IF I’M GOING TO BE SHAMED FOR HOW I EAT, I WANT IT TO BE WITH REAL FOOD:  Dollar Menu Fever Dream: Fast Food, French Fries, Fantasy Fruit, and Fake Facts. “Would you like lies with that?”

OOH, BOY:  Dirty Laundry. The Commerce Department hung theirs out this morning.

YOU’RE BEING LIED TO:  AI Data Center Contamination by Larry Good.

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

This one is a double post because of my being too ill to do a belated post last week.  There’s also a fun vignette challenge.

FASCINATING:  Chemistry Simplified – A sunken treasure of logs.

CONSERVATIVE FASCINATION WITH TONY BLAIR’S POLICIES MAY YET DOOM BRITAIN:  My TCW week in review – demographics, demographics, demographics.

DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS:  Texas Scores Major Legal Win on Deportation Enforcement.

MOST DISHONEST AUTOPSY SINCE MARY JO KOPECHNE AT CHAPPAQUIDDICK:  Bill Maher Probably Said What Was on the Minds of Most Dems Regarding the 2024 Autopsy.

THE NERVE OF THOSE RIGHT-WING MAGA RADICALS, ASKING QUESTONS WHEN THEIR ROLE IS AS CAMPAIGN PROPS!  Democrat Candidate’s Staffer Causes Physical Altercation With GOP Constituent Who Dared to Ask Questions.

OH, YEAH, BECAUSE ALL OUR CURRENT POLITICIANS ARE THEATER KIDDIES:  Do You Remember the Politicians that Johnny Carson Hosted on His Show? I Didn’t Think So…

OH, I BELIEVE IT:  Spain’s Zapatero: Another Compassionate Leftist’s Welfare Heroics Prove to Hide a World of Scamming, One of Hardly Believable Magnitude.

A METAPHOR FOR WHAT CALIFORNIA HAS BECOME:  Santa Monica on Lockdown as Mountain Lion Naps in Backyard.

WE NEED MORE LIKE THAT:  Karma Visits LA Socialist Mayoral Hopeful Nithya Raman in Form of Staged Homeless Camp.

A POSITIVE REVIEW:  Revolutionary America.

WASHINGTON GIVING MONEY TO NGOs TO HAVE FUN:  Washington State Gives “Climate Commitment Act” Funds To NGOs For “Advocacy” — With Some Then Used To Attack The State’s Farmers and Ranchers.

GOOD:  Trump tells agencies to align with study calling for narrower childhood vaccine recommendations.

THE USUAL SUSPECTS:  Antifa Thugs in Portland and Newark, Laying Siege to ICE detention facilities are PAID. Here’s who pays them.

PRETTY MUCH, YES:  One Side Will Win. Choose.

THE MEMES ARE HERE. LET THE WEEKEND BEGIN:  Day of the Living Memes.

SINCE I’VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF NEW SONGS ON THE NO MAN’S LAND SOUNDTRACK, AND THERE’S MORE COMING:  The Clankers did Sing.

YEAH:  Blue Origin’s next New Glenn rocket explodes during static fire test on the launchpad.

THE MAMDANI ADMINISTRATION IS WASTING NO TIME TO DISBURSE FAVORS:  NYC already spent $1.3M on controversial new East Village homeless shelter — as neighbors desperately try to stop it.

CREDIT WHERE DUE: THE LEFT EXCELS AT UNITING TO GRASP POWER AND HOLDING OFF INFIGHTING UNTIL THEY HOLD POWER:  The splintered right will gift Makerfield to Burnham and the far left.

OH NOES! NOT REALLY?  SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED:  Uh Oh: E. Jean Carroll May Have Committed Perjury.

GEE, THEY WERE SO QUICK TO SPOT THE SIGNS OF BIDEN’S DECREPITUDE …  Trump’s Physical Went Off Without a Hitch, but the Liberal Media Tried to Stir Up Controversy Over This.