

NOT ONLY ARE HIS CAMPAIGN AND PERSONAL FINANCIALS HINKY, THIS FIREFIGHTERS’ UNION OFFICIAL ATTACKS VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS AS ‘SCABS’ AND ‘S***BAGS’:  Democrat Bob Brooks’ Financial History Raises Serious Questions in Key PA House Race.