RAISING PEOPLE’S SELF ESTEEM HAS BEEN AN UNMITIGATED DISASTER FOR EVERYONE:  Stop Lying To People. They’re Not Perfect Just As They Are.

So, tell the truth. You should also, probably, clean your room. Just saying.

DO.NOT. MESS. WITH. PEOPLE’S. WORDS:   Goosebumps Books Getting Woke Edits Without Author Approval.

Do you want a pen through the eye? Because this is how you get a pen through the eye. We authors might be soft as pillows. Until you touch our words. And the readers are no slouches, either.

IF THE INJURY WERE ONLY MORAL:  Moral Injury Of Afghanistan Withdrawal Noted In Hearing.

UH. THEY DON’T THINK THEIR CITY IS TRASHED ENOUGH?  Los Angeles City Council Looking to Make City a Sanctuary City.

OOH, BOY, THERE’S MY SHOCKED FACE AGAIN:  Report: DHS Running a Secret Program Gathering Domestic Intelligence.

YES, BUT DOES IT HAVE TEETH?  Federal Court “Vacates” Biden’s Policy Of Mass Paroling of Illegal Border Crossers into the USA.

OF COURSE THEY DID. PATRIARCHY MEANS MEN MAKE BETTER WOMEN. OR SOMETHING:  Jill Biden, Sec. Blinken Give Biological Male an ‘International Women of Courage Award’’

BEHOLD, MY SHOCKED FACE:  National Archives Hasn’t Reviewed the Nine Boxes of Biden Documents From Attorney’s Boston Office.

#JUSTICEFORJAKE:  “QAnon Shaman” Lawyer: Feds Withheld Exculpatory Video Shown On Tucker.

HE VIEWS THIS AS A SIGN HOPE IS GONE:  America’s blacklist culture: Survey finds almost half of America’s major corporations are eagerly willing to blacklist others.

He’s wrong. The same and far worse was going on under Woodrow Wilson and FDR. The difference is now we have the means to hear about it. And that’s why things are actually getting better. They just look worse. And that’s good, because you can’t fix what you don’t see.

SURE, BUT IT’S TOUGH TO PASS. FEWER OPPORTUNITIES FOR CORRUPTION AND GRAFT:  Why school choice won’t get here fast enough.

HEY, SOME OF YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN THIS:  FIRST KILL Graphic Novel.

FROM SARAH A. HOYT: BARBARELLA, THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD, #1

#CommissionEarned

A note: for reasons known only to the publisher, this was put in erotica comics. That’s false advertising in both directions. There are suggestions of lovemaking, but nothing is shown, not even full naked breasts. Pfui. PG-13. At worst. In this issue the worst is …. kissing.

BARBARELLA IS BACK IN A NEW STAR-SPANNING EPIC!
BARBARELLA SETS OUT ON A DESPERATE MISSION TO STOP INTERGALACTIC WAR BETWEEN GODLIKE BEINGS!
Beyond the edge of known space lies…the Unnamable. Myth? Gods? Malevolent force? No one knows. No one but the one force in the universe that can stand against the Unnameable: the Architects, hidden guides of our galaxy for untold eons.
Enter Barbarella, on a desperate quest to find and convince the Architects that a war with the Unnameable will spell the death of Every. Living. Thing.
Get ready for tension, excitement, espionage, and the secret of how to defeat an empire. Fun, romance, and cosmic adventure beyond the furthest reaches of the galaxy!

ANOTHER LIBERAL EATS THE RED PILL:  Nate Silver blasts ‘crazy’ COVID lockdowns that closed churches, kept museums open.

That’s fine. I want to see repentance!

GOOD:  George Gascon Loses Lawsuit to the Tune of $1.5 Million.

‘LEARN TO CODE’ THEY TOLD US:  Meta to lay off thousands more just weeks after cutting 11,000 jobs: report.

Also, Zuck it, Zuck!

I FEAR Y’ALL DONE PICKED THE WRONG STATE TO PLAY THE FOOL:  Rich New Yorker among protesters arrested in Atlanta ‘Cop City’ violence.

JUSTICE FOR JAKE:  Jan. 6 Footage: Capitol Police Escorting a Calm ‘QAnon Shaman’ to Senate Floor.

SOME OF US BELIEVE THE BORDER SHOULD JUST BE CLOSED:   Lindsey Graham Wants to Use Military Against Mexican Drug Cartels.

AND NOW WE KNOW WHAT SIDE HE’S ON:  Mitch McConnell Slams Tucker Carlson and Fox News Over J6 Video Release.

Our regards to your Chinese in laws, Mr. McConnel.

DISCRIMINATION IS DISCRIMINATION, NO MATTER IF IT’S CALLED DIVERSITY OR EQUITY:  Fighting The Injustice of DEI Discrimination: “What did that person do wrong other than be born with the wrong skin color?”

BEFORE YOU PACK YOUR BAGS FOR WHAT LOOKS LIKE GREENER PASTURES:  Running Away.

SUPPRESSION OF MALENESS IS ONLY GOING TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE:  I pretended to be a 14-year-old boy on TikTok — what I saw terrified me.

Also, she’s easily terrified….

THE ATF REMEMBERS WACO: Unfortunately for them so do the rest of us.

PRESENTISM IS PARTICULARLY BAD NOW BECAUSE WE’VE BEEN THROUGH A SORT OF SINGULARITY:   Nothing Beyond the Current Moment.

Children raised in the bizarrely affluent present can’t even understand the deprivation of past eras. (Or other places.)