HOW ABOUT TO HOLD HIM OVER A LOW FIRE, TILL HE SPEAKS?  House Oversight Committee Releases Resolution to Hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in Contempt of Congress.

That would be a more effective resolution, whatever the metaphorical fire might be.

THE PERFECT UNDERSTATEMENT DOESN’T EXIS–:  GOP Primary Voters Don’t Want Mike Pence.

YOU SEE, WE’RE DEALING WITH A CULT. THEIR REVEALED TRUTH CANNOT BE ARGUED WITH:  The death of debate.

AND GOOD LUCK WITH THAT TOO. WHILE I KNOW IT’S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR A REPUBLICAN TO WIN AGAINST FRAUD, TRUMP MIGHT PULL IT OFF:  Never Trump 2024 – Revenge Of The Uniparty.

At this point, he’s running on spite. Having been there myself, I have full faith in spite.

GOOD LUCK WITH THAT:  SPLC: Parents Rights Groups Are Worse Than The KKK.

SHOCKED SHOCKED SHOCKED, LOOK HOW SHOCKED MY FACE IS:  Lawsuit: Trans Male Student Illegally Allowed by School to Use Girls’ Bathroom Assaults Female Student.

THE WALLS. CLOSING IN. ETC. ETC. RUN THE SCRIPT AGAIN:  Rumors of Imminent Trump indictment in Mar-a-Lago case.

He really does scare the spit out of them, doesn’t he?

IN THE WAY OF FANATICS, THEY MUST ENFORCE THEIR VISION:  Former U. Penn Swimmer Claims School Gave Girls No Choice About Competing With Trans Student Lia Thomas.

ALL I CAN SEE MISSING FROM THIS IS “ACCIDENT” PROBABLY BY RUSSIA, THOUGH IT’S POSSIBLE, IF LESS LIKELY IT COULD BE UKRAINE:  Who blew up the dam in the Ukraine?

FROM NATHAN BRINDLE:  A Dragon in the Foie Gras.

Captain Delaney Wolff Fox is back.

She’s just led her team on a months-long hunt through the penal world al-Saḥra’ (known otherwise by its semi-satirical name “Sanddoom”), looking for an industrial-sized illegal drug “kitchen” that’s been supplying colony worlds with various illegal substances via a network of involuntary migrant “mules”. That hunt ended satisfactorily, and rather explosively, with the destruction of the “kitchen” and hundreds if not thousands of personnel associated with it.

THIS IS THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY WE EXPECTED:  Cal-Tech Scientists Transmit Space-Based Solar Power to Earth For First Time.

BECAUSE THEY THINK THEY’VE DISABLED OUR ABILITY TO KICK THEM OUT VIA THE BALLOT BOX:  The explanation as to why Democrats today are fearless in proposing insane policies.

Let’s pray they’re wrong. They might be. They usually are. But if they’re not, things are going to get ugly. Note this is not an incitement but a prediction. They are too stupid, too pampered and too out of touch with reality to be able to stay in the saddle. Our country is too big. Our people are too resourceful. And the masks came off rather handily over the last few years. This gambit doesn’t end well for them.

THIS WAS BAKED IN FROM THE MOMENT WE LOCKED DOWN:  An Economic Ticking Time Bomb Could Go Off In The Middle Of The 2024 Election.

They never saw it coming, because they’re mostly clowns with illusions of competence.

AGAIN, YOU CAN’T SCHOOL THEM. THEY WON’T LEARN. NO BRAIN FUNCTION LEFT:  ‘We Are Not The Rule’: Sunny Hostin Tries To Lecture Tim Scott On Racism. He Won’t Have Any Of It.

I REMEMBER THIS. IN THE BAD OLD DAYS IN PORTUGAL, I LISTENED TO THE BBC FOR THE REAL NEWS:  Stunning TV interview (in Australia!) on the Hunter Biden laptop evidence.

LOOK, THE AMAZING THING IS THAT THE MOP TALKS AT ALL:  Karine Jean-Pierre mocked for complaining migrant bussing puts strain on cities: ‘Weapons-grade hypocrisy’.

Nobody actually expects signs of brain function. Morality is another whole level from that.

AS FORETOLD IN THE PROPHECIES:  Secondary Bacterial Pneumonia Drove Many COVID-19 Deaths.

First because that’s the real killer after any respiratory viral infection. Second, because people were tying moist pieces of cloth right there in front of their nose and mouths, keeping it warm and humid with their exhalation, and not changing it for hours.

Who the heck thought this was a good idea, anyway?

HAVE I MENTIONED MY OH SO SHOCKED FACE?  Owner of SF’s Largest Hotel, the Hilton Union Square, Is Walking Away, Surrendering It to Lender.

The thing is the idiots turning their cities and states over to lawlessness and homeless pooping on the sidewalks never saw this coming. Half of them think that this makes a place interesting and attractive (the left’s never ending nostalgie de la boue) and the other half think it’s compassionate, and don’t you want to be nice?

Idiots. Some of them had to be exquisitely indoctrinated into this level of idiocy.

WHAT ELSE DID YOU EXPECT OF THE EVIL EMPIRE?  Tiananmen Vigil Quashed in Hong Kong.

THIS IS SOUNDING POSITIVELY SOVIET:  NYC: Donate Your Spare Bedroom To An Illegal Immigrant.

THE PLIGHT OF HAIR-SPRAY ABUSE VICTIMS IS TERRIBLE TO CONTEMPLATE:  Newsom Threatens DeSantis with Kidnapping Charges After Illegal Immigrants Flown to Sacramento.

Apparently it eats your brain.

TO BE CLEAR THEY HAVEN’T DECLARED IT AN EMERGENCY WHERE GAYS ARE EXECUTED FOR BEING GAY, BUT HERE IT’S AN EMERGENCY:  Human Rights Campaign Declares State of Emergency Over Treatment of LGBT Community.

We’re denying the fundamental human right of lopping off your six year old’s penis.  And we won’t use the right pronouns. We need a whambulance stat.

MORE AND MORE CALIFORNIA RESEMBLES A RECLUSE WHO IS TRYING TO COMMIT SUICIDE BY MEANS OF INTERCONNECTED RUBE-GOLDBERG MACHINES:  New Salary Rules Jeopardize California’s Wildfire-Preventing Goat Herding Industry.

MOST OF THEM COULDN’T DEFINE PRIVACY:  Nearly a third of Gen Z thinks privacy shouldn’t exist.

Though I’ll point out for the record that “privacy” is a pretty new concept. I’m not sure the Founding Fathers even understood it as we do. Unreasonable search and seizure had other implications.  So, it might evolve again. Turns out we’re not the end of history after all. This is my shocked face.

FROM M. C. A. HOGARTH:  Earthrise.

“The thrills are nonstop, the alien cultures and races are well developed and fascinating, and there’s just the right amount of humor to keep the whole thing fizzing.” — Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Reese Eddings has enough to do keeping her rattletrap merchant vessel, the TMS Earthrise, profitable enough to feed herself and her crew. So when a mysterious benefactor from her past shows up demanding she rescue a man from slavers, her first reaction is to run for the hills. Unfortunately, she did promise to repay the loan. But she didn’t think it would involve tangling with pirates over a space elf prince…

Book 1 of the Her Instruments trilogy is a rollicking adventure set in the expansive Pelted universe, and kicks off an epic space opera series where the fate of worlds hangs in the balance. Fans who enjoyed Firefly or Andromeda will like this series.