I WISH I SHARED THEIR DISMAY BUT THIS PATTERN IS AS OLD AS THE FESTIVAL:  Virginia Jewish group slams art festival for disallowing Hanukkah celebration: ‘Shocked and alarmed’.

POISON IVY:  Ivy League slashes price of ‘donor door’ from $20M to $2M after antisemitism storm.

I’M SORRY, YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE TO BE MORE SPECIFIC; IT COULD BE A DOZEN COUNTRIES:  Soaring immigration and a government in chaotic denial.

THEY’RE GULLIBLE TWITS PRETTY MUCH BY DEFINITION, PRETTY MUCH MAKES THIS EASY:  Woke warriors fall for Dubai’s cynical greenwashing.

BEHOLD MY SHOCKED FACE!  Faces of Muslim ‘Abandon Biden’ movement accused of wife beating, Hamas links.

THE KIDS ARE IN A HEAP OF TROUBLE, AND YELLING AT THEM WILL ONLY PUSH THEM TOWARDS FAIRYLAND, AKA SOCIALISM:  This might be why so many young people embrace socialism.

Yea some of them are slackers, etc. But most aren’t. There hasn’t been a major shift in the composition of the human race. And the problem is late-stage social-democracy, aka socialism with sprinkles making it very hard for young people to enter the job market, or be valued as workers. Explain that. Don’t push them to fix it with more socialism.

‘BOUT TIME:  Pushback: Macy’s sued for its illegal discriminatory hiring policies.

ON SUNDAYS, I RUN A PROMO POST ON MY BLOG — MOSTLY — FOR INDIE BOOKS:  Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.

There is also a fun vignette writing challenge. But be careful. There are rabid plot bunnies in those, and they’ve led to a few (dozen, I think) novels.

WELL IF WE’RE GOING TO LIST EVERYTHING IN CLIMATE “SCIENCE” THAT HAS NO SCIENTIFIC BACKING, WE’RE DEFINITELY GOING TO NEED A BIGGER BLOG:  COP28 President Challenges Mainstream Climate Narrative on Fossil Fuels.

WELL, GUYS, IT’S AMAZING THE MOP TALKS AT ALL!  Karine Jean-Pierre Can’t Stop Breaking This Federal Ethics Rule .

Ethics might be demanding too much of it.

BECAUSE THEY’RE DEM PROPAGANDISTS:  Why did the media cover the congenital liar Cohen but not the expert witnesses for Trump’s banking?

IS IT SNAKE PLISSKEN O’CLOCK ALREADY? HOW TIME FLIES!  Pro-Terrorist Mobs Run Wild in New York City.

GET THEM ALL, BOYS. EVERY SINGLE MOTHER LOVING ONE:  Israel Ramps Up Military Operation In Southern Gaza, Eliminates Key Planner Behind October 7 Massacre.

OKAY GROOMERS – AT WHAT POINT DO WE SAY ‘NO’ TO SEXUALIZATION OF THE PRE-PUBESCENT?  Outrage at ‘inappropriate’ gym shorts being sold for young girls.

THE EPA SHOULD REMEMBER THEY ARE MADE OF MEAT:  EPA Seems to Be Setting Up U.S. to Join the Globalist “War on Meat”.

AS IF THEIR CRITICS GIVE A HOOT:  How Israeli forces take big risks to avoid harming Gaza civilians.

IF THEY’RE ‘EXTREMIST’ I GUESS ANYTHING DONE TO STOP THEM IS OKAY:  Russian cops target gays after court declares LGBTQ movement ‘extremist’: Repercussions to be ‘nothing short of catastrophic’.

Or f you need it clearer: It’s just Russia, being Russia.

I DON’T THINK THAT’S WORKED OUT THE WAY THEY ANTICIPATED:  Florida teachers’ union accused of strong-arming educators to join in effort to boost lagging numbers.

IF WE START LISTING THINGS US INTEL IS NOT AWARE OF WE’RE GOING TO NEED A BIGGER BLOG:  US intel not aware of Hamas’ plan for Oct. 7 attack on Israel, John Kirby says.

BIDENFLATION:  IRS penalty for underpayments soars to 8% — nearly triple what it was 2 years ago.

WHEN HAMAS DECLARES THERE ARE NO INNOCENT CIVILIANS THEY MEAN AMONG GAZANS:  UNRWA Teacher Held Israeli Hostage in Attic for Almost 50 Days: Report.

THEY KEEP SAYING THEY’RE NOT ANTISEMITIC, JUST ANTI-ZIONIST YET THEY SEEM INCAPABLE OF DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN THE TWO:  Virginia Jewish Group in an Uproar After Festival ‘Cancels’ Menorah Lighting Because of Israel War.

FROM CELIA HAYES:  That Fateful Lightning: A Novel of the Civil War.

There wasn’t much of an outlet for an ordinary American woman with ambitions in the 184os; marriage and family was as good as it got back then, for most women … But Minnie Vining wasn’t an ordinary woman. A spinster in her forties, of a respected old Boston family, possessing an independent income and an education worthy of any man among her peers. Minnie took up a noble cause – campaigning for the abolition of slavery. The matter of slavery roiled political and social life in the United States for more than thirty years, splitting apart families, friends, comrades … and eventually the nation. And when the war began in earnest, Minnie followed her heart and her calling … as a nurse, tending to sick and wounded soldiers … but at what personal cost?

YEAH, I’M ACQUAINTED:  Depression.

OH. YEAH. SURE THING:  DNA from ‘non-human’ alien corpses is from ‘unknown species,’ analysts claim.