MOST NORMAL OR WHOLESOME THINGS TRIGGER THEM:  WHCD: Displays of Normal American Masculinity Triggers The Left.

LONG OVERDUE:  Trump fires the entire governing board of the National Science Foundation.

WHEN WE SAY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA ARE ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE*? THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN:  What radicalized him were the same talking points repeated every day on the left.

X-cancel.

*Not exclusively. They’re also enemies of all decency afflicted with an obsessive nostalgie de la boue. And all too often acting like hostis humani generis.
If you’re in the MSM and don’t like that characterization, stop reporting on fever dreams from a parallel universe and licking the… er… boots of the Democrats on their slip slide into communism.

FOR THOSE KEEPING TRACK AT HOME:  WHCA Dinner Shooting Occurred as DHS and Secret Service Have Been Unfunded for More Than 70 Days.

RIGHT NOW CALIFORNIA IS A GIANT PIGEON BEING PLUCKED BY ALL SORTS OF GRIFT:  California Swapped Gold for Grift: How “Affordable Housing” and “Green Energy” Became NGO Slush Funds.

IT’S NOT ALL HUMANS, LAWDOG:  White House Correspondent’s Dinner.

I’m not sure it’s even all leftists*. It’s leftists right here and now. They’re out of their raving little minds.

*Yes I know their principles are terrible and lead to utter horror, but people are really good at ignoring such stuff.

THE AMORALITY IS BIZARRE. HE NEVER MENTIONS THE MOST OBVIOUS REASON NOT TO STEAL: Because it’s wrong. In every major religion of the world, which are — if nothing else — a distillation of all human wisdom and what works, theft is wrong.  Why shoplifting is bad. It may feel like a small act of rebellion, but it hurts a lot of people who don’t deserve it.

AND HERE I THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY THAT WHEN MY BLUE TOOTH CONNECTION WAS GLITCHING IT COULDN’T FIND MY HEADPHONES, BUT KEPT FINDING MY HUSBAND’S SMART TOOTHBRUSH:  The Smallest Things.

IT’S RAZOR FIST:  It Happened Again. (Video)

AN ANALYSIS:  The Southern Poverty Law Center indictment.  It looks like deserved karma for race-huckstering grifters, but is it a legitimate fraud case?

I BELIEVE IT:  I’m seeing a correlation. Looks to me like the people in open source who are anti-AI are pretty much the same people who were completely captured by the woke mind virus.

X-cancel.

THIS IS WHY IQ* BY ITSELF IS USELESS AS A MEASURE OF A PERSON:  Cole Allen is the Dunning-Kruger Assassin. Allen is not some random nut job from the fringes of society. He’s a very articulate graduate of Caltech, which means he has a high degree of native intelligence. He’s in the education profession. He is on BlueSky. He goes to No Kings protests. He’s your basic rank-and-file Democrat. But it’s that high native intellect that led him astray.

X-cancel.

Horse sense understanding of humans is at least as important. And not being by personality a patsy is more important.

*No. I don’t say it to compensate for anything. Nice try. I can give you my Mensa card number. It’s been expired for 20 years, but the test doesn’t expire. It is because of it that I understand the limits of the measurement.

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

There’s also a fun vignette challenge.

FROM CAROLINE FURLONG:  Theophany.

#CommissionEarned

Ten years ago the Savients took over Niban, forcing the independent inhabitants into poverty and despair. Bass White saw the careless cruelty of the Savients kill his mother and his father. When a resistance cell is discovered in his city bloc, the Savients seek to make everyone pay.

With his wife Amie, Bass races into the caverns to escape the Savients’ brutal enforcers: the Atrasai. The couple barely make it to the limits of known territory outside their underground city, however, before the Atrasai catch up with them. It would take a miracle to save them…

…or a combat medic robot.

Join Bass and Amie in this sci-fi story of healing, hope, and wonder. After a decade of fear and pain, even a little light can bring out the best in man and machine. But will the best be enough to heal?

IT’S AS IF HE’S ACTING LIKE A BREWER, GIVING THE YEAST TIME TO WORK:  Trump cancels US delegation’s Pakistan trip as Iran peace talks stall: ‘They can call us anytime they want’.

COOL STUFF: Curiosity looks at a small crater as it climbs Mount Sharp.

IT’S NOT AS IF THEY CAN EXPECT BRITONS TO VOTE LABOUR:  Labour chief’s vision of a Pakistani-dominated Britain.

DID YESTERDAY END IN A “Y”?  Scott Jennings Wrecked a Dem Operative’s Anti-Trump Talking Point With a Simple Question on CNN.

IF YOU MISSED IT:  Witch’s Daughter (Empires of Magic Book 2)

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.

THIS:  Get Busy.

AS SHE SHOULD BE (REMINDER: DISCOVERY IS A BIT-H):  January 6 Star Witness Cassidy Hutchinson Is in the DOJ’s Crosshairs.

I WONDER HOW MANY MORE OF THEM EXIST:  The Political Hall of Mirrors.

PROBABLY:  Does Cherfilus-McCormick Think She Has A Political Future?

THE LEFT’S DREAM OF THIS BEING SOMEONE ON THE RIGHT ARE DISAPPOINTED AGAIN:  Update: Gunman Stopped Before Reaching WHCA Dinner Named.

I AM SORRY, I WAS HOUSE CLEANING AGAIN:  Trump Evacuated to a Holding Room After Shots Fired at White House Correspondents Association Dinner.